Fran and Abbott clash over secrets at Gregory home
Fran confronts Hamilton Gregory about a hidden family history as Grace Noir schemes and Abbott Ashon seeks a board favor. Fran and Abbott share a tense buggy ride and reveal unspoken desires while town gossip and a looming school board meeting threaten their futures.
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Fran
Hamilton Gregory
Littleburg
Abbott Ashton
Gregory
Ashton
Takig
Sapphira Clinton
Robert Clinton
Grace Noir
Grace
Ian
Ringfield
Zees
Regory
Mrs. Gregory
Abbott
Fran Nonparei
Bob Clinton
Springfeld
In Sure Enough Country Abbott Ponders Study Outdoors
Abbott Ashton watches Hamilton Greggory’s buggy pass with Fran and Simon Jefferson aboard. He decides to study outside, grabbing his books and stepping onto the green veranda to enjoy the roses.
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Abbott Ashton
Hamilton Gregory
Fran
Abbott
Simon Jefferson
Simon
Queer Thing Is the Turtle By Macdonald
A Scottish naturalist claims the turtle is the strangest inhabitant of nature. It lives in water and on land, endures long periods without air or light, and seems to possess traits of fish and fowl. Baby turtles seek sea, unguided, relying on instinct until armor forms.
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Macdonald
Turtle Defense Stuns Predators in Ancient Text
A fragment describes a turtle withdrawing its head into its shell as predators bite without effect. The scene highlights the creature's armor and the struggle of the would be devourers, who fail to force an opening.
Why She Was Quitting. A Cleveland Serving Maid Tale
A well known Ohio humorist recalls a new Cleveland family hiring a southern colored servant. Meals were served in courses despite little food. After a week the maid quits, explaining there is too much shifting of dishes for the few vittles.
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Ohio
Cleveland
South
Theater Used as a Stable in Mustapha Pasha
Convoy experts deem the Turkish theater of Mustapha Pasha the most convenient stable in the peninsula. The pit boxes hold mules horses or oxen the galleries brim with hay and straw the balcony stores cats and the stage doubles as a surgical ward for wounded animals while the green room houses buffaloes.
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Mustapha Pasha
Notable Stage Furore Over Honor Itself
In a cheeky aside the piece ponders men’s insistence on honor on stage while teething claims of Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children are advertised. It notes the syrup softens gums reduces inflammation and stops wind colic per bottle. It also ends with a jab about friends being broke when borrowing money.
New Woman Debate Sparks Household Lesson
Mrs Knicker asks if a course in business college will help, Mrs Becker humorously replies she wants to learn to get more money from Jack, and a judge presides. The exchange highlights gender roles and social expectations in domestic finance.
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Knicker
Face Cleared After Using Cuticura Soap and Ointment
Judd Knowles of Falls City Nebraska describes a two year facial eruption that reddened and irritated his skin. After trying various remedies he used Cuticura Soap with hot water and Cuticura Ointment nightly and again in the morning, reporting improvement in two days and cure in three weeks. Cuticura products sold worldwide with free samples and Skin Book from Cuticura Boston.
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Falls City
Neb
Judd Knowles
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
De Wolf Hopper on a bad actor and hints to quit the stage
Egged off comments by De Wolf Hopper at a New York luncheon about a performer who left the stage after hints of unsuitability. The actor Phatt had tried Hamlet on the road before returning to his Canal Street job. The exchange touches on critics and lingering rumors about talent.
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de Wolf Hopper
New York
Phatt
Young witness testifies in Arizona murder trial
An elderly chief justice presides as a murder trial unfolds in early Arizona. The sole eye witness, a small Negro boy, is asked about lying under oath. The defense objects to his age, but the boy replies the devil would get him if he lied, prompting the judge to exclaim the same.
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Grace
Fran
Shite
God
Father
Gregory
Arizona
National Monthly
Hearth-Hunger and the enduring woman’s role in work
A Cornelia A. Comer passage in Atlantic argues that women’s needs exceed bread alone and tie to the hearth and ancestral roots. She contends women will join mills, shops, and offices if necessary, challenging shallow, plastic gender roles.
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Cornelia A. P. Comer
Atlantic
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Mr. Simon
Illustrations
D Irwin - Myers
Bobbs-Merrill CO
Post
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
Battie Creek, Michigan
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