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Newspaper
Blue Island Sun
Location
Blue Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
6
Fran confronts Hamilton Gregory in Littleburg over a past marriage and a claimed home. Gregory resists, revealing ten years of a hidden life while Fran asserts she must stay and confronts his sealed past and its consequences.
Fran arrives from New York seeking shelter and truth. Hamilton Gregory reveals he owes a debt to an old friend and names Fran as the daughter of that friend, Josephine. Mrs. Gregory welcomes Fran as family, offering a home and cautious hope for a new start.
Eben K Long of Omaha, famed champion office holder and longtime justice of the peace, resigns at eighty seven due to age and deafness. He has held numerous Republican posts since the 1860s including city auditor and school board chair, and he expects to live to the century mark. He was born in 1826 in Newburyport Massachusetts and moved to Omaha in the 1860s.
In Chapter VII, a family meeting centers on Grace Noir whose commanding presence unsettles Mrs. Gregory and turns Hamilton Gregory toward her. Fran attends as questions arise about her place, while Mrs. Gregory’s paralytic mother watches intently and the bachelor brother completes the scene.
The nervous cough is a nervously driven, non productive cough that ceases in sleep and returns on waking. It commonly affects ages twelve to seventeen and may present as a barking cough. No serious danger or lung damage is associated though periods of coughing can be lengthy and painful. Changes in climate influence symptoms.
The piece notes the old adjournment custom in the house of commons where messengers cry out Who goes home, a phrase dating back to a time of night patrols and torches. It contrasts historic danger with the current routine as MPs depart.
Gibson Umstott of Cresaptown Md freed a monster black snake that swallowed his cast iron rabbit doorstop. After tailing the reptile with help he forced it to disgorge the rabbit then rendered it harmless by removing its teeth with a silk handkerchief. The snake, nine feet one half inches long, was fed rye mash at a Creaptown distillery before being turned over to police.
Mrs. Willard Spruce of Altadena faced shock after her eleven month old daughter was hurled from a car at a cliff edge. The infant clung to a protruding limb, her clothing catching, until rescue an hour later when the father lowered down and freed her.
Mrs. Rachael Smith, aged 103, died suddenly at her Mystic home. The Plainfield, Connecticut resident reportedly had no serious illness during her long life.
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