Sterling Home Dreams of Zarella How and Five Thousand Dollars
The piece follows Zarella How a hardworking editor hopeful who supports herself with selling stories and limericks. She imagines a Sterling Home with heliotrope perfume a brick walk box trees brass knocker and a duck pond. A letter arrives announcing a five thousand dollar prize from The Searchlight Editor T Kauff for daily contest entries confirming her win and promising a White Sterling Home with green blinds.
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Zarella How
Clytie
Zarella
Newburyport
Sterling
Mary
Actors on Screen and the Gay Lothario Origin
The letter asks if Sarah Bernhardt Julia Marlowe or Maude Adams acted in films. It notes Bernhardt in Queen Elizabeth as a turning point for cinema and mentions Marlowe on screen while Adams awaits. It adds a historical note on the term gay Lothario from a Genoese nobleman who wooed Calista, triggering a duel with Altamont.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Julia Marlowe
Maude Adams
Altamont
Calista
Herbert Hoover Birth Details
Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch Indiana on August 10, 1874, marking the future president's birthplace and date.
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Sir
Herbert Hoover
West Branch
Indiana
Last Night's Dreams What Do They Mean
A brief column reprints popular dream interpretations from olden times. The piece notes dream meanings were once believed to reveal hidden significance and includes a selection of common dream motifs for reader curiosity.
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McClure
Eet
Dreaming of eels a barometer of fortune and peril
Dream lore links live eels to hard work for prosperity while dead eels signal triumph in all ventures. Some warn that catching live eels forewarns treachery from enemies. Holding a live eel or seeing one swim in clear water are highly favorable omens.
Afternoon Vision of Peace and War in Quiet Skies
A reflective poem describes afternoon as a resting time after struggle. It contrasts sunlit calm with memories of conflict, noting renewed hope, courage, and love. The scene shifts to peace as smoke clears, clocks tick, and beauty wanders through saffron skies.
Engaged Woman Questions Public Etiquette
Miss Alice Sturat answers that a fianc is entitled to monopolize the escort to dances theatres and dinners. A man expects sole escort rights to public amusements, and a fianc may object to other companions. In public dining rooms the question of who leads is settled: ladies first.
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Sadie Lillian
Galahad
Mss
Deer Sewing Circle
Europe
United States
England
Editorial Comment on the Republican Ticket in 1920
In the Harding Coolidge ticket debate era, editorials praise Harding as a steady, safe Ohio leader and fault rivals as out of touch. They contrast New England roots with old guard control, praising Coolidge for law and order and noting the ticket as a firm, practical choice for the party and nation.
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Sun
The
New York Herald
Warren G. Harding
United States
Ohio
Harding
Chicago
Foraker
Cox
Cincinnati
Washington
James Buchanan
Senator Harding
Republican Organization
New York Evening Telegram
Coolidge
Boston
Lodge
Old Guard
Iheif
New England Housewives Recipes Baked Omelet and Apple Cake
Recipes from New England housewives include a baked omelet using flour milk eggs and a buttered dish, and an apple cake with apples a milk batter and baking powder. Also included is macaroni with kidney beans in a tomato sauce with onion milk flour and butter. Recipes credited to Eva May Armstrong and Mrs. P. J. George.
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Eva May Armstrong
Spruce Street
Portland
P. J. George
Wilbraham Road
Springfield
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I AM
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Hancock St
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Republican Party
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Richmond, Va
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Buffalo Express
Ohio State Journal
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Grinnell Washing Machine Co
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Taunton Knitting CO
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