The World of Books by Alfred S Clark on marriage in fiction
Alfred S Clark surveys recent novels on marriage, praising The Woman and The Chaste Wife for sharp wit and fidelity, while noting weaknesses in Swinnerton’s humor and Warren’s The Phoenix. He also covers Autumn, The Lifted Veil, Aurora the Magnificent, The Road to Understanding, Mogu the Wanderer, and other tales, highlighting how each portrays love, conflict, and social norms.
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Dutton
Vance Thompson
Thompson
Strasburg
Doran
Frank Swinnerton
Stephen Moore
Priscilla
Stephen
Con
Deirdre Caradoc
Lane
Muriel Hine
London
Deirdre
Rollo Mesurier
Rollo
Hyacinth
Harper’s
Basil King
Arthur Bainbridge
New York
Clorinda Gildersleeve
Mary Gall
Glorinda Gildersleeve
Malcolm Grant
Clorinda
Bainbridge
Houghton, Mifflin
Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna
Miss Billy
Helen’ Barnet
Burke Denby
Mogu
Wanderer
Little, Brown
Padraic Colum
Persia
Gazeleh
Colum
Ireland
East o the Sun and West o the Moon among children’s books
A catalog of children’s titles with reviews and prices. East o the Sun and West o the Moon by G W Dasent is praised as old fashioned fairy tales with trolls fairies ogres and princes. Other titles include Baby Kangaroo and Lilly Lamb The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver The Adventures of Poor Mrs Quack The Mary Frances First Aid Book The Princess of Let’s Pretend Little Mother The Boy Scouts on Parade and Ross Grant Gold Hunter with brief notes on plots and suitability.
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Putnam
G. W. Dasent
Paddy the Beaver
Mrs. Quack
Little, Brown
Thornton W. Burgess
Sammy the Jay
Paddy
Mr. Quack
Aniant
Winston
Jane Eayre Fryer
Mary Frances
Dutton
Dorothy Donnell Calhoun
Boy Scouts
Leslie W. Quirk
Ross Grant
Penn
John Garland
Ross
Wyoming Hills
Daylight saving plan prompts Boston chamber vote
A Boston Chamber of Commerce poll shows 990 favor daylight saving year round versus 611 supporting eight months. A committee report urged adoption nationwide, noting potential summer benefits and winter doubts, with some members backing gradual Massachusetts testing if a full year is not immediate.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Massachusetts
Wife pours kerosene on husband in bed in divorce case
Simon Cohen of Chelsea files about 50 specifications in Suffolk Superior Court claiming his wife Annie spilled a gallon of kerosene over him and the bed and placed a lighted lamp on the sideboard near the bed when he woke.
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Cohen
Exeter
N. H
Haverhill
Lynn
Chelsea
Malden
Revere
Bernard
Samuel
Rose
Sre
Walnut Street
Husband
Spruce Street
Addison Street
Frost Hospital
Cross Street
Boylston Street
Sam
510
Eastern Avenue
Daughter Rose
Simon Cohen
Annie
Suffolk Superior Court
Circular to boost Lowell candidacy circulated among alumni
A circular sent to Harvard alumni in Massachusetts urges attendance at the April 3 primary and vote for Abbott Lawrence Lowell as delegate-at-large to the constitutional convention. The list of subscribers includes presidents Harry A. Garfield and Alexander Meiklejohn and graduates from Harvard Yale Dartmouth Williams Amherst Brown and Technology among others.
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Harvard
Yale
Dartmouth
Williams
Amherst
Brown and
Technology
Massachusetts
Lowell
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Harry A. Garfield
Alexander Meiklejohn
Hermon C. Bumpus
Tufts
Charles W. Eliot
Lst
Henry Lee Higginson
Alfred Hemenway
George L. Huntress
Melvin O. Adams
Frank W. Stearns
Everett Morse
Samuel H. Hudson
Edwin 8. Webster
John B. Oldham
Everett D. Chadwick
Cushman
Brown
Fred T. Field
Musterole Ad Claims Fast Relief for Rheumatism
An advertisement touts Musterole as a clean white mustard oil ointment that relieves rheumatism and other ailments. It promises quicker relief than mustard plasters, requires no blistering, and is endorsed by doctors and nurses with millions of jars used annually for bronchitis, croup, neuralgia, colds, and more.
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Neares
Billy Sunday Revival in New York at Tabernacle
Billy Sunday heads to New York City for a major revival at the Tabernacle promising a lifetime event. The Tabernacle Scout offers weekly sympathetic accounts and photos, with mail subscriptions detailing Buffalo campaign coverage and future issues for thirty cents per issue or one dollar for seventeen issues.
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Rik “Ath
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Tirnacle
U. S
Ieuns
Buffalo
Ayrks le
New York
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