Monte Carlo Gamble Drives Hargrave Plot in Suspense
Mic Hargravesvendever, a country gentleman and financier, travels to Monte Carlo with Violet Martin and her fiancé Robert. A supper party at the Carlton hosts the Princess Putralka as Hargrave fumbles luck at cards and faro, while conspirators hint at secrets and a future Egypt trip as a fragile balance of fortune and trust unfolds.
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Mic Hargravesvendever
Wendever
Violet Martin
bin Ville
Mte Carin
Violet
Robert
Monte Carlo
Wenderer
Lonion
Philip Gorse
John Marston
Lord Pellingham
Carlton
Putralka
Hargrave
Violet i
Otehens
Buses to replace cars on Hartford Springfield line
Springfield Mass March 3 AP virtual abandonment of trolley service between this city and Hartford Conn announced by Hartford and Springfield Street Railway company beginning next Monday buses will largely supersede the cars which have operated for years Trolley service north of Ware Point Conn and to Somers Conn will be curtailed Cars will run on present schedules only Saturdays and for school pupils on other weekdays Motor buses will be run in place of cars This applies to the east side of the Connecticut river on the western side bus service south of the Massachusetts Connecticut State line has for some time been operative in place of trolleys
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Springfield
Mass
Hartford
Conn
Hartford and
Warehouse Point
Somers
Connecticut River
Weaterly Aide
Manusetts-Connicut
Dancer sues host to Prince of Wales in Chicago
Geraldine Markham of New York, formerly with the Stepping Stones troupe, files a $100000 damage suit in Superior court seeking damages for injuries she says resulted from a car crash on April 26 involving Wolcott Blair, the society host for the Prince of Wales visit. Blair, recently married to Ellen Yuille Sturgis, is on a European honeymoon.
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Chicago
Wolcott Blair
Geraldine Markham
New York City
Stepping Stones
Blair
Prince ‘of Wales
Tivo
Ellen Yuille Sturgis
New York
William Z. Sturgis
Young man Chooses Ship Building Over Clergy Dream
A mother and doctor discuss John Tolin’s fatigue while he dreams aloud of boats and ships. A psychologist suggests he wants to be with ships, not in the clergy. John favors shipbuilding, imagining life at sea and a grand ship launch.
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Comtesse
Hargrave
Convic
Tolin
John
Doator
Ans the Peyeletogt
Health Q and A on Medicine and Deafness in Daily Life
A readable column discusses aspirin and other medicines, debunking the idea that aspirin cures deafness and advising against taking drugs on general principles. It includes wise anecdotes from Benjamin Franklin and a Q A section covering curvature of the spine, eyelash growth from vaseline, ideal weight for a tall girl, and bad breath remedies with a prompt to send a self addressed stamped envelope for more details.
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Josh Billings
Voltaire
Dr. Johnson
Indi
Benjamin Frank
London Medical Society
Franklin
Dr. Prestly
Efficient Oyster Dishes and Home Cooking Tips
An old household guide reviews oyster cooking, offering two recipes Oyster Stew and Scalloped Oysters, with steps from cleaning and liquor handling to butter, milk, and spices. It cautions against overcooking and extols oysters as iron rich, urging careful preparation and proper timing for best flavor.
Mary Sutliff Birthday Oddity In New Britain
In New Britain a 90 year old Mrs Mary Sutliff celebrates an eleventh birthday by revealing frequent midnight ice cream and pie consumption that she says causes no distress though bedridden by age. She disapproves of short skirts and urges youth to live their own lives. A 92 year old Rockville Maine resident sent a congratulatory letter.
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New Britain
Mar
Mary Sutliff
Sahe
Sulliffe
Mary Brigham
Rockville
Cann
Mothers Individual Handkerchief Baga
A homemaker complains about teen mess creating stray handkerchiefs around the house. She sews fast color labels on handkerchiefs for each Attie girl using cheap rubber scraps. A handkerchief found outside its bag lowers the household standard. Good week ends with a candy celebration.
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Attie
Noton
Windstorms and a bank heist tale told by locals
A local citizen recalls severe windstorms with a Banksafe joke. The visitor asks about the winds. The citizen mentions a past event where wind helped thwart a bank robbery as the safe kept blowing shut. Quoted by Ethel G. Rockett.
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Yeggs
Ethel G. Rockett
Slapstick talks and Krazy Kollege gags in comic reel
A lively page features a movie director inviting Bettina to slapstick cinema and a playful exchange on fashion and wealth. A Krazy Kollege sketch mocks classroom mischief with Gertrude leading misadventures and teacher quips, including anatomy jokes and a toast to old family items.
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Bettina
Want Ad Fiend and Other Scribbles by Perkins
A whimsical collection of vignettes and verse on want ads, politics at home, and social satire. The piece parodies reading habits on want ads, a tombstone joke, a salesman and shopper exchange, and a comic political household scene with the politician, wife, and son navigating postwar era anxieties. The tone mimics early 20th century newspaper humor pages.
A Fair Fighter Claribel Becomes Belted Boxer
Hazel Adeli Jackson recalls a playful classroom moment when eight year old Claribel wore a belt around her head during a recreation fight and declared she would not hit below the belt, insisting it followed her father’s rule of the game.
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Claribel
Lucense
Hazel Adeli Jackson
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Prince of, Wales
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Golly
Mrs Nags
Skippy
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Uyes
Jane
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Krazy Kindergarten
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Teether
Dolly
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Frank L. Wyckoff
Dan
Muomorous
Bridgeport Telegram
Margy
John Held, Jr
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