Mysterious Death Echoes in Arden’s Night at Palace Hotel
John Arden, staying at the Palace hotel in London, overhears a couple plotting the mysterious death of Lord Farndale. He escapes detection, notes the exchange, and later reads of Farndale’s death as a police inquiry begins, while Arden contemplates the implications with Esmee in the rain.
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John Arden
Roo
Palace Hotel
London
Bronke Hin Kee
Locke
Juan Ons Sulte
Aagutea
Tre Wo View
Lord Farndsie
Arden
Smith
Lord Westerby
Scotland
Fsmee
Lord Farndale
Farndale
Higher Yatton
North Riding of
Yorkshire
Hyde Park
Daily Journal
Arden Wor
Loung
Sir Wham Bermor
Lady Bermore
Paris
Harrow
Oxford
England
South America
St Georges Hospital
Ming
Hhey
Esmee
Salte F
Park Palace
Portraits from a Simple Paper Portrait Method
A described method outlines making portraits by affixing white paper to a wall and tracing a sitter between the paper and a soot coated surface. The resulting outline is cut out and placed on a dark background to create a likeness.
The Newspapers of Japan in the Early Era
A report describes Japan's vast newspaper landscape with 1137 daily and 2850 weekly publications, totaling over 10.9 million daily circulations. It notes modern news gathering using watermobiles motorcycles airplanes and even carrier pigeons, contrasting with other nations' smaller sheets.
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Japan
California
French red pantaloons teased for revival in army dress
Paris debate swirls around revived red trousers for French infantry as Mon sieur Parileye and the French Ministry of War face pressure sparked by an American Legion parade in Paris. Supporters urge fatigue uniforms echoing old provincial costumes for artistic effect.
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Monsieur Parileye
Pari
Paris
Legion
France
Tomorrow's Menu and Recipe Drafts for Pork Dish and Desserts
A home menu outlines breakfast through dinner featuring orange juice creamed lamb leftovers and pork chops with casserole, plus sides. Includes detailed step by step instructions for coating browning and baking pork chops and recipes for butterscotch bicciulis potatoes Geneva Moorish beets and devils' food cake with measurements and oven temps.
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Geneva
Teachers and a nine year old classroom contrast
A reader recalls two teaching styles Miss Mary Ann commands order and frank discipline, while a younger teacher tries playful arithmet ic prompts. Boys resist being coddled but learn best with clear tasks and frequent movement.
Your Baby and Mine By Myrtle Meyer Eldred
A reader questions infant feeding practices and water use. An expert recommends exclusive breast milk with rare cod liver oil for five months, cautions against adding water or sugar in formula, and urges introducing solid foods to prevent undernourishment while noting possible adjustments with pasteurized sweet milk and bacillus bulgaris.
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L. H
Myrtle Meyer Eldred
Aas
F. W. McD
What is your favorite tibi in Dorothy Dix's Letter Box
Dorothy Dix laments how people hide faults with excuses like heredity temperament luck and business. She cites alcohol gambling temper nerves and missed opportunities as common alibis, noting many hide flaws behind family and social pressures. The piece ends by asking readers to name their own excusing habit.
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Amarert
Graidpapas
Almor
Hersell
Jeny
Mercy
Mets
Miss Smith
Jony
Busin
Caldren
Par Ves
8 K 1 P P Y by Percy Crosby how can an old swamp lot
Percy Crosby offers a satirical cartoon dialogue about a dilapidated swamp lot and bureaucratic missteps. The strip frames a humorous exchange highlighting urban blight and comic misinterpretation of property issues. The piece underscores wartime era sentiment and everyday challenges facing residents.
An Untravelled Sea and a Canadian Province
A fragmentary essay on the solitude of the Indian Ocean corridor from Freeport to Colombo and Durban, imagining its lonely tracks and derelict ships adrift for years. It also briefly notes Ontario as the largest and most influential Canadian province.
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Pactu
Freemantle
Colombo
Durban
Ocean Trap
Oceanie
Sinc
Ontario
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Louis Tracy
William Bermore
Raton Square
Nage
William Denison Bermore
Per
the Newspapers OF
Trench Army
Gluyas Williams
Flep
Laura A. Kirkman
Tomorroy
Robert
Willi
Bill Thompson
Mary Ann
Dorothy Dix
BY Percy Crosby
Guy
Scroggins
Caroline Cookey
Sand
Him
Frank Orcee
Frank Smiley
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