Aunt Mary Surprises Hostess In Housekeeper Charade
Annabel hires a maid through an agency to ease her lonely household. The new helper, posing as Aunt Mary, comes for a test run, while George and the maid conspire to teach Annabel a lesson in trusting hires. Aunt Mary reveals the joke at breakfast, leaving all smiling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annabel Maitland
Annabel
George
Mary
Agency
Johnnycake
Met
California
Mercy
Maid
Anna
Biscom
Aunt Mary
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Rhodesia and Ophir lore in ancient gold mines
A historical piece surveys the Matoppo Hills in South Africa where ruins mark ancient gold mining by Phoenician emigrants about 1000 B C. The article contemplates Rhodesia as a land of potential and argues for long-forgotten Ophir connections, amid notes on colonial history and the value of early prospecting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matoppo Hills
South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Rhodesia
Matoppos
India
Chicago Sanatorium Fire Claims Ten Lives At St Luke Society
A blaze tore through the St Luke Society sanitarium on Wabash avenue in Chicago, killing ten and injuring many. Alderman William E Kent known as Blind Billy perished amid flames as police detained eight suspects including the sanitarium president and engineers for coroner's inquest. The five story building suffered $5,000 in damage and $30,000 in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
St. Luke Society
Wabash Avenue
Twenty-first Street
William E. Kent
Fourth Ward
Billy” Kent
Alderman Kent
Newell
Sanitarium
John P. Nagel
Destruction in Guatemala City Quezaltenango Earthquake
A Guatemala earthquake devastated Quezaltenango and nearby towns on April 18, destroying 40,000 residents' city, with three shocks in ninety seconds. Thousands perished, many injured, and fires raged as ruins spread across San Pedro, San Marco, San Juan, Amatitlan, and Solola. A new city will be built several miles north of the old site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guatemala
West Indies
Central American
Quezaltenango
San Pedro San Marco
San Juan
Amatitlan
Solila
Better Stick to the Farm Advice to Country Boys
City editorial urges country youths to avoid city life and pursue farming instead. It argues urban opportunity is illusory, predicts crowded labor markets, low wages, and poor living conditions, and promotes returning to or buying land for independence. Telegraphic items follow: gambler Jacob Clute dead. California lawyers earned 2 million in fees. a Chicago wife-killing accusation. asphalt well near Austin. Mobile council funds kerosene mosquito eradication.
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Chicago
Chicago Record-Herald
Jacob Clute
California
Fred W. Eberhardt
Austin
Texas
Mobile
Ala
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Mose
Reuben
Philadelphia Times
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Kimberley
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Glencoe
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Dundee
Ladysmith
Symonds
Nicholson's Nek
Belmont
Gras Pan
Modder River
Dee
Stormberg
Gatacre de
Magersfontein
Methuen
Wauchope
Colenso
Roberts
Modder
Cronje
Buller
Salisbury
Bloemfontein
Joubert
Samas Post
St. Helena
Reddersburg
Willeboe Mareull
Pretoria
Vitals Nek
Frinsioo
Bethlehem
Kritzinger
Klerksdorp
Kitchener
Beery
Harrismith
Tranavanl
Kruger
Minneapois
St. Paul
Naval Branch
Y. M
Brooklyn
Wiss Hele) Gould
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