Romance of a Pink Gown’s Gift Creates Happy Ending
Miss Lester secretly funds Millie Currier’s piano lessons, transforming a poor village girl's life. At a May lawn party Millie earns a pink cashmere gown through her music, and a hidden Paris dress from Miss Lester leads to a rekindled engagement between Miss Lester and Mr Darrah. Millie grows into an artist and noble woman, surrounded by lifelong friends in Hardwick.
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Millie JM
Millie
Miss Lester
Hardwick
Paris
Mike
Mille
Miss Tester
Fa Ryland
Eastern Junction
Indred
Lesters
Paria
America
Portland Transcript
Miraculous Falls Between painters and near disaster stories
In Chicago and New Orleans crowds recount dramatic ladder and scaffold tumbles from tall buildings. Painters describe near misses on twelfth stories and above, with others narrating freight train drops and elevator shaft misadventures as a playful exchange on dangerous falls.
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Chicago
New Orleans
Thomas
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Not That Kind of Chickens in a Kansas Store
A bashful woman in Lyon County Kansas bought three chickens and revealed they were roosters when the clerk asked if they would lay. The item then shifts to brief historical notes about various figures and topics including Hungary, Iowa cider law, Dr. Lyman Beecher Todd, Belgian socialist Van Dervelde, and other local notices.
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Lyon County
Kansas
H. M. Remley
Iowa
Lyman Beecher Todd
Lexington
Todd
President Vincon
Ford's Theater
John Wilkes Booth
Century Club
M van Dervelde
Socialist Party
Belgium
Brussels
Archoo
Feud 18 Still On Between Mountaineer and Harpers
A Detroit traveler recounts a fifteen year feud between a Mountaineer and the Harpers over killings of brothers Dan and Sam. The man considers making peace but fear of entangling marriages keeps him from pursuing reconciliation, ending with a plan to travel with the narrator a short distance to avoid further danger.
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Joe Davis
Harpers
Detroit
Harper
Dan
Sam
Gov Hogg's New Waiter and a Bold Second Behind His Chair
A Beaumont dining room tale follows Governor Hogg’s former waiter George, a wealth-accustomed, sable-skinned figure. A new waiter claims the job after confessing a night of craps with a pal, yielding a lively exchange about who truly serves the governor.
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Beaumont
Hogg
Texas
George
Gange
Detroit Journal
Global headlines rewrite a nation’s mood in 1900s press
A montage of editorials and quips from Detroit Buffalo Detroit Free Press Des Moines Daily News Iv ledo Daily News Detroit Evening News and more lampooning imperial wars trade trusts Cuba Spain and labor strikes. It notes coal and beef trusts pressuring prices, calls for American sympathy with British graves, and pokes at European princes and King Edward. It highlights Cuba Palma and Philippine questions, appeals to Astor, and criticizes militia use.
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Detroit News
England
South Africa
Buffalo News
Detroit Free Press
Beef Trust
New Jersey
United States
Des Moines Daily News
Ivledo Daily News
Europe
Detroit Evening News
Philppine
Senate
Tillman
Wellington
Boston Herald
Edward
St. Paul Dispatch
Rathbone
Grand Rapids Press
Palma
America
Cuba
Philadelphia
Buffalo Evening News
Biscuit Trust
Lnhiladelphia
Republic
Boston Hert
Washington
New York Evening Sun
Spain
Alphanxo
Des Moines
Ambassador Curry
Milwaukee Daily News
Gen
Miles
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Emperor William
Kaiser
Prince Henry
Toledo Daily News
Buffalo Evening Times
Sixth Biennial WCTU Convention Called for Geneva
The official call announces the sixth biennial convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union to be held in Geneva Switzerland in June 1903.
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The
World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Geneva
Switzerland
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Rolli
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New York
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Smith
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Toledo
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Africa
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France
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