The Squires Hoodwink Love and a Heart Trouble
In Oakdale, Squire Harding seeks a healthy wife and pursues Gladys Ray, though she loves Dick Archer. Aunt Phoebe uncovers Gladys heart trouble and schemes a match with Archer. The plot ends with Gladys and Archer wed, and Gladys free from her heart peril through a hopeful life.
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Phoebe
Thoebe
Gladys
Aga
Basily
New York
Squire Harding
Grandpa
Phoebe Ray
Squire
Migdam
Gladya
Ray
Mrs. May
Liverpool
Bayport
Dick Archer
Alost
Archer
Waverley Magazine
Strawberry Fiasco at Wedding Dinner Goes Hailstone Hard
A Detroit Free Press note recounts a strawberry dessert gone awry at a small gathering with a rector and vestryman. Strawberries froze hard, flying across the table and causing gaffes as guests laughed off the mishap and the bride explained the fruit’s high water content.
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Detroit Free Press
Diplomatic Librarian in Boston Reveals Subtle Power Play
The ward leader seeks a library post. Putnam tours the building to show the scope of work and tests the applicant’s fit. He suggests an application but the candidate stalls, deciding against the position. The piece notes Putnam’s quiet influence and a cautionary remark about popularity and friendship.
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Mr. Putnam
Bert
Boston
Food labels to tell truth under new Illinois pure food law
The July 1 effective date will require full disclosure on every food package. Terms like gelled currant jelly and apple butter will get new names, while coffee with chicory becomes coffee compound. Baking powder must declare if it contains alum, aluminum phosphate, or cream of tartar.
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Minvis
Hiingis
Cost of the Spanish War and related expenditures
The article cites a Treasury memorandum placing war related withdrawals at about 389 million dollars for the Spanish and Philippine wars plus hostilities prep. It lists Navy spending by year through 1899, deficits by year, a May 31 treasury surplus of 63.3 million, and war revenue act projections totaling about 222 million across two years. The piece notes a continuing surplus growth of roughly 5 million per month.
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Maine
W. S. MacLennan
Treasury Department
National Defense Fund
Paris Peace Commission
Spain
Philippines
Navy Department
Internal Revenue
Wilson
Treasury
The Census Man and His Troubles
A Boston census taker faces a tearful girl as he tries to reach her father while the child describes a home tragedy. Chicago enumerators cope with crowded tenements and whispered family details as a wave of privacy fears and espionage rumors spreads.
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Boston
Blackstone Street
Children’s Society
Chicago
Brooklyn
Atterbury
Sim
Origin of the Boxers Chinese Secret Society
The Boxers, a 250 year old Chinese secret society, began as radicals seeking to overthrow the Manchu rule and restore the Ming. The movement grew amid reform attempts, Empress Dowager opposition to foreigners, and anti reform violence leading to imperial and foreign powers uniting to oppose the rebellion.
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T He Boser Society
China
Progressive
Empresa
Fragmented News Snippets Mix Global Quips
A scrambled OCR fragment reports on diverse topics including ice plants in warmth, Kansas City landlords using a sixteen guests to one room ratio, Boer tactics, debates over China policy, the Hague peace conference, Italy arming cruisers, U S defense costs, and political gibes about Tammany Hall.
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Aguinaldo
Kansas City
Wall of China
New York Ice Trust
Tammany
Dom Paul
Sam
the Hague
Italy
Congress
China
South
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Gladys Ray
Matilda
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Squire Marding
Sqamire
Clematis Cottage
le Caine
Enine
Iladys
Aunt Phoebe
Jess
Serlous
St. Paul Pionever Press
San Francisco
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