Bed Thrash reverend family hosts beauty pageant
In a quiet Bed Thrash home Rev. Tolliver and his motherless daughters Mirian Ellen Ginger and Marjory prepare for a beauty pageant. Marjory wins the Yeanty prize of 50 dollars, gifts the prize to her father for doctors in Chicago, Ginger meets young Alexander Murdock Jr., Tolliver weakens, Ginger conceives a Patsonage Home for the Blind appeal, Helen marries and departs, Tolliver rests at Eddy Jacksons farm.
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Mirian
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Ella
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Eddy Jacky
Tolliver
Yeanty
Chicago
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Alexander Murdock, Jr
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Eddy Jackson
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Joplin Westbury
Eddy
Gald
Eday
Jaceson
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EB. Tolliver
Hiram Buckworth
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Hiram
Jenkins
Advocate
Portieres
Enforced vacation for minister triggers family plan
The Tolliver household discusses funding a two month paid vacation for their minister. Alar Jory proposes ten dollars weekly for room and board, with laundry shared by Ginger and Miss Jenkins preparing the living arrangements. Hiram Buckworth arrives to assume duties as the new minister amid comic misadventure.
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Helen
Alar Jory
Father
Buckworth
Ginger
Merelly
Joplin Westbury
Eddy
Duty and its reward in doing unto others
The piece contrasts high duty talk with genuine effort to act rightly. It cites Tennyson on the joy of doing what ought to be done, notes that evading duty brings spiritual loss, and urges a simple rule to guide all actions. It includes quotes from Cincinnati Enquirer and London Tit-Bits about duty, effort, and belief.
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Tennyson
Cincinnati “Enquirer
Nonsensical OCR Fragments From A Page Teasing Names and Terms
Fragmentary text mentions dates and phrases like Central Standard WOC and Kitchencrested, with garbled references to Stef an Batty Crosher and a Penelope marriage. The legible bits provide no coherent event or persons to report with certainty.
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Stefan
Central Standard
Yellowstone Park Drama Reenacts Washburn Doane Expedition
Conoco Adventurers present a radio playlet on the Washburn Doane expedition of 1870, tracing early Yellowstone discovery, the Tru man Everts rescue, and the park’s national conception. Hear the program on NBC network Thursday at 10 PM.
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Yellowstone Park
Western Hemisphere
Conoco Adventurers
Montana
Washburn-Doane
Yellowstone
Truman Everts
National Park
One Big Moment Recalled by a Doughboy
A World War I veteran recalls a Kansas City trip on June 5 1919. He details buying a salvaged alarm clock and pajama bottoms, tipping a bellhop two francs, plotting to trigger a midnight wake call, then hurling a shoe at both the bellhop and the clock before sleeping contentedly.
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Doughboy
Kansas City
St. Louis Post Dispatch
French Women Win Half of 1929 University Seats
Fifty percent of candidates for bachelor degrees at the Sorbonne University of Paris in 1929 were women, according to university directors. In earlier years women faced disapproval and some professors barred them from classes.
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Sorbonne
University of Paris
Granddad Takes Boy to Pictures Each Sunday
A nostalgic note recounts a tale of a boy's cherishable Sundays with a kind grandfather who always took him to the pictures, framing a warm memory of shared cinema moments and family bonding.
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