Speed Accepts Challenge To Run Unknown Opponent
Miss Blake secures a race for Mies Speed against an unknown rival to recover a stolen phonograph for fallen friends. Speed agrees under条件 that the foe be unnamed and matched against a Flying Heart ranch representative. Stover Carara and Cloudy push the plan as Culver's arrival nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Carara
Cloudy
Stover
Miss Blake
Speed
Wil
Helen
Flying Heart Ranch
Wile Lie
Saving Waste Turns Railroads into Hidden Profit
The article explains railroad waste reduction practices that save thousands yearly. It details saving paper, metal scrap, sawdust, cloth waste, and used oil for reuse and resale. Scraps are collected at stations, baled, and sold to paper houses or mills.
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Western Toad
Rails Buckle Threat in Summer Heat
A drama of rails buckling in extreme heat, with a bent track discovered in time to avert an accident. Workers replaced the warped rails, restoring clear space between ends to allow expansion.
Where He Makesn Mistake in Labor Saving Thought
A fragment notes that labor saving devices tempt a man to work less while believing tasks can be finished all day. It cautions against mistaking efficiency for endless output and highlights the risk of overreliance on time saving tools.
Trap Nesting Said Essential to Pick Laying Hens
Professor James Dryden of the Oregon Agricultural College urges trap nesting to identify productive hens. He notes there is no single breed trait for high egg yield and stresses keeping daily egg records to separate good layers from poor. The Oregon Experiment Station trap-nests a large flock annually to improve state stock and egg output. A six month first period could show winter producers.
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James Dryden
Poultry. Husbandry Department
Orégon Agricultural College
Profesor Dryden
Oregon Experiment Station
Preparing Geese for Market
Geese fattened for market should stay in confined pens with limited water. Keep cleanliness by laying straw on the floor at night and scraping it out in the morning, then cover with dry sand or earth before night. Provide shelter, ample water, and a dry mash made with cornmeal bran middlings oats and milk, plus occasional green feed like rye or clover.
Safe Disposal of Dead Birds Warns Flock Health
Guidance urges burying dead carcasses deeply or burning them to prevent disease. If burning is needed without a furnace, saturate carcasses with kerosene and set them alight. Leaving carcasses to decay risks killing the entire flock.
Papers Praise My Pa Not His Wrong, Child's Plea
A child laments how newspapers scold his father Henry Howland Polticans Boy and asks reporters to print nice things. He recalls his father’s care for the family and a kiss when his mother cried, pleading for fair coverage to keep his devout father happy.
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Nick
Opinion on character and honesty in plain talk
The piece argues that those who seek pleasure quickly get soaked while inheritances bring wild spending. It contends no woman claims birth in a log house and warns a single minded man risks ridicule. It notes the mountain stream as a symbol of purity yet describes it as crooked with a downward tendency.
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Aurelio Maria Carara
Nex
Preemeer Roper
Carara
Cloudy
Miss Blake
Stover
Speed
Lila
Devine
Willie
Wille
Santa Fe Trail
Blake
Usg
Man Leaves Office to Seek a Carefree Holiday
A weary worker longs for rest from duty and envy others who fish and enjoy days without work. After years of toil he finally retires for a brief escape, but spends three sad weeks adjusting and feeling blue at the change.
Dark concerns on a girl’s future as a minister's wife
A dialogue about the social fate of a girl in a church community. The speaker worries that if she grows up to marry a minister she will face gossip and judgment from women in the congregation.
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Georg
The Chauffeur's Fault
A courtroom scene reveals a speaker on a stretcher explaining his action after an automobile crash. He claims to have acted only after considering the other party and acknowledges his own prior hesitation as the judge questions why the number of the incident wasn’t taken earlier.
Discouraging Habit In A Candid Household Exchange
A fragment shows a husband’s stable character praised while a wife laments Josiah’s faults. The dialogue hints at early work ethic and social judgment within a domestic setting, outlining perceptions of restraint and improvised efforts to improve.
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Josiah
His Falling Sight
A brief humor item notes a waiter correcting a patron about tea color, the patron joking he is becoming blind and mistaking green tea for blonde. The light exchange captures a comic misperception in a dining room setting.
He is Always Willing in an Ambiguous Exchange
A brief dialogue fragment presents a questioned trust in a man described as willing. The exchange implies reliability but remains ambiguous, focusing on perceived character rather than concrete actions.
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Mies
J. Wallingford Speed
Roberta
Covington
Culver
Jean
Yale
Mr. Covington
Humpy Joe
Velen
Mr. Speed
Cup
Madam-e-sella Melby
Holy City
Missug Helepey Moray
Silas
Fifth Avenue
Bill
Fifth
Wally
Madam-o-sella Melby
Paul Armstrong
Husteate
Edgar Be Smee
Harper & Brothers
Wiillle
Che. Inlocker
Henry Howland
Polticans Boy
Ple
Becaus
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