The Independent American Heiress
Jerome McE Wade, a wealthy Duluth sociologist, discusses the American heiress as brilliant yet fiercely independent. He notes penniless American suitors face ruin and exile, while foreign nobles fare better, citing a Philadelphia heiress and a bankrupt banker once saved by a rescue at sea.
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Jerome MceWade
Duluth
Tle
Philadelphia
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Englishman at Reunion Reflects on Faded Friends
John Drew recounts a Hopeful Englishman visiting an old gathering where friends are repeatedly found dead. The Englishman quietly eats as others press for names, then asks if any friends remain truly alive. The tale contrasts rural and urban social ties and ends with a witty line about surviving acquaintances.
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John Drew
Jim
Jin
Bill
Pete
Country and City Boys Compared in Mental Focus
The piece contrasts country and city boys noting body build, chest expansion, and mental concentration. It says the country boy blends nature into his music while the city boy weaves human feeling, and both are acceptable with the country boy slightly ahead. A New York restaurant tale criticizes a stingy fifty cent tip and cites a newspaper view on New York manners.
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City Boys
Cleveland Press
New York
Aestaurant
Tie
Fifth Avenue
Mixed quotes and historic notes from an early 20th century page
The passage blends various clipped items including coffee trade snippets about Java shipments to the Netherlands, a royal hunt inscription praising Emperor William II, satirical lines from the New York American, and a statistic noting Japan’s coal reserves and mining rate. It reads as a collage of brief, era style notes rather than a single story.
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Ber Yn
William II
Schorlheide
New York
Japan
Adee: The Humorous Backbone of State Department History
The piece centers on AY Adee, long serving second assistant secretary of state, lauded as a living precedent who answers procedures from forty years ago. It notes his humor as he quotes a U S government report about a legless veteran who sued over conditions with the line He hasn't a thing to stand on.
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AY Adee
Adee
State Department
Maine Indians in Legislature Are Nonvoting Representatives
Two Native Mahunt tribesmen hold nonvoting seats in Maine's legislature. Lola Coly of Indian Island represents the Penobscot and Lewy Mitchell represents the Passamaquoddy. They are treated with courtesy but have no voting power.
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Padsins Doman
Goud
Lola Coly
Indian Island
Oldtown
Penobscot
Lewy Mitchell
Passamaquoddy
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