Janet Ware's Year of Money Saving Plans
Janet, oldest of seven, schemes to fund a European trip by drastic household economizing. She dismisses staff, hires a Finnish maid and a gardener, keeps ledgers, trims waste, and faces mounting costs as family and guests strain resources, while John Wilson pursues his own plans.
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John
Janet
Bealdes
Janet Ware
Finland
Lena
John Wilson
Chai
London
Windsor
Paris
Lonna
Sia
Martha
Tom
Rose
Intelligence Office
Proved Guilt of Bullfrog Cannibal Revealed in Aquarium Tale
A man named Gul sert recounts his experiments with a large yard aquarium revealing a bullfrog’s carnivorous behavior. The frog swallowed a sparrow and later killed a Japanese fantail, exposing the animal as a fish thief and potential culprit in repeated thefts.
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Nick” Gulsert
Electral Bureau
Eve and Adam in a Moral Fable and a Storefront Comedy
A rambling archival vignette mixes a mock science sermon on Eve and Adam with a storefront anecdote about a grocer and a coal baron. The dialogue contrasts myth and modern business amid a sparked grocery dispute over a 25 percent price rise and wages, ending with a wry note on strikes.
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Lignite
Man of comic opera rejects librettist offer
The eminent composer dismisses a request to hire a librettist, saying he already has enough librettos for fifty years. He returns to trimming ragtime scraps as he points to his bound almanac files.
Force of Habit in an Olde Time Retort
An Oldean habitant muses on a far past, recalling Holtimore’s age of 172 years and a cigar maker’s oath as he pockets half a box of matches. He recalls a day when the city’s land could be bought for two dollars eighty cents and an old hat.
Time Tables for Union Pacific Westward and Other Lines
Rail timetable snippet lists Union Pacific Westward trains from Omaha to Denver with departure and arrival times for Nos 208 104 109 110 and South lines 100 102 101 110 plus Colorado & Southern Chicago Burlington Quincy No 145 and No 100 Accommodation with arrival and departure times. The excerpt ends with a street quote about smiles and fortitude and building inspectors.
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South
Colorado & Southern
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Ierees Stoo
Endless Chain Tale From The State Leader Of Wyoming
The text recounts a humorous family anecdote about Wombat with five daughters and a cycle of marriages and a later divorce. It notes the state leader as a topic in Wyoming and mentions a tryst.
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The
Want Ag Tpedium of
Wyoming
Tryst
Grocery Reportes Exchange in Market Banter
A playful exchange unfolds in a grocery setting as a clerk and a cashier discuss romance. The clerk suggests a future date with a peach while the cashier counters with a date beside canned lobsters, highlighting flirtatious banter amid everyday shopping.
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By Jane Osborn
Europe
Philadelphian
Batrachlan
Onigonr Wastalp
D.nesbit
Adam
Ian
Old Adam
Cain
Noah
Johahi
Eva
Al-Ie-Goreal
Prim-V-Val
Eve
Studebaker
Busines
Studebaker Service
Studebaker Cars
Detroit
He Studebaker Corporation
Michigan
Denver
Studebaker Colorado Vehicle Company
Cheyenne Place
F. R. Dildine
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Union Pacific
Omaha
Cheyenne
Ogden
Neiver Thine
Desarte
Treaver Pacific Thine
Ward
Vrom
North
Orin
TNO
Convet Eee
Kendrick
Sheridan Home
U. S. Senate
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