Prairie romance of Harris family and the false friend
Despondent schoolteacher John Harris leaves Ontario for Manitoba with his fiancé Mary to homestead. They marry, face hardship, wealth fatigue, and Beulah's rebellion. A conman Gardiner schemes to rob them. Allan is wounded, Gardiner flees, and Harris reconsiders life. The stolen homestead is recovered. Gardiner evades capture while justice looms.
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John Harris
Manitoba
Mary
Eense
Fred Arthurs
Harris
McCrae
Allan
Beulah
Jim Travers
Allin
Riles
Beulyh
Gardiner
Parris
Bunko
West
Pairris
Alkin
New York
Travers
Grey
Fring
Harris Farm
Beauty Its Lure In Zanzibar Haunts the East Coast
A narrator describes Zanzibar as a seductive metropole drawing travelers from across the globe while noting its beauty and dangers. The piece blends romantic images of its clubs, markets, ships, and night life with eerie memories of a haunted Arab house and ghostly whispers.
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Aden
Zanzibar
William’ Ashley Anderson
Harper'’s Magazine
Rome
Paris
Cape Delado
Oman
India
Arabia
Somali Coast
Africa
Europe
Persian Gulf
Seychelles
Madagascar
Youthful Soldier of Fortune Joins U S Army
Josef Zalot, nineteen, a former Polish officer who became a second lieutenant at Camp Niagara, fought in Rheims and the Champagne country, joined General Haller’s army, and returned to the United States to enlist as a buck private at Camp Dix while studying for a second lieutenant’s exam.
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United States
United States Army
Josef Zalot
Philadelphia
Camp Niagara
Ontario
Canada
Rheims
Champagne
Haller
Eighteenth Infantry
Camp Dix
New Jersey
Repairing a Buckled Ship After Halifax Explosion
The British ship Curaca buckled nine feet two inches at the bow and six feet six inches at the stern during the Halifax blast. She was bilged and temporarily repaired in New York dry dock, water pumped out to heat blocks, plating cut at buckled sections, water removed further, and ends settled onto keel blocks before joining the two parts.
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Halifax
Curaca
New York
Season's Best Joke
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip notes a real estate office scene where a stranger loudly declares his intention to rent a house prompting loud laughter. The joke hinges on the formal solemn announcement contrasting with a simple rental request.
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Birmingham
Age-Herald
Hapsburg Liebe A Tennessee Writer With Grit and Startling Breakthrough
The life of Charles Haven Liebe from the Tennessee mountains is outlined as a self taught writer who faced early rejection, educated himself through reading, and persisted after joining a Philippines regiment where pneumonia struck. His stories focus on Appalachian people and his serial The Clan Call is to start soon in this paper.
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Hapsburg
Philippines
Tennessee
Kentucky
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Robert J. C. Stead
Irwin Myers
Aleck McCrae
Rockies
Arthurs
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Chilist
Taugadiner
Abin
Tlarris
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Arthur
Heulah
Jim
Utnr
Tam
Jobin
Ceulus
Armhurs
Bradshaw
George Bradshaw
John
Sergeant Grey
D River
Hapsburg Liebe
South
Irwin, Myers
Bill Dale
Tennessee Hills
Morelands
David Moreland
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