Moonlit romance in Arizona observatory ends in engagement
Professor Blythe and Miss Marston, longtime astronomy colleagues, confront rumors and distance as they navigate love and vocation. After her return to Baltimore and back, they confess their feelings amid the craters mapping effort and finally marry.
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Miss Marston
Observatory
Professor Blythe
Emerald
Earth
Arizona
The
Astronomical Society
Marston
Baltimore
Mrs. Higgins
Craters
Alfred
W. G. Chapman
Crop Watchers in China Protect Harvests From Thieves
In Chinese fields open to access, widespread theft pressures farmers to guard every patch. Crop watching towers loom above kaoliang fields as professional watchers patrol, using keen sight and knives to deter thief bands seeking millet heads amid dense stalks.
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China
Wide World Magazine
Green First Irishman Declines Red Flag Duty
An elderly Irishman offered a crossing tender job at a small railroad station doubts the instructions. He jokes that he cannot trust himself to remember to wave a red flag when a tart is nearby, in a humorous exchange about railway safety.
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Patrick
Privateer Polly schooner bought by Alfred Johnson
Alfred Johnson of Arlington street has purchased the 108 year old privateer schooner Polly. She lies at Dighton on the Taunton River and Johnson plans repairs and possible yarding on the foremast to resemble her privateer days. The vessel is noted for a four foot white hull band and a green bottom with a rakish jibboom and raked masts.
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Polly
New England
Alfred Johnson
Arlington Street
Johnson
Dighton
Taunton River
Integrity and credit trust in a western congressman's tale
A western congressman quotes J P Morgan on credit and integrity noting a man who cheats would ruin his credit. He recalls a Hartford schoolboy story about sneaking into a baseball game by walking in backward to fool the gate man.
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Pierpont Morgan
Money Trust Committee
Ground as Destiny in a Man's Place
A reflective line asserts work roots a man in his world, giving him belonging and meaning as the earth beneath his feet becomes his destined plot to grow. The speaker finds purpose through labor and place, framing work as a divine alignment with life.
Silence from Oyster Bay Overshadows Maine Election
A collection of satirical quips comments on politics and society note quiet from Oyster Bay in Maine election discourse. Juxtapositions reference Milwaukee women relatives, captains of industry, New York millionaires and changes since Taft left Washington, with playful wordplay on tariffs and democracy.
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Maine
Oyster Bay
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Jessica
Priscilla
Marcia
Stock Exchange
Robert
Green
Mountain States Telephone
Great Northern Railway
James J. Hill
Glacier National Park
Great Northern
James J. Eliu
Veterans’ Association
Northwest
Glacier Park Hotel
Montana
Wiliam J. McMillan
Park
Road
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Vic Murdock
New York
Mr. Solomon
Wesleyan University
Miss Democracy
Taft
Washington
Guaighe
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