Mrs Marlow's Wealthy Nephew Plans Engaging Ruth
Ruth Larason visits Mrs. Marlow to meet her nephew Paul Wilkes a wealthy cultured young man. Ruth resists at first but falls for his image and romance grows as Sarah and Mrs. Marlow push the match. A six page letter confirms their engagement.
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Ruth
Mrs. Sarason
Sarah
Paul Wilkes Waul Pikes
P. W
R. L
Mamma
Paul Wilkes
Greene Harbor
Sarah Larason
Mrs. Marlow
Briggs
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Paul Monte
Mrs. As
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Large Papers and Small Papers in Historical Journals
A summary of various papers by size and origin notes that a San Francisco journal produced papers of up to one hundred pages, while the Sarawak Gazette in Borneo was a small thirteen by eight and a quarter inch publication debuting in August 1970. The Gold Coast Times is described as even larger and printed at a new printer named Leslie's.
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San Francisco
Sarawak
Borneo
He Gazette
Gold Coast Times
Indian Kitchen Customs and the Savages’ Cooking Habits
A Washington Star interview recounts an observer’s bitter take on Native American cooking. He describes unwashed utensils, mixed odors, and a universal stew practice while noting Indians valued ease over meticulous kitchen care and lacked salt or spices in daily meals.
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British Columbia
Mexico
Rockies
Washington Star
Harvesting Almonds in California The Opened Nut Dilemma
Anward piece in Popular Science Monthly describes almond flowering and maturation, the risk of nuts staying closed, and the impact on harvest profits. It notes neighbors with open nuts husking easily, while others pay more per pound, and details how pickers work nuts from trees with poles and ground husking.
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California
Popular
Solance Monthly
Popular Science Monthly
The Blarney Stone and its legend at Cork Ireland
The article describes Blarney village five miles west of Cork and the famed Blarney Stone set in the castle wall. It details the stone’s height, its supposed magical tongue loosening powers, and the rope-lowered kiss for visitors. It notes a top of the castle claims a “true Blarney” stone, and mentions the castle’s 1445 date.
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Cork
Ireland
Blarney
Ahuacata Pear Trees Among California’s Noted Specimens
The Ahuacata pear on B. H. Sawyer’s El Montecito property near Santa Barbara is an eighteen year old prolific tree with fruit prized in Mexico and the West Indies. Known as mantequilla silvestre and vegetable marrow in those regions, the fruit has been sold in San Francisco markets and once brought a dollar each. The tree, a tall evergreen of the Laurel family, grows in sheltered, frost-free terrain and exemplifies exotic California flora worthy of greater attention.
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Santa Barbara
California
B. H. Sawyer
el Montecito
Sawyer
Mexico
West Indies
San Francisco
Florida
New York
Philadelphia
Bostion Transcript
Fortunes Made By Accidents In South Africa Mines
A trader named O Reilly bought a pebbly stone in Griqualand West for 8000 and sold it for 25000 after a buyer found it valuable. A farm near Wesselton yielded diamonds from rough cast, changing hands for 10000 and now with nearby mines produces about 1.5 billion in diamonds annually. A meerkat hole at the same region revealed three quarter carat diamonds, leading to a farm valued at 2,550,000 and over 200,000 carats extracted since.
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O'Reilly
Poeil
Griqualand West
Wesselton
Meercat’s
Jondon
Man Uses Zinc Fence Strip to Ward Off Cats and Thieves
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, a resident protects his ears from cat concerts and his fruit and flowers from juvenile thieves with a zinc strip atop the garden fence connected to his house wiring. Cats and boys avoid the area, leaping away when contact occurs, per Practical Electricity.
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Cambridge
Mass
Head Husting Mexicans and Indians
The Yuma Sentinel reports a long running frontier retaliation cycle near Nogales Sonora with Mexican victims found decapitated in the Sierra Madre region and further mutilated bodies nearby. The paper notes prior killings including an Apache and a Mexican, and cites ongoing violence between Mexican and Native groups in northeastern Sonora.
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Sonora
Sierra Madre Mountains
Nogales
Yuma
Ariana
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Chicago Graphic
Boston Transcript
West End Street Railway Company
Transcript
Commonwealth Avenue
United States
Arizona
Groton
Mississippi
Georgia
New Orleans Picayune
Camden County
Copenhagen
H. C. Dodge
Chicago
Sun
Ansha
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