When Billy Appleton Left Portland for New York
Four former classmates recount Billy Appleton’s bold move from Portland Connecticut to New York. He pursues design work, faces city life, and grows torn between his old sweetheart Elsie and new love Adele. Nell leaves the ending unresolved about whom Billy will marry.
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Plazxa
Kitty
Nel
Eleanor Marsh Whitney
Alice
Nell
Billy Appleton
New York
Eleie Hill
Billy
Portland
Conn
Appleton & Co
Mr. Appleton
Eisie
Elsie
Pilly
Jol
Adele
Elxie
Litte
Those Good Old Times Remembered In Old Account Book
A Manchester Guardian correspondent highlights a fifty year old couple’s household account book. It records servant wages at eight pounds a year, a two pound ten shillings bedroom setup, gas bills of nine shillings four pence, and purchases like concert tickets for Patti and Suns Reeves, illustrating frugal wartime life and different消费 priorities.
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Manchester Guardian
Patti
Suns Reeves
Labor splits on Irish question at AFL convention
In Denver the two Irish sympathizer factions within the American Federation of Labor split further as the majority who signed a boycott of British goods resolution asked to withdraw the declaration from the resolutions committee. The remaining supporters qualified their stance.
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Denver
American Federation of Labor
Resolutions Committee
Pants Proved Him Honest
A Washington tailor discovered a statesman’s worn trousers while pressing them and declared loyalty to him. He reasoned that a man who wears out clothes long before an election must be square and upright, pledging to support him to the end.
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Bell Boys
Washington Club
Goldfish In Ohio River Reach Port Clinton Grounds
Port Clinton Ohio fishermen report catching many tons of goldfish in the Portage River fishing grounds. The first sightings trace back to 1913 after floods. possibly released from park aquariums or overflow from artificial ponds. The goldfish, larger than glass bowls, weigh up to a half pound and are loaded into cars for shipment to New York markets.
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Ohio River
Fshing
Portage River
Port Clinton
Ohio
New York
St Paul Exonerated by Misreading of Biblical Text
Miss K Raleigh of the Women’s Freedom League charges that priests distorted Paul’s remarks on women. She argues the text was altered by minor punctuation and wording to claim women must obey husbands. She asserts a corrected translation would read be considerate to their husbands.
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St. Paul
Miss K. Raleigh
Women's Freedom League
Apostle
Miss Raleigh
A Yellow Peril Joke and a Cantonese Laundryman Tale
A humorous piece recounts Philip Terry’s tale about a Cantonese laundryman and a guidebook writer who counsel civility. The incident leads to an exchange over courtesy and ends with the man’s collars bearing a Cantonese hieroglyph signifying “upstart ass.” The excerpt closes with sounds and sights from a musical show.
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Philip
Terry
Guide
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Dorothy i. Duff
McClure Newspaper Syne
Icate
Mrs
Tom Clark
LABOR
Rymes
Perisho
Hizowner
Rainey
Taior
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