Thanksgiving Pie Brings Bright Future to Miller Farm
A fragile penniless quartet of sisters contend with Aunt Martha's expectations and a Christmas sense of doom until the Miller farm changes hands. Phylicia, the practical sister, secures a pumpkin for Thanksgiving and meets Bertram Bradley, the young new owner. He invites her to dine on the holiday, and their meeting unwinds family tensions. Mrs. Benjamin, the row’s matriarch, warms to the match, revealing a past romance and hinting at a future alliance. The Thanksgiving pie seals the bond and foreshadows Phylicia’s eventual wealth.
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Diag
Phylida
Adele
Benjamin
Holly Hill Lodge
Martha
Rosalie
Phylicia
Mrs. Benjamin
George Bradly
Robert Benjamin
Mia
Miller Farm
Phyllcis
That Must Wea TanTY Pounds for Phylicia and Adele
In this scene Phylicia Millburn contemplates pumpkin pie gifts from Mr. Miller with Holly Hill Lodge as the setting. Adele plans to study music in Milan and Rosalie in Paris while Phylicia balks at the oversized pumpkin pie gift. A comical exchange follows about appetite and weight.
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Phylicia
Phylida
Holly Hill
New Teeth for All From a Russian Dentist Claim
A Russian dentist reports a new method to supply artificial teeth that become like natural teeth with time. Teeth may be made of jutta percha porcelain or metal and anchored by drilling into both tooth and jaw. Early trials were on dots and private patients with uniform success, but further tests are needed before adoption in this country. The Austrian novelist Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach is noted as a leading writer at sixty one, mother of seven.
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California
San Francisco Chronicle
Chicago
Zoological Garden
Frank A. Richardson
Baltimore Sau
Paris
Parie
Paria
Berlin
Vienna
Austria
Marie von Ebnner- Sschenbach
Sera
Philadelphia
Dran
Oran
New Orleans Picayune
Misa Grace Bates
Judson
Pacific Coast
Biss Bates
Harrison
Miss Bates
New York Advertiser
Harper’s Bazar
Hammond
Weir Mitchell
St. Louis Gloto-Democrat
Speedy Indians outrun cavalry in desert chase tale
A Chicago Herald recounts Indian runners outrunning cavalry and a White officer beating a Navajo in a racing wager. The piece notes long chases, rapid escapes, and a 100 mile in ten hour feat, with Lt Pierson and Lt Baker wagering with Navajo racers. It also covers a later note on a vegetable fiber cargo in Philadelphia claims as a steel substitute.
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Geronimo Band
Hualpi
Arizona
Morgan
Indian Bureau
Emin
Baker
Seventh Infantry
Pierson
Engineer Corps
Indiana
Infantry
Lim
Pioraon
Washington
fChicago Herald
Pearls of Thought and a Train Brakeman Tale
A miscellany of maxims on prudence courage and self belief appears alongside a humorous wartime style vignette about a brakeman named Boscome who cheerfully follows orders despite chaos aboard a Chicago Limited. It includes an Irish dialect aside and a note on sacred groves in Portugal.
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Boscome
Detroit
Two Novel Occupations for Women in England
English discussion proposes two new roles for women: auctioneer and entomologist. It notes the auctioneer idea as novel and questions whether a woman’s voice would endure the job, while highlighting practical entomology work such as butterfly arranging.
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England
New York Commercial Advertiser
Daring Train Robbery by Masked Men in Wisconsin
A Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Express Car robbery near Western Union Junction Wisconsin involved six to seven masked men who blew the express car open with dynamite and robbed the safe of several thousand dollars. Passengers and crew were threatened as robbers forced a safety to be opened and escaped toward Western Union Junction, with some money reportedly taken and a passenger train later meeting the robbers’ pursuers.
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Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Western Union Junction
Wis
Mion
Murphy
Averill
Woah
Incrates Massengers
Tikre Wana Light Capw
Sit Toe
Bia
Atlvachen Ead
Rilne
Samoeey
Mary Petting
Vast Array of Global and Domestic Issues Highlighted
A miscellaneous survey reports on a wide range of topics including population figures for Ohio and expeditions to Brazil, military service in Holland, drought impacts in Tennessee, bread from beet refuse in Russia, and shipping milestones. It notes the US navy's strength versus Chile, overseas telegraph cables, and immigration to Kansas, with date forecasts and economic mentions across several nations.
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Cuma
Exanann
Bas Francisco
Connecticut
Stata
Sen Ee RE
Fewianiy
Montlo
Exolih
Brazil
Russia
Apoe Holland
United States Navy
Anna
Hmaw Coase
Fedesptcoutnae
Nebraska
Seren Etek
Nassac
Hainois
Allanca
Kansas
United States
Eurogs
Argentine Republic
Abou Coorrn, Hewitt & Co
New York
New Jersey
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn
Ohio
Prominent farmer kills son in woods near Salem
Samuel Wilkinsop, a notable Alliance supporter from Salem Michigan, went to the woods with his teenage son. Both were armed. The boy was found shot dead, and the father was discovered nearby in a crazed state, thought to be an accidental shooting. Fifty searchers later found the pair.
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Samuel Wilkinsop
Salem
Mich
Astal
Hla
Mr. Wilkinson
Soma Cyr2aintanos
Rlsais
Tragedy in Titchild A mother kills three daughters
A woman in Titchild near Southampton attacked her three daughters with a carving knife then wounded herself. Her husband arrived too late to stop the killings as the family faced a fatal scene.
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Titchild
Southampton
England
Hinton
Sadler
Willy
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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School of Experience
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