Crystal Ball Foretells Marie's Teen Future Love
A satirical 1920 tale follows Marie Fenton, a 19-year-old flapper who consults a crystal ball for love guidance. She foresees a bright light and a nineteen-nineteen arc, then encounters a handsome purchasing agent, Mr Beers, inviting romance as Marie copes with her mother’s fear about Bob’s worsening condition.
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Jet
Marie Fenton
Marie
Mr. Beers
Stunning
Mrs. Ponton
Bob
Will o the Wisp or Comet Haunts a Comedian Love
Marie frets over Bob Bryan and a theater vision of a world famous comedian as a crowd laughs at tragedy. A turn toward love and truth follows a swift night of nerves and a mother’s sharp fear. Marie rushes home and then to Bob’s house to convey affection and hope.
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Bob
Bob Bryan
Marie
Red Bob
Marle
Tob
Marrying for Pretty Face in Browning's Poem Read
Andrea del Sarto's wife, a pretty face, left his art starved as the 13th century painting tale is explored. Dr. Edward Griggs lectured at Witherspoon hall on Browning's poem and the tension between masculine temperament and feminine appreciation.
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Andrea del Sarto
Robert Browning
Edward Howard Grieges
Witherspoon Hall
University Extension Society
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Dr. Griggs
Browning
Cost Price Store Sparks Pike County Quip
Supt J E Oursler of Carnegie Steel set up a cost price store for 12500 workers provoking a local profiteer who urged closure. Oursler retorts it is naive to shut it, while recounting a Pike County farmer in Pittsburgh asking if engravers are on strike and if there is unrest in the engraving trade.
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J. E. Oursler
Carnegie Steel Company
Mr Aursler
Mr. Aursler
Pike County
Ouster
Pittsburgh
Gazabo
No Insurance on Happiness in International Marriages
Ohio State Journal notes that American women marrying European nobility face high risk. Many shipwrecks follow glamorous unions seeking courtly titles and social access. The piece warns of broken hearts and financial loss after alliances like Nellie Grant's, urging prudence.
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Lloyds
Atlantic
Nelfie Grant
Ohio State Journal
Murder Made Easy Matter
Lunchtime talks at the national laboratory in Teddington turn to crime as scientists debate killer methods. A chemist claims to have solved body disposal, proposing a rapid dissolution that would vanish bones and all, though he withholds the formula.
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National Physical Laboratory
Teddington
Great Britain
Barefoot Boys Salvage Oil In Northwest Burkburnett
Two young brothers aged eleven and twelve earned about four thousand two hundred dollars by salvaging crude oil from a broken pipe. Using a donkey and a rattle trap wagon they dammed a ravine to collect thousands of barrels of oil as the owner watched and agreed to pay one and a half dollars per barrel.
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OIL Weekly
Dallas
Texas
Burkburnett
Fewer Figs Reach Market in Alden Vilayet Trade
The fig field of the Alden vilayet expanded from 9000 tons on 10000 acres to 23000 tons on 25000 acres over thirty years yet demand rose faster than supply. Meander valley orchards mostly Turks own, with best figs from Inovassi and Orthaxe. Smyrna markets set prices, blight and neglect trimmed exports to about 100000 tons this season. Exports: United States 4000 tons, United Kingdom 35900 tons, European entente about 71000 tons.
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Vilayet of
Alden
Laltwas Company
Inovassi
Orthaxe
Smyrna
United States
United Kingdom
Two young men invite well-dressed girls to restaurant
Two young women walking on Chestnut Street are approached by two acquaintances wearing Castian fur coats and expensive shoes. They dine at a high class restaurant and discuss dessert. The men offer a demi-tasse, and the women wonder if it is a sundae before ultimately agreeing to coffee.
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Wnman
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia Record
Reprinted Pearls and Ancient Beliefs Captivate Press
The Snogish press highlights a belief in reproducing pearls by placing them in a bag with a deerlee and observing growth after fears. The idea echoes Boetius de Hoot era thoughts on reproduction of pearls and diamonds. Modern claims cite vegetable pearls as the supposed cause of the new attention.
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Boetius de Hoot
Boetius
World’s End Five Years Says Windsor Magazine
A Windsor Magazine line jokes that the world will last five more years, with a quip about not yet receiving de mobilization papers. The tongue in cheek remark mocks wartime anxieties and bureaucracy in a humorous context.
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Sears
Jove
Windsor Magazine
Off introduced in coneress debate sparks caution
A garbled exchange shows a speaker insisting on introducing a BIE in coneress while Senator Sorghum warns that such introductions bring only brief courtesy and rarely yield substantial acquaintance, highlighting skepticism about the value of ceremonial introductions.
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Sorghum
Tasman Island poised to export frozen meat trade
Tasman, a distant British outpost with about two million sheep, plans to begin exporting frozen meat. The region’s flocks could supply roughly 100000 carcasses of beef and mutton annually, signaling a new era of agricultural-driven commerce.
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Tasman
By Degrees This Dress Is Quite Extreme
A witty exchange about fashion dress as a social cue. The wife notes she wore the outfit to avoid drawing attention to the one Tam has made, reflecting style customs and public familiarity.
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Tam
Boston Transcript
Late County Treasurer's Sale Notice in Denton Maryland
Public sale of real estate authorized by Caroline County Maryland officials to be held at the courthouse door in Denton. The notice cites local and state laws and sets the sale date and terms as required by law. The sale will occur in front of the Court House door in the town of Denton under authority of the Public Local Laws and Public General Laws of Maryland.
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General Assembly of
Maryland
Caroline County
State of
Court House
Denton
Orphans’ Court
Charles H. Harmon
Minnie Harmon
Caleb J. Bowdle
Harry L. Rowdle
Cecil
Kent
Queen Anne’s
Talbot
Caroline
State Roads Commission
Garrett
Baltimore
Commission
General Assembly of Maryland
Rank H. Zouck
Cape H. Wilson
Tax Sale Notice for Caroline County Property
On Tuesday April 6 1920 between 2 and 4 pm the following property in Caroline county is advertised to pay unpaid taxes for named years with interest and costs. Purchaser pays full amount to the Late Treasurer at sale or risk re sale. Redemption allowed within twelve months by paying purchase money plus interest at fifteen percent and costs of the deed.
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Caroline County
Circuit Court
Land Parcel in Caroline County Sixth District
All that lot or parcel of land along Tuckahoe creek in Caroline county starts at the Henry Smith land Lot 3, follows Creek street, and ends back at the initial point. Assessed to Westes Ryan Eleis for state and county taxes for 1916 and 1917, with interest and costs.
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Caroline County
Tuckahoe Creek
Henry Smith
Sandtown
Creek Street
Tuckahoe
Westes Ryan Eleis
Land description in Caroline county parcel sale notice
Parcel lying in the First Election District of Caroline county is described with bearings and distances ending at a total of 192 acres more or less. Assessed to best Downes for state and county taxes for 1916 and 1917, with interest and costs.
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Caroline County
Wm. Brindle
Land description in Benton Maryland with Van Gesel bounds
A fragmented land description in Benton, Caroline County Maryland, outlines a parcel starting southeast of Mrs Mo Al Van Gesel's land and running along an alley to J Thomas and back to Van Gesel, totaling about 27 acres more or less. Assessed to Edith Miller for 1915 1916 and 1917 with interest and costs.
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Benton
Caroline County
Mo AL van Gesel
J. 1
Thomas
van Gesel
Edith Miller
Parcel in Caroline County Bet No 66 in Bryant’s Addition Denton.
A parcel in the Third Election District of Caroline County at Bryant's Addition to Denton known as Bet No 66 fronts High Street and runs to Lot 6s with dimensions shown on plat Liber JOoW TL No 1 folio 11. It was assessed to Theodore Thomas for 1916 and 1917. Joseph H. Carroll, Late Treasurer, Caroline County, signs.
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Hind
Caroline County
Vno Bryant
Denton
Pheodore Thomas
Public Sale Of Land In Caroline County Maryland
Mortgage assignment from Elsworth McCullough to Harvey L. Cooper leads to public sale in front of the Denton Court House between 2 and 1 o'clock. The property lies in the First Election District of Caroline County beside the Choptank River and includes a 3-room dwelling on land described by metes and bounds from the Jones land and Mary Lehriber line.
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Ua Ditch
Jones
Mary Lehribner
Eligworth McCullough
Harvey J. Cooper
Caroline County
Nurses Wanted at Springfield State Hospital
Help wanted advertisement for nurses at Springfield State Hospital Sykesville Maryland no experience required two year Training School course salary forty five dollars monthly during training includes board uniforms and laundry salary after graduation to be announced apply to Dr Clement Clark superintendent at B-27-2¢
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Springfield State Hospital
Sykesville
Vance
Clement Clark
Partnership Notice from O. G. Shugnutt & Co. Denton
Notice by Wingate Neal that he is no longer a partner in the firm O G Shugnutt & Co Denton Maryland and has disposed of all his interest in the concern dated 3 20 31 signed Wingate Neal.
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O. G. Shugnutt & Co
Denton
Maryland
Wingate Neal
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Tasmania
the Continental Life Insurance Company
F. Rawlins
Denton, Maryland
Footer’s : Cleaners & Dyers
Cumberland, MD
Caroline Counties
Catherine S. Downes
APA
ERT
Ced
Atte
Merrick Clements
W. Frank Jarrell
R. Owens
Nisi
T Alan Goldsborough
Solomon Sf
Stith Mathew Smith
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lawrence
Towers
Lawrencee
Parcel VO
Joseph H. Carroll
Hinman Milker
F. A. de Ford
Tuckahoe News, P.D
Goldsboro
Elsworth McCullough
Harvey L. Cooper
Liber J A. S
Harvey L Cooper
James Temple
West Denton
G. T. Redden & CO
Hackett
Louis
Hackett’s
Gape Cure CO
Bebotna Dent
Hillsboro
Buto
Fisher & Rob
Bey
the Peoples Bank
Henry T. Nuttle
Prest
T. F. Johnson
Che Farmers & Aerchants
Menton
John T. Carter
C. C. Deen
Sherman E. Hignutt
WM. Pepper Constable
Maryland Trust
Baltimore, Maryland
Elkton, Maryland
Lucas
Thomas & Messer CO
W. Balto, St
Laultimore
W. A. Smith
Dolge’s
J. Virgil Moore
Denton, MD
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
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