Chinatown Teapots and Trouble in a Bangkok Styled Market
Dorothea, Marguerite, and Willie Weeks roam a Chinatown shop where a bamboo box sparks the pursuit of a thief. After a scramble by the counter, police take them to the station. The box reveals only a rice bowl and chopsticks, leaving the trio hungry and broke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chinatown
Dorothea
China
Marguerite
Weeks
Dorry
Willie Weeks
Derathen
Wille Weeks
harling
Wille
Mr. Weeks
Wilie
Proxy Medicine on the Tahl Tau Indians of British Columbia
A Cleveland Plain Dealer writer recounts a ritual where a patient Randy refuses to take medicine, insisting the doctor take it instead. The tribal healer administers via self-medication while drums keep time, and Randy recovers quickly, perpetuating the belief that medicine should be taken by the doctor not the patient.
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British Columbia
Temple Manning
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Randy
Nandy
The Moon as a Dead World and Earth Moon Bond
The article observes the moon as a barren world with lava, dust, cratered rocks, and constant meteor impacts. It notes Earth is 81 times heavier, holding air and water, while the moon is small and lacks such features, explaining their close planetary relationship.
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moon
Smith Learns Business as a Going Concern Fails
A man named Smith bought a business through an agent as a going concern. After six months he failed but did so tightly. He later confronted the agent asking if he remembered selling him a going concern. The agent replied yes, and Smith declared that the business was gone.
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Smith
He Gets It Again and the Impossible Deal
A dialogue excerpt features Reggie declaring care in marriage while wary of a wife with more knowledge. Miss Bright counters with practicality, arguing the romance clashes with reality in a witty exchange from the Boston Transcript.
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Reggie
Miss Bright
Boston Transcript
The World Wide Vicar In Atheist Visitor
An unhappy atheist visits a vicar on a local matter and rejects the Ten Commandments as a guide. The vicar orders the man shown to the door and kept in sight until beyond his hat and coat in the hall, in a London Post humorous note.
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vvicar
John
London Post
Looking Glass and the Word in James 1 23 24
A concise reflection on hearing the word without doing it. It compares the listener to a person who views his face in a mirror, then forgets what he looks like and leaves unchanged. The passage emphasizes action following hearing.
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James
The universal pleasure of painting through the ages
The article traces painting pleasure from ancient times to the present, noting white lead makeup, Xenophon’s wife using cosmetics, and early use of paints on wooden carriages and ships. It cites Egyptians and Romans, with mummy cases showing varnished art and objects.
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New York Sun
Xenophon
Dog Oil Medicine in Early Surgery and Pharmacopoeia
The exchange quotes Ambroise Pare recounting how a Turin surgeon taught him a gunshot wound balm made from oil of dogs and earthworms with Venice turpentine, learned after long effort. It notes the London Pharmacopoeia around year 3659 listing dog oil with sailor oil and cypress turpentine and spirit of wine.
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Ambroise Pare
Turin
Venice
London Pharmacopoeia
Hobblebush a Remarkable New England Tree
New England’s hobblebush grows with branches that touch the ground and root there. Its blossoms form striking white masses in spring, leaves flash bright green in summer, and autumn brings garnet red foliage with clusters of apple shaped berries.
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New England
Christian Science Monitor
Proceedings Against Beetles in Savoie Vineyards
In 1445 and 1487 the Memoires de la Societe Royal Academique de Savoie recount beetle lawsuits over St. Julian vineyards. The judge urged land where beetles could live without trespassing. penalties urged vineyard protection. Beetles argued land barren. assessors approved, but a legal quibble stalled clarity as the document was destroyed.
Street preachers face off with potato chip stall
In a small town a placard preaching about life after death stood before a potato chip stall. The placard asked, After life, judgment. After Judgment what? The stall countered with We fry in the best beef dripping. London Answers.
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London
Looking Ahead in Wedmore Society Talk
In a candid exchange, a groom jokes about gifting a cigarette case to his fiancée and the implication of breaking off the engagement. The banter shifts to plans for retrieving his prenup and using the case himself.
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Wedmore
How to soften hard putty around window glass
A historical instruction describes softening and removing hardened putty by mixing eight pounds of water with one pound pearlash to a paste the consistency of point. Apply to the putty on both sides of the glass and leave for about 12 hours, then lift the glass out with little effort.
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ROSE MEREDITH
FBC ee
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
New York State
BABBITT'S
MEEDA BISCUITS
Lux
Kelloge
Atlantic
Pacific
the
U. S
Nash
DEL-MAR-VA
NASH MOTORS CO
Easton, Maryland
CHAS. H. DEAN
Queen Anne, Maryland
COLUMBUS
India
America
pep
DENTON NATIONAL BANK
DENTON, MARYLAND
Bayer
Fletcher
DENTON DRUG CO
R. C. JACKSON
Greensboro
Maryland
Hamilton and
Ilinois
Hamilton
Illinois
F. J. WRIGHT Optometrist and Jeweler
Denton, Md
WM. PEPPER CONSTABLE
Maryland Trust
Baltimore, Maryland
Elkton, Maryland
ST, PAUL
T. C. PRITCHETT
Henderson, Md
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