Anne and John Choose Between Art and Marriage
Anne Blake, 19, loves art and longs for a bigger world, while John Forbes, 25, farms Cloverdale and cherishes her. He supports her dream yet fears losing her, and they travel to New York to seek judgment from a famed artist who dismisses Anne's work as worthless.
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Anne Blake
Anne
John Forbes
John
Cloverdale
Ike Anne
Nand Humdrum
Farmer Forbes
Art
New York
Camel Hair Cloth From China Is Carried For Trade
Real camel hair is used in making camel hair cloth. Hair comes from cooler regions of China. Camels shed hair in certain seasons and a crew gathers it in baskets. At voyage’s start the hull is sealed and baled for export.
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China
Warner
Mottier's Cook Book Emphasizes Change and Thinking
Motivational note on flexibility and growth urges readers not to fear changing opinions. It states thinking drives development and development requires change, warning against drifting backward without reflection.
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Lloyd
Outdoor camping recipes for eggs onions and fish
A hand written style list of camp meal ideas includes an egg and onion butter fried sandwich with milk, wamburger steak cakes over coals, tender green onions with potato salad, sponge or angel food cake with berries, baked beans for camping, dried fried chicken or pan fried steak, fresh fish fried in butter, and a rice and egg dish finishing with beaten eggs.
How to Prepare Pound Fish Stew with Salt Pork and Milk
Readable cooking instruction describes taking two to three pounds of pound fish, cleaning and cubing, browning half a pound of salt pork, adding sliced onions and potatoes, simmering with water, then adding fish and cooking until done. Seasoning, add a quart of rich milk and soaked crackers, serve with a cencher in each bowl.
Deep New York tunnel for telephone cables under Times Square
A World War I era report notes the construction of the deepest underground channel for telephone cables in New York City. Two 30 foot shafts on Seventh Avenue flank a cross tunnel under the Interborough tracks. When finished the conduit system will carry about 350000 wires in 242008 duct feet and span 16000000 miles of 1200 pair cables.
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New York City
West Thirty-sixth Street
Times-Square-Pennsylvania
Eity
Seventh Avenue
Interborough
Brookfield Jests On Stage Riches After Lost American Tour
Charles Brookfield, famed playwright and actor, once led a company to America but lost money. In the Green Room club he quips to George Grossmith that he returns with only a dress suit yet claims to have made ten thousand pounds, remarking that not everyone looks so funny in a dress.
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Charles Brookield
Ameries
Hiis
Green Room Club
George Grossuirth
America
Brookfield
George
University of Nanking Shapes Farm Implement Imports
The University of Nanking reports effective work in introducing farm implements into China. Through university demonstrations, several American plows suited for broad Chinese use have been sold at cost to farmers who will report on plow results, Trade Commissioner C. C. Howard in Shanghai notes.
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University of Nanking
China
CC. Howard
Shanghai
Independent salesman tares orders from no one claim
A clipped quip notes that the new salesman is independent, described as taking orders from no one, reflecting a cheeky sense of autonomy in a New York society brief.
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New York
Gossip Not True About Mrs Miggs Circulated
A line from a women’s periodical notes that gossip about Mrs Miggs was false. The speaker rejects the tale and remarks that the spreader’s remark may have seemed plausible but lacks truth. It reflects light social chatter typical of the era.
Maryland Proclamations on Constitutional Amendments 1924
Proclamation directs publication of Chapters 177 and 327 Acts of 1924 from the Maryland General Assembly. It outlines amendments to Section 9 Article V and Section 34 Article III to fund state aid for war veterans and set election submission for November 4, 1924. Governor Ritchie mandates broad newspaper publication across counties and in Baltimore City.
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General Assembly of
Maryland
State of Maryland
Baltimore City
General Assembly of Maryland
Heruin
Supreme Bench of
General Assembly
Mtorney
Supreme Bench
Halemore
Baltimore
Sereby
Congress
Legislative Department
Gor Tt
St Mary’s
Charles and
Calvert
Bert C. Ritchie
Halumire
Whch
Tueelay
Saul
Power Line of 400 Miles In Southern California
A 400 mile electrical line runs from near Bishop to El Centro in the Imperial valley. Capable of 10,000 horsepower, it required a year to build. It serves several towns and ranches and mainly pumps water on the desert from four substations Banning Coschella Calipatria and El Centro. Local plants exist but growth demands larger outside supply.
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California
Bishop
el Centro
Imperial Valley
Banning
Coschella
Calipatria
Two Poems by Douglas Malloch I Service Thinks of Love
Two brief free verse poems by Douglas Malloch emphasize love over strict obedience urging ruleless service to humanity. The lines contrast following laws with acting from heart and loving one’s fellow man, preferring deeds born of care to deeds done for reward.
Look for the murderers eye in guilty suspects
A detective-author argues there is a murderers eye, an unmistakable gaze at the moment of crime. He claims experienced examiners can detect guilt in the eye, noting fear behind the stare and its visibility only to trained observers.
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George S. Dougherty
Saturday Evening Post
Robins Roost Threatens Puget Sound Cherry Crop
A New York World dispatch notes robins from Friday Harbor gather on a small rocky Puget Sound island about four miles north. Observers estimate thousands roost nocturnally, dispersing at dawn to fly long distances for food. Mild winter lured flocks, endangering Conner Burlington Hellingham cherry orchards. one roost could ruin large areas of fruit if they do not migrate soon.
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Friday Harbor
Wash
North Pacific
Puget Sound
Here
Conner
Burlington
Hellingham
Young Lady Across the Way
A fragmented note recalls a young woman across the way who jokes about surviving in a desert by packing her checkbook to stay comfortable. The quirky line is attributed to a syndicated column by SfcClare Newspaper Syndicate.
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SfcClare Newspaper Syndicate
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Denton Journal
Melvin Benj. H. Johnson
H.vin & Johnson, Forliseer Eee
Anne’s
H Irving King
Fannanan
MiCture Newspaper Syndicate
FPFIM
Riviles
Mottier
Verece Mayweed
Western Newspaper Union
Gereu
The
Date of Maryland
Gwen
Anna
Denton Soto
Caroline County
Plisse
Sepair
Denton
Batiste Bloomers
Atriar
By Douglas Malloch
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Robins
U.S
Royal Cords
United States
Mark
Denton Auto Co
C. Leslie Walls
J. Frank Lane
Goldsboro
Thompson Hardware and Supply Co
Illsboro
Chas. H. Dean
Queen Anne
W. J. Richards
Greensboro
Gubacriber
Orphans’ Court
Thomas
Sparklin
Isaac T. Sparklin
Thomas B. Sparklin
Dee’d
Box
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Denton, Maryland
Ernest G. Cooper Denton, Md
F. J. Wright
Nisi
T. Alan Goldsborough
Charles P. Cowgill
Circuit Court
Geo
A. Deakyne
M. K. Newnam
Journal
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