Shoes of Her Desire in a City of Glamour and Notes
Ora Lee and Patsy, two working girls in a big city, chase style and romance on a thin budget. Ora Lee longs for satin shoes to match a high-stakes social life tied to King Roland and a legendary portrait linked to a Continental officer. A genealogical quest emerges as fate intertwines fashion, money, and identity with a dramatic payoff.
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Orn Lee
Phitsy
Raghlon
Patsy
Patsey
Ora Lee
Puntsey
King Roland
Paulsey
King
Ritz
Bhut
Chance glance seals deal in simple purchase
The narrator recalls a dealer window sighting that led to an instant buy and a straightforward reveal of the seller. Ora Lee and a distant kin consider it shameful to split the old grant while a pleasant way exists to keep it intact. Patsey, as bridesmaid, proclaims she made the match and jokes that favorable fortune hinges on the choice.
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Ora Lee
Patsey
Vanishing of Letter Laid to Lightning Monument
A Vermont monument to Ethan Allen in Green Mountain cemetery features an eight foot four inch statue modeled by Peter Stephenson and unveiled July 4 1873. The base is granite with a six foot square die and a Luscan shaft rising forty two feet high facing Lake Champlain toward Ticonderoga. The letter T from the inscription vanished, with theories it was struck off by lightning, though no trace remains.
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Ethan Allen
Green Mountain
Vermont
Lake Champlain
Great Jehovah
Continental Congress
Dogs and Language Understanding Across Humans and Hounds
A reflection on how dogs grasp language and social cues beyond speech. The piece notes that even without speech, young children understand much, and dogs may recognize names and tones. It argues dogs mainly understand the language of manner and human behavior, more than spoken words.
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Philip Glibert Hamertonu
Lake Dwellings and Their Ancient Origins
The term lake dwellings refers to prehistoric habitations built on lake margins, supported by piles. First seen at Mellen on Lake Zurich, they spread to Lake Geneva, Neuchatel, and Constance, spanning stone to iron ages. Described by Doctor Keller in 1854 and dated 1000 to 2000 BCE, with echoes in Herodotus and finds across Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Scotland.
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Mellen
Lake Zurich
Switzerland
Lake Geneva
Neuchatel
Constance
Keller
Zurich
Herodotus
Lake Prasias
Italy
France
Austria
Germany
Ireland
Scotland
Kansas City Star
Prosy Speakers Stopped By Traffic Tower Timers
In New York miniature traffic towers on speakers tables warn when time is up. Amber and green lights signal remaining time while a red light orders a full stop. The device counters lengthy after dinner oratory once dominated by cigars and interruptions.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Chiaroscuro Defined as Light and Shadow in Painting
The term chiaroscuro describes the arrangement of light and shade that gives volume to objects and suggests light extends into shadows. Masters like Da Vinci Correggio Grunwald and Rembrandt are cited as stewards of this technical art characteristic.
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da Vinci
Corregio
Grunewald
Rembrandt
Visitors to New York aquarium draw record attendance
Visitors to the New York aquarium in the last year numbered 2121,S06, a monthly average of 176,825. Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Venice, Cal, and San Francisco are the only other American cities that maintain simlar Institutions. The Steinhart aquarium in Golden Gate park, San Francisco, attracted 232,947 in its first month.
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New York Aquarium
Boston
Philadelphia
Detroit
Venice
Cal
San Francisco
Steinhart Aquarium
Golden Gate Park
Strange Coincidence in a Woman’s Marriages
A remarkable case centers on a woman twice married whose husbands were killed while driving home from the church where the marriage ceremony was performed. The uncanny pattern grows stranger with each tragedy as locals seek explanations.
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Wo Man
Birds Saved By Perches At Lighthouse
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds equipped a lighthouse with perches to prevent birds colliding with the light. The result cut nightly bird deaths from about a thousand to under six hundred, restoring safer migratory routes for affected species.
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Uo Ughthouse
British
Royal Society For the Protection of Birds
Bride Paints Church Steeple Near New York
A 20 year old bride led a church group to repair a steeple near New York. The steeple stands 73 feet above ground and the bride received the honor of painting it while fellow Congregation women assisted.
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New York
Secret engagement exposed by public speculation
A fragment from Nuggel's Lustige notes that a supposed secret engagement could not stay hidden as everyone observed the couple's happiness and inferred the reason, reflecting social pressuring visibility.
Queensland Government Sells Homes to Workers
Premier Edward G. Theodore outlined Queensland Australia spending about 16 million dollars over eight years on 500 to 9,000 houses sold to workers through a government scheme. Homes are built by the state, sold to workers via weekly installments, with eventual ownership after 15 to 20 years. Theodore noted government aid to land and cotton fields and predicted effects on the British empire if Prime Minister MacDonald’s policy succeeds.
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Lubor
Queensland
Australia
Edward G. Theodore
Australin
Whitehall Street
New York Times
Theodore
New York
Canada
London
Homers
Labor Party
United States
East African Elephants Grow in Numbers Across Region
The article notes East African elephants are increasing after past levels of slaughter. Laws and war disruptions helped reduce losses, with Mozambique emerging as a trade center and Bombay receiving tusks for processing. The Ivory supply is stated at about 100 tons annually.
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Eastfrie
Zambes
Cape
Bombay
Scotland Made Game of Golf National Pastime
Three months before the Pirun Fathers left Dettshaven Jaimes WEO ape proved the contract for the first municipal golf links at St. Andrews Scotland. Golf gangs have started in Holland where a cross between golf hockey and howling was played on the hee within covered courts and even two churchyards. Links refers to ruling close cropped shore fields that became the model for golf courses. Bonkers are cut banks and pits along graded country roads and St Andrews cut banks are now artificial on golf links. For years the Scotch course had 41 holes but in 1764 two holes were dropped, leaving standard courses in multiples of nine. National Geographic Society.
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Dettshaven
Jaimes Weo
St. Andrews
Scotland
Halland
St. Andrew's
National Geographic Society
Early Navigators Dared Perils of Every Sort
A historical account notes voyages over about four millennia, describing three year journeys, severe hardships, and small survival rates. J S del Cano is credited as an early navigator, with Ferdinando Magellan a leading figure. Magellan died in the Philippines, and only the Victoria under del Cano completed the voyage.
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J. 5
del Crne
Loz
Ferdinando Magelhin
Philippine Islands
Vitter
del Cano
Butterflies Bred on Southern French Farms
Fascinating industry in southern France grows hundreds of butterfly varieties. Farmers use guidances to breed, cross breed, and experiment with markings for sale to collectors and for adornment of hats and dresses. Caterpillars are nourished on leaves, then moved through controlled rooms and nets before emerging in vibrant hues.
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France
Sefenthic Guidamve
Tantrum Headache Habit Thought to Grow
Fred C. Kelly discusses how certain individuals including children and nuns feign or exaggerate headaches to gain sympathy and attention. The practice begins as a reaction to want for notice and can become a habitual pattern, with sufferers feigning illness at times and places where normal behavior would suffice.
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Fred C. Kelly
McNaught
Mn Wotutn
Locomotive Whistles Urged For Change By Experts
Professor Arthur L. Foley of Lodiana University disputes current locomotive whistles citing tone and placement as flaws. He favors a shrill single tone and frontward sound, predicting coal savings of about 5 million dollars annually if adopted nationwide.
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Arthur L. Foley
Lodiana University
Foley
Honest Thief Becomes Trusted Store Employee
Apsirescent Inca department store clerk stole then confessed to the superintendent who made a sealed promise of secrecy. The woman explained family sickness drove her need for money and was sent to a hospital by the store at its expense. Nine years later she remains a loyal, valuable employee. The envelope was burned years ago.
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Apsilesetic Inca
Public Auction of John M. Scott Estate Lands in Caroline MD
Executor Edward W. Brown offers two parcels in Caroline county Maryland at public sale. First, 28 square perches including a 2 story dwelling, bounded by New Street and Charles Lewis lot. Second, a 100 acre tract with dwelling, barn and outbuildings. 20 percent down day of sale. balance due August 23, 1921. deed costs on purchaser. Auctioneer J. J. Stevens. Attorney Thomas C. Frame.
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John M. Scott
Register of Wills
Delaware
Kent County
Maryland
Caroline County
Hickman
State of
Charles Lewis
New Street
W. G. Wooters
Horatio Murphy
John Satterfield
William Wooters
Maryland and
M. Wright
Henry R. Lewis
J. Owen Knotts
Edward W. Brown
Thomas C. Frame
J. J. Stevens
Assigner's Sale of Valuable Property in Denton MD
Assignee will offer at public sale in front of the Denton Court House door Maryland the property secured by a 1917 mortgage from Robert Le tree and Louisa Legree to Jarvey J Cooper part of land deeded to James H Nichols and later conveyed to Robert Legree and Louisa Legree premises include improvements described as in the deed records of Caroline County.
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Robert Letree
Louisa Legree
Jarvey J. Cooper
Liber L. B. T
Caroline County
Court House
Denton
Maryland
Denton Bridge
Brick Mills
William D. Taylor
Gidey
James H. Nichols
G. T. Redden
Robert Legres
County Commissioners
Walter S. Rutter
Alphonso Meredith
Williston
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
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Chiaroscuro
HiricFisnhe
William Croll
Mispillison Hundred
Harvey L. Cooper
James Temple
Nisi
Mamie B. Kinnear
Edward D. Kinnear
Circuit Court
Geo. A. Deakyne
Fred Joinson
the Journal
New Dover Opera House
Paramount Presents
Jacqueline Logan and
David Torrence
Ingland
Spat
Metro Presents
Lillian Gish
Henry King
Prichs
First National
Anna Q. Nilsson
Milton Sills
Rex Beach
Ben Turpin
Oliver
Syracuse
Dden
Tributt
W. Anawaten Deen
Jostah A. HeEck
Wealey B. Chew
Ralph Swann
Wesley FE. Thawley
Thomas J. Keating
West
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William L. Jester
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Deakyne
Kelly-Springfield
Borg
Kelly’s
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Nesco Perfect
Puritan
C. Leslie Walls
Nuttle Milling Co
Fred Porter
New Bridge, Md
Mid
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