You Just Can't Always Tell You Just Can't Always Tell
In a drawing room scene, George Forrest flirts with Isabel Townley as Diana and Margaret Ellis watch. Isabel, shy yet bright, reveals chess bonding with her father, drawing Forrest’s amused admiration while the others reckon with his charm and Isabel’s naivete.
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George Forrest
Margaret Elis
Dianna
George
Diana
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Margaret
Saral
Sarah
Croesus
South Africa
Pokeville
Delaware
Miss Townley
New York
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Mr. Forrest
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Sapphira
Isobel Townley
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Margaret Ellis
Old Days Forever Passed in Cimarron Bill Tale
Edward M. Denley reflects in the Dallas News on how the mythic Texas frontier story Cimarron Bill has faded. He contrasts the old hardship and romantic wanderer era with modern wheatfields and speed, noting the shift from prairie schooners to motor cars and the loss of the legendary wanderer’s world. The piece laments a vanished frontier spirit and recalls a reader’s nostalgia.
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Cimarron Bul
Texas
Santa Fe
Cimarron Bill
etlon
Golden West
Edward MM. Denley
Dallas News
Fortune From the Clouds A Humble Man Changes
Casper Uuntington inherits a million from a Scottish estate and rises in status, buying an expensive car and courting Bertha Walton. A crash lands him in the Business Girls' Home for Crippled Children, where the philanthropy he admired becomes a personal test, and Bertha reappears to share a new secretive charity plan.
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Casper Uuntington
First National bank
Casper
Bertha Walton
First National
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Business Girl
Bertha Winton
Marcus Aurelius on retreat and inner calm
The passage urges retreat from external shelters to inner stillness. It claims true quiet comes from within, accessible to anyone who looks inward, and contrasts this with the lure of country houses or seaside hideaways. It emphasizes personal power over choosing self-reflection to attain tranquility.
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Marcus Aurelius
Concrete fusion observed after fires in reinforced buildings
Tests by the United States Bureau of Standards indicate some small concrete samples may fuse at about 2200 degrees Fahrenheit, near manganese melting point and well below nickel or iron, with fusing temperature varying by sand and cement type.
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United States bureau of standards
American heiress to be duchess for a time
The Birmingham Age-Herald notes an upcoming international wedding making headlines as an American heiress is set to become a duchess briefly. The story highlights cross border nuptials and social interest in royal connections.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Why Not Do Our Best First
A concise old Dominion reflection contrasts human effort with divine assistance. The Standard voices the belief that striving initiates progress, while Richmond Planet notes the crowded path of vice versus the open route of virtue, inviting self-denial as a moral choice.
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God
Richmond Planet
Children’s Telephone Improvised Toy Hook Idea
A short note suggests giving children a small imitation telephone to place within reach on a piece of furniture. It includes a simple addition, a “phone hook,” to encourage pretend play without disturbing real devices. The item reads as a simple domestic tip for keeping kids engaged.
How luck with rose garden grows by hard work
A speaker explains that luck with roses comes from constant labor in the yard. The other person praises the blossoms as exceptionally beautiful and asks for the secret. The reply emphasizes working night and day in the garden to achieve success.
Sugar’s unseen foe germs with a sweet tooth
The article explains how sugar attracts and sustains countless micro organisms, causing annual losses over 25 million dollars. Germs multiply when sugar is moist or damp in holds or refineries, and storage or transport accelerates decay. A shift to dry steam in washing sugar aims to kill more germs by reducing air-borne contamination.
Johnson Corrected Goldsmith in Meaning of Slow
In a discussion with Dr. Johnson about Goldsmiths line in Traveller Goldsmith claimed slow referred to tardiness of locomotion. Johnson angrily stated slow meant sluggishness of mind in solitude and Goldsmith conceded the interpretation.
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Johnson
Goldsmith
Dr. Johnson
Repairing Shoe Cracks With Gelatine and Formalin
Cracks in shoes above the toe are fixed by mixing gelatine with hot water to glue consistency, filling the crack, smoothing flush with the feather, then applying one or two coatings of 40 percent formalin to harden the patch making it waterproof and water insoluble.
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DENTON NATIONAL BANK
DENTON, MARYLAND
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
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Denton
Greensboro
Sixth street
NUTTISH
MARYLAND
R. C. JACKSON
Hamilton
Illinois
Sun Glasses
Kodak
F. J. WRIGHT Optometrist and Jeweler
DENTON, MD
JAMES J. ROSS
WM. DENNY
Sec’y-Treas
Kent County Mutual Insurance Co
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Preston, Md
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HOCHSCHILD, KoHN & Co
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Miss Knight
Baltimore, MD
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At Paint and Varnish
C. Leslie Walls’ Hardware Store
Ford
USL
USLs
DEN-MAR MOBILE CO
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Scotland
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