Linnie Wayland Seeks Stage Success After $500 Legacy
A rural resident named Linnie Wayland inherits 500 from a great uncle in New York. She travels to study acting, but fast spends the funds on lessons, travel, and living costs. Starvation follows as she faces harsh odds, hunger, and failed auditions while maintaining pride and letters home.
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Linnie Wayland
Linnie
New York
Tham
Linnifle
Linnte
Wray
Linde
Abs. Wray
Linnie Chooses Home Over Stage After Lamb Chop Episode
Linnie, hungry and bold, eats a lamb chop at a boarding house while a charming young man faces her. He advises her to go home, not stay in the city. She returns home, rejects letters, and later reencounters Sam Hicks, a doctor, at Polly Smith's, where they fall in love.
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Linnie
Tin Hanery
Linnte
Linne
Tdnole
Monudis
Linule
Linnie Wayland
Caime
Polly Smith
Polly
Linite
Sam Licks
Hileks
Polly Smintth
Sam Hicks
Samo
Tinnile
Mrs. Wrar
Peter
When Is a Bath Not a Bath in Grandmother’s Care
A memoir fragment recalls childhood baths with a grandmother who bathed the speaker herself. The bath is long and deep, a towel pinned around the grandmother, and the child slips and splashes water over the edges. The grandmother quips that a real bath awaits, leaving the child to wonder how it will be done.
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Kkatherine Keith
Public Sale of Valua ble Store Goods and Fixtures
Public auction of the T. V. Redman & Son stock at American Corner Caroline Co Md begins 11 o clock in 1916. Goods include groceries tobacco dry goods clothing boots hardware drugs and more with terms cash under 100 and half cash balance six months. Surviving partner Benjamin C Redman and attorney G Elbert Marshall oversee sale.
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T. V. Redman
Benjamin C. Redman
T. V. Redman & Son
American Corner
Caroline County
Hamburg
T. W. Redman & Son
Caas
D. ScHuyler, Auet
G. Elbert Marshall
Public Sale of Farm Stock and Implements at Dover Farm
A public sale to discontinue farming will be held at Dover Farm near Easton on Thursday, August 17 starting at 10 o'clock. The auction lists horses and mules, cows, sheep, hogs, farming implements, and household goods with items such as 21 milch cows, 35 ewes, 1 Durock sow, a 17-foot McCormick binder, wagons, plows, etc. Terms: sums up to 31 cash. larger purchases may be paid in six or twelve months with interest. Lunch on grounds. Auctioneer Chas. D. Schuyler. Clerk Wa. Keppie.
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Russell
Snookums
Dim
Caroline
Trixie
U.S
Dearborn
W. Clyde Leonard
Keppie
Chas. D. Schuyler
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