Major Ambersons Develop a 20 Acre Estate Legacy
Major Amberson built a grand 20 acre development on Amberson avenue with roads and statuary, center lot housing the most magnificent mansion Midland City had seen. George Amberson Minafer, after college, pursues Lucy Morgan while clashing with Eugene Morgan who returns to build a factory and horseless carriages nearby.
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Amberson
Uncen
Major Amberson
Amberson Avenue
George
Ambersons
Hie
Lucy Morgan
Eugene Morgan
Higbury
Venton
Engagement Rumor Sparks Youthful Confusion
Lucy Morgan and Fred Kinney rumors stir George Minafer as he confronts Lucy about engagement. Lucy deflects kindness with mischief, while family tensions and social pressures surface in a tense cabinet of gossip and longing. George declares love, Lucy hedges, and they agree to decide the matter on the night before his departure.
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Majors Gaughtier
Wilber Minafer
Isabel
Wilbur
Thers
George ‘Amberson Minafer
Eugene
Lucy
George
Morgan
Fanny Minafer
Fanny
Lucy Morgan
Fred Kinney
Miss Fanny
Georgie
Kinney
Mr. Minafer
Pen House
Fred
Suffered for Their Faith The Huguenots in France
The Huguenots were a early French Protestant group known as Puritans of France. They faced severe persecutions under Francis I and successors and suffered massacres such as St Bartholomew in 1572. Despite hardships they remained powerful. Henry IV granted rights in 1598, but their influence waned after La Rochelle’s surrender and the 1655 revocation of the Nantes Edict, sending many into exile across Europe and America.
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France
Francla I
Coligny
Henry of Navarre
Henry IV of
St. Bartholomew
Chinese Curb Tobacco Users Move Emphasized
The circular from China’s Interior Ministry urged strict limits on smoking among youths and in government schools. It bans cigars and cigarettes for under eighteens, punishes military or naval personnel for use, and prohibits tobacco in all government schools and colleges.
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China
Ministry of the Interior
Peking Daily News
Far Eastern Bureau Bulletin
Novel pay plan aims to curb absentee deputies in Argentina
A frustrated Republic of Argentina legislator proposes daily pay for deputies instead of monthly salaries. If a deputy misses a roll call, the day’s pay is forfeited, tying compensation to regular attendance in the chamber. This measure seeks to force consistent participation by public servants.
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Chamber of Deputies
The
Republic of Argentina
Early Path to Success Requires Self Discipline
The article argues that young men should prune leisure temptations in youth to build a life of meaningful work. It distinguishes harmless activities from the need to abstain during formative years, noting that how one uses free hours largely shapes future achievement and world usefulness.
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Forber Magazine
Paige
Ring Shows New Path for Wounded Solder
A Belleau Wood veteran with a lost leg turns a silver ring into a spark for a new career. The federal board for vocational education helps disabled service members from the army navy and marine corps train for work. A counselor uses the ring to inspire engraving training leading to a paid job in a jewelry store.
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Hfe
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Army
Navy
Maine Corps
Belleauwood
Ife
Federal Board
History and the historian perspective on past events
Gilbert Murray argues that history cannot be mere recitation. He stresses historians must imagine, use experience, and view past and present with the same clear eye, treating history as one continuous volume informing current understanding.
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Gibbon
Hampshire Grenadiers
Gilbert Murray
Ancient meteorite fragment found near Dawson discussed
A fragment from a meteoric shower believed to be from the Pliocene or earlier remains rare in museums. The British Museum recently acquired a slice from a specimen found January 1905 near Dawson Klondike, likely tied to a single Tertiary meteor event, based on studies at Ottawa.
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British Museum
Dawson
Klondike
Portrait Echoes of Grandmother and Darned Red Tape
An awkward visitor questions if a portrait resembles Miss Ogleton, sparking a flurry of flattery and self defenses. A Buinoburgh Scotsman quips about family likeness, beauty, and the frame of the portrait as a comic aside. A boy seeks an empty medicine bottle at a drug store and the clerk requires a purchase, prompting the boy to suggest inserting a cork to bypass red tape.
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Miss. Ogleton
Miss Ogleton
A. V
Ike
Buinoburgh
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United States
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Kotland
Baltimore, Md
Nisi
Mary E. M. Closson
Neal E. Closson
Caroline County
Equity
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Lawrence B. Towers
Wrence B. Towers
Goldsboro, Caroline CO
Goldsboro Station
Charles F. Urry
South 54Th St
Philadelphia
Lucas
Thomas & Messer CO
W. Balto, St
Detroit Motor Car CO
Detroit, Michigan
Bullock’s Garage
Denton, MD
Eastern Shore Paige Distributor
Denton Auto CO
Smith & Walls
E. H. Hirs
J. Frank Lane
Goldsboro
W. J. Richards
Greensboro
Stewart & Jarrell
Hillsboro
S H. Dean
Queen Anne
William Chambers
HOBBI
Usco
Louis J. Knotts & Sons
SWIFT
Lancaster Dairy
Superior
Maine
Scarlet Clover
F. P. Roe
Greensboro, Md
L&m
Longman & Martinez, Makers
N.Y
W. A. Smith
Denton
Maryland
WM. Pepper Constable
Maryland Trust
Baltimore
Elkton, Maryland
Maryland Breeding Bureau
Balfinore
J. M. Carroll
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