Will plan pits heiress against lover and heir
Anne Redfield must marry her father's chosen manager Theodore Griffin to inherit a fortune and control of the Redfield business. Griffin argues the plan safeguards her happiness and the company, while Anne, now twenty and an orphan, refuses a forced match and seeks legal clarity amid contested wishes.
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John Redfield
Anne
Theodore Griffin
Griffin
Redfield Company
Anne Redfield
Redfield
Dong
David Corwin
John Redfeld
David
Mr. Redfield
Lesr
Widow schemes to wed Griffin for her fortune
Anne Medfield resists her will's constraints and faces a forged plot by Corwin and the Senora de Barancas to wed Griffin. Griffin, courted by the Brazilian widow posing as a multimillionaire’s widow, is trapped into a sudden marriage. David Corwin engineers the ruse to secure Anne's inheritance as the couple pursue wealth.
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Wriffin
Anne
Griffin
Gritta
Corwer
Shin
David
Darld
Theodore Griffin
Griffon
Senora Barancas
Anne Medfield
David Corwin
Corwin
Rio de Janeiro
Lenora Barancus
Adventuress
Theodore Thomas Retort at First Choir Rehearsal
A vivid anecdote from the Cincinnati College of Music recounts Theodore Thomas reprimanding soprano singers for inattention during an early choir rehearsal. After a passerby overheard a singer’s complaint, Thomas quietly told the lady she must improve greatly before he would treat her as he does his orchestra.
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Theodore Thomas
Cincinnati College of Music
Theodore Thomasina
Thouis
Hiw
Origin of the Trail A T rail that changed railways
Robert Livingston Stevens, sailing from New York to Liverpool before steamers, pondered how to run a railroad without stone stringers. His whittling led to a broad based T rail installed directly on solid wood supports, a design still used on railways worldwide.
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Robert Livingston Stevens
New York
Liverpool
Stevens
England
Aliteracy in Spain with No Schools
In Spain many villages lack any school and access is via bridle paths. Attendance is voluntary, not obligatory. About seventy six percent of children are illiterate across rural areas and thousands remain unreachable by roads or rail.
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Spain
Soldier Meets Fiancée In Wedding Mixup Far From Home
National Guard member John Overaker, to marry Chicago bride-to-be Telen Withers, travels in uniform to a Chester house mistaken for a hotel. Miss Withers arrives after a railroad scare, Mrs. Chester hides the lapse, and Overaker sleeps through the setup before the wedding reveal.
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John Overaker
National Guard
New York
Telen Withers
Chicago
John
Jean Overaker
Siire Miss Withers
Overaker
Chicagoe
Misa Withers
Mr. Overaker
Innstead
Chester
Miss Withers
Mrs. Chester
Missy Withers
Miss Wickers
Ilo
Bride Mistakes Landlady For Innkeeper In Wedding Farce
Lieutenant Overaker plans a Chicago wedding but misreads the innkeeper Mrs. Chester as the landlady. A luncheon and wine bill clarify the ruse with a lavish surprise, including a jeweled necklace. The couple, after a brief bridal trip, honor Mrs. Chester and name their first daughter for her.
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Overaker
Hilm
Chester Inn
Ceutenant
Mrs. Chester
Dilea
Overrker
Jeopardy the Dynamite Girl Fires a Home Tale
In a Hudson Maxin story the servant Jeopardy is recalled for pouring kerosene on a lit fire. She disappears after discovering a fifty pew case of dynamite sticks in the woodshed used to start the stove. The piece notes dynamite is unreliable for burning.
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Hudson Maxin
Jeopardy
The Ruling Passion at a Birmingham Wedding
A Birmingham Age-Herald quirky report recalls Jibway a man who uses baseball slang in every situation. At a planned wedding the bridegroom did not appear causing excitement. The groomless ceremony prompts the bride to vow marriage to any substitute.
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Jbway
Pye
Jibway
Pluch
Binningham Age-Hereld
A Famous Beauty Mme de Remusnt Admired As Goddess Model
A renowned beauty Mme de Remusnt was praised as having a face so alabaster and perfect that contemporaries deemed her worthy to model a Greek goddess. Though her flesh appeared alabaster and she did not seem frail, she remained robust in appearance and drew universal attention wherever she went, even in old age retaining much of her beauty.
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Mme. de
Meet ing with success as a lawyer quote
George Askett-Well jokes that he finds success wherever he goes as a lawyer, but notes the other fellow is the one on friendly terms with success, reflecting a lighthearted interview in the Indianapolis Star.
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Askett
George
Indianapolis Star
A Word to the Boys From Youth
A brief proverb advising boys to rely on their own actions to succeed in life, not on opponents' mistakes, emphasizing the need to make hits to win in the game of life.
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Trinidad
Lake Asphast
L.B. Towers & Bro
Denton
Maryland
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USS
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Chesapeake and Potomac
H. M. Thompson
Telephone
Hillsboro, Hid
Hillsboro
Burrsville
J. Virgil Moore
Menton, Maryland
McCormick & CO
Baltimore
the Peoples National Bank
Denton, MD
Albert G. Towers, Prest
T. F. Johnson
8. Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
U. S
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Salisbury, Maryland
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America
Ford
Detroit
Denton Auto CO
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Optometrist
Caroline County
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