Not Places but People
Harvey Turner longs to move his life into a forest home with Janice Weatherby, but she fears the change. After months of loneliness and doubt, Janice returns to him saying she will love the forest because of the people there, not the place itself.
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Selod
Harvey
Janice Weatherby
Hin
Carterville
Turner
Lothanse
Janice
Harvey Turner
Lhn
Ils
Hils
John
Sahara
Proposal in the Newport Breakfast Drive
A speaker confesses relief after proposing in person, joking he might even ask to marry again before his father, waiting in a taxi and hungry, is invited to breakfast. The scene hints at a lighthearted, domestic moment ending with plans to dine together.
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Newport
City Swallowed by Sea Decline of Dunwich in Invland Era
A compact historical sketch of Dunwich once a major early medieval city in Invland. Romans settled there and it became a bishopric seat with charters and a royal palace. The port housed large and small ships, with 52 religious houses inside its walls. Coastal erosion and encroaching tides gradually demolished houses and churches, with 400 homes swept away in a single year during Edward I’s era and key structures failing between 1600 and 1702.
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Dunwich
Invland
Ita
Commerrell
Edward
St. Peter's
Lake of Everlasting Flame in Hawaii National Park
Admirers of old tree fire preachers learn that the Lake of Everlasting Flame in Hawaii National Park was seen in May as boiling lava rose within 40 feet of crater rim. Earthquakes opened subterranean vents causing subsidence 1000 feet deep and nearly 2000 feet across. As the lake sank walls of the pit collapsed without support of living lava. Makapahu and Poopo craters reactivated briefly, then faded.
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Hawaii National Park
Makapahl
Hardtack Fed to Captive Apes in Regent's Park Zoo
Regent's Park Zoo in London feeds hardtack to great apes suffering dental decay similar to human tooth loosening due to insufficient food. Previously fed bananas oranges sweet apples seed potatoes and peanuts, but hardtack proves popular as the apes eagerly accept it before their fruit.
Frank Duroy Hunts Wolves Alive in Cave Stunt
John Abernathy’s successor Frank Duroy living three miles southwest of Ponca City outdid his predecessor by trapping wolves with bare hands. After luring a she wolf from her den he entered the cave with a rope, hogtied the animal, and dragged it out, returning to pull nine whelps from the cave.
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John Abernathy
Frank Duroy
Ponca City
Abernathy
United States
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Duroy
Duroy Imade
Vinegar Makers Live Long
A London Tit-Bits item notes unusual longevity among vinegar makers and related workers. It cites workers in vinegar distilling with 60 to 70 years of service, department heads averaging about seventy, and multiple generations at one distillery. A birthday gathering at the firm totaled 335 years for four guests, the oldest near ninety and the youngest about seventy.
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London
Striving and Falling in Life’s Vanities
A reflective excerpt in Stevenson’s voice speaks to a life not designed to flatter a nun’s vanity. The aging subject drifts through fatigue, health declines, and restless memory, finding fleeting joy in simple acts yet facing the honest verdict that effort and folly define him.
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Doug
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oldest Confection Traced to Ancient Civilizations
The article notes licorice, derived mainly from Spain, forms from the licorice plant thriving near water. It grows as a shrub up to three feet tall, with roots in damp soils along the Tigris and Euphrates banks. It suggests licorice may be among the oldest confections enjoyed by children 3,000 years ago.
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Spain
Tigris
Euphrates
Etiquette Guide to Luncheons and Hosting Rules
A McClure Syndicate piece outlines formal and informal luncheon invitation etiquette, seating, and service order. It covers advance notices, wording for invitations, reply timing, hostess attire, guest reception, seating by honor, course sequence, and post luncheon conversation, with emphasis on courtesy, balance, and attentiveness.
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James Brown Henry
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
The Dumbbell Epithet Sparks School Crisis
In a Brooklyn classroom six year old Bobby calls five year old Mary a dumbbell provoking protests and sides. The youngest teacher sends him to the principal where he returns chastened and apologizes admitting he called her Mary’s job as a euphemism. The teacher notes Bobby chose a “shintle” refine term to avoid admitting the real insult.
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Brooklyn
Bobby
Little Mary
Mary
Akuru
Jie
Rise and fall of the Chouans in French revolutions
The Chouans were Brittany peasants who supported the royal cause during the French Revolution. Led first by Jean Cottereau, the movement grew under Coudalini Charette, threatening the republic before La Hoche crushed it. An 1790 reprise failed, and Chouanerie waned by 1830 with Thiers’s efforts.
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Brittany
Jean Cottereau
kMed
Coudalini Charette
la Hoche
Hts
Chouanerie Agely
Thiers
Cottereau
Adventure Magazine
India lowers export duty on trides to foreign markets
The government of British India reduces export duty from 15 to 5 percent ad valorem on trips shipped abroad. The move abolishes the preferential advantage once given to the United Kingdom, applying the 5 percent rate to all exports rather than only to UK bound goods.
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British India
United Kingdom
Bristle Trade Item Highlights 1922 Exports
Japanese trade data show exports from January to November 1922 totaling 68 189 kin valued at 383 204 yen. About 60 percent of shipments originated in Kobe and Osaka. Bristles are prepared for brush manufacture or shipped as finished brushes.
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Kobe
Osaka
Moon photographs reveal unknown surface material on Aristarchus
Washington Starr reports that infrared and ultraviolet lunar photos show the Aristarchus crater area differs from nearby terrain. Quartz lens and silvered optics produce contrasting whiteness, suggesting an unknown surface substance beyond zinc oxide. Further rock comparisons are needed.
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Aristarchus
Moon
Washington Starr
Essex Wonders Beyond the Beaten Path
Adelaide Braugg Gillespie praises Essex as a rich historic region near London. Colchester stands out as Britain’s oldest town with Paleolithic and Neolithic relics, offering rewarding day trips for travelers and antiquaries alike.
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England
Adelaide Braugg Gilespie
Essex
Datchester
London
Colchester
Great Britain
To Be Happy Though Married
A dialogue on marriage happiness argues that contentment depends on how couples treat each other. Myrtle defends that married people can be as happy as singles when they stay affectionate, avoid petty irritations, and keep being pals and sweethearts rather than grudging misery.
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H. EL W
Mertzi
Angela
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dismissive Farmer Delivers Odd Dinner Quip
An old farmer invited by his squire to dine faces his daughters' fears of disgrace. They train him with phrases like Beg pardon and Present company excepted. At dinner he holds, then remarks to a young woman about having the grandest Otter of Digs ever seen present company excepted.
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Howesver
Her Course Mapped Out
A dialogue between a young woman and man reveals humorous plans for marriage as they discuss parental approval and past suitors. The woman indicates she will defer to the fiancé who had already proposed and accepted before the man’s indecision.
Odd Saving Method At Bonheur Studio Revealed
Rosa Honheur recalled poverty in youth and how her family used a frugal, chaotic system to survive. M Bonheur would toss coins around the room to spend freely then scavenge for small treasures like a five franc piece in hard times to avert hunger.
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Rosa Honheur
M. Bonheur
Randem
Family asks odd question during dinner
A family dining together is interrupted when Bobby asks if a measuring worn could measure the inside of the stomach. The father questions the timing, while the boy explains he was curious about the lettuce he just ate and whether a device on it could gauge the stomach.
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Bobby
Cecil County Candidate Seeks Democratic Nomination for Judge
Omar D. Crothers argues Cecil County deserves a resident judge for the circuit, citing population, court terms, and accessibility. He notes Queen Anne’s has closer access and cites Senator Legg’s stance supporting Cecil’s claims while acknowledging past tragedy and constitutional structure.
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Omar D. Crothers
Caroline County
Cecil County
Cecil
Kent
Queen Anne’s
Caroline
Talbot
Adkins
Wickes
Queen Anne’s County
Legg
Chestertown
Centreville
Albert Constable
Protective Coloring at the Dance
A brisk exchange recalls Miss Scallops' embarrassment after a faux pas at the dance last night. One speaker notes she wore heavy paint on her face, leaving her blush hard to gauge.
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Brick
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Myrtle
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Denton Auto Co
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J. Frank Lane
Goldsboro
W. J. Richards
Greensboro
Thompson Howe, & Sum Ply Co
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Chas. H. Dean
Queen Anne
Western Maryland College
Westminster, MD
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Pennsylvania Railroad System
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OUR Savings Department
Robert Jarrell, JR
M. K. Newnam
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