Charlie Blake and the Read-Marker of Fate
Miss Charlotte Blake, known as Charlie, pursues a photoplay reading from a stern scenario reader who repeatedly returns her manuscript unread due to a secret marker. After persistence and a hopeful promise, the reader again ignores her work, prompting Charlie to vow to force the man to read it.
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Charlotte Blake
Charlie
Blake
Missy Blake
Char
Miss Blake
Charle
Mani
Chariie
Hor
Charlie Blake
Charlotte
Billy
Bily
Sue Snow
The Simulated Scandal of a Lost Manuscript
In a snowbound city, Charlie Blake helps a blind reader recover his eyeglasses and a manuscript. The chance meeting with a stern scenario editor rekindles her hope to publish her story as he admires her work. Their evolving bond frames a tale of ambition, fate, and possible romance.
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Charlie
Ambitious writer defies lover in tense theater scene
In a pivotal night, Char faces truth as her partner questions her career. He pleads for devotion while she vows to pursue writing. A sudden arrival tests their bond and Billy hints at the boss directing a dramatic scene, highlighting sacrifices for success.
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Char
Charlie
Bily
Hils
Blake
Billy
Power of Money and the Danger of Wealth Love
A Milwaukee Journal essay discusses money as essential yet dangerous when pursued beyond need. It weighs how excess yields hardness and envy, while scarcity breeds suffering, urging restraint and ethical use of money as a force for good or evil.
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Milwaukee Journal
Romance as fuel for ambition and achievement
The piece argues that hope and ambition, defined as romance, sustain daily effort and push people beyond drudgery. It extols dreams as inspiration that elevates action, sacrifice, and the pursuit of great goals, even in a material world.
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Ife
Horses Have Quick Ears Teach Listening Skills
A Boston Transcript excerpt notes horses are highly alert listeners. When attentive to a driver, they turn ears backward toward the handler, otherwise ears stay forward. A horse hears a distant horse’s whinny better than the average person.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Wheat Barley and Oats Weights in Bushels
Wheat, barley and oats measurements given as approximate per bushel. Wheat 60 pounds, barley 47 pounds, oats around 38 to 40 pounds.
The Human Skin and Racial Adaptation to Tropics
A New York World article argues that sweating capacity explains why white races fail in tropical climates. It cites exact counts of sweat glands per square centimeter for groups including Americans, African Americans, Filipinos, Moros, Negritos, and Hindus, concluding Negrito youths tolerate heat better.
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Tropics
New York World
Emergency Rations for Soldiers Across Armies
The Christian Herald details emergency rations used by World War II combatants. It cites Uncle Sam's compressed maize meal with meat and three chocolate bars, notes fat rancidity concerns, and mentions British Dutch sausage from ground peas, Italian butter balls, compressed tea tablets, and various dried meats and fishes as fall back sustenance.
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Sam
Christian Herald
The Dentist and Ismail Pasha Tale
A tale cited by Lord Cromer in the Quarterly Review recounts Ismail Pasha suffering tooth pain and debating pain with a European dentist. He tests the dentist on a sentry then a slave girl before finally consenting to have his own tooth extracted to compare pain.
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Cromer
Quarterly Review
Ismail Pasha
Egypt
Ismaail
Lie
Lim
Ismail
Ismatl
Ismall
Hin
Puritans as Founders of Massachusetts
Willam Roscoe Thayer argues in the American Magazine that deriding Puritans as narrow or sour is shortsighted. He praises the Mayflower passengers and their leaders for founding a state whose founders feared God and no man, shaping Massachusetts’ historic glory.
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Willam Roscoe ‘Thayer
Commonwealth
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Simplest of Cements for Broken China Edges
Edwin W. Ely writes in the Electrical Experimenter about a condensed Wilk cement applied to the edges of broken china to keep the article intact. He notes mended saucers withstood hot water washings and a fairly large telescope lens repaired with this cement.
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Edwin W. Ely
The Traveler's Test by James Bruce
The eminent traveler James Bruce faced doubts about Abyssinian cuisine. At a house dinner a guest questioned raw meat dangers, so Bruce returned with a raw peppered beefsteak and challenged the guest to eat or fight. The guest chose fight, and Bruce declared the point proven.
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James Bruce
Bruce
Bruce Cuhuly
Opera Score Ties In Last Minute Play
Abe asks for the score while Pandora notes the opera was tied in the final minute of the performance. Chaparral reports the moment as the play neared its end.
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Abe
Pandora
Chaparral
Baltimore's Best Store Promises Better Service
The store highlights its guiding principles behind Baltimore’s best storefronts and commits to ongoing improvement. Visitors are welcomed warmly and invited to make the store their shopping headquarters whether or not they purchase.
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Baltimore
Assignee's Sale of Valuable Real Estate in Maryland
Public sale of property in Caroline county Maryland by assignee under a mortgage from Stephen and Lizzie Flaharty to Jesse Wright. The sale, at J J Garris store in Preston, between 2 and 3:30, will convey the described lot in the Fourth Election District. The transfer follows an assignment to Charles B Harrison on March 27 1916 after default.
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Stephen Flaharty
Lizzie Flaharty
Jesse Wright
J. J. Garris
Preston
Caroline County
Maryland
Land record notice on Hog Creek Mill Property sale
The Hog Creek Mill Property conveyed by Fred R Owens and Wm E Deweese assignees to Stephen Flaharty by deed dated January 7 1903 and recorded in Liber C W H No 68 folio 104 with forty two acres more or less, found to contain by a recent survey by J Walter Noble county surveyor.
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Fred R. Owens
Wm. EL. Deweese
Stephen Flaharty
Liber C. W.H
Carsline County
J. Walter Noble
Property Auction Notice Describes Mill Property and Timber
69 1-10 acres more or less including bed of old mill and along mill pond and creek below it. About 25 acres cleared with timber. Improvements include outbuildings and the old mill. One third cash on sale day, balance with interest after final ratification or all cash at purchaser's option. Title papers at purchaser’s expense. Assignee Charles B. Harrison and James Temple, Auctioneer.
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Mill Pond
Charles B. Harrison
James Temple
Chalmers
Farme for Sale on State Road Near Town
Three productive farms with good buildings on State road near the railroad town. Land offers 45 cents per acre. Listing dated 7-7-11. Sold by Zadoc T. Reynolds of Preston Maryland.
Notice to Creditors for Adah M. Atwell Estate
A Caroline County Maryland notice from the Orphans Court announces letters testamentary on the personal estate of Adah M. Atwell, deceased. Creditors must exhibit their claims with vouchers by January 15, 1918, or be barred from estate benefits. Dated June 19, 1917.
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Caroline County
Orphans’ Court
Maryland
Adah M.atwell
Floyd E. Spencer
T. Alan Goldsborough
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Power OF
Hochschild Kohn
Siochachila
Baltimore, Md
Hog Creek
Farma For Sale
Zadoc T. Reynolds
Preston, Md
Wd VE
F.O.B. Detroi
Cilange
Denmar Mobile Company
Denton, Maryland
Ord Mie
F. B. Nuttle
Nutttle Hardware Co
Henry R. Lewis
Adah
M. Atwell
Lucas
Thomas & Messer CO
Baltimore, AD
Denton
West Denton
L. B. Towers
Denton, Md
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