A Bold Test in a Wilderness Love Plot
Alec Winston schemes to test Mildred Huntington by enlisting Hawkesworth, an English guide posing as Earl of Bingleton, to tempt her with foreign titles. The ruse unfolds as a hunting party of five men and four women treks into Maine woods, where camp life and social games mix with growing romantic suspicions.
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Alec
Mildred Huntington
Mildred
Male
Fred Winston
Mousehead Lake
Fred
Hawkesworth
Goodby
Winston
Miss Huntington
Camp
London
Maine
Earl of
Bingleton
House of Lords
Alec Winston
Tom Hawkesworth
Wen
Bred Winston
Migs Huntington
Amilss Huntington
Ahldred
Thomas Lawrence Hawkesworth
Huntington
Hunting Party Ends in Love and Deception
Four young women join a hunting party with protected escorts. Miss Mildred Huntington wounds a moose, faints, and Hawkesworth rescues her, sparking romance. Miss Huntington learns her fiancé Alec Winston lacks title, then marries Hawkesworth, while Alec laments losing her for a plain clerk’s son.
Nobel Gifts A yearly prize fund from Nobels legacy
Alfred Nobel died in 1898 leaving about 9 million dollars to a fund. Interest funds five prizes for physics chemistry medicine literature and peace. Each prize averages around ten thousand dollars with awarding bodies including the Swedish Academy of Science the Carlsberg Institute and a Norwegian committee. The piece notes the press and a quip about misunderstanding in a joke.
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Alfred B. Nobel
Swedish Academy of Science
Caroling Institute
Faculty of Medicine
Stockholm
Swedish Academy of Stockholm
Storthing
Philadelphia Press
An Awkward Situation in a Medium of Truth Tellers
A brief exchange from the Kansas City Journal features a claimed soothsayer offering to foretell futures for two dollars. When pressed about funds the supposed seer asserts honesty, while the skeptic questions the validity of the claim.
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Kansas City Journal
Electricity Facts for Beginners by the Electrical Experimenter
A compact primer on electricity explaining positive and negative states, how all substances contain electric equilibrium, and how conduction and insulation determine the flow of current. It notes heat and light when strong forces are blocked by insulators and describes sparks when a current jumps across a nonconductor.
Citta Vecchia and St Paul Heritage
The article notes Citta Vecchia as Malta’s ancient capital near Valetta between Valetta and St Paul’s Bay. It describes Piazza San Paolo cathedral built on Publius’s house site, a St Paul statue on Selmun island, and grotto legends linking St Paul to Malta with a non graphic travel perspective.
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Publius
Malta
St. Paul's Day
Citta Vecchia
Island
Valetta
St. Paul's Bay
Valetia
St. Paul
Piazza San Paolo
Apostle
Bay of St. Paul
Selmun
Christian Herald
Sacred Numbers Forty and Four in Ancient Belief
A compact note on sacred numbers four and forty in ancient lore. It cites Omar’s saying that four things do not return and lists examples: four seasons, four compass points, forty days and nights at the deluge, forty years for apostolic journeys, and other biblically linked counts.
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Omar
Garden of Eden
Solomon's Temple
Moses
Midian
Mount Sinai
Ufe
Keep Gloom From Sickroom Test for visitors urged
A Detroit Free Press letter argues for a visitor test to screen people entering sickrooms. It says recovering patients should avoid doom laden friends who bring gloom and misery, as such visits prolong illness and slow recovery.
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Detroit Free Press
Improver Teat Question From a Quirky Exchange
A querulous respondent answers that the world may be improving, with a wry quip about past eras. The dialogue hints at humorous reflection on progress and era shifts, framed as a clipped, ledger-like exchange from a historical text.
Park 20 Cents and Child Fare Policy Noted
A brief notice states park fares at 20 cents and children under 12 pay 25 cents. It adds that extra return trips from northbound trains will be made to Sule.
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Denton
Walliston
American Corner
Federalsby
Williamsburg
Hurtoc
Baltimore
Ocean City
Hurlock
Federalsbuurg
Federalsburg
Federelsburg
Abe
Turlock
hHuntley
Ridgely
Pennsylvania
Downes
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Melvin & Johnson
Ity
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Nobel
Baltimore American
Electricity
Kent and
Queen Anne’s County
Chestertown
Maryland
Queen Annee’s
Astern Shore
Kent
Queen Anne’s
Greensboro
Notce
Joseph H. Carroll
Caroline County
WOOD
T.w.wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond, Va
Stam’s
J. G. Beck
N. B
Vandegrift’s Restaura
C. L. Jarrell
Thompson Hardware & Supply Co
Hillsboro, Maryland
Charles E. Carroll
Denton, Md
Carolie County
Walter T. George
Federalaburg, Md
Adv
Wigeia
Art Corie
Piu
Main St
Green St
Obaere
Ira B, Williams
Hillsboro
Nuttle Hardware Co
Thass
McAllister
Kryptoks
Shkill
F. W. McAllister Co
N. Charles St
Baltimore, Md
Del
Va. Ry
Tully Baltu
D. T. Murdoch Geu
Willapd ‘Thoms
Thomas & Messer Co
Baltimore St
Lyman Brown
Murray St
New York City
Family Story Paper
Vandewater St
New York
Niles
Henderson
Henry R. Lewis
J. H. Summerfield
Masonic Building
Andrew Slaughter
Miracle Wheat
D. E. Todd
Hobbs, Md
R. W. Emerson
W. Hughes
Charles Statum
Postoffice
Ughes Lumber & Coal Co
G. Stevens
Denton, Ma
Bliss Native Herbs
Oron F. Smith
Smith Good
Hurlock Automobile Line
Denton-Greensboro
Auto
Norh
Denton-Ridgely
Denton Auto Co
Dean
Denton Falls
Main St. Denton
Sidney
Duffey
Sparks
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Gowans
Gowan Medical Co
Concord, N. C
Eastern Collection Agency
Salisbury
Harry L. Scott
Ira L. Butler
Robert K. Roth
Majoure Riding
Denton, Maryiano
Yovea
Tole
Hye
Kar
S.S
S. Kidney and Bladder Pills, Drug CO
Cardington, Ohio
Faust School of Tuning
Boston
Caroline
Lewis R. Carroll
Baston
J. W. Wheatley
Journal
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