Marketing the jitney girl who finds a living
Clarissa Hurd, struggling with income, creates a home marketing service in a suburban town. She canvasses neighbors to handle groceries, laundry, and errands for a quarter above carfare, winning 40 homes and steady store orders. She meets Robert Underwood, the new store manager, who helps her as their relationship grows.
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Clarissa Hurd
Ute
Ewlly
Belive
Clarissa
Emily
Aunt Emly
Aunt Emily
Axa
Mr. Andrews
Robert Underwood
Mr. Underwood
Reading tastes vary by season and age says librarian
Statistics from a city library show serious reading peaks in winter with poetry and drama in demand. Spring brings gardening and outdoor sports books, summer and fall raise fiction. Married women read fiction, men prefer travel and autobiography. After age fifty readers settle for fiction to pass time. Children seek mature animal books sparked by zoo tales. boys favor adventure stories less, now replaced by sports and Boy Scout themes.
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Optic
Eilis
Alger
Ancient Tulare tree yields century-old beetle insight
A 1700 year old Tulare County tree preserved two wood-boring beetles sealed in a hole for over a thousand years. Researchers note the beetles are not meaningfully different from current forest species, suggesting the insect's traits were fixed before the Christian era. The tree likely struck by lightning at age about 421, later healed the wound and sealed the beetles.
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Tulare County
California
Tibetans Healthy Race Under Himalayan Strain
General Bruce of the Everest expedition notes Tibetan porters carry loads over 100 pounds up to 14 000 feet. A girl reportedly bears a 160 pound tent with tireless energy. Tribes depend on natural foods like milk corn and greens and live long with little sugar or alcohol. They keep fit by hard outdoor exercise and sun. They are free from many urban digestive and nervous ailments.
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Bruce
Wood types for common household goods
The text outlines beech as durable for broom handles clothespins refrig erators and washing machines, Cypress noted as very strong among soft woods used for shingles ice cream freezers pails clothes wringers and laundry tubs. Spruce described as light yet soft but stiff and strong used for trimming tables butter vats wash boards and broom handles.
Indian mail runners fear ghosts more than beasts
Geoffrey Rothe Clarke, director general of posts and telegraphs in India, told the Royal Society of Arts that mail runners face tiger attacks, floods, and robbers, yet fear ghosts in trees more than the fiercest animals as they carry messages through dangerous jungle routes.
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Himalayas
Geoffrey Rothe Clarke
Posts and Telegraphs
India
British Royal Society of Arts
Clarke
Garden of Eden in China theory sparks germ evolution debate
Dr Charles Stiles, a government surgeon and zoologist, argues that if evolution isn’t a fact then Adam must have carried all today’s disease germs for 930 years. He contends the Garden of Eden would be in China where man supposedly survived many diseases, implying germs arose with victims.
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Adam
Charles Stiles
China
Noah
Ark
Stiles
Adama
Garden of Eden
Legends of the Unicorn and medieval beliefs
The unicorn is described as a fabulous beast with a horn and varied features, famed for great strength and temperamental traits. Legends claim gentleness with virgins, its horn curing poison, and the horn dipping in water to purify and sweeten the drink.
Britain’s Sacred Shrine Westminster Abbey’s ancient Thames crossing
The article recalls Westminster Abbey as the British empire’s sacred shrine built on a former river ford site. It notes the Thames crossing before London Bridge and hints at Westminster’s Roman temple, later a Christian church, and the city’s early grandeur unknown to Saxon and Norman England.
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Westminster Abbey
Iater
Thames
London
Dover
Westminster
England
Supervisors Name Voters and Election Judges in Caroline Co
At a June 26 1923 meeting in Denton the Supervisors of Elections appointed Register of Voters and Judges of Election for Caroline County. The list specifies districts precincts names and party designations for Democrats and Republicans in Denton Greensboro Federalsburg Preston Downs and Henderson.
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Office OF the Supervisors OF Elections
Denton
Caroline County
Court House
Lee Hignutt
Federalaburg
James Dew
John K
William T. Hignutt
Harry B. Mason
C. Leslie Walls
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Denton Journal
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Milton Sills
Milton Lille
Chicago
Chicago University
New York
Mr. Sills
By E. R. Peyser
Legends OF
the Unicorn
Britain's Sacred Shrine
William H. Goodwin
Henderson
A. G. Dennison
Jease W. Porter
Greensboro
John M. Weaver
James W. Thawley
W. W. Weaver
Oscar E. Kelley
Wyatt Pickering
Harvey Fleetwood
J. Walter Beauchamp
John Rumbold
Preston
Edward T. Moore
Roland Towers
James QC
Wright
A To N
Tristram D. Nabb
Federalsburg
T. Fred Brown
Robert S. Nichols
Thomas S. McCrea
Eugene Lynch
Downes
F. EB. Elben
Joseph F. Swartz
Samuel G. Bye
M. Carroll Meredith
Ridgeys
William M. Wiley
Ridgeye
Ronald Lane
Ridgely
J. J. Ivison
Circuit Court
George A. Bullock
Lewin W. Wickes
Geo. A. Deakyne
The
Chesapeake and Potomac
Are Fiie
R. C. Jackson
Maryland
Hamilton and
Ilinois
Studebaker
Ife
W. B
O. B
Studebaker Sales & Service Station
Easton
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Wildwood
Ocean City
Cape May
Stone Harbor
Avalon
Sea Isle City
Beach Haven
Island Heights
Seaside Park
Barnegat Pier
Seaside Heights—Bay Head
Sea Girt
Spring Lake
Stadley Beach
Ocean Grove
Asbury Park
Long Branch
New Jersey Seashore
N. Bell
Broad Street Station
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad System
the Standard Railroad OF the World
Goldsboro Bank
Goldsboro
Robert Jarrell, JR
Walter Sparks
Life Man
Box
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Denton, Maryland
J. Virgil Moore
Tery
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
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