Milly Fenwick Aims for Fair Bread Prize
Milly Fenwick dances around the kitchen with four large loaves baked for the Little River fair. Her mother Mrs. Fenwick recalls a past prize, marriage, and mortgage relief while Milly hopes to win first prize and buy chickens to pay off a $200 debt. Sadie Lowties looms as rival, and the tale hints at Milly’s romantic tension with Frank Barlow.
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Milly Fenwick
Mrs. Fenwick
Milly
Father
Sadie Lowties
Sadie
Frank Barlow
Sadie Lownes Dominates Domestic Exhibit Table
Sadie Lownes surveys the bread competition with a commanding air as Milly Fenwick and others react. Milly blushes and resists touching her bread basket while rival remarks spark tension among the group at the tented fair.
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Sadie Lownes
Sadie
Milly
Milly Fenwick
Sadle
Bread Prize Stunt Shakes Little River Fair
Milly Fenwick wins jellies and cakes at the Little River fair while Sadie Lownes swaps prize cards. Frank Barlow exposes the bread card swap as Aunt Hepsey denounces Sadie's ruse, and Milly admits the true loaves were hers. The community debates the outcome as Milly faces publics doubts and Sadie’s supporters.
Silly Anecdotes From a Small Town Fair
During the evening Frank Barlow learned Mir ton Roberts was engaged to Su aun Brown for a year while Milly Fenwick won the first prizes in knrnad and matrimonial categories. Sadie Lownes declared she paired Frank Barlow with his wife by saying she made the match.
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Chile
Sadie
Frank Barlow
Milly
Mirton Roberts
Suaun Brown
Milly Fenwick
Krenad
Sadie Lownes
Ugly Caterpillar Seeks Beauty Through Transformation
A Detroit Free Press novelist recounts a hideous green caterpillar on a spitzerwood twig. The creature envisions a future cocoon and dazzling butterfly, while a bewhiskered bagologist captures the cocoon for preservation in alcohol.
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Detroit Free Press
Wrongly Placed Candidate Notice in Local Paper
A citizen objects to a dogcatcher candidacy notice printed by the editor. He insists the announcement belongs under Business Extensions rather than public notice, noting he is a butcher and sausage maker in private life. The editor defends the placement.
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Dogceatcher
Richmond Times Dispatch
Public Real Estate sale under a mortgage in Denton
Under a power of sale in a 1910 mortgage from John W Bright to Harvey L Cooper as assignee, with recordings in Caroline county. The assignee will offer the property at public sale to the highest bidder in front of the Court House door in Denton Maryland on the specified date.
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William II
Faulkner
Orphans’ Court
Caroline County
Cain’s Cross Roads
William H. Faulkner
Cain Cross Roads
Gale
John W. Bright
Harvey L. Cooper
Liber T. L. D
Court House
Denton
Maryland
Fallowa
Camden
Greensboro
Heira
Leverton
William T. Hubbard
Francis A. Porter
Thomas Cheezum
Bedouin Women and a World Beyond Arabia
In National Geographic Magazine travel prose, a writer recalls stepping into Bagdad and meeting Bedouin women who carry water jars, mourn with dust offerings, and practice strict codes. The piece contrasts Bedouin women’s limited view of America with a distant idea of Amerique and the desert’s ancient social order.
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Tigris
Bagdad
Abbas
Yusif
Alusa
Joseph
Moses
America
Amerique
London
Mars
Nejlbab
The
Star
National Geographic Magazine
Victory of Victories at Nebayend in 647
The famous battle known as the Victory of Victories occurred at Nebayend Lebatuna in 647 between the new Moslem power and the Persian empire. It ended the Persian dynasty and established Islam in the region, expanding Arabian influence from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean. Some historians note its world-historic impact rivaling Tours.
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Nebayend
Lebatuna
Persia
Arabia
Thhly
India
Caspian Sea
Indian Ocean
Tours
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Roward
Denton Journal
Melvin Ben
H. Johnson
Alvin & Johnson, Publishers
Meilly
By Clarissa Mackie
Eadle
Murly
Susan Brown
Mao
Grrsdu
Mily Feowick
Mily
Sadie Downs
Wother
Molly
Mr. Barlow
Frank
Miss Lownes
Little River
Barlows
T¢re
Milt Roberts
Alilly
Fenwicks
Sadie Lowney
Frank Harlow
Aunt Hepsey Spencer
Stepsey
Aunt Hepsey
Ulwily
Dr. Lamson
Qaorisdo
Marydel, Md
Samuel C. Faulkner
Lemuel Jones
Kent and
Queen Anne’s County
Chestertown
Queen Anne’s
Astern Shore
Kent
Richard Baggs
J. W. Bright
James 'Temple
Harry L. Scott
Alt
Diy
Junker
E. Fayette ST
Charles
Baltimore, MD
Caveritt
Eastern Shore
Henderson
Henry R. Lewis
Stam’s
J. G. Beck
N. B
Vandegrift’s
C. L. Jarrell
Charles E. Carroll
Ady
Walter T. George
Federalsburg
Adv
Walter J. Kelly
Ollie Wilkins
Route 2
Preston
Pal Vale Oey
Iife
Chase, Benefiel Co., Inc
West Tenth St
Indianapolis
Lnd
A. L. Bridegroom
Preston, R. F. D. 2
Nuttle Hardware Co
Thompson Hardware & Supply Co
Hillsboro, Maryland
Dean
Doun
Doan
Thomas P. Towers
McAllister
F. W. McAllister Co
N. Charles,St
Ughes Lumber & Scoal Co
Denton,, Mad
Oscar Clark
Denton, Md
Wood
T.w.wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond, Va
Nisi
L. Frank Bloxsom
Circuit Court
Equity
Carlton Bloxsom
WM. H. Adkins
Kemp Stevens
William H. Garey
John W. Garey
Aupunt
Alva Hubbard
Lyman
Porter
Norman C. Cheezum
Dee
Del
Va. Ry
Baltimore
Tom. Cans
Kehob
Sal
West Bound
Mt.paa
Lo Rehobotho
Feo TS Hos
JP Maem
tDaily
Sun T. Murdoch
Tonks
Willard Thomson
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