Potatoes, flowers, and a distant dream in a close-knit farm home
Mame Keble and her husband Charlie weather hardship as she shifts from planting potatoes to planning a colorful flower garden. Tensions with Phil, a clash over class and work, and a vow to pursue small pleasures reveal a woman reclaiming agency through garden dream and family dynamics.
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Mame Keble
Charlie
Charley
Charlie Keble
Phil
Phi
Thia
Phill
Dreas
Charley Keble
Charisie
Hank Brandon
St. Cloud
Midnoon
Phil McCount
Attleboro Wardens Repair Damages After Car Mishap
A Boston Globe excerpt describes a humorous incident in Attleboro where a woman, described as one of the fairest wardens, breaks a tooth during a romantic car ride. A collision with a rough spot causes dental repair needs, with distress and subsequent dentist visit noted.
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Attleboro
Mwardens
Boston Globe
Comment on a Silent Stranger in a London Carriage
A Edinburgh councillor touring to London speaks to an elderly man in his coach. The man finally asks if they are near King’s Cross, prompting the councillor to chastise him for not answering. The elder replies he feared being recognized as a murderer from a newspaper photograph.
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Edinburgh
London
King’s Cross
Enarlier
Hadn t Brought Bill In Hat Purchase
A young couple visited a milliner shop. The woman left a small deposit on a hat and promised to return in a few days. Weeks passed and the assistant forgot the sale. When she returned with a DIL she explained they were now married and cannot afford train fares for two.
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Bill
Millliner
Large Denton hillside lots for sale on Main and Gay streets
Eight properties ranging from 50 to 93.5 feet frontage and 200 feet depth offer homesites with fruit trees shade and outbuildings. Lot 1 contains 11 869 square feet. Lot 2 and 3 offer additional features including a former Captain Robert W. Stewart dwelling and a White Hawthorne tree on Lot 4. Several lots on Gay street present desirable locations with terms: one-fourth cash at sale and balanced in 1927 and 1928 or all cash. Henry R. Lewis attorney and James Temple auctioneer handle the sale.
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Robert W. Stewart
Gay Street
Denton
Market Street
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
Apples OF the
Guilford Nethway
Western Newspaper Union
Inenton
Henry R.lewis
James Temple
John L. Everngam
C.h.stewart
St. Fy
Att Hee
Stey
Anc Harris
Hickmar
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