Family Skeleton Sparks Quiet Romance at Grandparents Home
Dorothy and her fiancé Ted visit the Altdens, where a thirty year quarrel between grandfather and grandmother haunts the decor of the dining room. A resolved peace emerges as the couple discovers the couple still avoidant but caring, and illness tests the fragile truce.
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Dorothy
Altdens
Ted
Dad
Nanna
Mother
Pence
Grandfather
Grandmother
Grandfather Alden
Hidden Dining Room Plans Reveal Family Rifts
A morning talk reveals that Henry and Isabel Alten faced a long quarrel over the dining room design. Grandfather and grandmother reconcile as Dorothy and Ted listen, sharing letters from six weeks earlier about black oak and Spanish feather versus mahogany.
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Mr. Alden
Grandmother
Dorothy
Grandfather
Isabel
Henry
Ted
Defied British Social Law by Smoking in Public Parks
The piece recounts Lord Clarendon’s early adoption of cigarettes while ambassador to Madrid and notes his discreet habit. It also highlights the third Duke of Sutherland who openly smoked a cigar in Hyde Park, an act seen as breaking an unwritten social rule of mid Victorian society.
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Lord Clarendon
Madrid
Downlong Street
Sir Herbert Maxwell
Third Duke of Sutherland
Dorothy Nevill
Hyde Park
Life in the South Seas Traders and Planters Path to Wealth
A Asia Magazine essay outlines how a trader or planter can build a life in the Islands. A starting capital around 500 dollars funds land purchase and labor, with five to six laborers and coconut planting. Seven years pass before coconuts bear, aided by sweet potatoes rice and cotton. Major trading firms extend credit for supplies and barter goods to balance accounts, with success depending on perseverance and favorable conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia Magazine
Willuila
Go Abroad for Opportunity and Trade Leads
The San Francisco Chronicle cites a shift from Westward emigration to seeking work abroad. Frank T. Waterman urges Americans to view foreign lands as outlets for surplus production, urging commercial missions and a new mindset to compete with Europe. Brazil’s centennial celebration in Janeiro next September is noted as context.
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Clarice Gree Fey
San Francisco Chronicle
Eailgrathan
Grabhen
Frank TD. Waterman
Videh
le Janeiro
Brazil
Europe
Sacrificing Peasant Hero Of Rice Bargain
In Robertson Scott's book a famine era tale tells of a peasant who kept the village's sole unbroken bale of rice unopened to save future sowing. He dies of hunger with his head resting on the bale, seizing a place among heroic self sacrifice for friends.
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J. W. Robertson Scott
Japan
Land sale in Caroline county Maryland in 1922
A description of real estate offered for sale between 2 and 4 pm in the Second Election District of Caroline county Maryland. The tract totals 235 acres 23 perches, with several specified boundaries and exceptions carved from Rosa Morris and Richard D. Lockerman deeds, located on the game land where Harry R. Brynn resides.
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Caroline County
Maryland
Bridgetown
Greensboro
Rosa Morris
C. W.H
Richard D. Lockerman
E. C.F
Harry R. Brynn
Farm property near Greensboro and Goldsboro for sale
Two story dwelling, barn, stable and outbuildings on a well located tract about three miles from Greensboro and three from Goldsboro. Desirable home potential with terms: one third cash now, one third July 1 1923, balance January 1 1924. Deferred payments bear interest from sale and secured to seller’s satisfaction, or all cash. Deeds delivered after payment. Title papers and stamps at purchaser’s expense. Freep R Owens and Wesley E Thawley attorneys at flaw Denton Ali.
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Greensboro
Goldsboro
Wesley E. Thawley
Fred R. Owens
N. B
Freep R. Owens
Flaw
Denton, Ali
Clarence Jackson
Free R. Owens
Land Description in Caroline County Maryland
A land tract in the Second Election District of Caroline County Maryland lies east of the Boonsboro to Oakhind road. Metes bounds describe boundaries along the county road and lines touching Walter Massey and James Pippin properties, with distances in perches and angles. The document is signed by Freep R Owens, Attorney at Law, Denton, Maryland.
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Caroline County
Maryland
Boonsboro
Oakhind
Walter Massey
James Pippin
John F. Dawson
Mary Pilipin
Marcellus Pippin
Liber R. J
Boys Demand Better Books For Modern Youth
A Chicago librarian reports boys abandon old style boy fiction for biographies of Lincoln Roosevelt and Edison. They read Mark Twain Scott Dumas Stevenson Jules Verne and Kipling. prefer authentic works over the pretended thrills of older authors.
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Chicago
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Edison
Christy Mathewson
Mark Twain
Scott, Dumas
Stevenson
Jules Verne
Ripling
Henry
Oliver Opile
New York
Nick Carter
Kansas City Star
Eskimo Music Traditions Revealed by Arctic Observers
Eskimo singer rules include each person composing a unique song and requiring permission to sing another's. Mothers, banter, bail man etc have distinct songs. Eskimos sing in unison, melodies brief yet wistful, often two or three motifs. Long polar nights provide time for song.
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Knut Rasmussen
Fridtjof Nangen
Niyo Hinrich Johannes Rink
Lady Franklin
Hus Aband
Christhin — Leden
Train insects to eat pests in Richmond idea
A Richmond entomologist proposes training harmless insects to kill and eat injurious grubs and flies in gardens. Experiments show success as scientists aim to guide these insects to feed on pests by exploiting natural predator relationships.
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Richmond
London
British Silver Stamping And The Marks Explained
The article explains sterling marking on silver, detailing marks from London’s leopard’s head to Birmingham’s anchor and Sheffield’s history with silver. It notes Dublins harp and Chester’s city arms, plus the third mark for fineness and a date letter, stressing each city uses a different year system and the must know the town’s code to date pieces.
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London
Birmingham
Sicheffield
Dublin
Chester
Hair Dressing Trends In France Flatten Heads Fashionably
In France women style the hair to minimize head size by pulling locks straight back and coiling at the neck with smooth elegance. Some prefer the head to appear sleek while softly framing the face for a flattering effect.
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France
Teacher's quip on home rule stirs lively banter in London
In a London comic paper a teacher asks what King Alfred would think of home rule. A boy replies that Alfred would be too old to be interested in poetics, provoking amused commentary on contemporaries.
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London
King Alfred
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Denton Journal
McClura Newspaper Syndicate
Tiny
Ai Os
Dorothy +tly
Londonere
South Sea Islands
Court House
Denton
Ridgely-Oakland Road
Denton, Md
Arctic Regions
Goodyear
IMF
Ucsuvey
Denton, Maryland
Columbus
India
America
Pep
THE
Denton National Bank
Walter Sparks
Life Man
Printing Gall Journal Office
the Peoples Bank
Henry T. Nuttle
Prest
T. F. Johnson
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Ahinton, Waryland
WM. Pepper
Maryland Trust
Baltimore
Elkton
ST. Paul
Chic-Mints Gum Company
Wilmington
Delaware
Chicken Farm
State Road
J.T. Kinder
Federalsburg
Calvert C. Merriken
Denton, Afd
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