Easton Store Promises Bargains on Fabrics and Clothing
A local retailer urges shoppers to visit their Easton store for two weeks of deep discounts on woolen dress goods wash and white goods and men and boys clothing plus millinery with at least 25 percent savings. The ad touts 200 fabric styles and yard prices from 50 to 100 and promises large stock size and friendly service with a comfortable waiting room for families.
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Dimities
Batistes
Easton
Miss Susan Galton Brown Rekindles Elmwood Bank Heist Romance
Miss Susan Galton Brown shoots to save a bank from a daytime robbery in Elmwood. She dives down a steep bank, fires at waving robbers, and returns the money to Jack Cartwright, who promises reform and safety while praising her cool blood. The tale ends with Susan and Jack's reunion and a modest celebration of her skill.
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Nergait
Susan Galton Brown
Susan
Jove
Sue
Quiet Elmwood
John Cartwright
Elmwood
Main Street
Jack Cartwright
Strance
Jak
Holden
Boston
Milwood
Jack
Cartwright
Daddy
Suan Galton Brown
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Jim Bascom Lyin
Susan Brown
Mr.Tompkins
Tompkins
Susan Gaston Brown
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eskimos and Bees Pollination Observations
The text notes Eskimos features such as coarse black hair and high cheek bones, with details on skin and beard. It also references Early Bee Pollinates the Fruit, reporting Michigan Agricultural College experiments showing bees as the earliest insects for fruit pollination when fruit trees bloom, making other insects ineffective.
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Michigan Agricultural College
Gas Mantles How They Are Made and Why They Burn Not
A description of gas mantles explaining their noncombustible composition from oxides of lanthanum yttrium zirconium and others. It details knitting a cotton thread into a tube, impregnation with oxides, sewing with platinum wire, burning out the cotton, and hardening the oxide skeleton mantle.
Reciprocal Plant Ant Alliance in Australia
A bull's horn thorn plant and a small, bold ant form a true mutualism. The thorn's hollow horns hold plant secretions that feed the ant, while the ant defends the leaf from herbivores and other insects, risking its life to protect its host.
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Australia
Upside Down Bills and Counterfeit Clues
A downtown bank teller recounts why he keeps bills upside down to view the left ends. He explains counterfeiters focus more on the right end, so this method helps assess first impressions while counting quickly. He notes that careful examination of all bill portions is safest, though not always practical during rapid counting.
The Farringdons Teases Survivors At A Wedding
Mrs Hankey jokes about Susan's wedding and predicts the funerals will follow. Mrs Bateson asks about the sister and Mrs Wankey grins as she urges cheer despite the mood of mourning. The passage frames lugubrious wit within a family gathering.
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Mrs. Hankey
Farringdons
Mrs. Wankey
Susan
Sarah
Their Family Silver Burglary Rumor Spreads in Neighborhood
Amid tense talk on the fence line, two women discuss a claim that burglars stole the family silver from the Jones household. One insists a dollar and a quarter were kept as grocery money, all in silver, as neighbors weigh truth of the tale.
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Washington
Imperial Aquarium
St. Petersburg
China
Mother Hubbard
Indianavolis
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M. B. Nichols
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Clinton P. Paine & CO
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E. German ST
Baltimore, MD
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit Axp Produce Commission
Light Street
Ppruite and Vevatahl« Wervlard Pearhas
Rwaat Potatnos
Deline
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L. Bobhm
Tion, Jolan W, Causery
Prrs
Denney, Srey and
TREAS
Kent County Mutual Insurance
Dover
Delaware
Incorporated
IMT
Inmsur
John T. Carter, Jr
Denton
Nee In Force
R. Plummer
Greensboro, Md
Alex. Noble
Preston
Mel
James T. Cooper
Undertaker
BwTror
Cooper
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Allenlla
Wain Street
T. L. Day
Swing & Company
W. W. Goldsborough
Greensboro
TL. Day
Ridgely, Maryland
Sete Xu Nee
Ile
Almce
Denver
Mom
George
Jim Bascom
Mr. Tompkins
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