Love and Inheritance in a Brockton Courtship
In a melodramatic scene a mother pressures her son Phil to marry a Brockton stenographer Edith to preserve the family line and wealth. Phil defies her by pursuing Edith, arranging a dinner with a visiting cousin Randolph Parker. Edith proves to be the hidden beloved, revealing Phil would forfeit his inheritance to wed her, prompting a tearful but joyful reconciliation.
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Philip Gunter
Stockton
Edith
Holty tolty
Mrs. Gunter
Phil
KIM
Philip
Momsy
Honavensi
Mrs. Mangston
Ars. Gunter
Mandolph
Mrs. Quilter
Gunter
Randolph
Philt
Banishing Fear as Path to Civilization
A Forbes Magazine quote promotes replacing fear with faith to improve health happiness efficiency and democracy. It urges readers to identify hidden mental weaknesses, analyze fear without bias, and flood the mind with faith through daily practice.
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C. Franklin Leavitt
Af. D
Forbes Magazine
New York
God of Wealth Ebisu Shrine Rush Marks New Year Pilgrimage
More than 70,000 Tokyo residents visited the Ebisu shrine near Osaka before noon on New Year’s Day. Worshippers tapped shrine walls with wooden mallets and prayed for luck in the year ahead. Ebisu’s day draws the most homage in Japan, with Osaka’s booming industrial area and Tokyo’s Otorijinsha shrines also central to the tradition.
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Japan
Tokyo
Ebisu
Osaka
eampire
The Silver Striper Ends In Love And Marriage
A rugged silver striper, famed for honest deeds, woos a bold girl who seeks grand feats. He confesses a modest past battle, she proclaims him her hero, and they marry the following month in a tale from American Legion Weekly.
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Argonfte
p’wan
American Legion Weekly
Moslems Ordered to Bathe in Persian Baths
The article notes that public baths in Persia are deemed indispensable by religious law, requiring at least one bath every ten days. It describes high temperature sterilization, shared pools in cheaper baths, and colorful street entrances with bath-cloths and attendants, plus fuel made from street-dung cakes as an example of Persian ingenuity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Persia
F. L. Bird
National Geographic Magazine
Anna Terhune Faces New York Screen Writing Dream
Anna Terhune travels from Hillsburg to New York to pursue film script writing after sending three stories to Colossal Photoplays. Ted Maltby, a reader there, bluntly urges her to quit, then reveals he is Hazel Hazelhurst’s editor and the real author of Flaming Swords, explaining the hustle behind early movie storytelling.
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Anna Terhune
Anna
gould
Hazel Uazelhurst
Hazel
Nerald
Imperial Filims
Ftuning Swords
Mazel Tazelhurst
Einzel
Colossal Photoplays company
New York
Colossal
Natonal Fabrics company
Hillsburg
metropolis
drst
Highland
Alina
Ted Maltby
Ted
Red Mead
Tom
Anna Terlaune
Maltby
Forty-fourth street
Stillsburg
Walt
Ino
Hazel Hazelhurst
Hazelhurst
Billsburg
Hazelhorst
Broadway corher
Ted Malthy
Shepherds Excuse and Sussex Superstitions
A Montreal Family Herald note recounts Sussex superstitions about shepherds church access and a lambent wool excuse for judgment. It mentions wild feathers in pillows hindering death, and beliefs about selling bees and the crape on hives after a death.
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Sussex
Eng
Mngerson
Montreal Family Herald
Seventy Pounds of Meteor a Minute
A Popular Science Monthly summary explains how Earth gains weight from constant meteor fall. It notes 11,435 tons yearly, about seventy pounds per minute, with dust covering the globe and occasional large meteors exploding on impact, such as a notable Iowa event with over five thousand fragments found, some over four hundred pounds.
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Iowa
Popular Science Monthly
Germans Claim Invention Of Papier Mache By Nuremberg Snuff Box Maker
The durable substance made from wood pulp known as papier mache is said by Germans to have originated with Martin a snuff-box maker of Nuremberg around 1740. Research shows he learned the method from Frenchman Lefevre, Baskerville of Birmingham advanced the process in 1745, laying the foundation of a large industry. Germans later popularized it and, until about twenty-five years ago, held a near monopoly before England and America expanded production widely.
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Martin
Nuremberg
Lefevre
Baskerville
Birmingham
England
America
Red Honey of Brazil and Curious Bee Soils
In Brazil a wasp produces red honey described as poisonous, and a stingless bee yields sour honey from certain flowers. The text notes honey as a long standing global industry and mentions honey used in Europe before sugar. It links bee-raising to traditional industry and medicinal uses by apothecaries and herbalists.
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Brazil
Ioney Igy
Europe
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