Pie-Eating Pie in New York Leads to a Union
In New York Eli Pendleton, an old New England Yankee, discovers Miss Lancaster is a shrewd saleswoman traveling with twenty hats and baggage checks. After a breakfast pie encounter and humorous exchanges, Pendleton learns she is a saleswoman who later becomes his wife, tying business and romance at the Metropolitan.
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New York
E. Pendleton
Miss Lancaster
Metropolitan
Eli Pendleton
walter
walters
boon
Mr. Pendleton
Pendleton
EM Pendleton
West
New England
Montague Stone
ben
Eli
Mr Pendleton
nandro FT
Mr. Stone
Amy Lancaster
Amy Lancaster Pendleton
son
Mrs. Stone
Abner
Gie ld Maid Follows Farm Dream and Old Maid Revelation
Pearl Garret, longtime bookkeeper for the Larkin factory, leaves to manage a poultry farm to aid war effort. She finds farming harder than expected, milks a cow with help from Louis Larkin, and discovers she is valued as a partner both professionally and personally.
Clever ruse saves money in wartime scam story
A wartime treacherous telegraph scam is thwarted by a wise mother. After her son was reported rescued from a torpedoed troop ship, a follow up money request was sent by cable. She asked the sender to name their two dogs, only known to family. The reply confirmed a real link and the son received the funds.
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nakes
Hindenburg Story Provokes Carpenters Leader Dinner
William L Flutehingen, president of the carpenters union, recounts a Hoch-spirited Hindenburg anecdote at a dinner. German businessmen fear Siberia colonization and harsh climate as the marshal raises his voice, challenging the tense exchange.
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Wiliam L. Flutehingen
carpenters’ union
Hindenburg
Sberia
Tibet under native control with Chinese garrisons
The region is described as virtually controlled by local peoples though linked to the Mon gol lineage, while the Chinese government handles foreign relations and maintains small troops in the area.
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Tibet
tho
Last Chance Lapses in Old Soldier’s Office Hours
An aging colonel, about to retire, offers one last chance to four repeat offenders. Each recounts a familiar excuse. all receive the limit. The Irish prisoner Duffy claims, upon hearing the colonel would save them, he went to a saloon to drown his sorrows, and is released.
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Pearl
Lous
fila
Towas
Leonard
Tam
amio
Vin
Duffy
Cement from beet scum a by product of sugar making
In French factories beet sugar refining yields a valuable cement from the scum on caldrons. Beet scum holds carbonate of lime. from 70 000 tons of beets about 4 000 tons of carbonates can be recovered, mixed with 1 100 tons of clay, dried in rotary ovens like Portland cement. Also quoted a St Paul note on spring calls.
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LONG & BEALL
The
GOLDSBORO BANK
GOLDSBORO
THE GOLDSBORO BANK
Goldsboro, Md
ROBERT JARRELL, JR
State Bank of Md
BAYARD, SON & CO
General Commission Merchants
CAMDEN STREET
BALTIMORE
MARYLAND
AA DHIVE
VICTROLAS
VICTOR RECORDS
HALLET & DAVIS
M. K. NEWNAM
JOURNAL
DLENTON, MARYLAND
HARRY N. HACKETT
McClure
By GERALD ST. ETIENNE
McClure Newspaper
Pearl Garret
Louis Larkin
Mr. Larkin
Tie
city
Larkin
Larkin company
Peart
Patriotic Mother
Danny
Colonel
St. Paul
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