Prunes and Pride Drive a Family Boarding Venture
Mrs. Welles and four daughters, after a father's death, convert their large home into a boarding house to survive. They hire staff, rent rooms, and gain local praise until a guest’s departure reveals a craving for prunes and beans. Della, nicknamed Cinders, secretly falls for Robert Payton, who quips that guests will demand prunes and baked beans, testing their venture.
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Mrs. Welles
Madge
Cieely
Barbara
Della
Mother
Molly
Cicely
league of workers
trousseau
Cinderella
Cinders
Sally
Robert Payton
Dell
evan
Shoe
Payston
Mr. Payton
Wolfe Journals In Museum At McCord National
A rare Wolfe collection including journals letters and portraits will join the McCord National Museum at McGill University. Items trace Wolfe from boyhood letters dated January 24 1741 to journals and a key Quebec siege record. Also noted is Old Sundial at Union Mills Maryland described as colonial town clock still marking time.
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Montreals
James Wolfe
David Ross MccCord
McCord National museum
McGill university
Wolfe
W. Weston
the Plains of Abraham
Quebec
St. Louis
Riviera
London
McCord
Union Mills
Washington
Independence
Big Men In Small Store At Boors Bill England
A tiny notion shop near Oxford, England, frequented by literary figures. Locals report the poet laureate has been seen serving customers, with visitors including John Masefield, John Galsworthy, and Sir Gilbert Murray appearing there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boors bill
Oxford
England
notion
sioe
Masefield
Galsworthy
Gilbert Murray
Horatius at the Bridge Resurfaces in Senator Snortworthy Rhetoric
Historians dispute a Birmingham Ace Herald quote about Horatius at the bridge. Senator Snortworthy defends using Horatius in speeches for four decades, claiming the tale is a good story despite historians denying any truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horati
Senator Snortworthy
Horatius
Birmingham Ace-Herald
Mysterious Overnight Changes in New York Chinese Businesses
A long time patron faces a vanished staff and unfamiliar faces at a Chinese laundry in New York. He fails to retrieve his washed shirts until a clever test reveals the laundry mark, exposing the puzzling pattern of sudden shifts in personnel and the locals’ frustration with language barriers.
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New York
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OTHE
Blarney Linen
Ramie Linen
Merritt Maslin
Copenhagen
Percales
ede
Featuring
J. L. EVERNGAM
M. kK
NEWNAM
Brick Hotel
Fordson
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
DENTON AUTO COMPANY
W. P. CanRot
B. R. KaAugr
P. R. FISHER
HORSEY, ROE & CO
GREENSBORO
IRVIN BRUMBAUGH
Walter Sparks
The
Life Man
EJ. WRIGHT
DENTON, MARYLAND
Waterman
Pride and Prunes
By CLARISSA MACKIE
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Ohio
young Payton
Robert
JOURNALS
Montreal
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