Informatory double and echoes guide a bridge play
The article describes a bridge deal where declarer makes three odd tricks by ducking the third and using dummy to save his king. It explains lead choice avoiding spades to prevent West’s ace, and declares how West’s club king lead aids the play. It details echo usage and finesses for four diamonds and four odd tricks.
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South
West
Declarer
East
Bulgarian folk song characteristics described by Marriage Mincoff
In The Cornhill Magazine Elizabeth Marriage Mincoff notes Bulgarian songs feature wild mournful tunes in scales between minor and major, with irregular meters like 64 and 74, high pitched singing, shrill refrains, short melodies, and frequent repetitions, while simple minor and major tunes occur less often.
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Western
Europe
Elizabeth Marriage Mincoff
Cornhill Magazine
England
Alligator Market Hides Paid By Seven-Foot Length
An alligator hunter explains that markets pay only for a seven-foot length regardless of total size. Large alligators are not skinned along their backs, while smaller alligators are sold with full skin intact.
Buttonholer Coming
A four year old named Marforie expects her grandmother to arrive and sew buttons and buttonholes on her dress. The child exclaims with delight that her button and buttonholer are coming, reflecting a simple family moment.
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Marforie
Goudie
Go Ahead in a Western Pursuit and Flight Episode
In a fast moving scene Aurel Green fights to join the group as Stella and Go Ahead Go Ahead cast race in a wild pursuit. A bullet whistles overhead and Green is forced from his horse as Stella escapes toward the hills with threats and a plan to reunite with Go Ahead. A legal ownership statement for the Denton Journal follows, detailing publisher Melvin & Johnson Inc, editor Benjamin H Johnson, business manager Benjamin F Johnson, owners and stockholders, and security holders with dates and names.
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Green
Stetla
Uiftte
Wade
Jim Barker
Kennedy
Barker
George Ashmead Morton
Stella
Go Ey
Go-Ey
Sreihy
Jack
Dad
P.d Gy Kennedy
Burke
Go Ahead
Denton Journal
Denton
Maryland
State of
Caroline
Benjamin IF. Johnson
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
Benjamin H. Johnson
Benjamin F. Johnson
Mary Melvin
Edward W. Lapham
Mortgagee
Clayton
Del
Blue Blooded People Favorites of Fortune
Kaneng City Times explains that blue bloods are not literally blood related but have wealth enabling refined skin and visible veins. The piece notes aristocracy arose from pale, fine skin and blue-tinged veins, contrasting with laborers whose work hardened skin and hid veins.
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Kaneng City
No blossoming fig tree freeser observed in early text
The fragment notes that figs form inside the Og, with fruit appearing late May and ripening fully by August. If unpicked the fruit dries, water evaporates, and the fig drops. During drying over 65 percent of pulp becomes fruit sugar, per The New Age Illustrated.
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Hoyle, Je
North
Teast
Miss Trimbleaheny
Crittender Marriott
W.G. Chapin
WNU
Bulgar
Alligator Market
Ewspal
Pepe Pry
Congress
WM. S. Crouse
A. C
Atwater Kent A.C
A.C
Atwater Kent
M. K. Newnam
Waldo
Howard Pritchett & CO
Greensboro
F.S. Royster Guano Co
Denton Bridge
W.G. Wooters
Market Street
Denton, Maryland
R. C. Jackson
Bulova
Illinois
Hamilton
S. Frank Cole
Denton, Md
Swing Brothers
Ridgely, Md
Worms
J. W. Shively
Goldsboro, Maryland
Wesley Collegiate Institute
Clarence A. Short
Dover, Delaware
L. B. Towers
T. Fred Towers
Sec
Treas
Plaza
Blades, Rosenfeld & Frederick
Attorneya At Law
Fidelity
Baltimore
John Irwin
Denton , Maryland
Journal Office
Olor
Duco
Meade
du Pont
Breeding’s Drug Store
Halla
John L. Everngam
Ernest G. Cooper
W. A. Smith
Michinas
Chevrolet
Den-Mar Mobile Company