Around the Dark Corner on Carter Center's Palace Veranda
In a late autumn scene at Carter Center, residents gossip about the Simpsons leaving town as Dr. Sanderson faces a life changing choice. Fatty Knight and Ed Strong comment while Doc Sanderson departs to treat a patient, stirring memories of past glory and a looming retirement.
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al Frazer
Palace Hotel
Carter Center
Ed Strong
Fatty Knight
Caroline Simpson
Main Street
wWell
Doc
Knight
Doc Sanderson
Fatty
Ed Strons
Carrie
Pine Ridge
Isabel
Glenbrook
Fiead
Vyeenhorn
Sanderson
Ife
Unarrington
Middletown City and County Hospital
Choice
Flort
Homecoming in a Night of Rain and Warmth
Doe Sanderson returns to a lonely house amid a downpour and finds Isabel waiting in a blaze of light. She reveals she has a City hospital bacteriology appointment and asks him to move to the city to take over her practice. Mayors, nurses, and teachers observe May Day as Child Health Day with school programs and community health demonstrations across Maryland.
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Doe Sanderson
Carter Center
Isabel
Hinself
Dec Sanderson
Chubby Alvord
Chubby
Glenbrook
City
Accidental Pose Gave Inspiration to Artist
John Sargent was commissioned to paint President Roosevelt in the White House. After two afternoons of trying backdrops, Roosevelt grew tired of the search. At the staircase landing, Roosevelt rested his elbow and declared they were after the impossible. Sargent then exclaimed Do not move, Mr President We ve got it and they did.
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John Stinger Sargent
Roosevelt
White House
Teddy
Henry L. Stoddard
Grant
Coolidge
Sargent
President
Rip Van Winkle Awakening in The Sketch Book Origin
Rip Van Winkle is celebrated as 108 years since Washington Irving created the character. The Sketch Book in America carried the tale under a pseudonym. James O'Donnell Bennett notes a curious coincidence about the publisher and the author. Irving later went to Oxford to receive a doctor of laws degree, greeted by students asking if Rip had waked up yet.
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Washington Irving
Rip van Winkle
England
Iving
Oxford
The filling station as modern highway frontier mark
Quote compares American roads to Roman arches noting how arches signified frontiers on Via Appia and emphasizes modern highways bearing symbols of expansion. References Merz work The Great American Band Wagon.
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Rome
America
Via Appia
Venusia
Tarentum
Charles Merz
Dual Language Daily Prints Duplicate Editions
Les Dernieres Nouvelles of Strasbourg publishes a full daily in two languages French and German. The editions are identical in every detail from ads to editorial content, with duplicate press and composing rooms.
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Les Dernieres Nouvelles
Strasbourg
Office Shades Of Meaning In An Authoritative View
The Evansville Courier and Journal discusses how the term office carries varied meanings to different people. For a wife it is a place of routine and money, for a daughter a means to support gowns, for a son a place of work, and for the worker it may be drudgery or a haven from domestic strife, with ambition sometimes taking wing.
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Evansville
Lad
Courier and Journal
Beet sugar equals cane sugar in use and value
Chicago reports beets grown on American farms produce sugar identical in sweetening power and dietetic value to cane sugar. Home economists confirm cakes pastries jams jellies and preserves baked with beet sugar are as fine as those made with cane sugar. About one-sixth of U S sugar comes from beet fields.
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Chicago
United States
County Women Plan May Market For Home Made Goods
On April 18 several county women met with the Home Demonstration Agent to discuss selling products they can make at home. Reports cited women nationwide who built successful businesses from one idea. A market is set for May 19 at 11 am in the Agent’s office, chiefly selling chicken and baked goods, with plans for standardized products and a conference with Miss McPheeters of the University of Maryland.
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Home Demonstration Agent
United States
Iome
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A brief promotion for The Journal offers full access to continuous news coverage. Readers are invited to subscribe to receive up-to-date reporting across topics, with emphasis on timely updates and consistent availability.
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Journal
Assignee's Sale of Valuable Real Estate in Greensboro Denton MD
Wilbert L. Merriken as assignee will sell at public auction in front of the Court House door Denton Maryland between 2 and 4 pm the parcel of land in Caroline county known as the Mrs Allen Lot and Moore's Mill area containing seventy two and one half square perches with a two story frame dwelling and outbuildings. Terms: one half cash on day of sale balance in six months secured by note with interest. title papers at purchaser expense. Auctioneer L F Covey.
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Ida Z. Hutson
George A. Hutson
Calvert C. Merriken
Caaroline
Wilbert L. Merriken
Court House
Denton
Maryland
Caroline County
Greensboro
Moore's Mill
William TI. Wooters
Wooters
Whiteleysburg
Mrs. Allen
Moore’s Mill
L. F. Covey
Office of Supervisors of Elections
General Assembly of
United States
Phillips Lee Goldsborough
Dorchester County
Congress
A. Stengle Marine
J. Robert Eddington
Arthur J. Messick
T. Frank Seward
Walter Howard
R. Henry Stafford
Robert Jarrell
Albert S. Handy
Henry Wilkinson
Lee Hignatt
Milton H. Roe
Harry B. Mason
C. Lestic Walls
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H. G. MacDonald
Hugh Strachn
J. K. M. Knox, Jr
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Rip’s
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Charles H. Foster
T. Clayton Horsey
Orphans’ Court
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Aubrey C. Smoot
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Denton, Md
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Preston, Md
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Ida
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Noah Beery
Gilbert Roland
Are Cadia
Wilmington
Studebaker
Fred B
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Maxwell Coupe
Ford
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Chrysler Agency
Denton, Maryland
Sallie E. Bowens
J. Jerome Frampton
Sallie E. Rowens
Louise Rice
Eagle Pencil CO
New York City
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Penn State
John Baer
A. W. Short
P. Barksdale
Christiana St
Philadelphia
Pover Opera House
Diamond State Theatre Corporation
John Gilbert and
Greta Garbo
Gilbert and Garbo
Our Gang
Violia Dana and
Ralph Graves
Betty Compson and
Allen Forrest
Denton National Bank
Methodist Episcopal Church
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Jesus
Oliver W. Stewart
Flying Squadron Foundation
Epworth League
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