Madge Chooses Love Over Pride in Branimpton
In Branimpton Madge Hoan, rich heiress, hopes to wed Harry Jennings who left college to work for his own future. A wise relative urges Harry to prove himself by joining Madge’s father’s business, not relying on wealth. Harry forgives pride, decides to marry Madge and work to earn their future.
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Branimpton
Madge Hoan
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Madge
Harry Jennings
Harry
Harry hind
Pye
Tse
South America
Jetter
Muadge
Warry
Pyey
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Harry—Murry Jennings
Mudge
Tolind
Karry
Tin Madge
The Welsh Manager Who Built Edgar Thomson Works
The success of the Edgar Thomson works owed much to a small Welsh manager named Jones. Carnegie recalls he joined as a modest mechanic, refused partnership, and preferred a salary while staying focused on running the works. He valued stability over wealth, saying he was content with a president’s salary.
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Edgar Thomson
Jones
Bessemer
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
United States
Have you any alarm clocks inquired the customer
A customer asks for an alarm clock that rouses the girl without waking the family. The clerk replies that no such device exists and they stock only ordinary alarms that wake the whole household. The judge notes the humorous irony of the request.
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Wei
Unappreciative promises cause tense domestic scene
A quarrel unfolds as Mr Chester confronts an unappreciative spouse over a missed five o clock promise. The wife laments not pleasing him and reveals she tried to meet the commitment despite delays.
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Chester
Wanderer at door cites army of the unemployed
A wanderer tells a door that he belongs to the army of the unemployed. The housewife retorts that such service began at birth and implies long service has not earned honor. The exchange reflects harsh social judgment and humor in terse dialogue.
Find Highest Capability by Self-Assessment
The quote challenges self-evaluation to identify the utmost task one can perform, given faculties and circumstances. It urges relentless effort to discover personal limit and push beyond perceived boundaries. The diction echoes classical Self-Improvement rhetoric urging steady, unwearied pursuit.
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John Stuart MIN
Is thia good soup Walter
A brief humorous exchange from the Kansas City Star notes a waiter or host asking if the soup is good and a guest approving highly. The piece captures light social chatter with period voice and a playful tone.
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walter
Kansas City Star
A Rich Man's Debt in Equity
Eleanor Garland reads letters seeking two thousand dollars to save the family home and pursue a craft. Howard Lyle, once her childhood suitor, reappears with a wealth of past debt, declaring all needed money is hers if she helps reveal his late wife Elinor’s truth.
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Eleanor Garland
Law
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Howard Lyle
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Joe
Ellnor Garland
Ellinor
Elinor
sience
ENnor
tall
Nell
Howard
Willy
Billy
Lyle
The Carnauba Palm Its Wide Range of Useful Products
The carnauba palm of northern Brazil yields wax from leaves used in early phonograph records and electric filaments, plus fibers for hats mats and baskets. Its trunk holds fibers for instruments and pipes, roots yield purgatives, fruit pulp tastes pleasant, roasted seeds make a saccharine substance for food or wine, and seeds’ birros attach lace threads. The birros produce a distinctive click across the region.
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Brazil
Harry A. Franck
Patagonia
Electrical Inertia at a Right Angled Wire Bend
An experiment traces an electric discharge around a sharp right angle in a bent conductor. A photographic plate beneath the wire shows that negative discharges continue straight and penetrate the rubber enclosure, while positive discharges do not produce the same effect. The current appears to turn the corner without deflecting at the bend.
Not Specializing in Public Questioning
The dialogue features Senator Sorghum arguing that one should never overemphasize self-identification in debate. He admits to adapting by changing the subject on short notice if outmatched in an argument.
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Senator Sorghum
Gasoline term traced to modern era origins
The geological survey notes that materials similar to current gasoline were used as far back as the second century, though the name gasoline was coined only in the last twenty to thirty years.
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geological survey
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Edward Hirs—Hastings
DeFord Beasley
Sir Charles Marlowe
Clarence Pentz
Charles Marlowe
Philip Downes—Hardcastle
Louise Norris
Misa Neville
Mary McDaniel
Mrs. Hardcastle
Deneese Carter
Tony Lumpkin
Elizabeth Flowers
Miss Hardcastle
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Carolinean
Lenox
Beardsley’s Straten
A&P Grape
A&P
Argo
Babbitt’s
Bon Ami
Nc Pacific
carton
Atlantis & Pacific
Nash
INASHI
SROs
DEL-MAR-VA
NASH MOTORS CO
Easton, Maryland
CHAS. H. DEAN
Queen Anne, Maryland
McClure
Steel Corporation
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
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