A Little Dog's Day in a Hill Village Farm
In a quiet mountain village a prosperous elderly man visits a tidy farmhouse to stay a few days. Betty Grimes helps the guest, and Tom Dudley, a trusted worker, faces a moral dilemma about love and theft. Colonel Burton learns Tom’s truth, helps protect Betty, and Tom marries Betty after Burton reveals the real thief and the mortgage is cleared.
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Knitting Yarns Shows New Summer Sweaters in Stock
The yarn shop invites readers to view its sweater book highlighting the new summer sweater collection. It promises a selection of lightweight knits suitable for warm weather and fresh colorways for the season.
Assistance Furnished at Self-Serve Restaurant Censured
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip notes a self-serve restaurant where patrons must handle tasks themselves. It mentions lay cashiers stationed to relieve patrons of their money, reflecting critique of the setup and management expectations.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Peaches to the Peach Front Story
A fragment begins with a front story line about earlier in the day sending orchards, mentioning Bostoun and Truoverlote in a cryptic note. The readable text suggests a rural or orchard themed item lacking full context. Entities include Bostoun and Truoverlote as named individuals.
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Bostoun- Truoverlote
Flowers That Bring Bad Luck In Devonshire Folklore
In Devonshire England folk warn that certain blooms foretell death or misfortune. A single daffodil signals doom if it appears first in spring, and no bunches are allowed. Hydrangeas in the home bring trouble and snowdrops are unlucky. Wildflowers may prevent a chick brood, and soil from a infant grave kept in a flowerpot within a year is said to worsen bloom. Yellow flowers in the house are forbidden. Mayning bergamot near a home is linked to sickness, and a bloom plant in church may shield untrue wives in the congregation.
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England
Devonshire
bergninot
Mirage in Nevada Desert Observation by Enos A Mills
An enthralling account from Enos A Mills in the Saturday Evening Post describes watching a moving mirage in a Nevada desert. The visions show wagons with horses, camp scenes, and wildlife as if unfolding before the observer, ending with the scene melting away into desert shimmer.
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Nevada
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Enos A. Mills
Saturday Evening Post
Spring Flowers and Their Luck Across Cultures
The passage notes beliefs about lucky and unlucky flowers in various lands. It cites crocus as unlucky if dug up in Austria, a belief in Egypt that anemones cure disease when wrapped in red, and customs on the French coast and in Devonshire about flowers affecting luck, sickness, and spiritual outcomes. It also mentions the Turk’s avoidance of misfortune and Samoa practices involving funeral flowers. The piece presents a mosaic of linguistic and cultural superstitions tied to spring blooms.
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Austria
Egypt
French
Devonshire
England
Iles
Samoa
Mythic origin of tea from a king’s son tale
A Chinese legend links tea to Darna, a son of an Indian king, who in 519 A D visited China seeking religious devotion. After years of ascetic life he slept briefly, cut off his eyelids to stay awake, and the eyelids allegedly turned into shrubs named chaa or cha. The story notes tea reached the czar in 1689 and later London.
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Darna
China
Darma
Darina
London
Englishman at American Sunday supper hammers through new food mix
An Englishman at an American Sunday night supper, astonished by the array of dishes, smears honey on a fish ball and discovers a strong, unpleasant flavor. He warns a neighbor after a large gulp of water, saying there is something dead in the bun, in Youth's Companion.
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Nila
The Nose That Was Not Notary A Nose Tale
Dr Fludd relates an Italian nobleman who loses part of his nose in a duel and has flesh from a freed slave grafted to the arm. The slave dies in Naples and gangrene appears on the Italian’s nose. Surgeons advise removal and graft skin from his own arm. The man dies after rejoicing in his restored nose.
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Naples
Edmond
Sir Kenelm Digby
All Ready for Him in Provincial English Meeting
A crowded provincial town political meeting in England heard a parliamentary candidate speak. A man appeared at the door and loudly asked, Can anyone here sell the six pennyworth of sense? The speaker paused while the chairman quickly retorted You have nothing to put it in. The momentary interruption ended with the crowd reaction noting the wit of the chairman.
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England
Fashionably Dressed Woman Rebukes Tramp at Scene
A stylish woman tells the tramp to go away and declares she would not allow him to touch her for a dollar. He replies that he only intends to touch her for a nickel, prompting a tense exchange.
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Old British sloop unearthed by Ocean cast near Rockaway Beach
The Brooklyn Eagle reports Rockaway Beach uncovering an ancient oceanic relic washed ashore. Captain Meade of the Rockaway coast guard station identifies the debris as an old sloop of war with nine guns, likely from Revolutionary or War of 1812 eras. Local skippers recall Jones Inlet ties and contraband trade legends linked to the site.
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Rockaway Beach
Brooklyn Eagle
Ade
Joseph Meade
Rockaway
Jones’ Inlet
Jones
Village Within Extinct Volcano on Saba Island
An account of Bottom, a village perched inside the crater of an extinct volcano on Saba in the Caribbean. The island rises 9,000 feet and has a cliffed, harborless coast with steep ascent to the town, reachable only by stairs or trail. Its inhabitants are lifelong sailors who return to this isolated home after every voyage.
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Snaba
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Thrift In Chile And Savings Growth Across Decades
The article notes rising savings institution numbers in Chile over a decade. It cites 1910 with about a dozen institutions serving 200,000 people and $4,000,000 in deposits. By 1917 deposits reached 110,000,000 Chilean pesos, roughly a quarter of American dollars, with 50,000,000 more added in 1918. It highlights stamps and other incentives and states lotteries are not permitted, reflecting a slow, steady approach to wealth.
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Chile
Spinster refuses rent to large family in ad
A forty year old spinster with a house to rent rejects a man who replies with seven children. She declares no children allowed, citing past damage. The man angrily leaves, telling her he hopes she has seven children someday and cannot find a house. Indianapolis News.
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Indianapolis News
Honor Paid Saint Michael In Goose Feast Customs
Fragmentary notes describe Michaelmas customs involving birds, especially geese sacrificed at harvest time. In Lincolnshire and Yorkshire farmers scatter grain for winged creatures, linking the day to a feast and to the Armada’s memory. Queen Elizabeth reportedly ate a goose when the Armada defeat was announced, suggesting a symbolic winged connection to Saint Michael.
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Yorkshire
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Michael
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