Palace Cafeteria Trays Show Dieting and Fare
Emma, a Palace cafeteria worker, watches patrons diet and indulge as Emma scolds Johnnie Adams for a light lunch and fusses over William Watson’s poor appetite. A budding bond grows when Watson visits daily, bringing flowers and shared talk of farm life and past English lessons.
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Mma Lane
Emma
Palace
Johnnie Adams
Johnnie
Evumua
Miss- Inez
Farkness
Graham
Wiliam Watson
William
Sears
Tears
Slice
Emmal
Emin
Lizzie
Mr. Watson
Emman
Thea
Willan
Willlun
Azzle
South Main Street
Montrose
Farmhouse Table Talk Sparks Wedding Plan
Sue indulges in pies and coffee while Emma taunts Willow Watson about becoming overweight. Enna seats a tray and The scene shifts to Willow and Emma debating a future with a farmer, Niagara Falls trip, and a plan to wed. Willow confesses intent to marry and live on the farm with Emma soon.
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Sue
Elsie
Euuna
Enna
Willow Watson
Willon Watson
Emma
Niagara Falls
America a Nation Not Inclined to Sing in Speech on Silence
A New York Times opinion note cites John Erskine on America’s silent voice, contrasting a nation of dancers and instrumentalists with little vocal song. It argues Americans hear music well yet rarely sing, preferring work sounds over soft tunes, while laboring on frosty urban frames.
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America
John Erskine
Music Industries Convention
Iruman
France
Germany
Italy
South
Triis
Arlo
New York Times
Ambassador Choate Mistaken For Butler At Reception
A Kansas City Times item recounts Joseph H Choate while ambassador at the court of St James being mistaken for a butler at a smart at home. The guest, shocked, apologized after recognizing the error, and Choate gently noted he would have called the man a hansom cab if pressed.
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Joseph H. Choate
Court of St. James
Dahlia Becomes Popular Flower Across Europe and America
The dulfia, despite its ancient roots, gained general cultivation in Europe around 1870. In under fifty years it spread widely in the United States and Europe, attracting devoted societies and intense development. Today there are about 10,000 horticultural varieties.
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Europe
United States
Faith After a Storm in a Student of Nature Essay
A storm drives a nature student to shelter and test his anchors, with the essay noting storms sharpen faith. The American Magazine cites the author’s view that adverse weather deepens spiritual order and belief.
Light and Dark Howell-Here is on queer color scheme
Howell and Powell discuss a phrase about a light voice heard in the dark. The dialogue hints at interpretation of a narrative line and its tonal implications. The exchange centers on meaning rather than a full event.
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Howell
Powell
Where Man Can Live but Not Raise Family
A Harper's Magazine excerpt notes climate narrows reproduction more than survival. It cites Greenland, Antarctica, Death Valley to illustrate how extreme heat, cold, and aridity hinder families while individuals might endure.
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Greenland
Antarctica
Scott
Death Valley
Ellsworth
Huntington
Harper's Magazine
Fabian Society Formed to Invest Land and Capital
The Fabian Society, founded in 1884, aims to gradually place land and capital in community ownership for the public good. Named after Roman general Fabius, whose strategy emphasized patience and waiting.
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The
Fabian Society
the Society
Fabius
Lady Astor Tours Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Offices
Lady Nancy Astor, visiting Washington, toured the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company headquarters and central offices. She was shown exchanges and staff lunch rooms, praised employee welfare efforts, and asked questions of operators and supervisors about working conditions. The informal visit stemmed from her interest in women’s welfare and labor conditions.
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Nancy Astor
Washington
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Lady Astor
Wontell
Byrd Bids Relatives Farewell Before Arctic Quest
Commander Richard E. Byrd phones his mother in Winchester Virginia and brother Governor Harry Flood Byrd in Richmond to say goodbye before sailing from Los Angeles on the Arctic expedition. A special telephone on the Larsen enabled quick long distance talks in the harbor.
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Richard E. Byrd
Los Angeles
Cal
File Mother
Winchester
Ile
Harry Flood Byrd
Richmond
Byrd
Larsen
The Bell System Expands Plant Investment and Labor
The Bell Telephone System has spent over three billion dollars on Mant and equipment. Investment per telephone averages about 225 dollars, with plant investment rising fifty percent in the last decade. The nation employs 391,000 men and women in telephone work, with major contributions from Westinghouse and Bell Labs. Women comprise over sixty percent of the workforce, and Bell workers have donated about 200,000 full eight hour days for training outside business hours.
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Bell Telephone
Bell
United States
Westare Electric Company
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Bell System
Sea Rover's Ambition to Settle New World
A legends tale portrays Erle the sted as first Arctic explorer and founder of a western colony. He envisioned Green Land to attract settlers and promoted modern real estate schemes a century ago. In spring, 25 to 700 colonists sailed for Greenland, bringing Icelandic domestic animals to establish the settlement.
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Alerten
Erle
Sted
Boer
Erle the Red
Green Land
OSG
Hin
Greenland
Iceland
Vuhjjulmar Stefansson
Forum Magazine
Quill Pens and the Call for Real Writing Energy
Grove Patterson argues in the Mobile Register that many young writers procrastinate due to laziness and lament the tedium of pens and typewriters. He cites Dickens as an example of endurance but warns against mental indolence and urges more energy to pursue writing passions.
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Charles Dickens
Dickens
Grove Patterson
Mobile Register
Believe Me or Not I Am Frank Honest Courageous
A self description claims honesty courage and kindness with a serious mind and ready wit. The speaker notes respect from others and a goal of prominent community status yet admits reluctance to heed advice and occasional headstrong judgments after spending 14 pennies on fortune telling machines in Los Angeles Times.
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Los Angeles Times
Time Stealers and How to Handle Them
A guide on protecting valuable time from constant interruptions. It argues that time stealers range from strangers selling unwanted goods to insistent friends, and that busy people should politely or firmly dismiss intruders. The piece urges clear boundaries and, if pressed, to emphasize the value of one’s time and potential profits.
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Nvert Entbarrassineo
Passage About Death and Near-Death Experience
Charles Driscoll recalls a boyhood near death when the world seemed to fade to vast, limitless space. He describes drifting away, feeling contented, then returning to consciousness as if reborn, with whisky poured over him and a lasting memory of an eternal, peaceful country. He says the remembered eternity feels not evil.
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Charles Driscoll
Alenders
Ife
Beng
Early Britons Lacked Writing Says Ancient Historians
The text argues that Caesar's Commentaries Tacitus and other antiquarians provide no proof that Britons knew letters before Roman and Greek characters were taught to them. It also claims historians do not preserve oral traditions of the Druids or Bride Barns tied to early Celtic history.
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Caesar
Tacitus
Notable Exploring Party Leaves Green River May 24 1869
Maj. J. W. Powell leads a party from Green River Utah by boat through Marble and Grand canyons, exiting Grand Canyon on August 20. Powell would later become director of the United States Geological Survey.
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Maj
J. W. Powell
Green River
Utah
Marbie
Grand Canyons
Major Powell
United States Geological Survey
California Name Origin From Spain Romance Accounts
The term Golden State or California traces to a fictitious island of gold and gems in the 1510 Spanish romance Jas Sergas de Esplandian, from which the name California was likely derived.
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California
Jas Sergas de Esplandman
Cicada Misnamed as Locust Persists in Speech
The text argues the cicada is not a locust, noting it belongs to the grasshopper family and has both a one year and a seven year cycle. It laments the longstanding misnomer endured through age and panic, with no hope of changing the term.
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Dearborn
Planet Jr
Plano Keys In Open Sunlit Room With Damp Interior
A damaged OCR note describes keeping plano keys from sticking by opening the plano and exposing the area near the ausle rack to sun. If someone enters, move the plano to a sunlit spot. otherwise relocate to a dry area where air can circulate. Swollen interior due to dampness is cited as the reason.
Denton sale terms offer cash or credit notes
All sums under ten dollars must be paid in cash while sums over ten dollars qualify for credit of nine months. Purchaser to provide interest bearing notes secured as approved by the Denton National Bank. J A Griffin owner James Temple auctioneer W A Cawley and J A Beck clerks.
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Denton National Bank
J. A. Griffin
James Temple
W. A. Cawley
J. A. Beck
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Dexter
Guernsey
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P.L. Fooks & Son
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Wilbert L. Merriken
Myrtle N. Barcus
Clarence I. Barcus
Caroline County
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Ty. Clayton Horsey
Niss
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Owens
T. Pliny Fisher
Jacob J. Griffith
Fred R. Owens
T Pliny Fisher
T. Clayton Horsey
Clayton Horsey
J. If. Nichols & Co
New Dover
Qpera Houseiamond State Theatre Corporation
C. Fred Kingsley
John Gilbert
Joan Crawford
George Russell
Victor Salon Orchestra
Eveready and
Maxwell House Orchestra
Russell
Harper R. Carter
Still Pond Road
Kennedyville
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Still Pond
Methodist Episcopal Church
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Jerusalem
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Gilbert Bradley
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