Olive's Outlaw at Spouting Springs Hotel
Olive Marchand falls for Black Pete, the famed outlaw who robs hotel guests and fuels a cascade of sensational tales at Spouting Springs. The pair’s affair grows as Pete’s boss Portman pressures for daily holdups, until Olive learns Pete is actually Robert Parkman, a conniving partner in a larger scheme.
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Spouting Springs
Jooms
Olive Marchand
Oubin
Black Pete
Miss Marehand
Olive
Tete
Efe
Mies Mareband
Pete
Ture
Early French Theaters and Pious Beginnings Explained
The piece traces French theatre origins to religious exhibitions by pilgrims returning from the Holy Land. Converts relayed adventures of the Moly Land, later evolving into dramatic presentations banned in Paris. The theater housed layered scaffoldings, with the dragon head as the sole entrance to the higher stages. Actors remained onstage, several plays spanned days, and audiences were invited back each night for forty nights.
Verbal Snacer Excerpt Echoes Club Talk in 1920s Tone
The fragment shows a comic exchange among clubmen noted by the Louis Republic. One says a wife makes a cocktail when home, another replies that his best is a cheap chin fizz. The tone reflects casual banter and period slang.
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T. Louis Renubliic
Glycerine in Dr. Pierce’s Medicines and Its Effects
A promotional description extols glycerine in Golden Medical Discovery for subduing chronic coughs and lung issues, noting its demulcent and nutritive properties. It claims glycerine aids medicinal roots, enhances digestion, and purifies blood, while denying alcohol as an ingredient and promising reader enrollment for more details.
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Dr. Pierce
Finley Ellingwood
Benmore Med. College
Chicago
Certia
RV. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Democratic Campaign Contributions in Maryland
Blair Lee as Treasurer urges all Democrats in Maryland to contribute to campaign funds. The 1951 notice explains new laws requiring contributor names and amounts to be public records in county circuit court clerks’ offices. It warns against under names other than the giver and outlines penalties and public accountability for expenditures. The Roll of Honor will record donors for the party in the courts of record. Silver Spring.
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Committee of One Hundred
Maryland
Bryan
Kern
Democratic Party
General Assembly of
Democratic National Committee
National Organization
Baltimore City
State Central Committee
Murray Vandiver
Blair Lee
Silver Spring
Circuit Court
Caroline County
City Equity
Charles Stanbury Boardley
Charles Stanbury Beardley
Faulkner
Charles A Boardley
William HW. Boardley
George E. Boardley
Samuel H. Boardley
Martha G. Christopher
Robert L. Christopher
Wilmington
Delaware
John W. Boardley
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Mary Ellen Frazier
Boardley
Beulah Frazier
Equity
Thomas L. Day
Practical guide to plant lice sprays and tobacco soil care
A government report highlights a prize winning plant lice remedy using Quassia wood and soap, prepared in a petroleum barrel, and notes tobacco culture advances through shading and soil organic matter. It emphasizes proper soil depth and decayed matter for high yields and long term crop health.
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Frankfort
George T. McNeils
Department of Agriculture
An Expert Farmer Advice for a Bright Young Man
An expert is made by starting at the bottom and learning every detail through practical instruction. Dusty haying and heavy farm work may not suit, but fields like gardening, civil engineering, landscape work, and decorating offer good paths. A naturally bright, careful youth can succeed in many vocations with thorough, hands on study and ongoing improvement.
Recommendations to prevent cucumber squash blight spread
New England inquiries reach the department of agriculture about remedies for the blight destroying cucumber melon and squash vines. Dr. B. T. Galloway notes the disease is prevalent along the Pacific coast and is carried by an insect. Prevention includes steady growth on organic rich ground with added nitrite of soda, spraying with paris green and Bordeaux mixture, and rotating crops to fresh ground each year.
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New England
Department of Agriculture
America
B. T. Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
Pacifi
Cricket chirp rate as a thermometer at 60 to 70 F
The chirping rate of crickets depends on temperature. At 60 F the rate is eighty chirps per minute, at 70 F it is 120 per minute, increasing four chirps per minute per degree rise. Below 50 F the cricket is silent.
Lady of Uncertain Age in a Punch Humorous Exchange
A brief, witty exchange from Punch features a gallant Major and a lady. The Major compliments the lady on her appearance while acknowledging age with gentle humor, reflecting light social banter of the period.
Mean Reply About a Youthful Rejection
A man and woman reminisce about a long ago proposal and a refused suitor. He calls it a treasured recollection from their youth, recalling REO Fou and the message of a past romance.
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Reo Fou
Not ignorant of misfortune learn from fig
Not ignorant of misfortune. I learn from the fig to aid the wretched, Virgil.
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Virgil
Trusts Control Legislation Exposed in Voter Debate
The piece argues voters are misled by sensational trust stories as trusts steer policy. It claims Republicans hold power, write tariffs, and enable trusts, while Democrats lack federal influence, urging a Bryan victory to change the system. It cites Suherman’s remarks and recent disclosures as proof.
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Republican Party
Suherman
America
Bryan
Dawes Visit Sparks Wall Street Unease in Reform Push
A dispatch notes Charities G Dawes of Chicago visited New York to raise funds for the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He warned that without action Democrats could seize the House and likely the presidency, impressing bankers and manufacturers though funds raised fell short of his hopes.
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New York
G. Dawes
Chicago
Wall Street
Dawes
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
House
Congress
Dilemma of a Boy After a Crab Bite
A playful dialogue contrasts a boy unable to sit due to a dad’s scolding for swimming and unable to stand because a crab bit his toe, illustrating a comic parenting moment.
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Willie
Johnny
Willus
Lag cost of living rises faster than wages table shows
A table compares how the cost of living increased more quickly than wages. It highlights disparities between expense increases and earning gains, showing the gap over recent periods and suggesting economic pressure on households.
Reconstruction lumber tax debate in San Francisco
After San Francisco’s destruction the idea to admit lumber free of duty was proposed but Republicans sidestepped it. They argued foreign buyers should bear taxes, and there was no clear reason to force SF residents to pay 10 percent more for rebuilding lumber to influence tariff revision discussions.
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San Francisco
Lamber
The Blue Sky and Its Blue Light Phenomenon
The text explains how the sky appears blue due to the atmosphere acting as a hemispherical vault. It states that sunlight is scattered by air particles that are very small, causing the eye to receive blue wavelengths. Minor interminglings of other colors exist but are overwhelmed by blue.
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Centor Journal
PAGIS
Edward Bredwin Ben
H. Johnson
Mnlvin & Johnson, Publishers
Olive’s
Taylor White
Goodby
Portman
Ile
Ove
Tam
Aesh
Robert Parkman
Milionaire
Darkman
Chie Demuress
Mie
Baltimore
Best Store
Howard and
Lexington Streets
Hermsdorf
Wonen
Womea
Ladies’ Home Journal
Hochschild, Kohn & Co
Lexington Sts
Gogaa
J. E. Ellwanger
Charles A. Poardley
Nutile Hardware Company
Denton, Md
Andries
Glas
Ontario
Wheat & Fertilizer
Cal
J. B. Colgain
Nisi
John Coates
Orphans’ Court
James T. Cooper
Raymond Coates
J. Clan Clark
LE. W. Liden
IT. Fleetwood
J. Jump
Register of Wills
Concord Bargain House
A&c
Mlankuts
W. W. Dukes
P.O. Hobbs
Conncokd, Bip
Fourth 51
Denton
T. Fred Johnson
T. Pliny Fisher
T. H. Evans &Company, Fruit and Proprce Commissi Merchants
Light. St
Baltimore, Md
Connecticut
Department of Neticulture
Kentucky Experiment Station
Cooley Hydrid Tobacco
Sxolexington
Stewart & Co
Howard and Lexington &Ts
H. Green
Women’s Suits & Coats
Belding
Concord
Chas. G. Dawes
OS Fig Cate
Frank W. Slitchcock
National Republican
Burrows
Rochester
Union and Advertiser
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