Landlord Clash Sparks Grand Opera Romance In 1921 Tale
Hilda and Ethel vent anger at landlord Smithers over rent hikes and a ban on phonographs after eight. Ethel rescues five records in a subway panic, meets Langford who supports defying rules as a romance blossoms. Smithers relents, promising midnight phonographs and rent cuts as a new love story ends.
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Hilda Crandell
Ethel Klinger
Hilda
Ethel
Musical Magazine
Hida
Old Smithers
Rulda
Smithers
Grace
Snow
Colet
Langford
Tilda
Mr. Langford
Journeys of the Shades in Oceanic Myth Tales
The piece surveys global variants of the Charon ferry myth. It notes Fijian burial customs with a whale tooth, used symbolically as a test of a widow’s fidelity, and contrasts Indonesian and Milan legends with a wriggling bridge serpent or a moving bridge log, shaping the afterlife journey.
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Charon
Styx
Indian Ocean
Siam
Pacific
Milan
Minghassa
Indonesia
The American Raven Declines Across Regions
The American raven once common in the central United States is now rare in the Midwest and New England, with lingering presence in the Alleghenies. It remains more established in the Rocky Mountains and far northwest, nesting on inaccessible cliff ledges and keeping distant from threats. Its size exceeds the American crow and its call is a hoarse rolling crruck.
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New England
Alleghany Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Searce
Hugger or Growler Huh Hunting Trip Narrow Escape
A brief humorous exchange from a Boston Tran script recounts a near miss on a hunting trip. The narrator jokes about nearly being mistaken for a bear, while his wife comments that it would not have been much of a mistake in the moment.
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Hugger
Growler
Boston Transcript
Censors Advertise Works As Films For Adults
The Washington Star notes that some books and films may be promoted by censoring and that certain films could be valued highly when labeled unexpurgated.
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Washington Star
Scientists test pearl types to find differences in Japan pearls
Two physics professors at London University working for the Daily Mail conduct exhaustive tests to see if Japanese pearls differ from ordinary ones. Alfred K. E. Calvert notes several specimens are identical in weight color and luster, claiming both varieties form via the same oyster process.
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London University
England
Daily Mail
Alfred KE. Calvert
The
Chemical Society
Rivers as Airways Say Waterways Safer for Seaplanes
Scientific American notes that rivers canals lakes and coastlines provide safer landing options for seaplanes than flying over rough land. It states pilots can land on water with reduced risk and that many waterways have been surveyed for this purpose.
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Scientific American
House Built of Compressed Straw in France
A house at Montargis Fau borg de la Chaussee is built with walls of compressed straw. The frame and walls use tightly packed straw blocks claimed to be as hard as concrete and nonflammable. Lightweight material allows small foundations and a month to construct.
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Fauborg de la Chaussee
Montargis
France
An Old Acquaintance in Courtroom Exchange
A witness recalls meeting the prisoner at the bar during a court scene. The exchange features the council asking if the witness has seen the prisoner at the bar, with the witness affirming the encounter. The fragment captures a moment from a trial proceeding.
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Council
Tessir
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Denton Journal
Nowed
Melvin Benj. H. Jornson
Nelvin
Joanson
Publicners
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
World
Chesapeake & Potomac Bay
R. C. Harris
Caroline County
Denton
of Intermediate
Maryland
Henderson
Greensboro
Preston
Federalsburg
Hillsboro
Ridgely
American Corner
John K. Lynch
Everett H. Gale
Harry B. Mason
Test
C. Leslie Walls
the Peoples Bank
Henry T. Nuttle
Prest
Nisi
John W. Hurlock & Co
Ida V. Trice
Orphans’ Court
Equity
Calvert C. Merriken
Richard T. West, Elisha H. Harper
William J. Shawn
J. Howard Pastorfield
Register of Wills
United States
Denton, Maryland
Preston Motor Co
Preston, Maryland
John W. Noble
Norman Clark, W. J. Miller Bennett Todd A. M. Willey
Gee
Éssit
RB. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Selem
N.C
Lawrence B. Towers
All Journal Office
Court House
Cole’s
Caroline County Bank
Thompson’s Imp
Eresson
BROS
Affin’s
Covey & Williams
T. Frank Seward
Anc Alve
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