The New Life Before Them in a New England Town
In a small New England town the Barton and Norris families live as two halves of a single house. Frank and Ida, twenty, reveal a shy, evolving love as a chimney divides their home yet draws them closer. A childish quarrel over a picture show ends with Ida’s tears and Frank’s apology. Ida’s three dead birds prompt a moment of humility, and the young lovers realize a new life awaits beyond childhood. Mrs. Norris quietly approves, sensing a hopeful future.
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Frank Barton
Ida Norris
New England
Greenfield
Norrises
Frank
Ida
Mrs. Norris
Jim
Burton
Meiunt
Barton
Piazza
Frank Burton
Idal
Precious Stones in Hills of California
Diamonds are found in eight California counties among gravels with placer gold. El Dorado Butte and Amador produced most, Nevada county yielded the largest stone at 7% carats. From Amador, a pale 114 carat diamond. four others in Morgan collection at American Museum New York. Topazes near Ramona San Diego county, colors include colorless blue green. Discovered in 1903. pale blue topazes resemble Urals SuraPolke. Wedge crystals weighed over a pound. mine yielded sky blue aquamarine topazes.
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California
el Dorado
Butte
Amador Counties
Nevada County
Volcano District
Amador County
Morgan
American Museum
New York City
Ramona
San Diego County
Surapulke
Ural Mountains
Old Longfellow Home Saved by Sentiment
The Longfellow house at Pitta field Massachusetts faced demolition after a land possession bid by the high school commission. The city council refused the move but the commission offered to salvage the staircase for incorporation into a new school building due to the stairway's historic interest. The poet wrote several poems during residence including The Old Clock on the Stairs, and Longfellow and his wife honeymooned there before purchasing the property.
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Longfellow
Pittafield
Mass
High School Commission
Chicago Journal
Desire to Own Land Through the Ages
The piece traces the deep human urge to own land from ancient times to modern nation building. It cites William the Conqueror and the primogeniture system as examples of land keeping power and the drive for expansion, noting conflicts born from land ownership. It also notes how feudal structures tried to curb this instinct yet failed to quell the urge to possess land.
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William the Conqueror
Striking Proof Of Advances In Telephone Art
At the Sesqui Centennial in Philadelphia the telephone is the nerve center of the exposition with public phones everywhere and a large American Telephone and Telegraph exhibit. The contrast from 1876 shows vast progress from few novelty phones to integrated service and theatre demonstrations.
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Philadelphia
Alexander Graham Bell
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Iron rich foods highlighted in Diet article
The piece discusses how meat and oysters lead iron foods with spinach ranking high among greens while prunes raisins and potatoes also prove valuable. It notes whole cereals dried beans and milk contribute iron, and molasses is a better iron source than sugar.
Stained Glass Saints Face Bearded Portrait Debate
English stained glass artists defend portraying saints with beards against a diocese chancellor’s complaint that ecclesiastical windows misrepresent holy figures. They argue history shows many saints wore beards due to conditions, and vow future windows will reflect beard traditions despite protests.
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Diocese of
Chester
Ravages of Epidemics Across Centuries
The article recalls how plagues struck globally, reducing populations by a quarter during a two year surge. It traces waves of disease from leprosy to syphilis, Ruhonie or Black plague, then smallpox and the recurring respiratory plagues like influenza and pneumonia.
Remarkable twin likeness in Tokyo twins Kaneko brothers
Kazuo Kaneko and Tsuguo Kaneko, two Tokyo twins, resemble each other in voice, manner, and dislikes. Even their parents cannot tell them apart. When drafted, officers found no distinguishing marks and had to assign marks on their collars so officers could identify which twin received orders.
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Kazuo Kaneko
Tsuguo Kaneko
Tokyo
Cupid’s pump gun in Cupid vs bearingo weapon debate
A Buffalo Evening Times joke piece mocks artists depiction of Cupid as an armed figure, claiming his high velocity pump gun would fail to wound a cannary bird and noting the impossibility of hitting a target. The quip lampoons love lore and artistic license.
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Cupid
Buffalo Evening Times
Seashell loud speaker sighted by radio enthusiast
A South Swem radio hobbyist crafted a loud speaker from a large seashell. Described as simple yet attractive, the shell, long in the family, was connected with a strip of rubber tape and some wires. The device is praised as highly satisfactory.
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Roston Globe
Poem Craft Verses on Arranging Thought Like Crown Feathers
The text compares composing a poem to shepherds arranging chosen feathers for a crown. It advises selecting the choicest thoughts or feathers and placing them to give each other luster, so colors and gloss flow from one element to the next.
More Telephone Wires In Cable
Telephone cable usage expands across the United States with underground and aerial cables forming vast networks. The Bell System leads with cables containing thousands of wires, a long underground section from Washington to Boston, and city to city links. Modern cables now include up to 9,424 wires, reflecting decades of manufacturing advances since 1881.
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America
Bell System
Washington, D. C
Boston
Fensth
New York
Chicago
United States
Iss
Weather explanation on frozen raindrop shapes
The weather bureau links diverse frozen raindrop shapes to collisions and sticking of partially frozen drops. Shapes vary with the number and size of adhering drops and their freezing extent at impact, while fully frozen droplets form larger still spherical drops.
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The
Weather Bureau
Have the Hrowns Entered Good Society Question
A dialogue asks whether the Hrowns have progressed into respectable society or merely the fashionable smart set. The exchange hints at social status and acceptance in contemporary circles.
Real Estate Foreclosure Notice in Preston Maryland
Mortgage holder announces public sale of a parcel on the east side of Railroad Avenue in Preston Maryland after default on a 1908 loan. The lot runs 60 feet along Railroad Avenue and 146 feet deep, adjoining Sarah M Pletcher and Winon Redhead, with path to the Redhead line and Pletcher property, per deed of May 26 1908 recorded in Liber 72 folio 222.
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Railroad Avenue
Preston
Maryland
Sarah M
Mary J. Williamson
Mary C. Bradley
Caroline County
1927 Seed Study Locates One Small Farm in Maryland
Elmer Price, 21, of Denton Maryland identified as owner of a small farm in 1927 with no wheat seed. The notice lists Price as the sole participant in the study and provides no additional crop details or agricultural actions.
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Elmer Price
Denton, Md
Assignees' Sale of Property in Federalsburg Maryland
Assignees under a 1917 mortgage to Jay E. Williamson offer a public sale in front of the Denton Court House door. The parcel lies in Federalsburg, Caroline County, bounded by Jet No. 8 lines and a Noble deed description, including a dwelling as improvements. The sale, to the highest bidder, occurs between 2 and 4 p.m. on a date to be announced.
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Mary C. Bradley
Alcade D. Bradley
Robert Patton
Caroline County
Walter T. Covey
Qdella C. Covey
Charles B. Harrison
Nora S. Lare
Benjamin F. Lare
Jay. E. Williamson
Calvert C. Merriken
Wilbert L. Merriken
Court House
Denton
Maryland
Federalsburg
E. H W. Spicer
Mog
J. Farle Noble
Bessie J. Noble
Liber T. L. D
T. Frank Seward
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W. G. Chapman
Brunk Burton
Precious
Hills of
John L. Everngam
Orphans’ Court
John W. Howares
Federalaburg, Md
Waost
Riverton Avenue
Emily G. Swiss
T. HW. Everngam
Burraville
Wilhert L. Merririen
L. F. Covey
Auet
Covey & Williams
Covey Bros
Hillsboro
Thompson's Inne
Ridgely
Bank OF Ridgely
American Corner
Lord's
Greensboro
Caroline County Bank
Henderson
Coleqs
Sixth and
Gay Streets
Nellie Valliant Foster
St. Paul Street
Baltimore
New Dover Opera House
Kenneth G. Faulkner
Paramount
Rex Beach
Noah Beery
Lois Moran
Raymond Griffith
Paramount Presents
Byron Morgan
Wally Reid
Dodge Brothers
DonpGee Brothers Motor Cars
Carter
Marcel Shoppe
Denton, Maryland
Marcelling
Theo. A. Tobin
Easton
Newspa
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