Emma's Rosewood Sofa Auction Returns Love and Hope
Emma Pearson lies injured as her rosewood sofa and other household goods fetch seven dollars at auction to fund a rainy day. Dennis Steel returns to Colchester, declares his love, and proposes, offering to help furnish a future with Emma at Mrs Shipway's.
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Emma Pearson
Omma
Emmia
Emu
Na Iness
Emma
Eugene Boyden
Dennis Steel
Dennis
Colchester
Alison
Eni
Allison
Emin
Qut
Sle
Eli
California
Lunma
Ismma
Tye
Times Hard for the Ambitious Poet Today
A humorous meditation on poetry's trouble in modern times. The speaker imagines a New Jersey figure Reginald W Lochinvar arrested for speeding and assaulting an officer after a West Shore ferry departure. A mock legal scene pits Longfellow against a court in cases involving arrows and songs, lamenting poets turning to feelings or advertising.
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Scott
West
Reginald W. Lochinvar
New Jersey
West Shore Ferry
New York
Hoolihan
Longfellow
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
William Smith
Henry W. Longfellow
International Composers’ Union
California tests electrified fences to warn trains
Electrified fences along railroad tracks in California are being tested to detect approaching landslides. Fences will be placed where slides are likely and, if broken, electric impulses will trigger signals to halt incoming trains.
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California
Work on giant air liners for England Australia route
Work on the huge air liners for the England Australia routes is rushed to completion with service hoped to start next year. Rudder skeleton, nearly 15 feet high, is nearly finished. The ships will be fitted with every modern convenience.
Careful Bus Driver Keeps Rail Crossing Stop
In a Massachusetts town the veteran bus driver, who stops at a long removed rail crossing for safety, explains to a traveling salesman that many people have died from empty guns. The driver insists on caution despite the salesman’s impatience, underscoring a grave warning from past incidents.
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Massachusetts
Tle
Noted Italian adventurer Cagliostro's life and fate
Giuseppe Balsamo, born Palermo June 8 1748, rose as Cagliostro after leaving the Brothers of Mercy. He travelled widely, forged medical elixirs, and amassed wealth before a Rome crackdown led to life imprisonment as a Freemason heretic. He died after five years in prison.
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Caguostro
Guiseppe Balsamo
Palermo
St. Leon
Italy
Order of Brothers of Mercy
Count Cagliostro
Kurpe
Rome
Flere Hie
Leemnasoury
Fanny's Attic Gold Mine Revealed to New Neighbor
Helena mourns the loss of schooling and a possible life of teaching as her mother Fanny struggles to fund her education amid a failing family fortune. They find hope in a dusty attic stash of furniture that a neighbor discovers as a hidden gold mine.
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Panny Winn
Helena
Catherine Scott
Fanny
Catherine
Everet Winn
Veret
Everet
Pye
Lvcret
Winn
Orlando Winn
N Elty
Egeret Winn
Isse
Gold mine of old furniture sparks sale in city
Mrs Knox and her daughter Helena discover a fortune in their household items as a city buyer purchases every piece of old furniture. The dealer Mahin promises a thousand dollar console from worn pieces, prompting plans for schooling and rest with the proceeds.
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Helena
Fanny
Muhin
The Mystery of Air Composition and Oxygen Levels
A Kansas City Times piece explains air mass and weight, noting about fourteen tons pressing on each person yet undetectable. It discusses oxygen at about 20.96 percent and argues that humans could not survive doubling oxygen, with changes likely in the opposite direction and implications for deep-breathing individuals.
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Kansas City Times
Island Dream Excerpt From London Ti-Bits Dialogue
A couple sits on a pier overlooking a bay filled with white-winged yachts and muses about escaping crowds. They long for an island retreat with blue sky birds and ferns while joking about needing only one extra companion an ice cream vendor with raspberry and vanilla.
Bride Dares Husband to Remember Twenty Year Anniversary
A wife marks twenty years of marriage by withholding the date and tests her husband who jokes about celebrating their “mistake of 20 years” as he leaves for work. The lighthearted exchange captures a quiet domestic moment of memory and humor.
Snail Eyes and Light Perception Debate
A naturalist debate examines snail sight and response to light. Studies suggest the snail is effectively blind, reacting only to general stimuli such as sound, temperature, air agitation, and earth disturbances, with no clear vision or pain response.
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Shidy
Chntnet
Oder
Good Workman and the Morale Qualities
A terse reflection on the ideal factory or team worker, describing the good workman as a person who embodies the morale traits essential to collective efficiency. The discourse suggests an elevated, almost inspirational standard for laborers in American society.
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American Magazine
Proper Place Insomnia Dictum Amid Misquote
A fragment notes a witty line about insomnia being a burden in bed and a blessing when crossing streets attributed to Louis ville mes, reflecting a misquote or garbled attributions without clear context or full sourcing.
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Louis Ville Mes
Canada’s Oldest Journal The Montreal Gazette
The Montreal Gazette claims status as Canada’s oldest newspaper, noting a founding period more than a decade earlier than other papers. The piece highlights its historic role in chronicling Montreal and national events.
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The
Montreal Gazette
Canada
Lettuce Menu Jokes Highlight Obscure Phrase
A Buffalo Blade quip cites Lettuce Tt serving nearly everything on a leaf of lettuce with a subpeno punchline.
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Buffalo
Land parcels described in Redden deeds in Caroline county Maryland
The property described covers parcels conveyed to Orlando J Redden Sarah E Redden and others, with prior transfers from Funk Wright and Eaton. It notes two reserved parcels of 25 and 13 acres and references multiple recorded deeds in Libers 64 76 85 88 and pages across Caroline county land records. The land is said to contain 138 acres on the south side of the Denton to Three Bridges road and is offered for sale.
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Sarah E. Redden
Orlando J. Redden
Harvey L. Cooper
Wesley
E. Thawley
Caroline County
State of Maryland
Denton
Maryland
Denton-Anthony’s Mill Road
Pritchett
Henry Twin
Eno Ziegler
Enos
George Neal Morris
Redden
Zeigler and Redden Land
Zeigler Land
John W. Funk
Liber J. K. S
Orlando J.reddein
Liber C. W. H
Fred J. Wright
Sara GE
Linwood Eaton
Cadvert C. Merriken
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc
Bedetest
Rosewood
Iescceeecseceecsee
DI Walshi
Mrs. Shigway
Feootegitsoo
Qdeoes
Cpese Destodotssiee Delh
DJ Walk
Panny
Mrs. Knox
Yelena
Herbert Hoover
Republican
Charles Curtis
Kansas
United States
Phillips Lee Goldsborough
Baltimore City
Congress
Stengle Marine
Dorchester County
Assignel
Wesley E. Thawley
James Temple
Shakespeare
Business House
Denton, Md
Dover
Opera House
Miamond State Theatre Corporation
Wilmington
Clara Bow
Buddy Rogers
Gary Cooper
Richard Arlen
France
John Monk Saunders
William A. Wellman
Esther Ralston and
Hobart Bosworth
Esther Ralston
Denton National Bank
Methodist Episcopal Church
Melvin E. Wheatley
Rock of Ages
Epworth League
S. G. Bye
Auditor's Order
Nisi
T. Alan Goldsborough
W. Brewster Bert
James E. Hignatt
Circuit Court
Clayton Horsey
Auditor’s Order
Calvert C. Merriken
Bruce Butler
Hattie E. Butler
T. Clayton Horsey
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