Riding lessons and a kiss at Croylands
Barbara enjoys her first riding lesson with Brice Rutherford at Croylands. She grows confident as they ride to a church and back, amid flirtation and jealousy from Miss Wentworth, while Barbara confronts Basil’s plea for forgiveness and a kiss before he leaves.
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Bradleigh
Brice
Sultan Ard
Barbara
Caroline Wentworth
Miss Wentworth
Erica
Stony Point
Germantown
Santa Anna
Croylands
Tarbara
Arbara
Black Hills
Basil
Tam
Joans
Tils
Barbra
Cheatiny
Brice Rutherford Encounters Barbara on a Moonlit Walk
At nine o'clock Barbara Bradleigh leaves her house, veiled in a shawl, and moves with caution through moonlit shadows. Brice Rutherford, owner of Croylands, blocks her path and questions her whereabout, while she denies any certainty and a quiet stroll becomes a tense exchange.
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Barbara
Basil
Tie
Barbaray
Thors
Brice Rutherford
Croylands
Author of Little Drops of Water Celebrates Eightieth Birthday
Mrs. Tata Al Fletcher Carney, author of Little Drops of Water and Little Things, marked her eightieth birthday at her Galesburg home. A former Boston schoolteacher, she wrote to teach pupils the value of small deeds, a poem later translated worldwide as her husband, a Universalist minister, had died in 1870.
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Tata al Fletcher Carney
Galesburg
Boston
Poorhouse to Parliament William Crooks Labor Victory
William Crooks, labor candidate, won the Woolwich division parliamentary seat in London by over 4,000 votes, defeating George Drage in a long-leaning Unionist constituency. Crooks, born in poverty, rose from Poplar poorhouse to mayor and London County Council, signaling strong labor solidarity.
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Labor
London
England
Woolwich
Ondun
William Crooks
Georfres Drage
Crooks
London Times
Die2
Poplar
Liverpool
John Burns
Tie
Rank of the White House In Point of Architecture
A June night in 1902, with Charles I. McKim, a Park Commission member, on the grounds recalls landscape design lore and a mound linked to John Quincy Adams’s taste. The piece reflects on architecture and the setting of a national landmark.
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Charles I. McKim
The
Park Commission
John Quincy Adams
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Frank H. Stauffer
Walt
Missionary Madge
Portune
Lince
Benson
Hurst
Mr. Rutherford
Mrs. Rutherford
Linde
Earth
Sith
Ture
Marine Band
Versailles
White House
Congress
Gabe” Bouck
Oshkost
Wiscoms
Bouck
Gabe
Century
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