Made Trouble For Writer Ends In Misunderstood Post Card Gaffe
A man living near a small town faces hostile looks and police attention after a detective notes suspicions of murder. A strange postcard warning to save the child but kill the mother leads to the revelation that the editor’s prompt to rewrite his story caused the drama.
Easier Methods
A Birmingham Age-Herald correspondent notes suburban life with humor about lawn mower routines. A corpulent neighbor chimes in as the speaker boasts fifty substitutes for lawn mower preparation, promising fair trials for each option.
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Birmingham
Age-Herald
Higgins Embraces Fugitive Poetry Muse
Accountant Higgins, described as a poet, jokes that his muse will run away with him. He explains the impulse behind his spontaneous verses and playful literary habit.
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Higgins
Sweden's peat fields reach nearly nine million acres
A compact report notes Sweden's peat fields cover about 9,000,000 acres. The item mentions a laundress favoring Red Cross Sal Blue to keep clothes bright and includes a brief grocery advertisement aside from the main figure.
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Sweden
Parish rector seeks army talk with parishioner
The Manchester Guardian notes a rural Eng land rector tried to converse about a son in the army with Mrs X. He mentions Saloniki and Thessalonians, but Mrs X replies she sent two parcels to her son months ago that have not been delivered, expressing sympathy for him.
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England
Manchester Guardian
Saloniki
Baby’s Meal Ticket Reveals Transfers Across the Car
A nervous old lady notices a baby calmly chewing a green transfer on a train car. A young mother shows a yellow transfer and explains yesterday’s transfer was still in use while today’s transfer is provided.
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Harper's Magazine
Small Brother Teases Sister Over Nickname
The younger brother comments he heard you are called Duckle and toys with the reason. The sister defends herself and questions why it matters, noting the remark is not very nice.
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Duckle
Railway travel teaches people to know their own station
A witty Browning magazine line notes that travel on railways teaches travelers to recognize their own station and stop accordingly, with a humorously implied near hospital consequence for a misstep.
Notable Thought on Human Potential and Duty
The excerpt presents a reflection that men and women are capable of greater deeds than they actualize. It emphasizes the idea that people are sent into life with initial capacities, like bills of credit, which are rarely drawn to their full extent, attributed to Walpole.
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Walpole
TABLE DELICACIES AND DESSERT PREP TIPS
A guide to preparing tender steak ends, desserts and preserves. Recipes include buttered chopped steak, Queen Pudding with gelatin and raisins, mashed carrot dish with lemon, orange preserves, Marshmallow Parfait with cream and marshmallows, and a Spanish Cream dessert with gelatin and vanilla.
Leftover Desserts Inspire Creative Reuse in Meals
Practical tips show how to repurpose rice pudding custard and cottage pudding into new desserts. Suggestions include molding rice pudding with berries, using jelly cake tins for cake fillings, reheating pudding with custard sauce, and layering custards with nuts or fruit in sherbet cups.
Western Canada Offers Immense Farm Profit Potential
An article extols Western Canada Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as ideal agricultural lands with 180 million acres of first class tillable ground, 30 bushels per acre state yield in 1915, and free homesteads of 160 acres. It notes low population density and favorable taxation and education funding for settlers.
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North Dakota
Chauncey Depew Reflects On Age On Eighty Second Birthday
Chauncey M. Depew speaks to a New York reporter on his eighty second birthday about aging. He notes kindness to the aged and the pain of being called old repeatedly, recalling a boy asking what it means to be in the prime of life.
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Chauncey M. Depew
New York
Nice Distinction in Rural Dialogue
A meek man declines sending his family away for the summer. He says his wife and daughter would resent the idea, though they expect to be away the entire season.
Forty Weeks. It een Mier Devon believe in
A fragmentary note mentions forty weeks and a belief related to Devon. The readability is limited. no clear event, person, or organization can be confirmed from the text.
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Devon
Trying Ordeal
A local figure known as Mr Scrub has faced delays after six weeks of interviews on the Mexican situation but has not yet secured print coverage. The comment frames his struggle as part of a broader theme of hopes deferred and blighted ambition in town.
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Scrubty
Perfectly Safe Comedy at Pike's Peak Lecture
An offhand remark about flubdub's lecture on Pike's Peak belies a sharp social quip. A dealer brags about Red Cross Ball Blue, American made beer, while noting a deaf man can hear money talk.
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Flubdub
Pike's Peak
Red Cross Ball
Lydia E Pinkham s Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Richmond Patient
Richmond woman Mrs Lena Wynn reports relief from hot flashes dizziness and nervousness during the Change of Life after seven bottles of Lydia E Pinkham s Vegetable Compound She claims improved health and urges friends to use the remedy for similar symptoms including headaches backaches suffocation and anxiety.
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Mrs. Wynn
Lydi E. Pinkham
Richmond
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lena Wynn
E. O Street
Swamp-Root Kidney Remedy Endorsed by Readers
Women and men suffer from kidney and bladder trouble andDr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is praised as the remedy. Thousands report relief in distressing cases. Available at drugstores in 60c and 1.00 sizes. Sample bottles offered by mail with a penny pamphlet from Kilmer & Co. Binghamton NY.
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Parcel Post
Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
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