Woman in Gray and Consuelo Hope at Hazelmount House
In a continuing tale at Hazelmount, Paula Wynne and Miss Consuelo Hope clash as secrets unfold. Jerome reports a strange beast in the grounds while Sir Wilfrid Amory plans work for his secretary pro tem. The narrator wrestles with love for Miss Hope while facing a looming confrontation with Paula.
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Paula
Sir Thomas
Lady Towers
Hazelmount
Jerome
London
Miss Hope
Marchmont
America
Wilfrid
Miss Consuelo Hope
Martenhead
Miss Wynne
Consuelo Hope
Thomas
Barnes
Liberty
Paula Wynne
Mme. Patti
Mary Anderson
Wilfrid Amory
Mr. Darkmore
Turmoil at Hazelmount Strains Paula and Hope's Work Plan
The narrator recalls a troubled morning at Hazelmount as Paula quarrels with her uncle over arrangements for joint work with Miss Hope. Attempts to mediate fall flat as Paula seeks to distress those around her.
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Hazelmount
Paula
Miss Hope
Wealthy Savings Habit Expands Across Nations
Figures from Chicago financier B M Chattle show July 1901 deposits: national banks $8.23B, US circulation $8.0B, US savings banks $2.50B, world savings banks $8.91B. The average account totals $141.24 worldwide and $408.30 in the United States, with savings growth tied to habit, life insurance, and home purchases.
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United States
B. M. Chattell
Chicago
Savings Bank
Inter Ocean
Her Good Business Head
A Brooklyn Engle quip praises a woman with a shrewd business mind who matches a marriage proposal with a telegraphy decision. She wires a formal yes to Harold, avoiding telegraph charges and showing practical wit.
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Europe
Brooklyn
Engle
Old Friends Prunes Joke From Ohio State Journal
A humorous exchange about prunes on a dining table evokes the saying that they have been on the table so long they seem like old friends. The exchange features a star boarder and a new boarder in a kitchen setting.
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Ohio State Journal
Suburban Hades? A commuter’s wry heaven analogy
A brisk witticism frames the commuter’s view that hades is a suburb of heaven. The remark blends humor with urban travel frustration and a reflective contrast between city life and blissful aspiration.
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Hades
Heaven
Indiana Incidents and Local Accidents Recap
Fairmount man dies after headache patent medicine. Coroner reports death due to heart depressant effects. Blacksmith shop accident in Liberty damages forge, injures workers, a flying cylinder piece holes roof. Mail carrier Oscar Working gains approval to use automobile on rural route No. 2 from Slagerstown boosting delivery efficiency.
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Joseph Hane
Fates Mount
Whitson
Isis
Westmaster General
Oscar Works Ing
Slagerstown
Mr. Working
Oscar Working
80 Year Old Woman Survives Trance Recovery At La Porte
Mrs Polly Austin, 80, who collapsed Monday night in La Porte and was thought dead, regained consciousness and says she remained fully aware during the seizure. She could hear relatives' grief but could not move. Doctors in Northern Indiana note the unusual recovery.
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Polly Austin
la Porte
Austin
Indiana
Woman Burned to Death in Lawrenceport Fire
Miss Nellie Grant aged 25 burned to death at her grandmother Mrs. Virginia Bullit’s home in Lawrenceport. She went to the barn for eggs and returned screaming with clothes ablaze as the barn caught fire. She died shortly afterward. daughter of a prominent New Orleans lawyer, visiting her grandmother.
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Nellie Grant
Virginia Bullit
Lawrenceport
Miss Grane
New Orleans
Runaway Horse Dragging Injures Two Women at Stinesville
Mrs. Rachel Williams and Miss Nora Wyble fell from a frightened horse on a steep hill in Stinesville. Williams was dragged by the wheel and badly cut with likely fatal injuries, while Wyble sustained serious injuries but is expected to recover. Williams had endured a prior family tragedy including her husband’s death in an explosion and her brother’s death by lightning.
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Miss Traill
House of Fear
Rachel Williams
Nora Wyble
Stinesville
Youth Leader Sentenced in Larceny Ring
Peter Sabaski aged 18 appeared before Judge Richter at La Porte and drew an indeterminate sentence to the Jeffersonville reformatory for larceny. Sabaski led a band of youths aged 14 to 18 plundering farmer homes for months.
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Peter Sabaski
Richter
la Porte
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Sabaski
Freak Lightning Strikes Bellsville Wagon Shed
A Tuesday storm caused a lightning strike on Oscar Lackay’s wagon shed in Bellsville. The bolt damaged the shed and, peculiarly, removed a wagon wheel and rolled the wagon entirely out of the shed.
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Oscar Lackay
Bellsville
Wrecks and Tragedies Reported at Multiple Rail Incidents
A Greencastle wreck on eastbound freight No. 96 toppled four coal cars near Lena, killing engineman W. F. Killlifer as the engine overturned. Fast Mail No. 11 collided with a freight in Indianapolis yards, injuring three and demolishing several cars. Clarence Kerring died instantly after his head was crushed by a traction flywheel. At Robinson's circus in Madison, the tent collapsed at showtime, causing injuries in the panic.
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Greencastle
Big Four Railroad
Lena
W. F. Killlifer
Pennsylvania
New York
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Vincennes
Clarence Kerring
Spartansburg
Robinson
Madison
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Gray
Robert Estes Durand
Lorn Abbey
Miss Iope
Miss Edwards
Flope
Panny Edwards
Fairmount
State News
Blacksamith
Mronk Fosdick
Fred Lehweikere
Fosdick
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