The Commuter and the Town Clock Mystery
A New York Evening Sun story recounts Jones the commuter and three colleagues who meet a mysterious stranger aboard a moving train. The stranger reveals Backville’s town clock fell behind, causing days to slow and people to misdate events, ending with his denunciation and banishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Jimson
Harkins
A. Billington Harkins
Backville
Conn
Winder
Senite IU
Washington
New York
Farmers Should Apply Business Principles To Production
The text argues farming profits come from underdraining and maximizing soil fertility while aligning crops with the farm’s best productive capacity. It warns against sticking to rut-based systems and emphasizes reducing production costs and improving management to raise profit across rotations. It also notes flavor factors in dairy and poultry observations, plus a humorous aside and a note on Hudson Palisades preservation interest in New York.
Ocean liner gossip tops all in travel tales on board
A traveling merchant laments the shipboard social divide where gossip spreads faster than in a women's club. He notes passenger castes form within three hours, people pry into others lives, and seasick sufferers become quiet targets. The only escapes are stories and light drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
The Dying Art of Quill Cutting in Schooldays
The author recalls the waning use of quills as steel pens rose. A skilled first teacher cut quills with flourishes, boasting he could ornament a page with name age date and bird silhouettes. Later masters struggled to cut or use quills, marking the decline of this craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike
Women Farm Workers Hold Ground in Midwest Agriculture
The article notes about 5 000 of Kansas 17 000 farmers are women and similar shares exist in Oklahoma. Women work daily in fields or manage hired help, reflecting growing involvement at dairy schools and agricultural meetings as they become successful in mixed farming or specialties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Oklahoma
Rhode Island College Concludes Six Week Poultry Course
Rhode Island State Agricultural College completes a six weeks poultry culture course with twenty three students. Faculty and specialists lecture and judge breeds to decide the best type in a final discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhode Island State Agricultural College
Continued Book Sale Offers Six for Fifty Cents
Our sale extends one week with a larger selection of standard authors. Readable list includes classics from Hardy, Haggard, Collins, Dumas, Kipling, Merim, and many more. Prices remain six paper covered books for 50 cents, titles cover romance adventure and literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God and the Man
Robt. Buchannan
Helen B. Mathers
F. Anstey
Miss M
Braddon
Marcy
Camille
Alexander Dumas
Fils
Isabel Carnaby
Ben Thorneycraft
Fowler
Led Astray
Octave Feuillet
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Vicompte de Bragelonne
Jessie Sothergill
Man
Mark
Anthony Hope
Dinah Shadd
Hadyard Kippling
Monte Christo
Young Mistley
Henry Seton Merriman
Lady Audley
Monta Christo
Olive Schreiner
Notra Dame
Wictor Hugo
Emma D
E.N. Southworth
Tadhimaels
Mra. Imma
E. N. Southworth
Henry
Merriman
Hall Caine
Jess
The
Transvaal
TH. Rider Haggard
Inez
Augusta J. Vans
White Company
A. Conan Doulay
Meadowbrook
Mary J. Holmes
Merryman
Frank T. Bullen
R. L. Stevenson
George Kers
Dead Man's Rock
Ana Lyall
Rudyard Kippling
Firm of
Girdlestone
A. Conan Doyle
Gilbert
Alphonse Daudet
Edna Lyall
Mrs. Werker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron
Eric Brighteyes
H. Rider Haggard
Max Pemberton
Wormwood
Marie Corelli
Octave Foullet
Waiting
Ednn Lyall
Mies Milne and
Peate PE Aupe
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Pall Mal
Creamery Journal
Chicago
C. M. Davidson
Reliable Poultry Journal
Grimes
Tufford Kaputt
Maria
Philadelphia
John Billus
Hudson Palisades
the Prince of
J. H. Ingraham
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Beautiful Jim
John Strange Winter
Mildred Trevanion
the Duchess
Ray Blas
Victor Hugo
Coralie’s Son
Albert Depit
Allan Quatermain
H. Hitler Haggard
Frank Barrett
Chris
W. Ee Notrie
Paris
Maris Corelli
Ingomar
Nathan D. Urner
Robt. Louis Stevenson
Leon de Tinseau
Grant Allen
Jules Verne
David C. Murray
Han
Iceland
Sappho
Alphonse Dandet
Robert Louie Stevenson
Jack and
Three Jilla
F. C. Phillips
F.C. Phillips
Bea
W- Clark Russell
Pail Bourse
King of Knive
B. E. Francillon
Bradfield Regulator Company
Atlanta, Ga
Metropolitan National Bank
Continental National Bank
Cago
Deseret National Bank
Salt Kelly
Utah
People's National Bank
Rock Island
Iil
Iowa National Bank
Ottumwa
Iowa
Montgomery Ward & CO
Nelson Morris & CO
Be Beet and Pork Packers
Rosenbaut Bros. & CO
Union
Werner
Webster’s Dictionary
Western
Asia
Europe
Noah Webster
Yacht Club
Fo Alder Giang Far Omaare
the Saalfield Pub. CO
Akron, Ohio
Thompson & Reynolds
Dillon, Montana
Am Hoc
Burlington
Denver
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Louisa
Ogden
Salt Lake City
WI Temple
Salt Lake
Curyy
R. F. Nestex
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