Bound by a Spell Chapter VI Continued
A continuing tale shows Silas Carston tormented by Judith Porter and Mr Porter’s coercive control. The desperate prisoner endures insomnia, fear, and dreams while Judith jealously desecrates his agency, plotting a cruel marriage to seal her power over him.
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Martha
Avill
Minkey
Mr. Porter
Judith Porter
T Lind
Tayas
Rodwell
Lamb
Keither
Mrs. Humphries
Judith
Diett
Lahuddereh
Silas Carston
Flower doctor tours streets offering plant care in novelty scheme
A man with horticultural skill rents a curious niche by treating faded house plants displayed in windows. He offers to revive them with minimal work, charges 10 to 15 cents per visit, and often tends up to twenty lots a day, earning meals and lodging from the roadside enterprise.
Fairbanks Early Years at Ohio Wesleyan University
A brief sketch notes young Fairbanks saving 41 by 16, entering Ohio Wesleyan University, earning 1.25 a day carpentry work, borrowing trousers, and sending for a mother made pair. He balanced college work with harvest labor and graduated at 20, then at 22 joined the Supreme Court of Ohio and moved to Indianapolis.
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Itady
Supreme Court of Ohio
Indianapolis
Leslie
War era misquotes and patriotic quips in a rural paper
A clipped notice quotes oblique lines about Korea, the republic of Virunga, and postwar recognition. A Woman's Home Companion quip praises modest pride, while a Groville remark notes a proud man hides pride when ill. The fragment resembles a brief syndicated item in a small paper.
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Korea
Virunga
The Way to School by a Blooming Path
A poem excerpt describes a school journey through a vivid landscape. The path winds between vineyard blooms and orchard gloom, passing hollyhocks minty dawns and bramble roses. Locust shade, streams, and fragrant plants accompany youth to daily seats, closing a page of Nature’s fairest book.
Robbing the Mail Brings Old Driver and Lover to Confrontation
Simon Merridew, a forty year mail carrier between Therbridge Junction and Culverton, thwarts a masked robber who robs a Culverton mail bag. The masked attacker is Edward Royston, who reveals love for Merridew’s daughter Margery. The letter intended to break their engagement is found as the men collide. the robber is unmasked and the pair reconcile, plans for a future letter remain.
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Simon Merridew
Therbridge Junction
Culverton
Royston & Son
Jim
Aus
Simon Logan
Boyston
Royston, Jr
Simon
Margery Meriden
Margery
Royston
Néhnnee
Calverton Mall
Tie
Wno
Roystons
Mr. Merridew
Dulverton
Edward Royston
Indianapolis Sun
Yawning as Remedy for Disease Advocated by Doctors
Physicians advocate yawning six to seven times daily as a cure for colds throat and earache noting that jaw and chest muscles strengthen during a yawn and even the ear membranes stretch. The practice should be private and is seen as beneficial though some may doubt its efficacy.
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Nananl
Wage and living costs report from the Labor Bureau
The eighteenth annual Labor Bureau report details wage increases across 519 occupations in 3,424 establishments, showing a 16.6 percent rise. It also analyzes cost of living for families under $1,200 income, based on 2,507 households in 33 states, with average family size 6.81 and yearly income 827 dollars. Food dominates expenditures at 42.54 percent, followed by rent and clothing.
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Carroll D. Wright
Cambussioner
Labor Bureau
Bureau
Rhodes Scholar Winner From Kansas Named YQ
W Murray of Lawrence Kansas has been chosen as one of the Rhodes scholarship winners at Oxford. The notice highlights the selection among a slate of finalists and notes the prestige attached to the award and its international academic implications.
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Lawrence
Kan
Oxford
Henry
Crocker
Charles Crocker
San Francisco
Lambert Niehaus
St Louis
Thomas Fluegel
Dee
Lang
Niehaus
San Francisco Bulletin
Golden Gate Park
Henry ‘Leyis
Jote Lloyd Tevis
French Academy of Science
Alfred Notinex
University of Louvain
Reviow
Elai Wystem
United Btatom
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Prom
Lena
Silas
Marthe
Las
Litte Tiethiehem
Elyll
Groville
A&awn Covsin
Blin
Interstate Commerce Commission
Denison Light and Power Company
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
McAlester
Denison
Bayou Sara
St. Louis
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Illinois Central Railway
G. M. Barrow
Sargent
United States
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
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