A Crown of Faith Omaption in Abbotshold Inn
In the ghostly abbey town of Abbotshold the Black Wolf Inn hosts two young men, Lionel Leigh the penniless language tutor and aristocrat Barrington Darrington, as a stormy dinner unfolds. Darrington plots to elope with Jenny Wilkinson for her thirty thousand a year fortune, while Lionel contemplates family mystery and a hidden cupboard after a night of uncanny coughs and a vanished room door.
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Abbotshold
Ann Agricuttary
Joby Clayton
Claytons
Lionel Leigh
Lionel
Clayton
Mr. Darrington
Barrington
St. Martha's College
Woolmaneete
Jenny Wilkinson
Jenny
Hammersmith
Misa
Jenoy
Govarpens
Miss Tabitha
Madamoisens le Blanche
Midlands
Les
Jane
Slo la
Tilonel
Black Wolf
Woodmancote
Otis
Thia Old House
Inez
Bat Tsonel
Lioriel
Tonel
Lettering quirks and comic misreadings in rural speech
Excerpt discusses curious spellings and misheard phrases across regions including Ireland Scotland and the colonies. It notes variation in dropping the h, cites a village pastor and a parishioner, and ends with a jest about life of serapes and a barber shop postition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkshire
Scotland
Ireland
Winland
Haw
Vilage
Serapes
That Settled 14 Stern Parent Nollie Say Smoking Races
A fragment from a Baltimore American item notes a stern parent declaring strict rules about behavior. The text emphasizes avoiding smoking drinking late nights and gambling, reflecting a moralizing wartime or reform tone.
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Stern
Nollie
Baltimore
Fattening Hogs With Simple Diet and Care
Practical notes on economical hog fattening using varied root vegetables and clover hay fed in stages, with warm morning slops and noon raw roots, plus evening slops to finish quickly before cold weather. Emphasis on regular meals, limited exercise, and slaughter timing once cold sets in. Also brief items on pasture cultivation, spraying for blight, breeding quality, and moult by hand debates.
The Poor Farmer and Outdoor Brooders at Model Farm
A composite feature from Tribune Farmer and Denver Meld and Farm discusses Bolton Hall a 68 year old lawyer and farmer activist praising intensive vegetable yields on small plots, and contrasts poor urban youth with farm boys training moral resolve. It describes outdoor brooders, brooder coops, and vast markets sending two pound chicks to refrigerator cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolton Hall
John Hall
Presbyterian Church
Denver
Model Farm
Tribune
Royal Dowry Tradition for Maids of Honour
A long standing court custom binds maids of honour to receive a royal dowry of £1000 on their wedding day. The tradition links court proximity with access to highly eligible suitors, reinforcing marriage prospects for these royal attendants.
Panama Canal construction to accelerate next year
Congressman James A. Tawney of Minnesota and seventeen committee members say canal work will proceed rapidly with 32 million dollars in construction funding. They predict completion by December 31, 1914, noting favorable conditions and better pay for workers. The report follows bank easing and shifts toward a cash basis, with ongoing concern over postal, military, and whisky enforcement policies.
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Gaesa
Angel
Panama Canal
James A. Trawney
Minnesota
Committee On Appropriations
Panama
United States
New York
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Fairyland
Mia
PFARM
H. D. van Sant
Kingston
Toronto
Far West
W. R. Gilbert
Wall Street
Cortelyou
Chicago
Borough Bank of Brooklyn
Financial House
Atehison
Topeka
Santa Fe
St. Louis
San Francisco
Missouri Pacific
Postofice Department
Thomas T. Love Lng
Fort Wadsworth
New York Harbor
War Department
Blyen
United States Armly Balloon Corps
Amartcan Zemtnties
Stoot
Creal
Mexico
Washington
Rout
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