Mystery at the station as a stranger aids a frightened woman
A late arriving young man helps a frightened stranger emerge from a tunnel side by side to a carriage. She hides her name and past mentions as he plans to shelter her at a hotel while a dinner engagement and social ties complicate the rescue. The scene shifts to his home life as he improvises a cover story and searches for appropriate attire to escort her to safety while avoiding a domestic scandal. The tale ends with a setup for a continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soven
Fameura
Slater
Tam
Ciatrena
Miss Dunham
Mr. Dunham
Cornelia
Mia. Bowman
Mother
Chestnut Hill
Engagement Announced After Restraint of Trade Quip
In a Harper's Weekly style scene Chollie faces his father after being thrown out. He jokes about indicting him for assault and battery and reframes it as restraint of trade regarding an engagement with the daughter. The father relents and the engagement is announced the next day.
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Carrie Chapman Catt
Budapest
Minneapolis
Senate Committee
Progress
Chollie
Harper’s Weekly
War and the Fall of French Stature in Youth
A 19th century analysis notes French male height declined after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Kellogg cites data showing birth cohorts from 1792-1802 and later years born during empires aged into the 1830s and 1840s with no inherited stature gain. It reflects a population scarred by war and strain on reproduction. A Swedish band leader Miss Soller leads in Philadelphia, daughter of Vladimir Soller, famed Europe bandmaster, known for strict discipline and a life on stage since age five with a claim of no childhood toy.
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France
Vernon L. Kellogg
Atlantic Monthly
Miss Soller
Philadelphia
Vladimir Soller
Europe
Sweden
Straw and sheep and water needs in farm life
A dense, era style farming digest on livestock care and farm practice. It covers feeding and watering dairy cattle, hogs, poultry and turkeys. handling horses. pasture and crop choices. barn hygiene. dehorning calves. orchard care. and seasonal tasks to improve milk, meat, and crop yields. It stresses humane, efficient management, road and school links, and value of proper stock care for profitability.
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Mary G
Grace Livingston
Marcia Schuyler
Tryon Dunham
Misa Mayo
Mids Mayo
Miss Remington
Cornelia Dunham
Madame Dolard's
Madame’a
Atock
Warner Water
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