Complex 17th Century Court Intrigue and Secret Wills
In a Tudor era scene Clarence Harleigh plots to influence Alice Dale’s fortune while rival Gilbert Falkland returns from America with lands as Charles I observes a royal court. A mysterious will dated 1656 resurfaces, suggesting a bridge between past and present motives. Buckingham and Jermyn question Harleigh’s loyalties as tensions rise over a gem from Alice.
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Dermont
Mildred
Alice
Harleigh
Owiz
Alice Dale
Clarence Harteigh
England
Clarence Harleigh
Hochester
Buckhurst
Harry Jermyn
Duke of Buckingham
Charles 1
Harry
Cam
Tnrheigh
Tom
Margery
Charles
Buckingham
George
Speedyfoot
Hendrick Dykes
Hendrick
Gilbert Falkland
Valklund
Merry England
United Kingdoms
Falkland
Killigrew
Golconda
Mildred Dacres
Harteigh
Pralkland
Gt Lingard’s
America
Markland
Toever
Deaties of
Windsor
Veter Tely’x Pene
Casthanalne
Vly
Parkland
Nathan Walworth
Earl of Arran
Cromwell
Burlington
Wiltshire
Arran
Theo
Old Burlington
Alice Date
Jover
Gilbert
Marleigh
Auto for Farms Promises Horsepower Substitute
Inventor William F. Crowley of Holly, Powers County, Col., unveils a novel motorized farm vehicle that may replace horse labor. The machine, gasoline or electric powered, handles plowing, cultivating, weed planting, and harvesting with wheels steering independently, enabling tight turns and overcoming ruts. A 15 horsepower model reportedly costs about 75 cents a day to operate, with a rotating plow attachment touted as a major improvement.
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Crowley
William F. Crowley
Holly
Powers County
Col
Hornes
Seasick Confessions From a Lunch Room Conversation
The Lunch Room Conversationalist and four others discuss seasickness and honesty about it. A couple shares a coastwise Baltimore to New York voyage tale illustrating how even confident travelers can succumb to nausea amid heavy seas.
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Airee
Baltimore
New York
Alek
Chesapeake
Strange Sights Amid Philippines Service Moral Fable
A soldier in the Philippines writes home about odd sights at a church service held for visiting troops. An image of a saint bore an eagle above and a banner reading The Old Hellable Condensed Milk, copied by an artist from a milk can. The artist claimed it as an American motto under the cage.
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Philippines
Woodpeckers Redefined as Useful Farm Birds
Long dismissed as pests, woodpeckers are now recognized as valuable to farmers. The flicker hunts ants, sapsucker benefits maple wood, and the downy woodpecker controls woolly aphis on apple trees, improving orchard health. Frank Bolles highlighted these changes in status and urged farmers to protect the birds.
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Frank Bolles
Will by Phonograph Ends in Wax Verdict
A wealthy engineer dictated his will into a phonograph and used a hot copper wire to sign the wax roll with witnesses. the arrangement is reported as a completed document. In Baden Germany a bumper apple crop required soldiers to help harvest. A saying about marriage hints at a woman’s belief she loses her freedom upon wedding.
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Baden
Germany
Empress Lugenle and Fashion's Lost Shoes
A fragmentary passage recalls Empress Lugenle as fashion leader who gave her small shoes and gloves to orphans at Eu genic Napoleon Asylum. It also touches on Chicago’s proposals with China and a joke about a colonel in a battle, plus a note on students learning English and German.
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Faanion
Lugenle
Eugenic Napoleon Asylum
Beds Scarce in Russia Highlight 19th Century Living
The item notes a widespread lack of beds in Russia with the wealthy at times lacking beds, peasants sleeping on oven tops, and soldiers using wooden cots. It mentions bedding first appearing for students in schools in recent years, and ends with a quotation on learning and ignorance.
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Russia
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Hin Jong
Tirutus
Philadelphia Press
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Minx
Arthur
Bette
Bérom
Jtwa
Washington Post
Bobby
United States
Peruna
NeRoach
North Dakotm
W.N. Rach
Univd States
North Dakota
Perni
Perua Medicine Company
Coumbus
Ohio
Washington, D. C
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Catarsh
W. N.roach
Larimore
North di Ote
Ed J. Makinson
God Onshier
Grand Block
Wilbash
St. Paul, Minn
Me. J. Noakingon
Perana
Perupa
J. Makinson
Hartman
Feruna
Perona
Byron J. Kirkhoff
Brooklyn
B. J. Kitenok
Byron J. Kirkbuff
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Hartman Sanitudum
Colombus
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Alberta
W. Pedhey
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Ottawa
N. Bartholomew
Maines
Iowa
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Oath Dakota
W. V. Bennett
Omaha
Neb
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Tremont
Soun A
Salter Gerdoo
Bratantgn
Chicago
Jinx
China
Cleveland Plain
Jeremy Taylor
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