A Farmer’s Daughter. Miss Alton’s Confession at Endon Vale
In a society gathering Winifred Eyre navigates flirting, rifts, and rivalries as Col d Aguilar and Mr Clayton circle her. Fee reveals a doomed love for Clayton while Champion plots to obstruct Winifred’s happiness. Col d Aguilar confronts the emptiness of Hastings’s departure and leaves Endon Vale, as the delicate power balance among Grace, Alton, and Eyre tightens.
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Champion
Lord Harold
Winifred
Miss Champion
Lady Grace
Hurst
Grandpapa
Miss Alton
Miss Eyre
Sir Clayton
Misa Alton
Mr. Clayton
Miss Jon
Lord Har
Wini
Clayton
Fred
Col. d'Aguilar
Col. d’ Aguilar
Col. d ° Aguilar
Eyre
Col. d’Aguilar
Misa Eyre
Alfred
Mission
Flora Champion
Harold Erakine
Grace
Mr. Hastings
Miss Stee
Vance
Wisitred
Hazell Woods
Col
A’ Aguilar
Capt. Culloden
Grace Farquhar
Arthur le Marchant
Hazell Court
Hastings
Reginald Champion
Constantinople
England
Harold Erskine
Francia Clayton
Erskine
d’Aguilar
Col d’Aguilar
Endon Vale
Fee’s miserable choice shocks Winifred at Winifred’s door
Fee admits she will marry Mr Clayton despite hating herself. Winifred urges her to reconsider, noting the match would not bring happiness without true affection. Fee insists, clinging to wealth and status, while Winifred mourns her friend’s lost happiness and the frivolous path she faces.
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Fee
Winifred
Mr. Clayton
Miss Alton
d’Aguilar
Insect Vandals and Their Marching Army Ants
A vivid account describes tropical army ants described as nasty invaders that sweep through forests in millions. They are led by guards and officers, forage through logs and stones, devour snails, beetles, slugs, and even lizards, birds, and spiders, leaving houses and caves clean after raids.
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Ralna
Plucking Ostrich Feathers Made Simple and Painless
Plucking ostrich feathers is described as straightforward and humane. The process uses a bag over the head, with one keeper holding the bird while another cuts long feathers. Only wing and tail feathers are removed, while short feathers are pulled as they would fall naturally. Care is taken to protect the feather roots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Endeavor World
Glory of the Graduation Girl Essay Delivers Hope and Pride
Des Moines News reflects on a graduate reading her commencement essay. It celebrates a daughter’s hopeful vision and the parents who shaped her, noting the ache of departure and the quiet joy of parental faith. The piece contrasts rosy beginnings with later realities, praising the ceremony’s meaning.
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Ufe
Des Moines News
Fort Washington as Historic Stronghold Through Time
A Washington historian argues Fort Washington site was a prehistoric stronghold, used by Piscataway and other tribes before Europeans. The article notes Indian defense value, Calvert’s arrival, and later archeological finds of stone tools during bluff-top leveling for a parade ground. It cites Hulbert on buffalo paths shaping historic routes and rail corridors.
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Everal
Washington
Columbia Historical Society
Lord Cecil Calvert
Potomac
Maryland
Fort Washington
Calvert
Lord Calvert
Potomac River
Columbus
Archer Butler Hulbert
America
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio
Cleveland
Terminal and Valley
Wabash
Grafton
Parkersburg
W. Va
Oldest Justice of the Peace Daniel Shaw Near 70 Years Service
Daniel Shaw of Kingsbury Indiana has served as La Porte County justice of the peace for over sixty years and is elected to serve until 1908. Born in 1814 in Washington County he first held court under a tree near Kingsbury and refused forty acres offered in Chicago in 1887.
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Daniel Shaw
Kingsbury
Ind
Laporte County
Shaw
Washington County
Far West
Laporte
Chicago
Potter's Fatherly Counsel on Compromise
Mr Potter advises his son on handling differences with Margaret by choosing to compromise with a good grace, in his most judicial tone. The exchange presents a light domestic lesson on managing disagreements and the value of flexible agreement.
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Potter
Conversation Reveals a Long Marriage Compromise
A father recounts a quarrel with his wife from thirty years ago over a choice of vacation. He favored Saratoga for six weeks whereas she preferred Canada. They compromised by spending five and a half weeks in Canada and a long weekend in Saratoga.
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Mr. Potter
Saratoga
Canada
The Boy and the Farm Teach Honesty and Work
A 19th or early 20th century exhortation urges teachers and farmers to keep youth on the farm, valuing farm labor alongside college education. It argues better schools churches and society result, with educated farm youth maintaining farm books and lending town intelligence. It advocates fewer urban departures by farm youths.
Opinion on furnishings cited by Nurithh and Kander
The Philadelphia Press quotes Nurithh and Kander touring a new house as they discuss furnishings with dry wit. An Irish philosopher is cited with the saying about keeping one's head above water and not letting grass grow under your feet.
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Nurithh
Kander
Philadelphia
Printing and science notes mix with distant signs
The text blends observations of an afternoon aurora and advances in printing with calls for eye strain remedies and crude notes on animal senses. It also recounts ancient coin findings and vivid passages on marriage markets and slavery in Egypt, ending with a reflection on a young Arab groom’s gift.
Women of Cairo Revealed as Marine of Veiled Life
A columnist describes Cairo as a study of Eastern women, noting veiled promenades on Mansky Mohammed Ali Street, accompanied by eunuchs and limited education. The piece contrasts Arab and Coptic communities, highlights gender restrictions, and portrays life as vacuous and burdensome for most women while praising occasional exceptions among the Copta.
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Cairo
Orient
Wones
Mansky
Mohammed-Ali
Boy Wins 1 Percent Royalty From Kipling Stories
A American publisher Mr Doubleday agrees to a child led venture with Rudyard Kipling to create stories like Where the Camel Got His Humph and What the Elephant Put in His Trunk The boy proposes 1 percent royalties for new plots and receives a 5 cent advance The Just So Stories earn him 300 dollars as his first royalty check last Christmas
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Mr. Kipling
Kipling
Russian savant's garment shields against electric shocks
A Russian savant claims to have invented a gauze and brass thread protection suit that deflects electrical current. Wearing the garment, a person can stand between high tension poles with sparks passing across the body to ground. Tests showed 5000 volt exposure and 100 ampere passage without harm, only small holes at contact points visible on the fabric.
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Bng
Piccadilly Rebuke Over Dirty Hands
A London Express report recalls a gentlemanly rebuke as a thief attempted to lift valuables from a Piccadilly clubgoer described as irreproachable. The man seized the thief by the wrist and scolded him to wash his hands before touching a gentleman's pocket.
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Piccadilly
London Express
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Mrs. Forrester
Misa Champion
Marion
Francis Clayton
Justice OF the Peace
Halliburton
Mott
George M. Gould
de Quincy
Carlyle
Browning
W. E. D. Scott
Princeton University
Florida
Flobert
F. Werner
Vienna
Virginia
Alexandria
Egypt
Dunnington
University of Virginia
Women OF the Orient
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