Panama Hat Rummage Sale Turns on Hidden Treasure
In a small town tale a bachelor brother hides a Panama hat worth $250 in a church rummage sale stash. The sister discovers the hat amid other odds and ends while organizing a church fundraiser. A comic, local-radio style moment unfolds as the man explains the hat’s true value and origin.
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Agentienin
Unita
South Anwilow
Tle
Washinton Piace
Liggange
Carlos
Brie
Jack
Mativ
Jim
Chete
Chaptelor
Nwateter
Panama
Rio Janeiro
Minnister
Washington
What Constitutes Ideal Citizenship in Moral Life
A long meditation on ideal citizenship argues that true citizenship combines moral law observance and spiritual energy shaping public and private life. It envisions a society guided by justice, charity, and loyalty to Christ's command to treat others as we wish to be treated, with universal welfare and ethical governance.
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Chews Ty Bilte
Manny
Eolentiat
Liman Oatire
Commonwealth
Jnet
Mught
Yale
Luxuelos
Agalnot
Octuplex Telegraph System Tested Between Hamburg and Frankfort
The Horla l Telegraph Department of Gur iy experiments on the octuples typographic telegraphy system, credited to Prof. Rowland of Johne Hopath University, aims to double output to 16 000 words per hour over a single wire between Hamburg and Frankfort, surpassing Hughes system’s 2 200 words. The apparatus resembles a typewriter. each key press sends a letter and the receiver prints on paper for mail delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horal Telegraph Department
Gur Iy
Rowland
Johne Hopath University
Hamburg
Frankfort
Hughes
Huelin
Wireless Politics Are To Be Desired
A fragmentary notice discusses wireless politics, noting a group calling themselves a faction planned to run a political machine for personal gain. A wise person supposedly cut their wires, thwarting selfish aims and benefiting the people according to the terse, period-tinged language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wietane
Ayoa Tien
More Valuable Mr Jas Reading Dearont Divorce Impere
A cryptic note on marriage and divorce themes contrasts value and deceit. It references Mr Jas and Mr Bites in a Victorian style, hinting at social satire and clever wordplay in a period publication.
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Jas
King Humbert's Widow a Pilgrim
Marguerite widow of King Humbert of Italy plans an early pilgrimage to the Holy Land after recovering from a dangerous surgery. She renews her vow to endure fatigue for the journey and prepared by training with the Duchess ofyeona and a sea voyage aboard the Marco Polo. The Bulletin, 75 cents per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quiden Marguerite
Humbert Ot Taly
Holy Land
Somme
Abe Eam
Blelly
Court Gonely
Jornwalen
Bribery Charged to the Sugar Trust in Washington
A Treasury inquiry opens to assess if money paid to customhouse inspectors by the Sugar Refining Company indicates a possible pretense for favorable treatment. H.C. Corsa, of New York’s apparel department, is noted in the probe without claims of government defrauding.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
H.C. Corsa
Appratners’ Department Astriet
New York
American Sigar Refioing Company
Corea
Tivfamily
The Poet to His Wife in Smart Set
A fragmentary verse note from a writer nicknamed Munklttrick appears in Smart Set. The lines reference a lover’s message, a postman, and a gilded dawn, with imagery of rose and thorn and a call to Imogene as a goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imogene
Munklttrick
A Traveller's Mistake In Not Staying Awake
A Western stage coach tale recalls Bret Harte and a near fatal lapse in sleep on a stormy night. The narrator shares how a fellow passenger, an alert driver, and a carved card from Francis Brethar intersect during a perilous journey across snowbound mountains, ending with a mysterious long‑ago signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bret Harte
Col. W. F. Cody
California
Xoclante
Hit
Akaxe
Maida
Ducal
Francis Brethar
Klaas
Los Angeles
New York Herald
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James O'Harra
Somerstown, N. Y
Hobron Drug Company
Mgr. M. J. Mooney
Arcunalup
Pendiie
Reme
Mer
Paring
Mgr. Md. Moonny
Provinen
Epiritmaliy van
Humbert
the Bulletin
Henry H. Williams
Honolulu
Lane Bros
Beretanta
Richard
Sugar Trust
Hostetter
Rosemary Sartoris
Rosmitary Sartoriy
Mia
Nettle Grant Bareloriy
General Grant
Finglistiing
Kilviers
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