One Night In the Car and a Chorus Girl’s Dream
Beatrice travels by train to an opening night with a chorus company. She learns the harsh realities of touring life from married performer Miss Stil lings and other chorus mates. Ben Streator unexpectedly joins the trip to offer a safer home, and Beatrice realizes one night in the car is enough.
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Beatrice
Ferry House
Hall of Fame
Ben
Ratsey
Miss Faber
Miss Stilflings
New York
Dramatic
Ben Streator
Stillings
Miss Stlings
Miss Stillings
Edna May
Washington
Mr. Ratsey
Typist Pays Performance Compliment in Coffee Spelling
An interior state customer praised the speed of a Philadelphia typist who helped rewrite his letter. He cautioned that the young woman misspelled a word coffee and asked the writer to gently convey the tip to improve her spelling for advancement.
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Philadelphia
Fragmented prose on distinctions and the little storyteller
A murky passage recalls distinctions without clarity, mentioning a stall pion and sparking wrath. A beleaguered figure laments discrimination and a lack of respect, noting he was called a mere storyteller while recounting a long quarrel and the sense of grievance.
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Success Magazine
Man Fined and Bound to Keep Peace for Wife
A poor laboring man was fined and bound over to keep the peace for six months for his quarrelsome wife. The note hints magisterial pressure secured the mandate, a curious outcome traced by the Westminster Review.
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Westminster Review
Frosted silage experiments favor longer growth over frost risk
The Vermont experiment compared unfrosted and variously frosted corn in a single field. Cows fed with mature silage ate more dry matter, while silage from frozen corn slightly reduced milk fat and solids yields. Overall frosting slightly lowers feeding value, but longer growth may justify frost risks for higher total dry matter.
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Vermont
Winter Work on Farms and the plowing debate
The piece argues for consistent winter and other-season farm work on southern Georgia farms. It notes long-standing debates about fall versus spring plowing, concludes deep plowing in good soil is beneficial, and warns spring plowing often harms when subsoil is too wet.
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Georgia
Farmers Privilege to Grow All We Need Says Secretary Wilson
In 1906 farmers produced sugar beets totaling 83,000 tons and 272,000 tons of cane sugar in Louisiana and Texas, enough to supply the population west of the Mississippi. In 1906 rice output reached 800,000,000 pounds, ample for home demand. Secretary Wilson states farmers may grow all that soils will yield.
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Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi River
Wilson
Hanging a Hog Hog Hanger A Farm Press device for butchering
A farm device called a hog hanger uses two 10 ft and one 12 ft 2 by 4s to form a frame with a brace to support hanging hogs. It holds two hogs if brets are used, and can hang a 500 pound hog with one person.
Land for Asparagus Preparation Tip for Growers
In preparing land for asparagus or rhubarb it should be plowed deep and heavily manured in the fall in order to be ready next spring, sides a grower.
Granite as Earth's bedrock and lifeless nature
The piece reflects on granite as the world’s bedrock, noting its extreme thickness and absence of visible life in its layers. It contrasts noisy conversation with a phone error and ends with a Chicago Tribune snip about geology and life absence in granite.
The Woman Who Disappeared on Chiloe Island
The captain Bennetts wife vanishes during a refit on Chiloe Island off Chile after spending time ashore with the captain. A thorough two week search by the crew fails to locate any trace, leaving the mystery unsolved with the captain aged and exhausted after months of fruitless digging.
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C. Parcells
Valdivia
Santiago
Chiloe Island
Chile
London
Bennett
Briers
Chloe Island
M. Quat
New York Life as Tragic Minuet in Pall Mall Gazette
Cor. Pall Mall Gazette compares life in New York to a tragic minuet a religious can can and a madhouse blend of common sense and lunacy dignity and folly poetry and outrage against beauty in a sharp cultural critique.
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New York
Pall Mall Gazette
A Domestic Debate Over the Servant Girl Question
A fragment titled A Domestic Debate discusses Mrs Clubleigh staying home and the servant girl issue. The piece appears in Cleveland Phatn Pewter and hints at social expectations within a club setting. Entities include Mrs Clubleigh and the club, with a focus on domestic roles.
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Clubleigh
Cale
Cleveland Phatn Pewter
How to Clean Gloves and Preserve Shoes
Advice on glove care covers chamois leather black kid white and light kid gloves with methods for washing shrinking, oils, benzine, or professional cleaning. It also recommends vaseline as a shoe leather preservative and a trick using oats to keep shoes from losing shape.
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New York Globe
How to Clean White Leather
A traditional cleaning method uses alum mixed with pipe clay to brighten white or pale leather. Dip an old handkerchief in the mixture and rub in a rotary motion over the leather to lift dirt. Repeat on opera or purse bags made of soft kid until the original color returns.
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Ana
Isiity
Central
Chicaguy Tribune
People’s Column
L. K. Munn
Stephenson Street
Court House
Bradshaw
Satnry
P.m. C. F. Raming
Olifton Hotel
U. S. Army
Cuba
First St. Dixon
West State St
Rockford
New York St
Aurora
State
Chicago
State St
Lnaulre
O. B. Kiting
Exchange St
H. J. Porter
B. F. Brubaker
Spring St. S
No. Foley Street
Freeport
Karoline Garter Estate
Fleury
Witte
Crood Building
Snyder Gros
Orangeville
Giltede
Stearns & Alpe
Good Plain
South City
J. He, Young
J. M
Meee New
Mal Wo
Red Cross
Bruwer
New Cook
Ida Hueckemeter
Pleasant St
New
OM Salek
City Broke
Portland
Wolf
Douglas Avenue
Stephenson Bt
Entiry House
Stephenson
Maquire
Cgalenow Ave
A. L. Babcock
High St
Broadway
PLA
Schulz
Bath
Stephenson and
Adams Sts
Brown & Shower
Clifton Hotel
Fruit Street
Pnaubre
Carroll Street
Asule
Metropole
Pourlasave
Pathan Furnace
Douglas Ave
OREN
City Hall
Cirace Cburch
Prospect Tero
Teave
Journal
Clark Leave
High Street
E- Ward
Freeport Loan Co
Room
C. G. Schoeffel’s
Galena St
Our Country
C. G. Schoeffel
Freeport Gas Light & Goke Co
Santos
Japan
Burrell Brothers
Stephenson St
Armour’s Shield
F. A. Schulz
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