Romance in Hightown Ends as Doris Chooses Enders
In a genteel Hightown tale, Frank Enders courts Doris Maxwell after a chance meeting with a stranded stranger. Doris, Clever and worldly, moves through romance with Miss Maxwell guiding events until Enders reveals his long cherished wish to marry her, while Doris Clare nudges their future with a shared fantasy of a hero.
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Wee
Miss Maxwell
Enders
Frank Enders
Frank Miders
Doris Clare
Prince
Wes Vis
Miles
Tin Meelf
Doris
Sam
Doris Maxwell
Ballantrae
Child
Maxwell House
Dorises
Mare
Wes
French teacher given a chapel program invitation
A demure French teacher at a southern college learns not to judge English by casual speech. At supper the college president announced an informal music program in the chapel. He asked Mime. Petit to assist, and she replied I will do my darndest professeur.
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Prenchwoman
Southern College
Parisienne
Petit
Lippincott
Dean's Kidney Pills Back Pain Relief Proves Popular
Freeport readers report prompt relief from backache with Dean's Kidney Pills. Jerry Driscoll of 156 Cherry Street credits the pills for curing back pain, improved kidney secretions, and renewed health after Emmett's drug store sold the product. Sold by all dealers, price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY, sole agents for the United States.
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Freeport
Dean
Jerry Driscoll
Cherry Street
Ill
Emmiett
Foater-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Sey Mork
United
Missionary Training House Planned Near Chicago
The Society of the Divine Word will open a missionary training house at Techny Illinois on February 2 with Rome Propaganda cooperation and Archbishop Quigley support. It will train English speaking missionaries for foreign lands and expects many applications from American youths seeking religious vocation.
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Congregation of the Propaganda At
Rome
Society of the Divine Word
Chicago
Techny
Fathers of the Society of the Divine Word
Francis de Lange
Arnold Janssen
Holland
Quigley
Congregation of the Propaganda
the Society of the Divine Word
America
Germany
St. Joseph's Technical School
Europe
Society For the Education of
Schwab Home Guarded After Death Threat Warning
Chicago January 4 A warning left at the residence of Mrs Henry C Schwab a noted society leader threatens she will die before a party of January 6 The note prompted private detectives to guard the Schwab home and armed guards to patrol all approaches after the couple returned from dinner with friends at a downtown restaurant
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Chicago
Henry c. Schwab
Michigan Avenue
Barbershop Brawl Ends With Razors In Chicago
In Chicago at a barber shop on State Street owners Frank Bean and Frank Poindexter fought each other with razors while about a dozen onlookers watched. Both men suffered injuries. Poindexter was hospitalized and Bean was detained at the station after the brawl ended when Bean collapsed from blood loss.
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Chicago
Jan
Frank Bean
State Street
Poindexter
Loth
St. Luke's Hospital
Boan
Youth dies after party rejections in Freeport
Ralph B. White, 18, son of Lena merchant R M White, killed himself after several girls declined to dance with him at a party. He shot himself in the head, declaring he was tired of life. In Chicago, a jury found Samuel T. Warfield guilty of book swindle, while Willis N. Cooper was acquitted. Warfield faces three years in prison and a $2000 fine for allegedly swindling Mrs. James A. Patten out of $22,700 in a book transaction.
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Evey
Enders
Isabel
Freeport
Ralph B. White
R. MM. White
Lena
Chicago van. d
Willis N. Cooper
Warfield
Cooper
James A. Patten
Board of Trade
Miss Markland
Ire
France
Mikleman
Markland
Professor Mikleman
Nelodunum
Senones
Paris
Professor Mikieman
Nerodunum
Ile
Miss Marland
Express
America
Tie
Couple Perishes From Gas Leak At Cortland Street Home
Chicago residents Alfred Fortunater and wife Alice Fortunater were found dead from asphyxiation due to escaping gas in their home at 620 Cortland Street. Authorities are investigating the incident as a gas leak related death.
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Chicago
Alfred Fortunater
Alice Fortunater
Cortland Street
Illinois Solon Is Missing
Chicago January 4 Christopher Beck Republican representative from the Twenty Third district has disappeared mysteriously in a case baffling local authorities and prompting a broad search effort across his district.
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Llinois Solon
Chicago
Christopher Beck
Rubinstein Advice: Marry, Says Beautiful Seeker
A young woman asked the pianist pals Rubinstein if she should continue her musical studies. After a shy, lackluster audition she asked for guidance. His curt reply was simple: Marry.
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Rubinstein
Herr Rubinstein
Bees Laxative Cough Syrup Advertises Relief
Colds of the season are advertised as quickly relieved by Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. The product claims to ease coughs and colds with a laxative effect, saying it is pleasant to take and best for children. Manufactured by H. J. Meogh and FP Guenther.
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H. J. Meogh
FP. Guenther
Miss Markland's method leads to romance and relics
Miss Markland, eager to marry, engineers a chaotic archaeological saga in France to win Professor Mikleman. She guides digs at Nerodunum, misdirections, a ram’s head discovery, and a Romeward circle of experts, culminating in a wedding near and a flurry of relic bills.
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Miss Markland
Mikieman
Nelodunum
Glovann Cuilttmirt
Jean Gautier
Sallie Mendum
Global curiosities and advances from 1900s era highlights
A collage of world facts notes crops, trades, and tech leaps. Figures include 120000 camel loads of figs yearly, Persian rug demand decline, Mount Rosa telegraph station at 15217 feet, Japan wage life estimates, and a French diet claim. Also covered: US tea imports, tin output, and British war horse scarcity, plus inventions, finance, and colonial notes.
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Mount Rosa
Italy
Japan
United States
Alaska
England
Shanghai
Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago
Sakhalin
Yucatan
Paris
Spain
C. T. Glesentaner
Pasco
Wash
Georgi
Maine
Aroostook County
Findlay
Miami and Wirie
Samos
Mediterranean
Smyrna
Germany
Cortes
Bank of Spain
Humility and Vanity: A Lesson in Self-Knowledge
The text contrasts the humble man who progresses by recognizing his flaws with the vain man who stands still. It emphasizes self knowledge as the driver of improvement and growth, while vanity inhibits movement.
Mule of Auto Etiquette
The Chicage Record-Herald notes a gentlemanly standard condemning driving another man’s car into the country and wrecking it beyond repair rather than taking it to a repair shop.
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Chicave Record-Herald
New Inventions Spur Navy Torpedo Test and Kitchen Pan
A torpedo under navy testing bores into hulls before exploding. A roasting pan with a percolator baster mixes juices and sprays them over meat, patented. A roller skate with a fifth wheel under the toe rises slightly and rotates to aid figures and sudden stops.
Theatrical News and Egyptian Excavation Updates
Foln La Follette engaged for Cleveland stock company. Sam Bernard considers vaudeville if no satisfactory play found. Harold Le Roy appears as son of William Pruette in Algerie. Maugham finished Every Woman for Marie Tempest with Mary Mannering to appear. Prof Schiaparelli leads Egypt expedition near Azin with 200 Egyptians at work and many funeral objects unearthed. Wood carvings of effigies found in burial sites.
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Foln ‘la Follette
Cleveland
Sam Bernard
William Pruette
Harold le Roy
W. Somerset Maugham
Maywright
Marie Tempest
Mary Mannering
Schiaparelli
Egypt
Azin
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