Fragment from Alderbrook farm romance unfolds
Pretty and Langley lure by romance at Alderbrook farm where Alfretta, Serafsrliy and Vernon figures swirl amid engagements and plotted marriages. Pretty resists and accepts Langley’s plea, while Georgina Wortham shapes rival plans as the drama of love and social duty deepens.
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Serafsrliy
Brever
Bren
Johnny
Langley
Alfretta
Wins
Mesia
Slima
Kelving Madden
Zangiey
Alderbrook Farm
Alberetta
Fanp
Susette Barlow
Susette
Pretty
Cilderbrouok
Tapitte
Bsus
Khaut
Luneley
Wortham
Grasmere
Vernon Emykin
Tangiley
Benny’s Sunday School Debut Told by New York Post
A junior Sunday school scholar Benny returns home excitedly as relatives press for details. His mother praises his teacher and Benny’s quick recall of the lesson turns into a humorous exchange about what the teacher said. The lively dialogue ends with a playful mishearing about certificates and a Sunday event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benny
Doc
Denny
Hing
Beany
Aother
Marother
New York Post
Birdlike Laugh Echoes Through Earthquake City
A narrator recalls a country scene with a birdlike laugh from a striking girl, then returns years later to the Golden Gate earthquake. Amid wreckage, the same woman appears with a child, a vision of vitality among disaster, as the narrator contemplates fate and memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qu Eopse
Golden Gate of the West
Berore Day
Tolad
New Thames
Hog House Design For Sanitation And Sunlight
The Winds experiment station outlines a sanitary hog house with sunlit pens and controlled ventilation. The structure is 120 by 50 feet with a central eight foot alley, ten by eleven foot pens, and adjustable upper windows to optimize winter warmth and disease reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hog House
Free Wiggle Stick and Wonder Wax Offer
The Laundry Blue Co offers free Wiggle Stick waxers for flatirons and Wonder Wax for washing clothes through grocers. If a store doesn’t stock them, customers can name the store to receive free packages for trial. Chicago, Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Laundry Blue Co
Chicago
Thinois
Very Low Rates to Dallas via North-Western Line
Low excursion fares to Dallas Texas offered by the North Western line with October 6 and 7 sale days. Return limits favorable and tickets available through Chicago agents of the International Association of Engineers. Apply to line agents for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
North-Western
Ap Account International Association Wre
Chicago & North-Western Ans
Homeseeker
Chicago & North
Western R’y
Order of Knights of Pythias
Illiois Central R. R. Will
New Orleans
Ohio River
Tlinois Central
Fitnell
S. G. Hatch
Chicago
Bananas at Museum Test Visitor Tricks Attendant
A juvenile story at a public museum shows a boy attempting to carry many bananas inside disguised as refuse. He tries to bypass the check, refuses to pay the five cent bag check, and later returns claiming to have discarded the peels while slipping in through the turnstile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Public Museum
Judge’s Magazine
First Shark Poker Tale and the Soft Crab Joke
The dialogue recalls a poker game where three lobsters and a crab are cleared. The first shark notes the lobsters were easy, then asks how the crab was beaten. The second shark confirms the crab’s softness as the reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Notable Victorian Quip Exchange in Famous Tribune
Philadelphia Tress reports a flirtatious banter where Miss Ascum and Miss Crule tease about love, with Miss Crule admitting blue feelings toward Mr Kallow after a rejected advance. The Chicago Tribune cites the scene as a sharp, witty dialogue from Just After the Yes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Ascum
Mr. Kallow
Miss Crule
Philadelphia
The Widower Proposes To Be Family Father
A Chicago Record-Herald snippet quotes a woman seeking a husband with a ready-made family. The widower responds acknowledging his three sons and a daughter who are eager for a mother. The exchange highlights expectations of blended family life.
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Chicago Record- Herald
Guzzler Voices Fairness Complaint Again
The Philadelphia Press notes Guzzler believes he is not being fairly treated and repeats his complaint as he claims recurrent unfairness about ten minute intervals.
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Guzzler
Philadelphia Press
Greatest bachelors mock marriage in witty exchange
A fragment from the Houston Post quotes men who call marriage a flat failure while Iva counters that married couples may live in cottages. The piece also notes that there are no paupers in the Gold Coast Colony and mentions the absence of a lunatic asylum reform institution or poor house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Iva
Bats
Houston Post
Gold Coast
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By Nancy Hazlitt
Ihde
Peetty
Tie
Prem Vernon
Vernon
Georging Wortham
Dalbvars
Georging
Mortiardown
Lerps
Winslow
Georema
Vouthar
Cousin Langley
Tommy Cartwell
Ngain
Fretty
Georgina
Aueloy
Lansley
Chamberlain
Journal
R He
Yiu
Jnuvenile Ltratery
Poker Sharka
Harry
Tam
Darling
the Man
Mer
G. Lamont
Corliss & Co
Agta
Hudson &J
N.Y
Nou
Pertot
Darter
Peter Ge
Southern Railway
CEST
Addo
W.A
Manger
W. C. Rinearson
S.S
Atlanta
Cme
Illinois Central
Ilinois State Fair
Illinois Central Railroad
Springfield
Freeport
R.R
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Comany
Illinois
Teo
Ilinois Central Railroad
W. G. Bruen
Aiven
A. G. Hackstaff
Grand Opera House
Harry Beresford
J. J. Coleman
C. P. Guenther
Retes Acc K
Land of the Sky
Sapphire Country
North Carolina
Switzerland
Hot Springs
Ashaville
Harvard
Lake Toxaway
Geo. B. Allen
Page
St. Louis
Mo. J
McCullough
Dearborn St
Ill
H. Hardwick
Washington, D. C
W. H. Tayloe
Rio
Santos
Burrell Brothers
Stephenson St
Cash Grocers
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