A Farmer for Love and a Farm Purchase Choice
Elliott Raymond, a moneyed Michigan man, buys a Flint Valley farm after a train ride and flirtatious outing with Miss Gertrude Carruth. He plans to invest, notices a for sale sign, and writes Brooks about the purchase. The couple drift toward shared fortunes, while Carruth muses on marrying for love, not money.
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Wen Elliott Raymond
Flint Valley
Elliott
Severa
Northeastern
Sert Raymond
General Metallic
Ton Harvey
Miss Carruth
Jim
Birches
Atehin
Brooks
Eliott Raymond
Eliott
John
Milett
Gertrude Carruth
Elliott Raymond
Elliott and Alice Plan a Summer at the Farm
In Mrs Westerleigh’s dining room Miss Carruth notes Elliott’s interest in Alice Thompson. They meet at the farm, he promises marriage after courting through music, and Alice accepts. Elliott plans to stay at the Klint Valley farm next summer with Mrs Raymond returning there after winter city gaieties.
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Miss Carruth
Sumer
Klint Valley
Elliott
Des
Floe
Eliott
Black Bess
Margaret
Plano
Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gardon
itHott
Peuever
Eilon Raymond
Alice
Eliott Raymond
Fuint Valley
Mrs. Raymond
Gayety
Gertrude Carruth
Buffalo Evening News
Songs that Pays and the Rise of a Performer
A discussion on how a song can launch a performer’s fame. It cites a European marriage, New York’s reception of the ballad Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-Wow, and the decline of the singer’s popularity after initial attention. The piece notes that many performers are well paid but few rise to lasting wealth from early hits.
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Europe
New York
New York Sun
Qigin
No Further Efforts Made on Hopeless Task
The article notes that verses are flat and attempts by well known men failed. It mentions a singer who has given full support, but the writer’s works have received all possible help and no further attempts will be wasted in this hopeless task.
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Berlin Academy of Sciences
Rontgen
Sir Brandes
There Are Striking Facts About The Smaller Colleges
Ed ward W Bok notes that 60 percent of the brainiest Americans who gained prominence come from little known colleges. He argues small colleges foster new teaching methods, deserve wider repute, and provide superior educators even if unnamed nationally.
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Edward W. Bok
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Odd Facts From Across The World
A roundup of curious measurements and claims from science and industry includes a phosphorus unit per 1 000 000 itch es a ton of oil from a whale tongue and 600 000 pounds of tea consumed daily in England. Also noted are solar sunspots, long lengths of spider silk, and ancient Canterbury’s St. Martin’s Cathedral in continuous church use for over 1,500 years.
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France
Department of the Tarn
Germany
St. Martin's Cathedral
Canterbury
A Coin in the Bottle Fraud Schemes Described
A Philadelphia Record item notes schemes to seal bottles after use to prevent refilling. An ingenious plan involves blowing a coin into the bottle body to tempt breakage and theft of contents. It mentions the so called upper ten as the winning nine and the vampire.
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Philadelphia Record
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Flo
Miss Thompson
Ruskin
Jobin Ruskin
Russia
Sebastopol
Col. Young
Yellowstone Park
Ina Pare
India
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