Patent elopement ends with new motor power
Farmer Jabez Smith confronts London lover Leslie Austin over Alice's marriage. A plan to elope is foiled but a forged science scam leads Bob Townsend to introduce a mock motor rake. The stunt finally yields consent as Alice and Leslie wed in a roundabout victory for love.
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Jabez
Farmer Smith
Ance Smith
Bob
Leslie
Alice
Smith
Jones
London
Leale
Jabez Smith
Bob Townsend
Wgndow
Mr. Smith
Old Jabez
Leslie Austin
Hiis
Admonishing Children Needs Sugar Coated Advice
Kate Upson Clark argues in Woman's Home Companion that parents must soften fault finding for teens. After age fourteen or fifteen youths resist direct rebukes and seek compliments even about flaws, so gentle, well timed praise is needed to guide their growth.
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Kate Upson Clark
Akill
Life on St Helena and Its Peaceful People
The article describes St Helena as a contented, crime-light island with an economy showing a deficit last year due to unusual drains but with expected improvement. It notes imports and exports, local industries like lacemaking, brick and tile manufacture, and a dwindling whaling presence, plus hopes for winter visitors and high literacy, ending with a speculative query about ancient diamond mines of King Solomon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Helena
Napoleon
England
Madeira
Canary Islands
New York Times
Egyptia
Africa
Red Sea
Solomon
Hiram of
Tyre
Ezien-geber
Ophir
Som
Dangerous European scale insect found on New York fruit trees
The Department of Agriculture reports the invasion of Aspidiotus trepeformis, a European scale insect, now established on fruit trees in New York and Ohio and possibly elsewhere. It attacks apples pears cherries and other fruits and the mode of transport to America remains unknown.
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Department of Agriculture
Atlantic
New York
Ohio
Europe
Moreno
la Plata Museum
T. S.C. Lowe
Pasadena
Cal
Lowe Observatory
Oxford University
McKendrick
Saya
Lydekker
Mediterranean
Location of Solomon's Mines Near Transvaal War Zone
Archaeologists study stone ruins in southern Mashonaland and Matabeleland near Fort Mee, northern Mashonaland. The granite block walls, built without mortar, show herring bone patterns where stones project at angles. Ruins lie about seventeen miles from Fort Mee in a region attracting attention due to the Transvaal.
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Transvaal
Mashonaland
Matabeleland
Tati
Fort Mee
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Tte
Solomon’s Mines
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