The Lady of the Twentieth Century Novel
A humorous vignette follows a fashionable heroine racing through a bookish world. She clashes with a knight of the sixteenth century as they encounter a robber, a dragon, and a king, debating era language and etiquette while plotting a tournament.
Swan Attacks Boy in Spring Grove Cemetery
Joseph Good Jr aged seven was seriously beaten by a male swan while near the cemetery lake. The bird battered his head and face with wings and bill, leaving him in bed with possible loss of sight. Gatekeeper Thompson arrived and diverted the attack, saving the boy from further harm as doctors treated his injuries.
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Cincinnati
Spring Grove
Joseph Good, Jr
Young Good
Papa
Mamima
Thompson
Serpent on Soldier’s Chest Stops With Milk and Music
In Martinique Sergeant Legrand awakens Private Durand to find a six foot lance-head snake coiled on his bare chest. The sergeant lures it with milk while a guard group plays the Blue Danube. The snake drinks, ten cudgels kill it. Durand recovers, hair turned snow white. He is sent back to France.
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Paris
Martinique
Legrand
Durand
Cella
France
Ghostly Monument Fears Haunt West Twentieth Street
New York reports a sensational scene at West Twentieth Street station as a store detective and police investigate claims of a ghost escaping a graveyard behind a Sixth Avenue shop. A loose vault slab and a found crutch suggest a living intruder using the space for shelter amid suspicions of an aged trespasser.
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New York
New West Twentieth Street
Sixth Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Lieut
Carey
West Twentieth Street
Bertha Howard
Melon Grading and Packing for Market Quality
Guidelines on picking melons at optimal ripeness, grading by netting density, and packing in sheds to maintain uniform size and position. Three grade system enhances value with best stock fetching higher prices. culls and cracked fruit are discarded. Proper shed packing and branding enable targeted market placement and premium returns.
Brain Storms and Small Town Jests in June
Readable fragments portray a rural humorous sketch of village life with digressions on dyspepsia potat o farming petty offices and town mischief. Characters include Loper Bill Griffin Hick ry Holter and Bill Welsh among locals in playful anecdotes and gossip. The text captures a period voice with jokes about weddings suspender buys and social pranks.
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Hubbard
Chicago
Bill Hinckley
N’” York
Bill
Hughie
Hi. Johnson
Ruthern
Bruk
Sumbody
Bill Welsh
Eddie
Sim
Perkins
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St. George and the Dragon
Angry Swan
Bird
Sergeant
Wraith
Crutch
Pittsburg
John Darlington
Sharpsburg
John W. Liocyd
Illinois University
Ually
Melton
Loper
Jones
Bings
Bill Griffin
Nee - Eclana
Arte
Rae
Bill Ricky Allas