Village Garden Heist Ends In Flower Show Kerfuffle
In a rural tale, George English hints no blessing will come to those who dug up gardens to win the prize. Bill Chambers and neighbors follow the joke, digging up plots while a village laments changes, culminating in Bob Pretty winning the best kept cottage garden prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Pretty
Bob Hisself
George English
Bill
George
Caulflower
Henery Walker
Peter Smith
Oliday
Joe
Bob
Henery
Bill Chambers
Sam Jones
Sea Henery
Chambers
Joe Gubbins
Formin Parts
George English Hisself
Henry Walker
Sam
Ralph Thomson
Ralph
Alan
la Place
Wealthy farmer builds pretty cottages for his workers
An experienced builder William A Radford explains a farmer who solved the farm labor problem by constructing attractive compact cottages for his men. The model includes a living room dining room kitchen and a neat stairway to the upper level. The article notes better housing encourages good workers and outlines the social benefits of decent worker housing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wean
Michigan
Five Room House Impresses Farm Couple In New York Region
A farmer and his wife discuss a compact five room house with extra light from triple windows, a copper bathroom tank, and practical extensions that boost value. The piece contrasts well-planned homes with poorer designs and notes the couple’s plans to improve ground layout for better use. Also covered is a DAR statue unveiling in Herkimer New York, honoring Gen Francis Spinner for securing women clerks in federal offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spinner
Treasury Building
Gen. Spinner
Washington
Inherited Traits in Life and Literature Explored
Frederic Taber Cooper argues that true art, whether painting a landscape or writing a novel, cannot ignore heredity and environment. He cites classics like Belinda Emma The Mill on the Floss to show how families and bloodlines shape characters, even when authors do not spell it out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic Taber Cooper
Traita
Belinda
Emma
Miss Edgeworth
Miss Austen
Thackeray
George Eliot
The Old Story of Hypothesis and Love
C W Taylor in the Chicago Tribune portrays Mr Matewer and Miss Mildred walking in twilight as he proposes a hypothesis about marriage and a man in middle age winning her love. The scene shifts to Worcester England where the council resists a site for cavalry barracks, arguing 4,600 pounds could be better spent elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Taylor
Chicago Tribune
Spotcash & Co
Mildred
Matewer
Mr. Matewer
Misa McGinnis
Worcester
England
City Notes and Jests From a Distant Town
A collage of humorous quips and local observations. A Michigan poet target and a playful take on city life versus country living appear beside a tongue in cheek editor’s note about Cy Smithson and a pretend wedding bells gag. A playful slice of a bygone paper with social humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Center
Cy. Smithson
High Street
Hella
Bella
Cyrus
Smithson
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W. W. Jacobs
Cold, Mead Company
Hig
Australia
Miss Wicks
Henry
William A. Redford
William A. Radford
Fifth Ave
Chicago
Gi A.radford
Mercantile Marine of the World
Lloyd's Register
Britain
By the
Way
Henry Higginson
Ripley's
Hank Allus
Jinks
Jim Andrews
York
Hank
Irvin
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