Lady Garaven's test and vow in Ravensmere
Lady Hildred Garaven accepts a year apart to prove his love as Earl Ulric Garaven vows reform and devotion. He builds cottages and schools for the estate, correspondence continues, and upon return they share a sunset balcony wedding-like moment in the park.
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Garaven
Sir Raoul
Hildred
Childred
Jancy
Eldred
Lord Crraven
Ulric
Ravensmere
Tady Hamilton
Elee
Phen
London
Glenvil
Dover
Paris
Ikeamg
Earl
Mary Woodruff
Lord Caraven
Earl Caraven
Court Raven
Carriiage
Lome
Carl
Cart
Arley Ransome
4They
Puesa
Christmas Wedding Promised For Soldier Lover
A woman reflects on past meetings in London and Brighton, confirming a marriage at Christmas to her soldier lover. Lady Caraven notes the woman's beauty and kindness, while the pair express gratitude for a patient, devoted wife and a hopeful future together.
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London
Brighton
Lady Caraven
Fireplaces of Snow and a German Boss Joke
In Alaska Eskimo villages near Point Barrow families seek reindeer hunts inland in snow houses with a fireplace of snow slabs. A visiting observer notes melting and freezing behavior. lamps provide dwelling heat while cooking occurs at the snow fireplace. In a separate tale, a German merchant tells his clerk to “consider yourself dead” after salary discussions.
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Point Barrow
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Lippincott’s
She Tep
John G
John
Mr. T
Private telephone prank ends in mistaken digits
A semi-swell family enjoys a private line as the daughter answers a ring. A cheerful male voice misreads the number and jokes that she is 31, then corrects himself, revealing her number is 81 and apologizing for the mix up. The light exchange ends in good humor.
Explaining a Name Mr Lynch and His Friend Discuss
A friend asks how the Lynch surname originated and is told an ancestor maybe changed a name from Lynch to Lynch with an L. The tale hints at a rough past and a ranching scene with cattle herds nearby.
Tares of the Bible and Vetches U S Agriculture Circular
The United States Department of Agriculture issued a circular on cultivated vetches. It highlights hairy or sand vetch spring vetch tares whaler vetch and tidney vetch as ancient European fodder crops. The circular states success with covers and field peas but cites Sidney vetch as less productive while winter vetch proves valuable in the South. Hairy vetch tops for light sands soils as a promising recent introduction to the United States.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Europe
United States
New York Sun
Brain Wounds and a Japanese Bell Tale
A Birmingham man shot himself in the head and survived a week unconscious until surgeons removed his right eye and a 82 caliber bullet lodged in his brain for six weeks. He is reported to be recovering. The piece also notes the Brooklyn tabloids claim the largest bell is in Japan, the temple of Clara at Kinto, with no clappers and a wooden ram.
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Birmingham
Fle
Utica Prees
Moscow
Clara
Kinto
Japan
Bad Pay and Hard Work For Trained Nurses
A historic note bemoans low pay and strenuous labor of nurses. It endorses Contodor’s Stomach Bitters for chills fever constipation rheumatism dyspepsia or nervousness and urges regular use. The ad promotes a patent remedy to invalids before needing medical care.
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Contodor
Tea Plant in New York Window Bloom Impresses Clerks
A tea plant on view in a New York show window is in full bloom. Brought from northern Japan two years ago, it has been kept at 70 to 80 degrees, growing from 18 inches to 86 inches and proving a vigorous specimen.
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New York
Japan
Experience and Not Experiments in Buying Medicine
The piece urges choosing medicine by experience over experiments, claiming uncertainty in trial results and citing testimonials for Hooot's Sarsaparilia. It emphasizes that many say bloods has helped them and urge readers to try it, asserting widespread witnessed effects.
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Hooot
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Chicago
Sapolio
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