Goose Feathers and a Faithful Goose Over Betzville
A dramatic Betzville tale details Ezra Claggin and his wife Fiuenza as a sorrowful widow gifts a live goose. The goose gloriously endures feather plucking, mourns beside Ezra, and ultimately sacrifices itself to save Ezra from loneliness, ending in tragedy and tears at dawn.
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Betzville
Ezra“ Claggin
Ezra Alent
Pinenza
Eera
Ezra
Fluenza
Ezta Diagefn
Nec
Ezra Claggin
Garret
Finelza
G. Chapman
Delightful Home Party Sparks Creative House Plans
A hostess hosts an informal party inviting twenty guests to sketch best home plans. Prizes include magazine subscriptions and wooden miniature houses. Guests present five minute pitches, revealing clever ideas and talent for future furnishing the planned homes.
Hosiery and Lace Trends Dominate Summer Wear
Novelty stockings and shaded silk overskirts appear essential this season. Valenciennes and Cluny lace render demand, real or imitation. Evening dresses feature folds and shawls, outing hats and fine straws show brim pull, matching scarves, light wraps, and tailored dress combinations.
Widow to Widowers and the Marriage Letter
A London police court missionary, Mr. Robert Marshall, received a letter from a widow seeking remarriage. The note asks for a respectable man who wishes to marry again, claiming years of widowhood and solitude, and humorously pairs phrases about rare combinations of time, place, girl, scheme, and coin.
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Robert Marshall
London Police Court
Lave Bean
Neat Book Cover Design from Embroidered Patchwork
A detailed 19th or early 20th century craft guide explains making a book cover using satin stitched leaves cording stitches and French knots. It specifies foundation sizes 12 by 9 inches with margins, mounting on cardboard, and finishing with silk and seccotine.
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Parker Buttery
PETER _NEWELL
Peter Newell
Main Street
Bonnet Party
Baskets
Madane Meri
Oas Ua
Richette Salle
Bears
the Centaur Company
New York
Ryterr Teested
Jrcents
Castoria
Amet
Saiees
le Orb
Jerry Davis
Sears
Feud
Lewis
Esia Iver Psl
Thompson
N. Uy
Omaha
Axa
Boston
MABE
EEL
Insurance
Record Nation
Altalculvertal
Butler Manufacturing
West Tenth - Kansas
Guy
Cascarets
Daisy Fly Killer
Gaarentee Tive
Memphis
C. G. CO
Washington
Dow
Lirtoss Lass
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