Man Wins Love After Hard Work and Polo Heroics
Jack, posing as a hired farmhand, proves his worth by earning sixty dollars a month and board while courting Katherine Horton. A runaway Sultan sparks a dramatic rescue, ending with Katherine acknowledging Jack’s effort and promising to wait for his recovery.
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Kenneth Horton
Davenport
Muskoka
Kit
Father
Jack
Rea
Bondholider
Katherine
Kenneth
Mr. Horton
Sultan
Shah
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Mr. Hlorton
Fear of breaking a mirror linked to superstition and fate
The piece explores mirror superstition from ancient times to Napoleon and a famed English writer. It notes the belief in seven years of bad luck, the idea mirrors channel fate, and cites Napoleon fearing misfortune after a breakage and a writer who died soon after mocking the omen.
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Napoleon
Josephine
Pleasures of Solitude in Utah Chronicle prose
L. J. Muir in the Utah Chronicle contrasts nature’s calm with man’s works. He favors peaceful rivers and stars over crowded cities, industry, and artificial illumination, praising natural beauty and rural scenes over bustling commerce and forced booms.
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Hugh
L. J. Muir
The
Utah Chronicle
Carwsos
Drink Water With Meals Proven Helpful For Digestion
An article from Thrift Magazine states that drinking water with meals enhances gastric juice secretion and liver function, aids food utilization, and improves saliva efficiency when diluted. The piece notes this challenges long held beliefs about water with meals and encourages ample water intake during eating.
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Thrift Magasine
FLOWERS PROVIDE DRINKING INGREDIENTS AND SPIRIT
The mowra flowers yield edible products and a drink base, with syrup and a spirit called daru or mowrs. In Todla and Hyderabad areas large quantities are harvested, dried, and fermented to produce strong proof spirit, while the byproducts go into soups, candles, and imitation butter.
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Condia
Todla
Hyderabad
Tintagel Headland and Tintagella Legend in Cornwall
A Christian Science Monitor description tours Tintagel in Cornwall, detailing Trevena village, Tintagel Castle remains, and the wind swept headland. The piece notes Dundagel meaning fortress and the cliff castle origins shaping local legends of King Arthur.
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Arthur
Tennyson
Tintagel
Cornwall
Tintagella
Trevena
Dundagel
Christian Science Monitor
Art of Listening Praised for Silence and Self Control
The excerpt contrasts speaking with listening, noting few good hearers exist. It cites Carlyle on Silence Is Golden and a French remark praising silence as a rare talent. It argues listening requires moral and intellectual traits, not mere passivity, and reflects on the concentration needed to listen.
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Carlyle
William Mathews
Farm and Home Pointers: Spray Aids and Livestock Tips
Spreaders for improving spray covering and sticking power include cassinate glue grelatine soap bark and oil emulsion listed by efficiency and prep cost. Coatings for season prehends Hood River youth wage figures and per acre costs. Cooperative creameries face common failures from small volume mismanagement and credit issues. About 75 percent of a laying hens feed covers body maintenance with surplus required for eggs.
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O. AL
Oregon Quarantine Aimed at Strawberry Weevil Spread
B. B. Fulton of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station conducts a field survey to set infestation limits and guide plant shipments from weevil free districts. The discovery of weevils in parts of Oregon has prompted a quarantine on strawberry plants from northern Oregon to prevent spread.
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B. B. Fulton
Epeets
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Oregon
Lovett Warns on Strawberry Pest Spreading
Station entomologist A. L Lovett urges careful care in purchasing plants to prevent introducing a weevil free strain and avoid infesting uninfested areas. Professor Lovett calls this the best insurance against pest spread.
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Saya
A. L Lovett
Lovett
Clover Seeding Tips for Western Oregon
In wet Oregon, sow clover in late February on fields seeded to fall grain or fall vetch. Broadcast seed and harrow if dry. frost, thaw, and rain usually cover it well. Plant when germination prospects are favorable to safeguard nurse crop growth. A light plaster helps stand. A. C. bulletin offers further selling crop guidance. copies are free.
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Oregon
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A Financial Wreck
Mumbleton bursts in penniless after admitting debt from gas bills. Wife aghast asks if Hawk exchange speculation caused ruin. He swears he did nothing to tarnish his boney, revealing the loss stemmed from paying the gas bill.
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Mumbleton
Doctor called to rush for smallpox case turns out rheumatism
A physician trotted to a patient thought to have smallpox only to find a rheumatic complaint. The patient explained the household could not spell the word and used smallpox hoping to speed the doctor’s arrival.
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