Big Sister Betty Starts a Lake Side Nursery
Betty plans to open a day nursery next to the lake using savings and help from a young helper. She imagines cribs, a milk icebox, and a staff to manage the children while balancing a romance with Frank Andrews, who offers to practice medicine nearby. They decide to work together on a shared future.
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BE Joych
Lttle Lake
Mary
Betty
Lakeside
Frank Andrews
Frank
Hersel
Prank
Wasp Breeding Pay Offers New Pest Control
Stanley Flinders, an entomologist in California, sells microscopic wasps to Pacific coast orchardists to combat fruit insects. He has improved rearing methods and now offers them at a price described as a thousand for a cent or $100 million. The piece notes a push for higher living standards and wages beyond subsistence levels.
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Stanley Flinders
Nnifornia
Pacific
Country Home
Flanders
Dreamer golfer awakens to finish match with Bobby Jones
A man wakes to his alarm and instead of preparing, returns to bed to finish a dream about playing golf with Bobby Jones. He jokes that he wanted to punch a pest in the nose, but cannot recall if he did. His wife laughs at the unusual behavior.
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Bobby Jones
Linen Handkerchief Textbooks in Early Wisconsin Schools
A Wisconsin historical display shows linen handkerchiefs used as reading aids in pioneer classrooms. Each cloth carried a printed portrait of a great figure like George Washington and included vital dates, serving as a portable lesson in spelling and history.
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Wisconsin
Mary
Johnny
Historical Museum
University of Wisconsin
George Washington
George
Napoleonte
Byron and His Goose Diet for Michaelmas in Venice
A Manchester Guardian note recalls Byron’s fondness for roast goose at Michaelmas. In Venice the poet bought a goose in August to hand feed for September 20, but sentiment grew and he could not kill it. He instead bought a second bird for the table and kept the pet goose in a suspended cage during travels.
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Byron
John Bullish
Michaelmas
Manchester Guardian
Quiccioll
Venice
Carriage of Florence Nightingale in London Museum
A worn carriage once used by Florence Nightingale in the Crimea is housed at St. Thomas' hospital in London. The liftable four-wheeled coach, ten feet long and five feet wide, recalls the nurse's wartime legacy and the training school she established after the war.
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Florence Nightingale
St. Thomas’ Hospital
London
St. Thomas
Dutchman term in shop language for roof shields
The bureau of standards defines a Dutchman as a makeshift fix that may be justified by condition. Dutching a sheet metal roof means fastening the middle to the sheathing to stop wind noise. a soldered cup covers the wall or screw to prevent leakage.
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Bureau of Standards
Haunted hostel tour sparks ghost tale at old inn
A tourist tours a centuries old hostel famed as haunted, while a borderer murmurs the place has grown pricey under new management. The exchange hints at lingering legends tied to the inn’s history and elevated rates.
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London
Whist History Said to Tackle Class Barriers
An article in Pathfinder Magazine notes that whist began as a pastime for servants and the lower classes and only in the 18th century did it enter upper society around 1740. It gained immense popularity, with even children hosting whist parties, and only in the present century did it evolve into bridge as we know it today.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Washington Township Social Notes From Vandergrift Area
Clair Peterman of Vandergrift visits parents the Peterman home. Rural Valley and Indiana area residents listed visitations and dinners with neighbors. Harmony Grove church services noted along with local travel, family news, and spring weather remarks.
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Washington Township
Clair Peterman
Vandergrift
Brice Peterman
M. J. Boyer
Josiah Fisher
John McLean
Frank Downey
B. Carnahan
Daugshter
Ocie
Clyde Boring
Elkin Bothell
Bobbie
Creekside
Joy Orr
Bryan Orr
Orr
Ralph Prugh
Atwood
James Stuchell
Walter Harman
Sara
Ethel
Paul Albaugh
Pinyville
William McCausland
Harmony Grove Lutheran Church
John Kough
Mt. Union
Floyd Orr
Bert Orr
Ethel Norman
George
Martha
Betty
Quinter Boyer
Indiana
Charlie Harman
J. A. McLean
Homer McCausland
Five Points
Frank Lohr
Brushvalley
Myrtle Nichol
A. C. Marshall
James Wallace
BE. J. McIntire
Roy Orr
Little
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