His Start in Life by Alvah Jordan Garth
A struggling young man Alvin Morrison dwells in a store the relative runs and saving money to win a future with Nettie Bridges whom he loves. A chance encounter with a wounded man in a city park reveals a lure of wealth through a ring swap, testing Alvin’s honesty and ambition.
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Alvah Jordan Garth
Alvin Morrison
Alvin
Nettie Bridges
Wayne
Tiend
Nettie
Hopedale
Uriah
Alvin’s Swindle Follows Ring Plot and Rescue
In 1918, Alvin accepts a swindler’s ring offer for quick cash, then discovers the ring was stolen jewelry. A police station call leads to the rightful owner, Mr. Seward, recovering the heirloom and arresting the con man. Alvin earns a reward, gains a partner, and marries the girl who waited.
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Alvin
Ninety-first Avenue
Nettie
Police Station
Mr. Seward
W. G. Chapman
Providing a water supply from the Adansonia tree
In Korodofan Sudan the Adansonia digitata known as Home or Tebeldi is hollowed to form a cistern for rain water. The trunk becomes a water reservoir with a top opening for branch gutters and buckets from surface pools. Cracks are cemented to repair worn trunks while trees continue to grow despite stored water.
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Korodofan
Soudan
Titanic Victims Bodies and Ocean Conditions
The article explains whether Titanic victims’ bodies sank or remained near the surface depends on water pressure, internal gas inflation from decomposition, contact with wreckage, and the water temperature, among other factors. It notes equality of external and internal pressure and other conditions influence outcomes.
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Brown
Indiana
Shildren
Gun Metal Button
Blucher
Browns Boot Store
St. Indiana, Pa
Victor Roller
David Ellis & Son
Henry H. Steving
Henry H. Steving & Son
M. Edith Steving
Ladies & Children
Automobile Service
Philadelphia St
Indiana, Pa
Men & Boys
Mackinaw
Coats
Toques Knee
Dinsmore Bros
New
R. E. Young
Waverly
Waverly Oil Works Co
Pittsburgh
Illuminating Oil
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Petroleum
American Independent OW
Marshall Bldg
Penn’a
Geo. D. Leydie
Undertaker
North Sixth Bt
W. F. Frederick Pianos
N. Sixth Street
Rossmoyne Flouring Mill
Missouri
T.H. Frantz
John H. Pierce
Barbara Stuchell
The
Orphans Court of
Indiana County
Washington
Pansylvania
Stone
C. L. Carnahan
Astoke
James Miler
Insane Blystone
Wao
B. Menning
W. J. Johnston
McCreight
Robert Spence
James R. Clark
Bryan McEweeney
Rtobert Spence
Yuane Blystone
Bryan McSweeney
Barbara C. Stuchell
A. Stuchell
Charles L. Carenohon
J. Blair Sutton
Orphans’ Court
Frank P. Baruhar
Brn Attorneys
George W. Lutler
Edward L. Keller
Canus W. Butler
Johnstown
Cambria County
West Wheatheld Township
Charles B. Grumbling
William Mitchell
Robert Mack
Robert Trindle
Charles Dick
Samuel Butler
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