The Curious Shop Leads to a Love Gift
Elsie Chapin, a quiet clerk in Madison Square, buys a violin for the sick violinist Gustav Spohr at a Fourth Avenue antique shop. She visits his lodging, helps him recover, and their bond grows into marriage, with the couple keeping a secret desk as a family heirloom.
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Isis
Madison Square
Fourth Avenue
Isle Chapin
Elsie’ Chapin
Elsie
Blaie
Spohr
Hisse
Bisie
Wag
Bela
Blaze
Blaze Chapin
Mr. Spohr
Gustav Spohr
Elale Chapin
Ticketa
Gustav
Roof Sprinkling by Parson Inventor in Baltimore
A Baltimore parson-inventor proposes cooling his 86-room house by sprinkling roof water into a standpipe to spray the lawn. With a hot day, the thermometer falls from about 95 to 88 in the third story and three degrees in the second after sprinkling begins. The scheme aims to chill the grass and provide a cooler living space for Dr Crawford-Frost, the bachelor resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Crawford-Frost
New York Press
New French Lamp for Lighthouses Delivers Strong Uniform Light
A new lighting form developed in France for lighthouses uses multiple filaments arranged like an incandescent mantle. It produces very bright, uniform light around the circumference and, in trials, emitted twenty times the illumination of a standard lamp while needing minimal maintenance. It suits shore lighthouses connected to electric systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Matus
Better Things in Sight
Frances, lonely in a Chicago flat, cries over a wrong number and isolation until Mrs. Allen from the hall visits with letters. They bond over shared homesickness, compare city life, and soon share tea. Their first social connection lifts Frances from misery, promising friendship and familiar routines in the big city.
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Frances
Chicago
George
Frances Stevens West
Eula Thomas
Frances Stevens
Plainfield
Eula
Mrs. Allen
Mrs. Alen
France
Mrs. Ally
Central
Fels-Naptha Washing Method Promises Easy Cleaning
The copy extols Fels-Naptha as a gentler washing method that avoids boiling and scrubbing. Clothes are rubbed with the soap, rolled in cool water, soaked about thirty minutes, then lightly rubbed and rinsed, blued, and hung to dry. The advertisement also claims the soap is effective for other cleaning tasks.
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Loughry
Kelly
the Men’s Department
Alfred Benjamin
Norfolk
Blouse
W. R. Loughry & CO
Ani
Hetrick, Wilson & Co
Indiana
Indiana Dye Works
S&s. Levine
Phila Bt
H. H Steving
C. Heber Steving
M. Edith Steving
New Indians
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