Isle of Longing in Carlton's City Love Story
In a 1922 Western Newspaper Union tale Carlton, a city law clerk, plans a future in Hillcrest with Izzie Ware and Isabel. He grapples with city ambition versus a nostalgic homeland while Izzie and Isabel influence his view of home, love, and belonging as he faces marriage and choice.
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Carlton
Lask
Lambert
Ile
Izxiec
T. Jazie
Ais Isabel
Hillcrest
Judge Lambert
Isabel
Hvis
Carlie
Taro
Jaale
Leon
Comorreyn
Tle
White House
Curltun
Garlton
Ehe
Carttas
Dave
Gaurden
Tytte
Paris Baker Scams Regimental Bonuses For 85 000 Francs
A Paris baker in prewar days earns two wounds and mentions after the war. He fraudulently collects multiple demobilization bonuses by claiming missing military papers and pressuring regiments. His scheme expands across dozens of regiments, netting about 85 000 francs before being uncovered and jailed.
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Paris
Ministry of War
Crook
Baker
Monster corn seeds offered at five cents per kernel
Prosser, Washington farmer J D Sutton, near Byron, sells seed corn at 5 cents per kernel. A giant growth developed on Suttons farm with stalks up to twenty four feet tall and ears as large as a forearm. He won county fair prizes and received interest from an eastern seed house after letters requesting facts.
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Prosser
Wash
J. D. Sutton
Byron
Sutton
Praise New Peace Dollar Coinage Approved by Commission
Washington report says all 1921 United States coins passed official examination by the Annuassay commission under President Harding. Tests at the Philadelphia mint found samples fully compliant with law as the commission adopted resolutions praising mint operation and the silver dollar commemorating peace after World War I.
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Washington
United States
Harding
Philadelphia
Crissinger
Island of Ignorance Receives School and Minister
London reports Bardlesy off the Welsh coast once nicknamed the Island of Ignorance. Men aged thirty four began attending school only recently. Previously villagers believed in ghosts and fairies. Now they will have a minister and a schoolteacher.
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London
Bardlesy
Pwilhell
Repentant thief seeks mercy after failed burglary in Freeport
A would-be burglar fled after a revolver scare but returned hours later to beg forgiveness. Brank Harris, a Freeport tailor, chased him away then learned the man claimed penury. Harris gave the burglar five dollars to aid his supposed repentance.
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Tpolopize
Brank Harris
Freeport
Harris
Tarcis
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Bargain
Brown
Indiana, PA
Hileman’s Garage
Water Street
the Clymer Furniture Inc
Victor and
Idison
Hoover
W.D. Bowser
Clymer Furniture Co., Inc
Clymer
Pennsylvania
Fallin Isle
Western Newspaper Union
Dinsmore
Sunday Gazette Times
J. D. Johnston
the Gazette Times
Bell Phone
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