Clara and Will in a Country Lane Romance
Clara Daeglish rejects conventional love and wants a master. Will Sinclair vows protection when a tramp assaults Clara on a moonlit lane. Jasper Stebbins offers cynical advice as the pair depart, while Uncle Jasper jokes about breaking fillies and double harness. Copyright 1917.
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Will
Will Sinclair
Clara Daeglish
Mde
Jasper Stebbins
Mandy
Clara
Minot
Yam
Jasper
W. G. Chapman
Snake Charmers and Serpent Show Tricks
A Hindu snake charmer moves serpents in large display baskets using a tubri and breath, spittle, or medicated mixtures to make them perform. The article notes repeated exhalations toward the snake’s face and occasional saliva spraying as part of the act.
What a Fine Healthy Family
A mother June bug explains to her young that their kind is born in June and thrives on potatoes and corn, despite farmers’ disdain. The little bug learns their appetite harms crops and that they are admired by nothing but themselves, potatoes, and corn.
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Mother Big
Mother Bug
Bug
Mamma
Beets Bounty From Kitchen Foundlings
In a tale of domestic ingenuity, a mother questions what the twins are doing and learns they are planting beets rather than seeds. The children explain they planted a bunch of beets found in the kitchen, hoping to yield many bunches for the family.
Revered pastor to deliver last sermon before conference
Covode Rey Hill completes his third year as pastor and will give his final sermon on Sunday September 30 before the quarterly conference. Visits include Mrs James Marsh and children from Pittsburg at the home of her parents. Neighbors and relatives travel between Blairsville Michigan Meadville Plumville Locust Lane and Curwenaville.
Odd Thoughts Of Children From The London Spectator
A meditation on child thought revealing vivid, humorous glimpses of young minds. A London Spectator piece recalls a boy’s dream of being a land agent, a girl asking about the hymn writer David, and a child’s pun on heaven and John the Baptist. The charm lies in children’s private logic and offbeat associations.
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London Spectator
David
Jed
John the Baptist
Insects Tenacious of Life in Struggle for Existence
The article discusses why insects persist amid predators and humans efforts to destroy them. It cites prolific reproduction and extraordinary environmental adaptation as major factors, and adds that many species exhibit remarkable resilience to injuries that would kill higher animals.
Moneybun Dispute Over Face Cream At Breakfast
The Honeybuns start the day with coolness after a quarrel over spending on face cream. Mrs. Honeybun urges Mr. Moneybun to buy more cosmetics, while he rails at women spending to improve appearance. He mocks the male view of beauty as hopeless.
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Mrs. Moneybun
Henry
Mrs. Honeybun
Mr. Honeybun
Mra. Honeybun
Appetite Figures In a Gourmet Exchange Tale
A Parisian style exchange recalls a New York gourmand bragging that a full tenderloin with lamb chops forms a fair meal. A bon vivant host boasts preprandial cocktails and an appraiser guest brags of three dozen cherry-stone coins as a starter. None viewed the order as unusual.
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New York
Optimism and its worldly embrace in verse prose
A poetic meditation on optimism as universal affection around earth and men. It extols goodwill as a worldwide circle, praising love’s needs and a dreamlike journey toward happiness. The piece personifies optimism as a gospel guiding through bright fields and rainbow arches toward a joyous union.
Doctor Called for Wife Facing Possible Lockjaw
A worried voice reports a wife suddenly unable to speak and with a stiff mouth. The doctor suspects lockjaw and requests the patient be seen if possible next week. Harper's Magazine notes the anxious telephone exchange and the suggestion to seek medical help.
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Harper's Magazine
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Covode
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Dorothy Knox
Pay McQuown
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Mary Mogle
Clog
Pee
Cecil Hadden
Maude Braughler
Near Locust Lane
N. OG. Shaffer
Nelva
Curwenavilla
Charles Hoover
Mount Union
William Garrison
Meadville
F. G. States
the Progress Club List
Progress
Pittsburg Gazette Times
R. D
Progress and
Pittsburg
Daily Dispatch
Daily Post
Philadelphia North American
Dispatch Progress
Toledo
Blade Progress
Louis Globe-Democrat
National Stockman & Farmer
Ohio Farmer
New Idea
National Tribune
Progress and Cambria Agriculturist
Woman’s World
THE
Indiana Progress
Indiana, Pa
Wallace Dry Goods
Pictorial Review
J.C. Wallace & Son
Philadelphia
Saence
UMC
America
Tandy
Rifle Club
Remington Umc
Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Company
Lic
Woolworth Building
Insects
the Savings & Trust Co
Campbell
Joe
Phila
David Ellis & Son
Penn Roller Flour Mills
Indiana
Penna
Citizen's Bank Building
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