Fifty-year leap year marriage scheme in Chickfield tale
In a comic story, Caleb Chickfield, a 50 year old bachelor head of Chickfield & Gunnelbag, receives a marriage proposal from Barbara Trefoil, a former governess. Leap year prompts bold choice as Barbara writes to him. he visits her, proposes, and they wed, with Barbara denying the note or the leap year notion afterward.
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Mr. Chickfield
Caleb Chickfield
Chickfield & Gunnebag
Saratoga
Wall
Chickfield
Polly
Barbara Trefoil
Mr. Simple
Barbara
Widow Trefoil
Bartlett
Caleb
Trefoil
Chickfeld
Ready Letter Writer and Insider Letter Pack
A humorous mix of old correspondence includes a cheerful family invitation from Henry to his wife’s aunt Jane to visit and recover from illnesses while referencing neighbors with smallpox. The second portion shows grafting accusations and a bossy finance president Gelder Hooker demanding raises, stock moves, and bond schemes with sharp, combative tones.
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Jane
Wille
Harry
Nellie
John
West Door
Brown
Henry
Life Insurance
W. Lawson
Hay
Gelder Hooker
Bill
Buckskin Rapid Transit Co
Predictions by Raphael the Astrologer Sunday Feb 5 1908
Visit thy friends and ask favors. If your birthday falls on this day it is favorable for business and affairs. The young will court. A child born on this day 1906 will be clever quick and fortunate and rise in life.
Letts Rise Against Alien Land Owners
Strong representations reach the czar as peasants in Esthene and Courland rise in armed bands, burn chateaux, plunder, and slay German nobles. Most landowners are German, many refugees. Troops sweep the districts, while Germans flee to Riga Libau Libau or beyond the frontier.
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Cear
Wiliam
I Esthenia
Courland
Catajes
Raval
Libau
Wye
Rough Rider Weds Thora Strong in Erie ceremony
Miss Thora W. Strong daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles H Strong and granddaughter of the late Congressman Wm L Scott married Reginald Ronalds of New York at St Paul's Episcopal church Erie. Rev Jonni Moors McGann officiated with Alex Townsend as attendant. Ronalds, linked to Pierre Lorillard Ranalds of London, is noted as a former Rough Rider.
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Sun
Erie
Thora W. Strong
Charles H. ‘Strong
Wm. L. Scott
Reginald Ronalds
New York City
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Bison
Franklin &, Spalding
Salt Lake City
Utah
Jonni Moors McGann
Alex Mathilda ,Townsend
Washington
D.C
P. Lorillard Ranalds
New York
Philadelpha
Renalds
Pierre Lorillard Ranalds
London
Englnd
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Outbursts of Everett True and a Tennessee round-up
In Youngstown and nearby towns this week readers glimpse a collage of bits from the rural press. Notes include horse-trade chatter in Salineville and Stolla City, local gossip about Nat Goodwin’s theatre in England, a quip about leather prices, a joke about Longworth, and small town notices from Pleasant Grove and Sequachee newsrooms. The piece ends with a comment on John D. Rockefeller’s absence from Tom Lawson’s car.
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Royal Gaking Powder CO
NEW voRt
the Daily Story
Raphael
Mas
Reginald Nonalds
Tom Gordon
Francis Lynde
E. M. Ashe
Bobbs-Merrill Company
California
St. Louis
Chicago
Seiden Ke
Harvey
Santa Fe
Cincinnati
Everett True
Lowta Tritech
Egsteister
Youngstown
Salineville
Tarrytown
Nat Goodwin
England
Tawile
Sytrert
Roumany
Geo
Longworth
Nick Longworth
White House
W. J. Groy Clayton
Offee
Pade
Tracy City
Asame
Burrough's
Pleasant Grove
Sequadhes
Tenn
Nick Loneworth
John D. Rockefeller
Tom Lawson
Heda
Aa Tong
Gascorh
Indianapolis Gas CO
U. G. Lipes
Tou
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana Dental College
Delaware and
Ohio Streets
White Oak
Pee Mahogany Co
Indiana
Ehrlich Coal Co
Kentucky Ave
New
Frank K. Sawyer
Igeo.t. Watts Fublic Accountant
Union Trus Co
Jos.r. Adams, Paing
Gi Hudson
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