The Toys That Won a Family's Forgotten Love
A childless couple adopts a widowed cousin's boy named Vanja and struggle with jealousy and longing for their own imagined child. The husband bonds with the real boy while the wife guards her dream, until Vanja's innocent gesture bridges the rift and she discovers true motherhood through love for the boy she barely tolerated.
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Gregory
Tania
Crown Price
Vanja
Papa
Vania
Mamma
Piles Cured at Home by New Absorption Method
Home remedy offer claims a new absorption treatment cures bleeding itching and protruding piles. Mrs M Summers invites readers to mail address for free trial details and local references, with no payment required.
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M. Summers
Box P
Notre Dame
Ind
Sights at Sea Adrift in Humorous Admiral Tale
An old admiral known for exaggeration describes a Pacific voyage at a dinner. He claims to have seen a volcanic island with boiling springs that made lobsters appear red. A guest notes lobsters turn red only when boiled, but the admiral persists with his tall tale.
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Pacific
French agent studies school tuberculosis prevention
Mme. Lawrence Fielder, pictured, acts as the French government’s agent in the United States and studies preventing tuberculosis spread in schools. She praises the American school system as a model of practical American sense.
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Mme
Lawrence Fielder
Fielder
America
Cut of Mouths of Babes in Classroom Scene
Featherly asks about a sister at liberty at the front door. A boy jokes about jail while a teacher questions a pupil about impressions. Howard explains impressions as two dent in a soft place. Ina comments on a robin’s breast hat and asks for a bird’s stomach hat.
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Featherly
Smail Boy
Howard
Smail Howard
Ina
Skinned in Wall Street Benched by Broadway Idiot
A fragmentary rant on Wall Street losses and Broadway satire questions who benefits from financial skinning and uplifting thought, citing a character on Broadway as speaking against indiscriminate greed and folly in the financial district.
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Broadway
Wall-st
Hamlet
The Brinkley Girl Inspires a Poem by a Reader
A reader of the Indianapolis Sun sent verses to the editor praising Nell Brinkley and her Brinkley Girl type. The poem notes golden hair and dusky style, expresses devotion and longing, and seeks the admirer’s name and further such beauty in future papers.
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Indianapolis Sun
Nell Brinkley
Home Page
Brinkley
A Queer Conveyance Across Mexican Travel
A Travel Magazine account describes a woman riding to a doctor in a chair borne on a man's back as the queerest travel seen in Mexico. It notes some women fear mute cars while others fear the rapid trolley, hesitating to step on.
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Mexico
Travel Magazine
Should Women Woo Proposals Sparked by Anxious Cynic
In a reflective dialogue, Miss Anxious asks if women should have the right to propose, while Miss Cynic argues women already influence courtships and question remains why men should not be free to act with innocence and intention.
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Miss Anxious
Cynic
The French Notary and Local Land Disputes
The notary holds sway in small French towns as residents and landowners seek his guidance on property lines. A persistent neighbor dispute over a short strip of wood reveals road obstructions and thorny woods forcing detours, while attempts to buy the land were met with refusals.
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Notary
France
Rotary
Secret bust development method advertised by Madame Moneaux
An advertisement by Madame Moneaux of New York touts a secret to develop bust arms and neck through a home recipe. It describes a nervine stimulant formula using glycerine tincture cadomene rose water and borax to be applied twice daily over weeks, claiming stunning changes and appealing to actresses and society leaders.
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Madame Moneaux
New York
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