A Family Skeleton Comes Home at Last
Gordon confronts his family skeleton as a haunting memory of wealth and a failed rival romance. The specter reveals how his father’s greed funded Gordon’s life of luxury through Hepburn’s downfall and suicide. Gordon vows to choose love over fortune, and the couple later banishes the skeleton from their home.
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Gordon
Tom Fairleigh
Amy Hepburn
Amy
Fairleigh
Nell Forthdyke
Tom
Nell
Hepburns
Harry Gordon
Frankenstein
Board of Trade
Hepburn
Eowever
Harry
Ric
Vanishing kiss seals doom for Gordon family skeleton
A fragment from Chicago News recounts a spectral kiss on a fair cheek that foretells the Gordon family doom. The eerie kiss fades away, leaving no trace as the haunting tale progresses.
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Yecua
Gordon
Chicago
The Dear Dead Past to Life Again in a Boston Transcript Stil
A reflective narrator sits in a fading evening light reading long written letters and feeling echoes of the dead. The room fills with children’s laughter as a dawnlike chorus dispels gloom, restoring meaning and love beyond loss.
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Boston Transcript
Mary Moore Makes Fortunes in Copper Market
Wall Street sources report English actress Mary Moore has accumulated a large copper fortune by sitting on the market’s right side. She holds 4,000 shares and, if she chooses, could retire from the stage, as gossip about her nerve in holding on abounds.
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Wall-st
Mary Moore
Miss Moore
Crimson rose of love and fading memory at St Pauls
Poem fragment recalls a crimson rose given in love last summer. The speaker notes the beau’s vow of eternal love, yet the rose withered as affection waned, while autumn winds drift and the memory endures at St Pauls.
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St. Paul's
Beautiful Words to a Bride Letter from Rochester Limes
A romantic note accompanies wedding cards, praising the bride and groom and foretelling a future of shared time and deep union. The letter uses metaphors of clocks and watches to express devotion and the hope of a blessed, lasting marriage.
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Rochester
Window Seat Decoration and Storage Tips
A plain board seat on wooden brackets can be built by a carpenter and used with a mattress shaped from old coverings. Upholstered hair mattresses may be buttoned and flounced. Underseat storage should be boxed and matched to room woodwork. Color schemes guide cover fabrics and curtains with cretonne or silk. Shelves near the seat provide space for personal belongings.
New Upright Pianos at Wulschner's
Progress laundry advertises collars and cuffs at 1 percent price. New upright pianos offered with ten dollars down and a monthly payment at Wulschner's 128 130 North Pennsylvania Street.
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Wulschner’s
Pennsylvania-st
Progress Laundry
Ormonde Elides Daily Lunch Service at 16 W Pearl St
A full meal for 100 cents is offered as a daily business lunch from 10 a m to 2 p m. A ladies lunch is served on the second floor. Location cited as Ormonde at 16 West Pearl street.
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Ormonde
W. Pearl St
Grand Hotel Cafe Beet Meals in City
Beet meals attract diners at the Grand Hotel Cafe as residents try the new menu. Local patrons report flavorful dishes and quick service, with the cafe promising seasonal specials and chef recommendations.
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Grand Hotel
Melba recounts prosperous American tour and stock gains
At the Hotel Cecil in London Mme. Melba describes a successful American tour aided by operatic earnings and stock speculation. She notes a fortune spent on gowns and recounts near misses including a bronze statue, a cart accident, a four in hand reins slip, and a trapdoor mishap during Faust, all yet she kept her luck on the stock market.
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Mme. Melba
Cecil
London
America
Stock Exchange
New York
Two Simple Desserts Banana Jelly and Tapioca Jelly
Banana jelly uses eight ripe bananas mashed with sugar and apricot jam, plus gelatine dissolved in lemon juice or lemon jelly with water, cooled then mixed with banana puree and set in mold. Tapioca jelly soaks tapioca, cooks slowly with water, then adds fruit juice and sugar until clear, poured into molds and served cold with cream and powdered sugar.
Local citizen endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney pain
Mr. C F Cook of Indianapolis describes six years of kidney pains and nocturnal secretions eased by Doan's Kidney Pills. He cites back and groin pain relief, restored ability to walk, and urges friends to use the remedy. Pills sold by dealers at 59 cents or by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. Remember the name Doan's.
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Indianapolis
C. F. Cook
Daugherty Street
Dean
Henry J. Huder
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Thea
Price Notice From A Q WM. Rogers Adverts
In the basement sale notice concedes offers for silverware and other items. The fragment shows a nineteenth century WM. Rogers line with hints of prices and a general sale advertisement.
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Rogers
New Lamp Shades in Silk and Poppy Patterns
The latest lampshades feature fine white silk with hand painted figures and floral motifs, edged with thick white silk. A square option showcases crimson poppies with corner fills. Lamps embrace simple, late designs including ribbon frills and new placket straps for fastening.
Hit of state meet by Emporia woman author
Mrs. William A. White of Emporia Kansas wowed a state meet of clubs with a humorous paper on women's pages written by men filled with sly jests about male writers. It mocks dire writing when morale fails and highlights the era's playful gender commentary.
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William A. White
Emporia
Kas
Remarkable Cure with Chamberlain’s Remedy in Dorr West Virginia
J. W. Lynch of Dorr West Virginia recounts a severe flux case that was permanently cured after taking Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He urges others to use the remedy and notes it is sold by all druggists.
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Chamberlain
J. W. Lynch
Dorr
W. Va
White Hat Styles Appeal to Summer Women
Many pure white hats and bonnets have been ordered for summer wear by some women. Some feature gleams of gold that temper the white, feathered tips with gold creating a softly sparkling effect, and white garments dotted with glittering gold accents present a singularly becoming look.
Social Purity Response and Humorous Medical Pitch
A mock quote recalls Mrs. Jully Ward Howe declining social purity advocacy as a filthy topic. The ad promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Hood’s Pills, claiming they cure humor-related illnesses and pair well with the tonic, touting non irritability and effectiveness.
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Jully Ward Howe
Merchants Lunch at Union Station Café
A brief items list notes a merchants' lunch priced at 25 cents at Union station restaurant, along with collar and cuff service at 134 cents and Progress laundry details.
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Try Merchants
Union Station
Cincinnati and Return $1 Special Train Heading West
Cincinnati to Hamilton Connersville Rushville stop service May 14 with a special fast train leaves 7 15 a m return from Cincinnati at 6 25 p m. Fares include $41 via C H D Ry. formatted for a period newspaper ad with times and stops.
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Rushville
Connersville
Hamilton
Cincinnati
Big Four service via Peoria to Denver and coast
The quickest route to Denver and the Pacific coast runs through the Peoria division of the Big Four. The train leaves Indianapolis at 7 23 a m daily except Sundays and arrives in Denver at 6 20 the next morning with only one car change in Union depot at Peoria. The sun ad suggests the best way to tell readers about items for sale through solar liners.
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Big Four
Denver
Pacific Coast
Peoria
Indianapolis
Union Depot
Everybody's Servant Union Trust Company Services
The Union Trust Company offers a wide range of services including property management, rent and interest collection, taxes and assessments, deeds and reinvestments, insurance placement, and estate settlement. It highlights expert handling across lines, free advice on wills and trusts, and moderate charges for services. Consultation invited.
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Tha Union Trust Company
Local Officers Listed for Organization
Officers listed include John H. Holliday as President Addison C Harris as First Vice President Henry Eitel as Second Vice President and Treasurer and H M Foltz as Secretary in the organizational roster.
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John H. Holliday
Addison C. Harris
Henry Eitel
H. M. Foltz
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Topeka
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Kansas
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Wwe
Senwee
Oods Department
Iee
Theestar
Washington Sti
Rockers
R. T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Sayre
Haut-Ton
Gouraud
U. S
Canadas
Europe
Ferd. T. Hopkins
Prop’r
Great Jones St
N.Y
Wulschner & Son
Pennsylvania
Hoot
Hood
The
Union Trust Comp'ays
Battle Creek Health and
Storch
Eiick
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