Emma McChesney Sicksick on the road finds her son Jock in care
Emma McChesney falls ill in a Glen Rock hotel amid care from a nurse and a visiting Rod of friends. Her son Jock arrives after a cross country chase and reveals he plans to enter advertising, inspired by T. A. Buck Jr. His mother pushes him toward college first, then business, stressing preparation and discipline.
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Emma McChesney
T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company
T. A. Buck
Nagal
Glen Rock
Minn
Emma McChesmey
Minneapolis
Ma McChesney
Wire T. A. Buck, Jr
Featherloom Petticoat Company
New York
Dry Goods Review
Jock McChesney
Dry Goods
Jack
T. A. Buck, Jr
T. A. Bick, Jr
Fat Ed Meyers
Strauss Sanssilk Company
Greenhorse
Miss Haney
Hal
Mr. Meyers
Mrs. McChesney
Ea Meyers
Ed Meyers
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Miss Riordon
Miss Riordan
Jock
Ash
Jack McChesney
Chesney
Father
Detroit
O’rourke
Yale
Mastodon
Revolutionary Minutemen
East Lynne
Sorrows of Flat Life by Elizabeth Ayers
A stout woman vents about conflicts with Mrs Scuddle over neighborly disputes involving Ronald and Herbert. The tale portrays ruined outdoor spaces, dampness, miscommunications, and a clash of parenting styles in a Chicago Daily News voice.
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Ronald
Herbert
Chicago Daily News
Strenuous School Life at Shrewsbury in the Sixteenth Century
The article cites Percy Addleshaw in Life of Sir Philip Sidney describing Shrewsbury's term schedule. School ran from six to eleven in the morning then 12:45 to five in the afternoon with prayers at start and end. Thursdays were play days. extra holidays were granted on request to men of high authority.
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Shrewsbury
England
Percy Addleshaw
Sir Philip Sidney
All Saints
Alsize
Lammas Observed As Ancient Harvest Festival
The Pall Mall Gazette notes Lammas on August 1 remains a rural English quarter day. Parishes grant Lammas lands to parishioners for the year ending at Lady Day, with a loaf of new corn once placed in church marking this harvest festival.
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Scotland
England
Pall Mall Gazette
Funeral Fete Sees Isle-sur-Sagne Mourners Pay With Coins
In Isle-sur-Sagne France an old maid’s funeral drew about a thousand mourners. Her will left a distribution of 100 five-penny pieces and $20 for the funeral music. At the cemetery gate a coin scramble ensued requiring police to restore order.
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Isle-sur-Sagne
France
Paris Square Fireworks Panic Preceded Revolution
Place de la Concorde in Paris started as a waste ground used for festivals and demonstrations. In May 1770 an accidental rocket discharge during a Dauphin and Marie Antoinette wedding fireworks display caused a panic and more than twelve hundred people were crushed to death on that site.
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Parisian
Place de la Concorde
Paris
Dauphin
Marie Antoinette
France
Duty of the Wiser Part
Franklin notes that wars arise from folly and that the wiser part should ease the calamities of conflict by reducing its human cost. He frames a moral duty to mitigate suffering when violence cannot be prevented.
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Benjamin Franklin
Great Man on Stage Echoes Applause for Sunrise Moment
A quoted manager defends his troupe's unique stage craft noting a sunrise scene drew top applause. He joked the sun rose three times to satisfy the audience and emphasize the performance's impact.
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HDNA
Ferber
Dawn O'Hare
Frederick A. F*hes
Brome McChesasy
Elizabeth ‘Ayers
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