Frivolous Fad Costs Bank Heirloom in Ridgeton tale
Cyrus Merrill, owner of the oldest bank in Ridgeton, confronts his nephew Alton over postponing a career to pursue a photography fad. Alton’s romance with Winifred Price intertwines with a banker’s swindle scheme involving a mysterious swindler Richard Wolfe and forged bonds, ending with the uncle’s vow to disown any public admission while Alton’s capture of the culprit restores trust.
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Cyrus Merrill
Ridgeton
Alton Merrill
Alton
Winifred Price
Winifred
Merrill
Valley Manufacturers
Richard Wolfe
Mr. Merrill
R. W
Wolfe
Rogues
School trip ends with eerie farm question
A Philadelphia public school teacher arranged summer visits for two boys to a relative's Chester County farm. One boy Danny Mullen aged around eleven woke before dawn to be shown milking cows by a farmhand. The incident prompted Danny to ask if cows must be milked by sneaking up on them.
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Philadelphia
Chester County
Danny Mullen
Danny
Learn to Help Yourself from Arthur M. Judy
An Atlantic essay by Arthur M. Judy argues many people stop when faced with a blind wall and suggests proactive self-help approaches to overcome obstacles. The piece emphasizes personal agency and resilience in problem solving.
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Arthur M
Judy
The
Atlantic
Day of the Bottle and Liquor Themes in Scott Works
The piece notes seeps of heavy drinking in Scotland and England as depicted by Sir Walter Scott. It cites Rob Roy where Sir Hildebrand Osbaldi stone tells Francis and Rashleigh to gradually inure their brains to a gentlemanly amount of liquor and how to carry six bottles under their belt quietly.
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Scotland
England
Walter Scott
Rob Roy
Hildebrand Osbaldistone
Francis
Rashleigh
The Callers and The Path to Self-Reliance
The passage contrasts urban and rural youth training. City life directs youths to call many specialists for help with problems, while farmers’ children learn to be self sufficient. This fosters initiative and a belief they can handle anything that happens.
Proper Education Says Aggression Is Selfishness
The Popular Educator urges teaching children that aggression is selfish, and that withholding what we should give is selfish too. It argues nations are measured by the standards we apply to individuals, since nations are only men.
Atrocities Reported by Russians in East Prussia
Berlin cites 81 affidavits alleging Russian troops killed, tortured, and looted German civilians and prisoners of war during two East Prussia invasions. The memorial details mass murders, brutal mutilations, floggings, and threats aimed to influence peace talks and halt Russian expansion in Europe.
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Chicago News
Berlin
Germany
Russia
Europe
London
East Prussia
Rennenkampff
Connecticut Boy to Inherit Million at Twenty-One
William J. Smith Cary, a Connecticut youngster depicted in an illustration, is slated to inherit $1,000,000 when he reaches the age of twenty-one.
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William J. Smith Cary
Connecticut
Biggest Girl Bride Draws Crowds at Union Station
Mrs. M A Gowdy a 16 year old weighing 6587 pounds married to Gowdy. She says she likes being fat and rejects weight loss. The couple met two weeks earlier and she performed a buck and wing dance in Miss Anna Shelton’s hairdressing parlor.
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Kansas City
M. A. Gowdy
Mrs. Gowdy
Gowdy
Josie Jolly
Carried 13 On One Ticket
In Muskogee Oklahoma Mr and Mrs Frank Scott of Highland Kansas seek a large home for land and a growing brood Their 19 children include five sets of triplets two sets of twins with 13 living all under five The tale notes the railway conductor finally allowed five double seats for the family after seeing their birth records in the Bible.
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Muskogee
Okla
Frank Scott
Highland
Kan
Ten Don’ts to Prevent Forest Fires in East Washington
The U S forest service urges public cooperation to curb spring fires across the southern Appalachians and North woods. Ten prohibitions cover disposal of matches and cigarette butts, care with campfires, fire placement, extinguishing methods, brush burning limits, home fire caution, and reporting fires promptly to guards or rangers. It notes thousands of acres burned from Maine to Florida and Arkansas, with 49 fires on national forest lands in March and 44 on private lands near government boundaries, while April saw more fires but some relief from rains.
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Washington
United States Forest Service
Southern
Appalachians
North Woods
Maine
Florida
Atlantic Coast
Arkansas
National Forest Purchase
Married to Spanish Prince Hidden Society Wedding
Miss Ruth Waters a New York society figure secretly wed Prince Ludovico Pignatelli d'Aragon a Spaniard and distant relative of King Alfonso. Engagement had not been officially announced though she hinted at a possible match. Parents in New York opposed the union due to her youth.
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Alfonso
Ruth Waters
New York
Philadelphia
Narragansett Pier
Palm Beach
Prince Ludovico Pignatelli d'Aragon
Grandmother at Twenty-Nine in Savannah Grand
Mrs Josephine Davis Hill, a former Macon woman now living in Millbrook Alabama, is reported to be a grandmother at age twenty nine. She was married at twelve became a mother at thirteen widowed at sixteen remarried at twenty nine and a grandmother at twenty nine years and one day.
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Savannah
Josephine Davis Hill
Macon
Millbrook
Ala
Down and Out Hero Saves Two at Hudson River
Everett Morris, described as a down and out, plunged into the Hudson River at Roundout New York and rescued two boys from drowning. An onlooker paid Morris for a meal as a reward.
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N. Y
Hudson River
Everett Morris
Best Man in the Varsity Boat
A coach recalls two crew candidates. One with stronger effort and desire, the other with better scholarship. When asked to choose the best man, the determined challenger earns the seat, while the complacent one loses out despite smoother boat work.
Rogues March A Lively Old Military Quickstep
The Rogues March is a lively 18th century quickstep once played when a soldier was expelled from the English army for crimes, especially theft. Offenders had uniforms stripped then were marched with drums and fifes to the barracks gates before dismissal.
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Abraham Newlands
Austrian Naval Stronghold at Pola Described in Detail
The text portrays Pola as Austria's chief base since 1848 with fortifications, submarines and aircraft claimed to render it impregnable. It notes a two-basin harbor shielded by islands, a forts network on surrounding hills, Fasana channel roadstead, and a vast marine arsenal with artillery labs, magazines, San Policarpo barracks and hospitals nearby.
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Pola
Fasana
Brionian Islands
San Policarpo
New Doctor Cures Man After Long Illness
In a Kansas City Star column a man called Brother Fagg laments years of illness while others doubted him. A new doctor, a young graduate, prescribes a single bottle of medicine that miraculously cures him and draws fresh jokes about his laziness.
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Brother Fagg
Kansas City Star
Turning the Mangle War Time Worry
A visitor comforts Mrs Atkins whose husband is at the front. The soldier’s wife grieves as she reveals Bill is in hospital with both arms lost. The question looms who will turn the mangle for her on wash days now.
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Atkins
Bill
Asa
Not All Hearty Laughers in Bosses Ranks
The Kansas City Star quotes Sackville McKnott questioning how some bosses attain power. He contrasts cheerful workers with bosses who carry a sinister countenance, pondering the career ascent and implications of leadership.
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Sackville McKnott
Kansas City Star
Silence defeats Campbell in Virginia convention
At a Virginia convention John Randolph used a silent performance to unnerve Alexander Campbell. Campbell spoke, but Randolph’s changing expressions and a long yawn undercut his argument without a word spoken, leaving Campbell without the needed force and defeated.
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Iphigenia
Agamemnon
Virginia
John Randolph
Alexander Campbell
Randolph
Campbell
Exercise For Grace Through Daily Movements
A Woman's Home Companion writer urges graceful living through daily activities. Emphasizing proper bending, sweeping posture, and active muscle use, it promotes prosaic tasks as ways to develop poise. It advises resting upright, sleeping with full body extension, and feeling bed support for muscle relaxation.
Burial customs in Mesopotamia and Egypt
Dr L W King argues in a Egypt Exploration Fund lecture that Egyptian burial practices sprang from affection and reverence for the dead, while Babylonian rites were fear driven. He notes ghosts of unentered underworlds haunted the living, prompting strict burial rites to lay the restless dead.
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Babylon
Egypt Exploration Fund
Mesopotamia
Egypt
L. W. King
London Times
Overdraft Confusion Triggers Bank Exam in Small Town
Bert Mitchner of the Kansas City Star recounts a bank probe after a newly elected president asked for an examiner. The bank’s records showed overdrafts at about eight hundred dollars when elected, but the latest books reflect only a little over two hundred, prompting questions about the missing six hundred dollars.
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Bert Mitchner
Kansas City Star
Banking Department
The Plug Hat and Silk Hat Century
The article notes 1915 marks the centenary of the silk hat first made in 1815 and still worn at major local events. It remarks on evolving styles yearly to sustain sales and describes hats surviving like cast iron weights, seen at society events and opera in New Haven.
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Maude Adams
New Haven Journal-Courier
Victoria Government Advances Large Water Storage Projects
Victoria's government integrates water conservation into policy and authorizes about six million dollars for storage works. This marks a significant push to expand water storage capacity and secure supply.
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Australia
Victoria
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KC Lopyright
W. G. Chapman
Rollins
Auber
France
Oswald F. Schuette
Miss Jolly
Train
United States Forestry Service
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