Hidden Love and a Forged Past Bring Dexter to Truth
Morton faces a moral crisis as Dexter returns from summer away changed, ravaged by a past forged to save money. Molly pushes him toward honesty and a marriage with Helen, while a long-buried paternity revelation reshapes loyalties in a tense domestic drama.
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FP. H. Lancaster
Daily Story Pub
Cook
Dexter Hayton
Alort
Molly
Dexter
Boyton
Uttle
Edward
Ima T
Morton
Grayton
Mr. Boyton
New Orleans
Tulane
Helen
Myeolf
Mally
Western States
Indore
Gracioux
Mat
Hin
The Fashionable Frowner Backed by Modern Wrinkle Prevention
A brief note from the Montreal Herald and Star describes the “frowner” a stiff white paper stamp with gum on back used to prevent wrinkles between the brows and at eye corners. It can be bought at fashionable shops or homemade, cut circular, and moistened to adhere, leaving no trace after removal.
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Montreal Herald and Star
Recreation and travel desires of Drew Barrymore in old interview
Actress Drew Barrymore extols simple pleasures from han som cab rides in London to piano playing and even imagined mechanical art. The piece blends her views on recreation as a fine art with notes on Swiss hydro power and a Mount McKinley name change proposal in New Hampshire.
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Ethel Drew Barry
London
New York
Forty-second Street
Drew Barrymore
Dfennes
McKinley
West New Hampshire
Mount Pleasant
Presidential Range
Mount McKinley
Itiaamuchaa
Betides
Oxens
Lincoln
Hownday
Franconia
Mount Garfold
Haystack Mountain
Outgrowing the Foreigners in U S Population
The censua shows native white population exceeds foreign born by more than five to one with 56 million whites and about 10 million foreigners. Native parentage totals over 41 million. Since 1890 native whites rose 28 percent while foreign whites rose only 12 percent, implying the foreign element will steadily shrink as the population homogenizes.
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United States
Chicago Merchant Mrines and Marshall Field Pioneer of Chicago Trade
Chicago merchant Mrines born 1835 on a Massachusetts farm began in Pittsfield dry goods at 17 then moved to Chicago. He donated to colleges and founded the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago with a gift of 1,000,000 dollars.
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Chicago
Marshall Field
Massachusetts
Pittsfield
Field Columbian Museumi
Hoarding Hones Drive to Drink Warns Public
New York minister George L. McNutt, who left preaching to work among the poor, condemns hoarding and rising house fares. He argues price gouging leads many to drink and calls for penitentiary offenses for such acts.
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George L. McNutt
New York
Buried Alaska Forests Stir Tropical Climate Theories
A fragment notes buried forests in Alaska reawakening debate on a once tropical or semi tropical Arctic climate. It mentions a New England professor who argued that initially poles hosted vegetation and human life as Earth cooled, with humanity migrating southward in prehistory.
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Faemer Forest
Alaske
Alaska
Arctic
New England
Dunning the Dead Note From Devila Lake Nurse
A misdirected note received at a Devila Lake North Dakota infirmary reveals a patient objecting to claiming a deceased man as relative. The letter questions the sender's conscience and urges a better life, stating meeting the man in heaven would be worth more than forty dollars to any doctor.
Hakime Wrestling Practice Described in Old Text
The Hakime men favor wrestling beside gambling, relying on strength over skill. Wrestlers sit on the floor side by side, face in opposite directions, touch elbows, lock arms, and strive to straighten the other's arm.
Fredericksburg Man Discovers Kidney Cure in Pills
A Fredericksburg resident claims Roy E. P. Stevens asserts he has found a universal kidney remedy. He says Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured his lifelong urine leakage and restored health, and he cites successes in Bright’s disease and other kidney ailments. Also noted are apples storage advice and a discussion on mathematical asymptotes, plus a protest by Vienna hairdressers against short male hairstyles lasting about thirty millimeters.
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Ulargyman
Fredericksburg
Ind
Roy
E. P. Stevens
Dodd
Bright
The Firm Foundation in a Nation of Schoolgoing Children
San Francisco Chronicle notes that nearly 17 million American children attend school nearly one fourth of the population, linking this fact to the nation’s identity as enlightened and progressive.
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Firm Foundation
The
Republic
San Francisco Chronicle
A Thrust at the A ludy friend remark after church attendance
A Hazel Green Herald reader recalls a remark made after a church service about the number of elderly attendees. The note questions where the 60 or so longtime members have gone and ends with a light call to wait for dinner on the grounds.
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Hazel Green Herald
Extraordinary avalanche fact heard by buried men
A striking note reports that those buried under deep snow can distinctly hear every word shouted above them while even the loudest calls fail to reach beyond a few feet. This remarkable phenomenon underscores the peril and odd acoustics associated with snow avalanches.
Leading Agriculturist Praises Western Canada for Wheat Promise
In a letter to The Farmer dated September 1901 Prof Thomas Shaw of Minnesota State University outlines Western Canada as a vast, climate suited for wheat and stock. He notes Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta have high cultivation potential with yields around 20 bushels per acre, plus strong cattle and grazing prospects. He cites railroads government support and rich grass as factors boosting stock quality and suggests land costs remain favorable.
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Thomas Shaw
Minnesota
St. Paul
Minnesota State University
Canada
Western Canada
Prairie
Manitoba
Auilniboin
Saskatchewan
Assiniboia
Alberta
Peace River
Athabasca
Rockies
Mantoba
Ontario
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Lord Coe
Br. Boyton
Upstaira
Helton
Lord Gitai
Raive
Aarvante
Health and Beauty
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Wesley
Rhone
Switzerland
Lewson
Geneva
Lake ‘Leman
Western
Quilty
Winnipeg
Kipling
Congress
Washington
Throw
Oklahoma
New Mex Fco
Repubican
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