A Poor Courtship in a City Shop
Margie Harrison toils in a bustling department store while longing for sunlit freedom. A country youth secretly wooes her with gifts of pansies and violets, defying a strict shop-walker, and a sudden discharge accelerates their unlikely romance as he reveals plans to transplant her to a farm life and a future together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margie Harrison
Carash
Margie
Storaie
Shea
Rod
Marsie
Ming Harrison
Riley
Gale
Anid
Inneriean
Bar
Mag
Almount
Sam Philly Douglas
Urlekiy
Margery Harrison
Margery
Fred
Yorks
Ally
Philip
Mina Harrison
Wan EU
Sersoned
Tam
Phillip
Brat
Tuat
Margio
May Garbutt
Mother's Burglar and a Village Tea After Fear
In Plumfield a farm wife recalls a genuine burglar scare tied to Jane Emmeline's house. Mrs. Dakin narrates the night watch, gas whistles, detectives hired by Mr. Graham, and a tense village conscience. Beccy Bunker listens as the tale ends with laughter and relief.
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Beccy Bunker
Sarah Jane
Plumfield
Dakin
Jane Emmeline
Widder Bunker
Jane Emmoeline
Beccy
Miss Bunker
Jané
Jane
Graham
Abe
Mr. Graham
Jana
Sallor
Jane Emimeline
David
Ealler
Grutmm
Jaye
Perlice
Odd Carnation Travel Tips From a Haphazard Guide
A quirky travel tip describes wearing two carnations and a raw potato for an Atlantic voyage. The flowers are alternated, each placed into a potato hole when not in the buttonhole. After a week, one carnation supposedly remains fresh enough to impress.
Amended Footwear Advice From a Fragmented Text
A garbled passage suggests proper shoe fit at work affects comfort and foot measurement, contrasting well fitting shoes with a supposed restful but poorly described alternative. The fragment hints at wearers experiencing changes in how feet are measured or assessed.
Kitchen order and cleanliness for healthy homes
A 19th century domestic guidance piece by ELIZA R PARKER stresses a neat airy kitchen as central to family health and comfort for farmers. It prescribes proper ventilation, equipped Utewalls, ample storage, a safe with drawers, dishcloths, and regular cleaning with borax, white ash, and hot water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza R, Parker
Nasturtiums Grow Easy In Warm Soils And Sun
A contributor to How to Grow Flowers recalls planting nasturtiums along a house wall. They thrived when started from soaked seeds, planted shallowly in rich soil on the south side, kept damp at roots, and protected from overwatering once established. The plants produced blossoms in pale yellow to dark brown with stripes and spots.
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Jack Bost
Taleo
Destructive to Anta-W PF Massey of Raleigh
Hortfoulturlet answers inquiries claiming the best method tried is driving pests away with a decoction of green willow twigs. The writer suggests sprinkling around the ears where bother is felt to drive them off.
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Massey
Raleigh
N. C
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Kazake
Tifiis
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Sadiic
Mecca
Mis
Bunker
Maida
Auller
Widder
Jane Hmmeline
Waltin
Eton
Vella
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