Trust game fuels romance in Veronica plot twist
Wealthy broker John Sterling tools a million dollar trust to lure a suitor for his daughter Veronica. Rolfe Darwin, a shrewd broker, uncovers the ruse and ends up winning Veronica's hand while Sterling’s plan to marry her to a millionaire crumbles as truth and affection prevail.
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Rolfe
Father
Veronica
Thalfe
Canada
Veronica Sterling
Lawyer Dlorse
John Sterling
Mapleton
Motte
Veronis
Rolfe Darwin
Lucifer
Miss Sterling
Lnck
Morse
Sterling
Ino
Mr. Sterling
Shely
Rolfe Dawson
Physician Helps Ailing Mother Then Gives Son $2
An Indianapolis doctor who sees many poor patients in exchange for free care visits a dying elderly woman. After telling her son nothing more could be done, he lends $2 in silver dollars to the son, who later borrows the money back for another doctor’s input. The physician learns the son used the gift as a loan.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
Saving the Gas Bobble Becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer
A humorous Tintin style snippet shows a father adjusting a green chandelier lamp to meet new lighting rules. Bobbie sits just outside the light radius reading a dense volume, provoking a sharp remark about costs and parental patience.
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Bobble
London
Dad
Bobbie
Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie birthplace on Martinique explored
The paper records Arthur de Booy’s visit to La Pagerie on Martinique with local historian M. Camille Guy aiming to preserve Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie’s childhood sites. It details the plantation ruins, kitchen walls, a planned monument, and local traditions about Josephine’s birth and prophecies told by Euphemia, including her rise from Creole upbringing to Empress of France and marriage to Beauharnais and later Napoleon.
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Tring
West India
Martinique
Theodore de Booy
Museum of the American Indian
Heye Foundation
New York City
Simon Hayot
Josephine Taxcher de la Pogerie
Napoleon Bonaparte
France
de Rooy
Bulletin of the
Pan-American Union
Josephine
M. Camille Guy
la Pagerie
Josephine Tascher
Messire J. G. Tascher de
Monsieur Tascher
Madame Tascher
Tascher
Monsieur Guy
la Pogerie
Walla
Tuscher
Euphemia
Itema
la Valerie
Europe
Periah
Celtie Gaul
Alexander de Beauharnais
Maria
Monsieur de Tauscher
Maurin
de Beauharnais
Louis XV
Leutenant
Napoleon
St. Bilma
Hortense de Beauharnais
c'Matme Tasch
Armenians an Ancient Race in World History
The article traces Armenian origins from ancient steppes and Danube plains through migrations to Phrygia and Ararat, detailing early kingdoms around 700 BCE, Haik legends, and interactions with Hittites Medes Persians and Assyrian rulers as Armenia expands and endures through shifting powers.
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Armenia
J. de Morgan
Malling
Europe
Russia
Lower
Danube
Hellespont
Phrygia
Lake van
Nineveh
Haik
Halk
Iran
Ararat
Paper Making in India Amid Global Shortage
The piece notes India could produce enough paper to meet Asia’s demand, exploiting cheap power and water. It suggests using cotton stalks and forest byproducts, with forests near water power suitable for grinding into pulp. It also highlights near sea sites for chlorine production via electrolysis and the wider potential for water power transmission.
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India
Asia
Harvard Observatory Contributions to Star Classification
The Harvard College Observatory has classified 220000 stars by special types and logged over 2,000,000 brightness measurements. It helped discover about three quarters of known variable stars and set global standards for star magnitudes and spectra. Continuous photographic records since decades cover stars to the eleventh magnitude at observatories in Cambridge Maas and Arequipa Peru, with a million plates weighing 120 tons.
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Harvard College Observatory
Cambridge
Maas
Arequipa
Peru
Wonders of injury care in France praise Prof Amar
A French hospital scene praises Prof Jules Amar for medical work aiding disabled soldiers. A patient who lost an arm turns brass shells on a lathe as souvenirs while others demonstrate metal and wood drilling with precision tools.
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France
Jules Amar
Paris
Rivalry Insight Offers Cautions and Reflections
Advice stresses caution and self awareness in rivalry. It warns that opponents may know more than they appear and that one should assume less certainty, guiding prudent strategy and measured confidence.
Washington's Clear Right to Title City Beautiful
Washington is hailed as the city beautiful in the second decade of the twentieth century. The piece lauds L'Eauffant plans, praises the capital’s artistry, and contrasts its restrained, thoughtful development with Gotham’s bustle. It highlights Washington as cosmopolitan, metropolitan, and poised to grow under prudent government care.
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Ashington
Washington
L'Ein+fant
George Washington
Paris
Berlin
Buenos Aires
Rio
Gotham
Besieging Banners Removed as Night Falls at Congress
Earl Godwin describes in the Washington Star how suffrage banners guard the House of Representatives day and night. A night incident shows a store room door opened by an employee and the banners being stored inside the building, signaling the siege’s temporary retreat for the night.
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House of Representatives
Earl Godwin
The
Washington Star
New Jersey Avenue
BK Street
House
Congress
Capital Is Waxing Enthusiastic Over Garden Plots
Washington expert H. M. Connolly of the agriculture department predicts gardening will surpass golf or fishing in popularity this summer. He outlines essentials: an enthusiastic gardener, suitable soil, and proper soil preparation. He notes any soil can start a garden with the right methods.
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Washington
H. M. Connolly
Department of Agriculture
Connolly
County Cider and the Queer Name of an Old Mare
An old colored man tells how his mare County Cider earned her name after a tale of a lord who named himself after the Heavenly Master and pursued a young widow. The woman who hears the tale ponders if the mare’s name began as Countess Ida as she buys thread and moves on with her day.
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County Cider
Law
Sara
Ida
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W. G. Chapman
Holfe Darwin
Stoulk
Bniting Svouriches
Dawson
Sterning
Sterling Calm
LA Paorris
Harvard Observatory
Senaitive Steel Handa
Jen
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