Dinner Party Plays Host to Secrets and Scandals
At Mrs Moore’s dinner, Fred Musgrave notices Captain Claughton’s absence and learns of his brother’s death. Mrs Fenton shines as a conversationalist while Susie Moores icy reserve foils her advances. Laura Fenton sings and the party debates money and romance, revealing tensions over inheritance and social maneuvering.
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Tred
Cromwell Road
Claughton
Fred
Mrs. Moore
Fred Musgrave
Acres
Susie
Miss Moore
Mrs. Fenton
Plano
Old Breffit
Laura
Bim
A Knowing Spaniel and a Senator at Dinner
Senator HL C Hansbrough spoke in Washington about old age pensions and savings reform. The tale recalls Hank Shuster of Devils Lake who trained his spaniel to save a cent daily, later earning a sandwich stuffing with sausage after five copper coins were saved.
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HL. C. Hansbrough
Washington
Hank Shuster
Shuster
Devils Lake
Yank
Permanent Residents in Jail Visit Sparks Curiosity
Tit-Bits recounts visitors led by the chief warden to a jail room where three women sew. A visitor asks about the prisoners, and the warden explains they have no home and that the women are his wife and two daughters serving as part of the inmates.
Setting Himself Hight and the Roast Pig Eulogy
Charles Lamb dictates a eulogy on roast pig while veering from muckraking topics. He downplays public health questions to avoid meddling in food supply matters. A separate quip notes flattery in relationships.
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Charles Lamb
Chicago Tribune
Profitable Dairying as a Smart Farm Strategy
Dairy expert Hugh G. Van Pelt argues location matters less than intensive, diversified farming. He cites rising dairy product prices, cooperative creameries, and the dairy cow’s unique fit with mixed farming, noting small farms often outperform large ones under careful management.
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Hugh G. van Pelt
Iowa State Dairy Associatio
Conductor Foils Mysterious Passenger On Shaker Lakes Car
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report describes a woman among several passengers on a Shaker Lakes car. The conductor, wary of a possible self harming act, spots her drawing a small item from a satchel before she simply powders her nose.
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Shaker Lakes
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Better Change His Name
A Pittsburg family moved from an eastern city to Oakland and enrolled their thirteen year old son in Bellefield school. The boy stuttered when trying to give his name to the principal who offered to write it instead, prompting the boy to reveal his name is David Daniel Dud Donnelly an.
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Pittsburg
Bellefield School
Oakland
David
Daniel
Donnelly
Pitteburg Gazette
Doctors and Other Good Things From Henry Pritchett
Doctor Henry 8 Pritchett, head of the Carnegie foundation, argues America has too many physicians relative to population, noting three times as many as Europe. He jokes that excess doctors resemble a patient who overate health food and caused a paroxysm of pain. Minneapolis Journal.
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Henry 8. Pritchett
The
Carnegie Foundation
America
Europe
Pritchett
Minneapolis
Journal
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Hood
Farmers’ Co-Operative Creamery
Manly
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