To the Ambush of Roses
Juliet and Marjorie, cousins of opposing temperaments, navigate love and art amid plantation life. Tennant the artist and Bill Clark the neighbor return to Greatrock as Juliet and Marjorie observe entwined fates, the ambush of roses foreshadowing a clash of passion and loyalty.
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Juliet
Marjorie
Tulieé
Julieta
Trent
Miss Treat
Judy
Yoliet
Dad
Wilds
Tennant
Bill Clark
Arizona
Greatrock
Julieth
Marjerie Tuliet
Marbie
Bill Clerk
Billy
Mount Morris Park Exposes Ancient Earth’s Rocks in New York
In Mount Morris Park, Manhattan’s oldest geologic feature, a mass of schist rises eight acres and seven stories high, blocking Fifth Avenue between Madison and West Mount Morris Park. The rock is Precambrian, dating back millions of years, formed in the dawn of Earth’s creation and remaining where erosion left it standing.
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Mount Morris Park
New York City
America
Fifth Avenue
Madison Avenue
Manhattan Island
Harlem Plain
Origin of the word grouch traced to American patois
The quotation explains that grouch and grouchy originate from 140s patois and grew from streets’ coinage. Eugene Thwing in the Christian Herald says a grouch begins most speeches with a growl and that the term combines growl and speech.
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United States
Eugene Thwing
Christian Herald
The Gut of Man's Coat Collar Penny Dagger History
The collar nick recalls when collars stood up to hold the neckerchief, the slash kept the stance, and lapels lay flat. Padding on the shoulder kept the sword belt from slipping, while braid along the trouser leg reminded how tight trousers required buttons along the outer leg.
Love in a Newark theater ends in arrest
Peter Cate nacel, twenty two, was arrested by John J. Rickey, a theater special officer, after arguing that placing his arm around his fiancee during a film violated the law. Acting Police Judge Guthrie freed Cate nacel, saying he could not define what making love consists of.
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Newark
Peter Catenacel
John J. Rickey
Catenacci
Catenacel
Jndse Guthrie
New York
Mmn
The
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Selling Empty Egg Shells in Chinese Fish Hatcheries
Chinese boys earn extra pocket money by selling empty eggshells used in fish hatcheries. Shells are filled with spawn, waxed shut, placed under sitting hens, and tested after a few days. When hatching finishes, shells are broken, spawns released into water, and fish moved to progressively cooler waters as they mature.
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China
Armour Family Legacy and Hiring Philosophy
Armour founder P D Armour enjoyed flaunting wealth and giving money away by placing one dollar bills on his desk each morning and watching them vanish by night. His son J Ogden Armour recalled the pressure to ascend Armour and Co to leadership, emphasizing early grooming of capable men, even preferring tough applicants for tomorrow’s executives.
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P. Ds. Armour
Armour & Go
J. Ogden Armour
Armour & Co
I. Ogden Armour
J. D
Eat Less Live Longer Says Scholar Gypsy in New York
Jack Taylor aged sixty nine, known as the scholar gypsy, arrived in New York while en route to southern California. He preaches a diet of raw eggs corn meal chocolate raisins rye bread and molasses. Since adopting it ten years ago he has walked six thousand miles, living outdoors to gain health. He claims overeating and lack of exercise are major human ills.
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Jack Taylor
Gypsy
New York
California
Atlantic Coast
Floride
Louisiana
Tesag
Arizona
Taylor
Persistence pays off in a grateful recall by Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris recalls a battered story that was rejected in 1910 by her husband as a magazine editor. Two years later, the same tale reappeared in another magazine, unchanged, and was serialized after a modest payment, illustrating lasting optimism.
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Kathleen Norris
Boston Advertiser
The
Outlook
Speed regulator proposed for Rome streets
An automatic governor to limit city speed is being seriously considered for Rome. The device hinges on a governor type and results from the inventive labors of Messrs. Fragano and Villa.
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Rome
Messrs
Fragano
Villa
Family Reunion At Homecoming Station Visit
A traveler returns to a station waiting room where three children rush to greet her with hugs and praise. The mother learns Harry, Virginia, and Rosemary each did well at home, cooking, sweeping, and practicing music, while Harry mentions their father’s remark about a three month absence.
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Harry
Virginia
Imma
Mother
Rosemary
Daddy
Kansas City Star
A Christmas Letter Time With My Son
A Baltimore American reflection argues busy men misplace family ties for wealth. It cites a Diinels utility executive who planned to give his son an hour of daily time, but alas worked twelve hours daily. The piece urges prioritizing health and family over riches.
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Diinels
Baltimore
Rat Campaigns Succeed Across Georgia and Virginia
The USDA biological survey led an anti rat campaign in Georgia during December and extended it to Virginia with Georgia Agricultural College extension service. Atlanta's chamber of commerce funded and distributed 2.75 tons of barium carbonate bait, yielding many rats killed and prompting better rodent-proofing of buildings. The program will continue with periodic drives to sustain control.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Virginia
Extension Service
Georgia Agricultural College
Atlanta
Chamber of
Cactus Fodder Explained From Torch to Powder Form
A historical note describes processing cactus into fodder using a torch to burn thorns then slicing with a sugar works style machine. The cactus is cut into slices, dried, ground into powder, and juice pressed during slicing. The juice may become a gum arabic substitute, likely a salt of mets-arabic acid, with about 11 percent dry fodder yield.
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Journal of Engineering and Industrial Chemistry
French Workmen’s Housing Societies Expand in France
French workmen’s housing schemes called Habitations a bon Marche begin new building and sanitation projects. The state covers one third of construction costs and loans 73 percent of the remainder repayable over forty years at 2.14 percent annual interest. Societies are growing but not fast enough to meet demand.
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Ehabitations
France
Commerce Bureau
King of All Outdoors Sparks a Hobos Tale of Love and Theft
Yorkey the hobo, dubbed the King of All Outdoors, travels to a Southern style morning, discovers a courtship near Crawford place, reveals Shiny Dick a forged embezzler among hobos, confronts Rivers and Marcella’s engagement, and ends with Adrian and Marcella reconsidering their wedding as Rivers’s con game unravels.
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Marcella
Yorkey
Overs
Adrian
Rivers
Jamce
Hoboland
Hopeland
Missouri
Shiny Dick
Crawford Place
Forbes
Canada
Adrian Collings
Mr. Rivers
Mrs. Chapin
Birth custom spreads peace with hardboiled eggs in China
A neighbor sending hard boiled eggs signals a newborn blessing and a pledge of peace. The ritual requires the eggs be touched by the recipient to prevent quarrels and assure goodwill toward the child and family. The practice, centuries old, hinges on the idea that refusal to touch the eggs invites insult and conflict.
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China
Baby
Artistic Carver Hired During Strike Joke
A restaurant manager advertised for an artistic carver during a strike. The first applicant boasted that at his last job he sliced meat so thin the draught from a waiter opening the door blew the meat off the plates, and he still got hired.
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Houston Post
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