Rosamond Villars Chooses Love Over Wealth in Moral Dilemma
In a rainy night crisis, seventeen year old Rosamond Villars confronts poverty threats and a marriage proposal from rich but aging Lorenzo Richardson. Guided by piano teacher Cecil Piret, she rejects the elder suitor to wait for Cecil who has made a fortune and returns to marry. Rosamond and her parents find relief as she follows her heart to a brighter future with Cecil.
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Rosa
Minarelli
Rosamond Villars
Alexander Piret
M. Piret
Hebe
Petite
Cecil
Rosamond
Papa
Mamma
St. Marcella’s
Australia
M. Pirot
Rose-of the
Lecil
Papa Piret
Mr. Villars
Mrs. Villars
Lorenzo Richardson
Mr. Richardson
Cecil Pireti
United States
Ceci
Mr. Piret
When a Man Has the Host of It
An essay on gender roles contrasts male freedoms with female restrictions. The speaker notes men can spend freely, stay out late, and buy luxuries while women are held to strict accounting and domestic limits, claiming men sometimes have the upper hand.
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India
Nature's Doomed Foreshadow in Dark Verse at Arch Street Hotel
A damaged clipping features a biblical doom poem about nature and apocalypse. It then advertises St Kuato Hotel at 317 and 319 Arch Street, Philadelphia, noting reduced rates to two dollars per day and convenient access to business centers, depots, and streetcar routes.
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St. Kuato
Arch Street
Philadelphia
M. Feaer
A Chat About Trees and Nature Lore
Professor J S Rothrock outlines famous trees by size age history and properties at Horticultural Hall Philadelphia. He cites blue gum and big California trees with notes on cedar of Lebanon chestnut age and travels, plus amusing anecdotes and a brief on language for papa and mamma.
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J. S. Rothrock
Horticultural Hall
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
Australia
Victoria
California
North America
Rothrock
Salem
N. J
South America
Humboldt
Etna
Italy
Professor Bothrock
Asia
Washington
New Marriage License Law Takes Effect October First
The act requires licenses issued by the Orphans Court Clerk before marriage. Applicants must answer on oath about legality and provide birth, residence, occupation, and prior marriages. Parental consent needed for under twenty one, with proper acknowledgment. Two license forms issued and a fifty cent fee, plus fifty cents extra for parental consent.
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Orphans’ Court
Justice of the Peace
Thirteen years after his death a man resurfaces in Monclava township
The Toledo commercial telegraph reports Thomas Hubbell, once presumed dead and buried, later sending letters in his own name. An emptied grave prompted a Michigan medical college theory, but the man recovered in an asylum. His brother travels to Michigan to investigate. Also noted: a Lancaster rider covers seventy miles to Philadelphia in seven and a half hours. A jail lynching ends with Nick Snowden hanged at Cat Rocks. A deadly horse disease spreads in Germantown. A dog disables a gun and a man is wounded in Slawson's Hollow. Jumbo the elephant is killed by a freight train near St Thomas Canada.
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Toledo
Michigan
Hubbell
Samuel B. Downey
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Fifty-second Street
Lancaster Avenue
Downey
Downingtownn
Paoli
Hidlas Snowlen
Etheoi City
Howard County
Othe
John TV. Rey
Nick Snowden
Snowden
Cat Rocks
Pike County
Milford
Kilein
Weber
New York
Slawson’s Hollow
Dingman Township
William Boyd
Klein
G. Emerson
Jumbo
St. Thomas
Canada
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Falde
Broad Street
Walter H. Buch
Lititz, Pa
Brandt & CO
Shult
North Queen Street
Lancaster, PA
A.R. Bombeager
Lititz
WM. H. Regennas
True & CO
Augusta
Maine
Madam Puss
Puss
Elises
New England
West
South
Maman
Jeanne
Fifth Avenue
Strasburg Free Press
A. B. Wolgenuth
Manheim
Germantown
Matthew Lall
Washington Hotel
William
Clower
Tuidekoper
Veterinary Hospital of the University
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