Silver Ribbons Charmian and Jim Bennett Complicates Love
In a small town, Charmian Davis and Jim Bennett face misunderstandings after Charmian writes a letter she hopes explains her feelings. Grandma notes Jim’s absence and Charmian’s changed mood as John Carter and doctor visit, discuss possible misaddressed mail, and a missing reply. Lizzie Baker and Luella Moore Purdie enter with town talk about Edgar selling a house, as Charmian contemplates her future at the school and the hut.
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de Charmian
Grandma
Sonny
Charmian
Fall the Davises
Doctor
Jimmy Bennett
John Carter
Bennett
Jim
Fane
Jimmy
Charman
Frase
Cesimian
Lizzie Reker
Sarah Bennett
South Wickfield
Azra
Fara
RFD
John Csiter
Jim Bennett
Grandin
Lizzie Baker
Luella Moore Purdie
Telean
Edgar
Tis Task New
Wickfield talk of refuge and California fruit farm dreams
In Wickfield families discuss money, marriage, and new plans as Luella seeks refuge and Sarah Bennett moves to California to run a fruit farm. Grandma and Lizzie react to rumors of a potential lawsuit, a burned bread mishap, and Jim’s uncertain future with Wickfield Bank. To be continued.
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WickSeld
Luella
Elgar Purdie
Granda
Lizzie
Grandma
Tye
Lucila
Jimmy
Jim
Ull Gabriel
Miss Ligne
George K
Sarah
Wickfield
Lizsie
Geandron
Teanett
California
Sophie
Grand
Worm Exterminat Mother Graves Remedy Promoted
A brief notice advocates prompt relief for worm suffering in children with a simple strong remedy named Worm Exterminat by Mother Graves, urging swift action to prevent prolonged illness.
Names Instead Of Numbers In San Francisco Chinatown
In San Francisco Chinatown the telephone exchange uses long distance memory rather than numbers. Four thousand two hundred subscribers rely on operators who identify callers by names and distinctive details to route calls. This memory system requires operators to extract street, business, or other characteristics when multiple John Smiths exist in the rectory.
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San Francisco
Chinatown
Telephone Exchange
John Smith
Linking the Empire Tel ephone Route to India
The post office department expects to connect England and India by telephone soon with a Rugby transmitting station and Baldock receiving station, enabling near empire-wide service similar to the Australia line. Real Estate Man: “Yes, but you’ll have to sign a two-year lease.”
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England
India
Post Office Department
Australia
Rugby
Baldock
Hertfordshire
Beebe Sets New Depth Record In Deep Sea Dive
Naturalist adventurer William Beebe descends to 60 feet off Bermuda in a steel globe with quartz windows and oxygen tanks, then pushes toward a half mile depth as scientists note his risk taking and discoveries in a city frontier of the ocean. He plans to reach unprecedented depths, exploring a largely unseen world beneath modern sea lanes.
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Asia
Australia
New York
William Beebe
Bermuda
Beebe
Philadelphia Ledger
Captain Archibald Carries Car Aboard Airplane In Flight
Captain RD Archibald announced a milestone in travel by planning to carry an automobile aboard his airplane on future flights. He began a trip to Nova Scotia with the 1100 pound British car, housed in a custom aircraft under construction. The car sits about three feet above the ground and is upholstered in red morocco.
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RD. Archibald
Los Angeles
Sydney
N.S
New York
Ptain Archibald
Nova Scotia
London Licencing Commission Dr Weeks cites reduced drinking
The London Licensing Commission is told by Dr Weeks that the working class is emancipated from alcohol abuse. He concludes drinking habits are improving and dreary days of heavy drinking are gone. He links declining drunkenness to rising living standards and waning mass misery, noting progress over 50 years.
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Dr. Weeks
London Licensing Commission
London Daily Herald
Centenarian planter Set to plant fifty eighth tree
Cheney P. Whitney of Shortlie New York has returned to his Orleans homestead and planted a tree. Now ninety three years old, Whitney has set out his fifty eighth tree. Every one he has planted since 72 has thrived.
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Cheney P. Whitney
Shortle
N.Y
Orleans
Whitney
Good Advice on Timing and Doing Good Now
The text notes a wit’s view that there is a time for all things and urges doing a good thing now rather than delaying. It laments that people often reverse the process and spoil the order of things by waiting.
Vegetable Compound Story From Cardston Advert
Cardston Alberta readers recall a long standing claim about a vegetable compound. The reminiscence centers on a mother of eighteen and her decades of reliance on the product, with family members recounting how it was introduced and trusted over forty years.
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Cardston
Albert
Brerna Sanaa Siew
Tie
Alberta
Berlin plans giant flying wing to rival zeppelins
An Berlin aircraft firm plans a giant airliner of the flying wing type to challenge airships. It would carry 129 passengers with a 21 ton payload and a 5100 mile range using Diesel engines. Proponents say planes offer speed and weather resilience, potentially opening direct Europe to North America routes.
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Dirigibles
Berlin
Zeppelina
North Atlantic
Equator
Columbus
Europe
North America
Nine Non English or French Dailies in Canada Reported
The Soo Star notes nine daily Canadian newspapers printed in languages other than English or French. Victoria and Vancouver each have a Chinese daily, Toronto has two, Vancouver lists Japanese dailies, Winnipeg and Toronto host Jewish dailies, and Sudbury publishes one Finnish paper. About 38 weekly papers in other languages exist, with circulations from 1,850 to 20,000, Winnipeg accounting for roughly half. Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton are well represented overall.
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Canada
Soo Star
Victoria
Vancouver
Toronto
Winnipeg
Sudbury
Montreal
Edmonton
The Sensible Age and a Boston Marriage Ad
A 20 year old Boston woman advertises for a Canadian husband aged 30 claiming wisdom comes with age. The note questions whether 30 equates to sensitivity as men may still act foolishly, implying a clash between assumed maturity and behavior. Also cited are Miller's Worm Powders praised for palatable taste and claimed health benefits for children.
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Boston
Vancouver Province
Growers Shipped Over Twenty Five Million Returns in 1928
The Associated Fruit Growers reported shipping 26 463 cars of fruit and vegetables in 1928, yielding 25 697 425 dollars with operating costs under three and a half percent. It notes big crops did not always fetch the highest sums. In 1927 3 622 cars brought 4 193 593 dollars and in 1928 4 463 cars brought 3 533 618 dollars.
London Hotel Project Aims for 2000 Rooms Near Marble Arch
The Building Large project plans a hotel near Marble Arch with 2000 bedrooms and en suite bathrooms. The development targets the largest hotel in Europe, alongside Thames House at Millbank as a major commercial building project outside America.
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London
Thames House
Millbank
America
Marble Arch
First Apples Exported From Nova Scotia to Liverpool in 1549
The first apples exported from Nova Scotia were shipped by sailing vessel from Halifax to Liverpool in 1549, fetching $2 per barrel. In 1886 a schooner carried 700 barrels to Boston, price $2.50 per barrel. Saxony now has 1,543 singing societies with 56,198 members.
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Nova Scotia
Halifax
Liverpool
Boston
USA
Saxony
Duty and Resolve Across Ages in Brief Verses and Ads
A compact set of quotes urges steadfast duty from Marcus Aurelius Epictetus and Isaiah while a late 19th century ad touts Dr Thomas electric oil as a universal remedy for internal and external ailments. The fragment hints at marketing language for a topical patent medicine with claims of wide usefulness.
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Thomas
Unusual Goldfish Pool Service At Loew Lexington Theatre
A Lexington theatre offers a novel service where departing visitors drop off their goldfish in a lobby pool. Begun in 1923 by an East Sixties visitor, the practice saw drivers unloading fish bowls as owners failed to claim them. Since no one can identify owners, patrons replace their pets, keeping the pool well populated. Meanwhile, canal boat travel described with large superstructures and ribbon like interior canals appears in a separate brief.
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Loew's
Lexington Theatre
New York
Loew
Iia
Paradise Within Prince Albert National Park Waterways
The region holds three major lakes in Prince Albert National Park linked by waterways allowing days of paddling. The area, nicknamed the prairie’s wonderland, also features a grocery store serving about 300 people in the United States.
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Prince Albert Nationalark
Prairies
United States
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Christine Whiting Parmenter
Mimard
Lisin
Depths
Zeppelins
Mine Daily Foreign Papers
Associated Fruit Growers
B.C
Minard
Isaiah
Lewis Morris
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Loew's Theatre
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