Miss Aladdin Synopsis and Family Plans to Move West
A nineteen year old sub-deb named Nelson faces a market crash that drains her family's finances. An eccentric Colorado relative offers a home and a drastic change as Jack and Nancy debate going West together or apart. Cousins Columbine and the aunt clash over the plan while parents weigh the risky voyage and new surroundings for their children.
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Nelson
Colorado
Louise
Nance
Jack
Judy
Sis
Nancy
Columbine
Mother
Margaret
Parlor Ornament Turns Brave, Joins Cousin Columbine Trip
Nancy confronts her fear and agrees to travel with Jack and family. Her father’s worried face reveals the strain of changes ahead as Nancy vows to adapt and seek new experiences, planning a practical packing list with her brother reminding her to take flight gowns.
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Nance
Nancy
Dad
Jack
Columbine
Prairie Crossing Aboard for Colorado Adventure
Nancy Nelson and her brother Jack journey by train from Kansas toward Colorado. Aboard the moving car she reflects on homesickness and memories of family while the vast plains unfold outside. The trip rekindles Jack’s cheer as they anticipate meeting Cousin Columbine and reaching Syracuse for breakfast before final leg to Colorado.
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Nancy
Colorado
Jack
Nan Fe
Nance
Dodge City
Kansas
Washington Street
Boston
Columbine
Judy
Europe
Spear
Bagemere
Mother
South Station
Phil
Aunt Louise
Dad
New England
Syracuse
Oime
Saskasal Miracle Cure Ad Excerpt From old Notice
A vintage advertisement claims Saskasal cures indigestion and constipation through alkaline action. The letter praises the remedy, describing digestion relief and the ability to eat a wider variety of foods, and notes it is sold by drug stores for 69 cents.
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Salta
Civilized Town Near the Station impresses Nance
From a luggage lift the siblings arrive at the station and admire a blue sky and Pike's Peak. Nance notes the English manor vibe while Jack jokes about Indians. A squaw with a striped shawl and child passes, prompting banter about old times as the scene ends.
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Nance
Pike's Peak
Jack
Mike
Lance
The Rhyming Optimist Aline Michaelis Circling on the Earth
The poem extols life as cycles from birth to death with recurring circles. It uses celestial and earthly imagery to claim that cycles bring continuity, night and day, and eternal love, ending on a note of cyclical eternity.
The Flu Menace and Misattributed Deaths
Dr J W McIntosh of Vancouver told the Ontario Public Health Association that isolating influenza cases at diagnosis would slash the disease death rate to about one percent. He tabulated 2200 deaths listed as flu, but found pneumonia or streptococcus caused death in overcrowded hospitals with lowered resistance from flu.
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J. W. McIntosh
Vancouver
Vital Statistics Section
Ontario Public Health Association
Famous Doctors Exiled for Science Across Distant Lands
The article recounts Dr. Koch spending eighteen months on a desolate island in Victoria Nyanza studying the Heeping sickness. He found the disease’s carrier, the fly, feeds on crocodile blood. destroying crocodiles could end the parasite. It also tells of Dr. Andries Verhagen banished to Sumatra to study beri-beri, wrecks and leech attacks, one eye lost, yet he persisted to gain knowledge for cures.
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Dr. Koch
Great
African Lake
Victoria Nyanza
Andries Verhagen
Sumatra
Verhagen
Largest Music Library Expands With 20 000 Titles
A newly expanded music library now hosts about 20 000 titles spanning from simple band pieces to soprano and piano works and a symphony. The collection aims to bring accessible productions to the general public with wide coverage across genres and eras.
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Ste Sian
London
Howell
Betas
Eecacenie
BBC Li
Te & Reac
Pageant bans riot scene from Gordon riots 1780
The Home Office bans a scene depicting the Gordon riots of 1780 planned for the Tower of London Pageant in London. The episode is to be replaced with a different one. The pageant aims to raise funds for Tower Hill improvements, with the Prince of Wales as patron. Lord George Gordon led the mob that marched on Parliament in June 1780, spurring days of rioting and citywide turmoil.
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Tower of London
London
Home Office
Tower Hill
Prince of Wales
George Gordon
Houses of Parliament
Flags Mark Jubilee Street Closure in Ardwick
Ardwick celebrated the King's Jubilee with streamers and flags while a whitewashed message on the road warned landlords that rent was spent and the street was closed by order, reported by the Manchester Guardian.
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Ardwick
Manchester Guardian
Arning
Record gold shipment flies Amsterdam to Croydon unguarded
Duten airplanes carried a record cargo of gold worth about fifteen million dollars from Amsterdam to Croydon with no special guarding.
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Duten
Amsterdam
Croydon
Little Helps For This Week Faith Lesson
A brief religious meditation on Matthew 19 10 urging love for neighbor starting at home then expanding to town and beyond. It defines neighbor as household members, local community, and anyone met through life’s changes, stressing patience labor and charity.
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Matthew
Health department to inspect Ontario tourist camps
Hon. J. A. Faulkner said the health department will investigate Ontario tourist camps this summer to ensure proper sanitary conditions are observed. He spoke at the Canadian Public Health Association convention in Toronto.
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Ontario
Health Department
J. A. Faulkner
Canadian Public Health Association
Toronto
Dust storm in Baghdad drops 2300 tons per square mile
A record dust storm in Irak delivers an unprecedented deposition of 2300 tons per square mile across the Baghdad district, marking the worst such event on record and prompting emergency measures.
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Irak
Bagdad
Sounds and pilots data at Hollywood and Russia militia
In a Hollywood sound library at Paramount Studios a file houses over 10,000 distinct film sounds. Separately, Russia reports training more than 30,000 air pilots and mechanics through its military organization annually.
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Paramount Studios
Hollywood
Russia
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