Beecroft Mariner and the Shellmaker's Son Returns
A sailor narrator recalls a life of toil and longing, returning home to Brixton after years at sea. He finds his mother aged, befriended by young Mabel, a neighbor's daughter, who shapes a tender bond. Time passes, maturing feelings as Mabel grows into a woman, unsettling the narrator's simple memory of a child. The tale ends with the narrator reflecting on shifting affections and the challenge of reconciling past love with present reality.
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Jack
Amos Beecroft
Brixton
India
Amos
Mabel
Littleaid
Ami
Beecroft
Mariner
Chanter
Sunday Meals Cause Dyspepsia Says Doctor
A medical authority critiques Sunday eating patterns, labeling skipping meals and Sunday gluttony as a vicious system. He notes gastric secretions misalign with a seventh day and warns nine of ten American families invite dyspepsia each week by irregular meals and overindulgence.
Unusual Ex-Student Turns Fifty to Study Medicine
From the Portland Daily Press, a sixty year old man, James Scott of Crow Harbor Nova Scotia, enters a three year MD program at Maine Medical School. Once a Baptist minister, he pursued accidents medicine locally and now earns his degree at thirty years past sixty, amid campus curiosity and bright memory of youth.
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Portland Daily Press
Maine Medical School
James Scott
Crow Harbor
Guysboro
N. 5
Dumfrieshire
Scotland
Nova Scotia
Scott
Mr. Scott
Uncle Jim
Pumped the Poison Out. Miss Willard Saves Suicide Attempt
In Oakland California Miss Angie Willard, a society girl, saves Harry Havens who returns home with morphine after a quarrel. A stomach pump is used at a receiving hospital and Havens, though sick, proclaims his love. He says he was willing to die for her and remains in the seventh heaven.
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Oakland
Cal
Angie Willard
Miss Willard
Harry Havens
Harry
Infants Five 8100 Ills In Germantown Street Bundle
Mrs Lapp of Tulpehocken Street Grebantown found a bundle by her front door, suspecting it left by a street workman for repairs. Her husband called attention to it and went to remove it, where he encountered William Maguire, a lamplighter, on his premises.
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Lapp
Iigat
St. Vincent de Paul's Church
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Tulpehocken Street
Germantown
Con. Workman
Why She Married a Vagrant in Orangeburg
A titled Orangeburg woman marries Jim Courtney, a vagrant from the alms house, after a fortune teller mother warns of imminent death. They wed at Justice Brinson’s, Courtney claims she is a factory hand, then they flee. parents pursue, marriage may be annulled by legislature though unlikely.
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Columbia
D. C
Atlanta Constitution
Orangeburg
Eva Easterlin
Jim Courtney
Justice Brinson
Courtney
Wart on Thumb Reveals Husband’s Identity at Ball
A Council Bluffs woman attends a Woodmen of the World masquerade with a neighbor when a flirtatious Mexican dancer presses her. She recognizes him by a wart on his thumb and by voice, identifying him as her husband John.
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John
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Name Change Bill Passes Legislature for John I Ratt
Topeka Special reports only bill to alter a person name this session was Turner of Phillips county’s measure changing John I Ratt to Joan Ward. Populists in caucus planned no action but Ratt pleaded, earning promise to relieve him of the obnoxious name.
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Ratt
Topeka
Kansas City Journal
Turner
Phillips County
John I. Ratt
Joan Ward
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Heather
You
Earth
Indianapolis Journal
A. R. Sligar
Panhandle
New Castle
J. W. Finfrock
Finfrock
Amn
Kokomo
Ind
Sarah Beatty
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