Thorns and Orange Blossoms Chapter Lil
Violet escapes Queen's Elm to seek help from Mrs Ingram and then Mrs Carstone in London. She plans to reconcile with her husband Randolph Ryvers while wrestling with guilt over leaving him and the mystery of her marriage. The two trusted friends urge reconciliation as the path forward, drafting a letter to Randolph to be sent at once.
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Dr. Weald
Ingram
Jay
Ling
Violet
Theo
Bouin
Heaven
Baros Ryvers
Ryversdale
Dso
Randolph
Saltzburr
Winlet
Randa
Les
Miss Mart
Misa Heaton
Queen's
Mss Beaton
London
Mrs. Tagran
Jean
Express
Stem
Queen’s Elm
Mrs. Carstone
Miss Mate
Mrs. Carstont
Great Northern Hotel
Mrs. Carstane
Mrs. Carstens
Husuang
Wollington's Quiet Tastes and Strathfeldsage Residence
An excerpt notes Wollington’s austere manner and simple living. He shuns pomp, builds a Blenheim-like project at Strathfeldsage, and maintains a private French cook for guests who resign over pay. The duke reveals his plan to cook to ensure meals meet his standards.
Apache reservation forms string orchestra
An orchestra is formed on the Apache reservation with players expert in harmony from a single violin. A philosopher notes that tombstones often misstate future lows because they sit above the ground.
Storm Wrecks City Buildings In La Crosse Area
Reports from La Crosse Wisconsin describe a late evening tornado and fierce winds that caused extensive damage to hotels and hospitals, toppled roofs onto nearby structures, shattered plate glass, felled trees, and sparked numerous lightning strikes across New Richmond Chippewa Falls and nearby towns. Several lives were lost or injured with livestock and property extensive losses noted.
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la Crosse
Wis
New Richmond
St Paul
Star Prairie
New Richmont
Hector
Minn
Minneapolis
Twin Cities
Holley Bennett
Dell Eck
Lye
Morey
Hume
Pittsburg
Riverview Park
W. el Young
George Young
Wisconsin mayors elect new officers at annual meeting
Mayors from Wisconsin cities gathered for their annual meeting selecting L. C. Boyle Viroqua as president with Della Storm Bull Madison secretary and S. E. Spurling Madison treasurer. District vice presidents were named from Higgin s Ri wine Portage Parfie Richland Center Wauworosa Gove Watkesha Haskins Fond du Lac Boshird Green Bay Marchett Wang an and Pay Parker Superior with next year's meeting site left to the committee.
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Viroqua
Wis
Wisconsin
L. C. Boyle
Ars 3A
Storm Bull
Madison
S. EB. Spurling
Wyse
Reedsburg
Burt Williams
Astland
M. J. Higgins
Riwine
J. EB. Jonas
Another Carnival Is Sure Trouble in Milwaukee
June 29 report says the Hotel Men's association opposes a restaurant on Second Street for carnival visitors. The threat of legal action by the firm Austin Fehr Gehrz was made to block the Elks executive committee from moving ahead with the project, per a privilege granted by the common council.
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Milwaukee
Second Street
Wis
Common Council
Rose
Jnfirm
Austin, Fehr & Gehrz
the Elks
Narrow Escape Off Pisa Creek Shipwreck
Capt Kreel of the Ingersoll sighted a shipwreck near Pisa Creek and found three young men clinging to the upturned boat. They had been in the perilous position for two hours and were nearly exhausted before rescue. Names given as Mossys Gunderson Bepper and Menitis.
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Pisa Creek
Kreel
Ingersoll
Mossys
Gunderson
Bepper
Menitis
Bank Clearings Rise Across Major Cities
The weekly bank clearings in the principal cities of the United States reached 92,180,242 dollars, a gain of 44. as reported by Lindstreets, marking a 49.1 percent increase over the same week last year.
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Itrease
New York
Lindstreets
United States
Black man fights off lynch mob in Lager WV
Pankher West Virginia June 29 a Black man Peter Price cornered by an angry mob trying swift justice stabbed and fatally wounded George Hooks and F M Morgan and seriously wounded Chas Davis after fleeing to a saloon rear. Price used knives as the crowd entered. two bystanders were injured by stray shots. Police captured Price and sent him to Welch for safety amid high indignation toward the victims.
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Pankher
W. Va
Peter Price
George Hooks
F. M. Morgan
Chas
Davis
Lager
Here
Price
Tered
Rolem
Hooks
Morgan
Dayia
Welch
Cocktail Bug Sighting Turns Bar Into Publicity Feud
A New Orleans Times-Democrat item recounts a frothy tale of a cocktail drinker who allegedly saw a purple and yellow bug in a glass. After misidentification and a prankish sequence with a marble bar, the story ends with the teller vowing to retire the “bug special” and leaving the bar amid shocked patrons.
Death and Burial Reflections on Funeral Pomp and Grief
Be not solicitous after pomp at my burial. Do not use expensive funeral telemony. Better for sources who had nothing of greater moment to register his name by than a grave. Death, if by elder brother Sleep, is not so terrible a messenger. Unquietness burdens the living more than a ceremony. nothing in this world is worth leaving the house for to watch it.
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Joye
Nat
Mab
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Compensations for Old Age and a Centenarian Tale
Snark-Hello notes Acele Van Possil, aged 105, once a no-account man. Since his century birthday his literary work has earned him a living. He writes testimonials praising remedies that claim to prolong life, a peculiar steady job in his later years.
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Acele van Possil
O'Shane
Shank
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Meg
Mioney
Tj Heave
Wollington
Gars Goldwin Smith
Atlantic
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Strathfeldsage
North Wisconsin Farm
Fiuck
City of la Crosse
Norwegian Lutheran Hospital
Superior
West Superior
Chippewa Falls
Bernice Violette
Montevideo
Tune
G. Jang
Jang
Ann Arbor
Boyle
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