I Am 89 Glad Polly Moore Plans A Night With Bob Gaines
Polly Moore welcomes Bob Gaines to visit Aunt Phoebe and Chestnut Lodge as she hopes for a quiet evening. A thief posing as a guest steals from Aunt Phoebe but Polly's quick action leads to capture. Bob arrives to confront the burglary, and Polly, shaken yet brave, is reassured by his calm support.
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Polly Moore
Phoebe
Bob Gaines
Polly
Ian
Bob
Miss Phoebe
Chestnut Lodge
Edith Tyson
James
Mr. Gaines
Aunt Phoebe
Old Fashioned Love in a House Romance
Polly and Bob admit love by the dancing firelight as Miss Phoebe notes Polly may wed for the house. Polly smiles at Bob’s auburn and red hair, while Aunt Phoebe cautions about motive. The trio discusses future vows and the room’s memories drawing their hearts together.
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Polly
Bob
Phoebe
Mike Hatred
Miss Phoebe
Government Proclaims Sovereignty Over Manchuria
Special edition reports the republic plans a proclamation extending sovereignty to Manchuria. Japan and Russia are expected to contest the move. Hankow dispatch notes Wu Change mutineers were overpowered after a night of street fighting. ringleaders beheaded and heads paraded on bamboo poles.
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Nanking
Manchuria
Japan
Russia
Hankow
Wu Change
Died While Singing Nearer My God to Thee in DC Chapel
Michael Cavanaugh a 65 year old Washington figure and mission regular collapsed during Central Union Mission services as the group sang Nearer My God to Thee. He had a police record but years ago found religion at the mission and helped others. a surgeon attributed the death to heart trouble.
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Washington
D. c
Michael Cavanaugh
Central Union Mission
Cavanaugh
Mike” Cavanaugh
Mike
Britain faces worst coal strike as miners walk out
London reports the United Kingdom braces for a massive coal strike. About 200,000 miners have quit, with 800,000 workers in coal fields under orders to strike. Government troops moved toward trouble spots, and many industries may close. The Federated Mineral Union ordered renewals rejected, heightening national anxiety and prompting prayers from church leaders.
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London
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Federated Mineral Union
Canterbury
York
Investigation Begun Into Southern Railway Derailment Near Milstead
Special from Montgomery reports engineer A J Smediey of Atlanta was killed when the New York limited derailed near Milstead Alabama twenty eight miles east of Montgomery. Two other trainmen and four passengers were injured as postal and club cars turned over while other cars remained upright but left the rails. An investigation to fix blame started today.
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Montgomery
Ala
A. J. Smediey
Atlanta
New York Limited
Southern Railway
Milstead
Here
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement in Staunton VA Case
Henderson Yount of Augusta and Point Streets Staunton Virginia reports severe illness with extreme weight loss and paralysis but says Doan's Kidney Pills restored strength and weight. He claims thousands endorse the remedy and urges back pain and kidney discomfort sufferers to ask for Doan's Kidney Pills sold for 50 cents by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY with the slogan When Your Back Is Lame Remember the name.
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Henderson Yount
Augusta & Point Sts
Staunton
Doan
Mr. Yount
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Gigantic Merger Of Insurance Companies
After three years of talks plans are nearly finished to consolidate about 100 life insurance firms in the Southern and Southwestern states. The merged group would hold over 400 million dollars in insurance in force, more than 40 million in assets, and over 10 million in annual income with Washington D C as headquarters. The enterprise, to be called Southern Consolidated Life Insurance Company, will be chartered in Virginia with 500 thousand dollars capital. A government official tentatively accepted the presidency. The plan promises over two million dollars in annual overhead savings and safety measures for policyholders, with a Northern committee of Congress members to supervise policyholder interests.
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Washington
D. c
the Post Today
Southern Insolidated Life Insurance Company
Virginia
Richmond
State Insurance Commission
General Washington
Southern Wein
Olmes Conrad
James Trimble
L. 8
C. C. Calhoun
Randolph Harclay
New Enterprise
Fear River May Inundate Town Near Safe Harbor
Seventy five families along the Conestoga Creek banks fled their homes seeking safety as flood fears rose after Safe Harbor upstream flooded the Susquehanna and pushed water into Conestoga Creek. Town residents prepared for potential property loss as the crisis loomed. The article also questions why Assembly committees vote in executive sessions, arguing public voting should be transparent.
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Port Deposit
Safe Harbor
Columbia
Conestoga Creek
Strikers threaten to close all mills in Lawrence Mass
In Lawrence Massachusetts the Central Labor Union demands a fifteen percent wage increase for mill operatives and allied workers. A 2 PM reply deadline is set with a general strike possible if refused, threatening to close every city mill. About 8000 workers are affected. police kept order as some returned to work and the Everett mill stays closed.
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Lawrence
Mass
Central Labor Union
Timothy Donovan
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Judge Mahoney
Everett
Miss Polliffe Threatened With Eviction For Smoking In Hotel Lobby
Miss Francis Polliffe sister-in-law of Clauss Spreckels was threatened with eviction from the Hotel Needham in Lawrence Massachusetts after blowing smoke in the lobby of proprietor Daniel T. Sullivan. She apologized and extinguished the cigarette while in town to secure material for a magazine article. Accompanied by Mrs Freemont Older of San Francisco she had earlier clashed with a policeman who she said helped club women the prior Saturday.
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Lawrence
Mass
Francis Polliffe
Clauss Spreckles
Sar
Needham
Daniel T. Sullivan
Jolliffe
Fremont Older
San Francisco
Motor Car President Killed in Truck-Train Collision
Jacob Ludwig, president and treasurer of the Commercial Motor Car Company, was instantly killed at Lyons farm near Newa N J when a Lehigh Valley train struck a truck he was riding on. The accident occurred today and the incident is reported in Special from NEWA.
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Newa N.J
Jacob Ludwig
Commercial Motor Car Company
Lyons’ Farm
Berger Objects to Refining Methods
Congressman Victor I. Berger introduced a House resolution amid allegations in a San Francisco newspaper that Treasury officials conspire to close refining branches and turn refining business for gold and silver bullion to the smelter trust helping coinage.
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Die Atong
House Committee
Eee
United States
Victor I. Berger
House
Berger
San Francisco
Treasury Department
Amele
Ancient beliefs on weighed deeds and judgment
The ancient Egyptians held that weighed deeds determined afterlife fate. The concept appears in other traditions, with the Koran describing balance of merits and demerits before archangel Gabriel. This belief has spread widely across civilizations.
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Gabriel
Man Shoots Self in Taxicab in Boston Chinatown
Frederick E. Sands, 41, a New York traveling man, shot himself in the head while riding in a taxicab with his brother on Harrison Avenue in Boston’s Chinatown. He died early today from despondency over business troubles, a report notes.
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Boston
Mass
Frederick E. Sands
New York
Harrison Avenue
Chinatown
Cardui praised for curing severe womanly troubles
Mrs Sigurd Hansen of Mobile Alabama says seven years of womanly troubles were cured by Cardui after a long struggle with dizziness headaches and near fainting spells She credits Cardui for restoring health and invites other women to try it asking them to request instructions and a 64 page home treatment booklet from Chattanooga Medicine Co Chattanooga Tenn
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Mobile
Ala
N. B
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Tanooga, Tenn
Woman's Department For the Invalid and Toast Tips
A Victorian era instructions piece offers edible remedies and kitchen tricks. It details egg white tonics for patients, practical toast making to maintain crispness, rice preparation methods, rice mold serving, and a rice salad with beets and celery. It ends with a meat pie recipe using shortcrust or biscuit dough and tips for stretching fillings.
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Menor
Pear Chips and Oyster Omelet Featured in Narrow Menu
Pear Chips use eight pounds pears and four pounds sugar with ginger and lemons, steep overnight then simmer three hours, jar for storage. Oyster Omelet blends six beaten eggs with four tablespoons butter, salt, pepper, and minced oysters plus parsley, fried to brown and served hot on a platter. Liver and Chestnuts En Casserole steeps tender liver, chestnuts, celery and onion in butter with milk and crumbs, then bakes brown and serves hot.
Vaudeville and Apricot Snow Recipe Origins
A compact look at vaudeville origins naming the Strand Theatre in London as a premier venue and Basselin as a figure linked to its birth. Also provides a vintage recipe for Apricot Snow combining gelatin, apricot syrup, lemon juice, and whipped egg whites for a dessert preparation.
Cupid's Kisses In A Saucepan Candy Recipe
A historical recipe describes making kiss shaped drops by boiling sugar water and vinegar with glyc erine then whitening the syrup, pulling into sticks, and adding vanilla or rose extract. For red candy a cochineal and cream of tartar infusion is boiled, strained, and stored with alcohol to preserve.
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Keoynolds
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Tobareso Co Immilie
T. Shep Brown
Suffolk
A. Maria Urewford
Elmwood Nurseries
California
Amoor River
J. B. Watkins & Brother
Midlothian
Tutt
Machuria
Michaell Cavanaugh
Washington Central
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Putnam Faceless
MON Bos Drug CO
Gainey
INS
General Assembly
Newport News Press
Norfolk and Western Railway
Culbert
Marjan, Va
Sullivan
Vicks Family Remedies Co
Greensbere
4.C
R. I. Reds
Plymouth Rocks
Ideal Poultry Farm, Inc
N. M. White
Mer. Schoolfield, Ya
C. Brown
Mer
Schoolfield
W. T. Hood & Co
OLD Dominion Nurseries
Dept. “A
Richmond, VA
S. C
Rhode Island
T Bowell Poultry Yards
Newport News
Roosevelt
White House
Taffere
Taft
Mrs. Hansen
W. S. TA
Tanner Paint CO
Ntnet
Woman’s Department
Vaudevile
Normandy
Basselin
Strand
BBC
Tetterine
C. H. Adams
Columbia, & C
Shuptrine Co
Savaensah
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