Waif from the Sea Brings Two Lovers Hope and Loss
In a June seaside town Jack Eltham sketches Baby Barron, befriends Leslie Maynard, and plans a portrait collaboration. A sudden love blossoms as a squall sinks their boat. Eltham sacrifices himself to save Baby Barron, while Leslie survives. Weeks later, the couple reunites with Baby Barron as a hopeful bridesmaid.
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Baby Barron
Jack Eltham
Jack
Eltham
Pitty
Glasgow
Mr. Eltham
Leslie Maynard
Miss Maynard
Gaby Barron
Barron
Raby Barron
Sea Girl Brighton
Leslie
Firth
Lli
Dave Dugaid
Words of Wisdom Echoes Through Time in Classic Sayings
A compendium of quotations traces wisdom from Plautus to Puck and beyond, noting how food, restriction, fear, custom, hope, honor, and merriment shape human choice. The fragment ends with a line about preferring a fool to bring merriment over experience.
Vast Telegraph Roundup of Early 1900s News Highlights
A broad telegraph led summary lists diverse items: a Chicago man dies from a protective device accident, four A O Brown & Co stock firm members jailed for grand larceny, court contempt in Pittsburgh, Dr Robert Koch hailed by tuberculosis conference, a St Louis marriage to Danish nobility, Mrs Bragg dies, a large fire destroys Pasig town portion near Manila, Leslie Carter dies in Chicago, U.S. freight car idle count drops, a San Francisco lodging house fire kills a carpenter and injures firemen and a bystander, wholesale druggists oppose opium act, Arthur de Bousset wills patents and airship inventions, no cotton trading in Paragould after night rider fears, Italian glove smuggling arrest, San Francisco election registration totals, a Springfield Mo child drowns in milk, a Japanese aerial act tragedy in Holdenville, Frisco Eastbound wreck near Carthage injures many, a Pendleton murder attempt and self harm, Capt William C Lyon dies, first copper coins minted for Philippines at San Francisco Mint, $2 million gold shipped to Canada, Indiana House saves county local option bill, and a violent typhoon hits central Philippine Islands.
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Drew Iibo
Chicago
Stock Broskerage
O. Brown & Go
New York
Abbie Rice
Brecenck Austin
Maha
Mary. K. Pnaw
Pittsburg
Robert Koch
Alice M. Blair
St. Louiis
Count von Bentzen
Eiza Bragg
Bragg
Pasig
Manila
P. I
Atlantic City
Arthur de Bousset
Paragould
Ark
Mississippi
de Martini
Raffaele Esposito
Manzi Sanofanto
San Francises
O. Middlemas
Springfield
Saburo Saitawa
Holdenville
Oklo
Spring River
Carthage
Anna Glasco
Pendleton
John Glasco
William C. Lyon
Ohio
Nenia
San Francisco
Philippines
United States
Canada
Indiana House
Senate
Philippine Islands
British shipbuilders fail to win 16-ship Argentine contract
Foreign notes report British firms bidding to build 16 small warships for Argentina failed to secure any orders as German and Dutch rivals offered lower prices and ships will be built on the Continent. Other items note Irish votes hurting the government at Newcastle by, Venezuelan difficulties discussed in Caracas, and unrest in Manchester. Details include earthquakes near Acapulco and police searches in Moscow.
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Newesetle-on- Tyne
Netherlands
Venezuela
Caracas
Germ
Manchester
England
Greece
Senor Magalhez
Portugese
Cascaes
Gal
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Mathews
C. S. Schermerhorn @ Son
Purina
Cheapside
Pratt Street
Baltimore, Md
Norfolk-Mathews
Gloucester
Old Dominion Steamship Company
Norfolk, VA
Norfol
East River
Ry Philpot
Williams
Hicks
Diges
North River
Auburn
Dixondale
Severn River
Severn
Old Point
Norfolk
O. D
North St
Philphot
William
Hick
Digg
Ware River
Roane
Smith
Hockley
Richmond
Berkeley
Brandon
Main Street
Atlantic Hotel
C. A. Earnest
B. L. Bugg
M. S. Foster
Sibley Bros
A. M. Marchant
Chesapeake £ Teamship Company
Fective
Chesap Lake
Columbia
Augusta
Old Point Comfort
Noi
Folk
Batimore
York River Line
Atlanta
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Baltimore
West Point
Gloucester Point
Clement’s
Cay
Bamkarid
Light Street
Baltimore Street
Arthur W. Robson
Light and
Lee Streets
Dalti
Leslie C. Garnett
Middlesex
F Theo. Miller
Mathews C. H
Larchmont Club
Dixie ST
J. Campbell Thompson
Syracuse
Charles M. Daniels
Eel
Motel Hartman
Judex
Board of Trade
Columbus
Tom" Nicholson
St. Andrew's
United States Marine Corps
Sea Girl
N. J
Thomas Lipton
John J. Eller
Metropolitan Association
W. D. Morris
Paradise
Big Jack Eltham
Words OF
Plautus
Terence
Lucretius
Dallas News
Ovid
Abbott
Sidney Lanier
Puck
Titus Andronicus
Telegraph
Acapulco
Mexico
Cosmos Line
Radmes
Germany
Anerican Import'ng
Moscow
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