Three sisters in a lakeside village seek a cook and flirtatious diversions
Kate Davis and sisters Cecelia and Lily debate a kitchen hire in a deserted village. An accidental joke ad for male flirts appears, prompting a yacht sighting at Sodus Bay. The girls hope their father meets strangers while a temporary cook arrives with a visitable crowd at Clovis cottage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clovis Cottage
Kate Davis
Lilly
Miss Davis
Cecelia Chisholm
Lily
Kate
Iere
Cecile
Suppasa Papa
Detroit
Sodus Bay
Kamchatka
Papa
James
Sam
Sodus Point Banner
Jane
Siren in Sodus Bay Brings Three Detroit Yacht Guests
Lily and friends mistake a yacht crew for a request for a cook. A misread ad leads to social awkwardness then a luncheon with three visitors, two sons of David Churchill and a Detroit captain. The visitors explain and the visit ends with a planned two month stay and a double wedding rumor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lily
Jane
Cecile
Kate
Lilly
Sam
Detroit
David Churchill
Mr. Davis
Walter Churchill
Sodus Bay
Clovis Cottage
Rochester
James Davis
Kate Davis
Messrs
Walter
Harold Churchill
Cecile Chisholm
Will Carleton
Churchill
Chicago News
Thrift Overreaches Itself in Chicago Suburb
An elderly thrift-minded man living on Chicago’s outskirts hoards wealth and resists meals and clothing. To deter burglars he imitates a barked dog at night, startling neighbors. A polite official arrives demanding payment for three months of dog tax, ending the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Normandy
Dangers of Corpulence in Diet and Exercise
The piece warns that excess alcohol and sedentary life drive fat buildup. It explains alcohol mirrors fats in hindering fat destruction, notes diseases affecting red blood cells raise fat risk, and cautions high fever can worsen outcomes in corpulent individuals.
The Story of Peter Sunday School Exhibit
A Sunday school superintendent tests the children on Peter with no initial answers. A lone girl volunteers and delivers the rhyme about Peter Peter pumpkin eater. The audience erupts in laughter as she finishes and returns to her seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter
Emigration at Castle Garden Shows Increase This Year
Superintendent Jackson reports the annual emigration figures at Castle Garden will exceed last year. Increased confidence in U.S. business and industry has boosted the number of emigrants landing at the port during the past twelve months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jackson
Castle Garden
Board of Emigration
United States
Leukoderma Explained by Doctor Amid Article on Color Change
Dr J W Shoemaker of Philadelphia read a newspaper piece claiming a negro man and woman turned white. He calls the case leucoderma a skin disease in which pigment is absorbed not formed again. He notes it is not fatal and treatable if caught early, common among southern negroes due to malaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
J. W. Shoemaker
South
Pinkerton Detectives Nab Five In Adams Express Robbery
Pinkerton detectives announce the capture of five men tied to the Adams Express car robbery near St Louis on October 25. Fred Witrock and Weaver are named as principals, with about $60,000 in loot recovered from them and related parties. The fate of Express Messenger Fotheringham remains undisclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinkerton
Adams
St. Louis
San Francisco
Jim Cummings
Fred Witrock
Weaver
Chicago
Fye
Witrock
Express
Fotheringham
General Logan Dead After Sudden Illness at 3 PM
Washington, Dec 26 General John A Logan died at three minutes before 3 this afternoon after a brief sudden illness linked to brain complications. The long serving statesman and Civil War major general had recently suffered rheumatic afflictions before a fatal attack ended his life. Logan, born February 9, 1826, rose from farm boy to lawyer, congressman, and senator, shaping U S politics for decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John A. Logan
Calumet Place
Logan
John Alexander Logan
John Logan
Ireland
Murphysboro
Illinois
Elizabeth Jenkins
Tennessee
Alexander M. Jenkins
Jackson County
Third Judicial District
James Buchanan
Pesident
Congress
Bull Run
Michigan
United States
Illinois Infantry
James G. Blaine
Remarkable Atlantic voyage ends with Newfoundland rescue
Miss Journeaux of St Helier Island, Jersey, survived a perilous Atlantic crossing after a row with Jules Farne that left them adrift off Elizabeth Castle. Farne swam for oars, vanished, and was later arrested on homicide suspicions before being freed when Journeaux reached Bay St. George, Newfoundland aboard the Tourbola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
N. Y
Miss Journeaux
St. Helier Island
Jersey
Atlantic
Jules Farne
Ee Young
Jean
Varne
Elizabeth Feastle
Farne
Jules
France
Tourbola
St. Malo
Newfoundland
Bay St. George
N. F
St. Johns
Death From Fright At Reading Sporting Man
Franklin R. Goodhart, a well known sporting man, died today from the effects of a fright. Four weeks earlier he was terrified by jokers who staged a mock murder in a saloon, causing him to flee in terror. He soon became a hopeless lunatic.
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Reading
Franklin R. Goodhart
Goodhart
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