The Singing Fool
Al Stone a singing waiter at Blackie Joe's NY club is loved by Grace Farrel but marries ballad singer Molly Winton. Molly elopes with Al’s friend John Perry, takes their child Junior to France, and Al becomes a derelict. He spots Grace in the street and runs away as she rushes to tell him.
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al Stone
Blackie Joe
New York
Grace Farrel
Molly Winton
Junior
Molly
John Perry
Perry
France
Broadway
Grace
Blackie Joe's
Stone
Junior Stone
I Just Saw Someone We Both Know
Grace relates a tired smile and a sighting of Al Stone to Blackie. He asks where, and Grace briefly recounts the encounter and its circumstances.
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Grace
al Stone
Blackie
Grace Tries to Find Al as He Drifts in New York
Grace resolves to locate Al Stone after years apart and learns he now wanders shabby streets in New York while Molly Winton of Broadway advances toward divorce. Al recalls his past friendship with Grace and wrestles with pride as he avoids letters and news about his family.
Walled Arabian City Sanza Hosts Forty-Eight Mosques
In Southwest Araba a desert town named Sanza stands inside a four mile thick wall of rubble and mud with four main gates and many ruined turrets. Within the city near the Grand Mosque lapidaries cut Yemen stones of quartz and chrysoprase for outsiders.
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Sanza
Araba
Yemen
Feet Sore Use Minard's Liniment
A humorous quip notes a man claiming bachelorhood still reveals who cut him loose, implying lingering aches and a joke about failed relationships.
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Minard
Islands Host Nearly Two Thirds of Active Volcanoes
A study finds about two thirds of the world’s active volcanoes lie on islands, with the remainder on continents. The report highlights Indonesia and Japan as centers of volcanic activity and notes island settings influence eruption monitoring.
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Islands
Eskimo Visits Explain Heat From Hidden Furnace
In a North American Review piece, Eskimo Muk-pi questions how heat is produced at a far Alaskan home. The narrator and Muk-pi descend to a cellar to inspect a crude oil drum turned furnace, where shadows flicker and pipes reach under the floor as the stove is described as a hungry but helpful devil that warms four rooms above.
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May Lee Davis
North American Review
Muk-pi
Nervous trouble eased by remedy, letter from Ontario
Miss Florence Coutier of Bark Lake Ontario writes that her nerves troubled her sleep and left her tired. A neighbor advised her to take a remedy, and she reports improvements after following the suggestion.
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Florence Coutier
Bark Lake, Ont
NERVE PIL Coveted Cure Advertised by The T Millburn Co
An advertisement claims The first box of NERVE PIL helped, and after six boxes the user could return to work. The price is 50 cents per box, available at all druggists and dealers or mailed direct from The T Millburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario.
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T. Millburn Co., Limited
Toronto
The Experience Of Many
A Swedish laundress in a Wall Street broker’s home saves 35000 dollars over time then loses it as motor stocks slide. The tale ends with her remark it comes slow it goes quick, illustrating the peril of rapid market gains and losses.
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Wall Street
Sweden
Manitoba Co operative Fisher ies starts on Lake Winnipeg
The Manitoba Cooperative Fisheries Limited, a 400 fisherman group on Lake Winnipeg, began September 1 1928. In the first season ending April 30 1929 it handled 6 100 000 pounds of fish from a total Lake Winnipeg catch of 14 500 000 pounds.
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Manitoba Co-operative Fisheries, Ltd
Lake Winnipeg
Fox shipment from Canada to Sweden valued at seventy thousand
Two hundred silver foxes valued at 70000 were shipped from Prince Edward Island fox ranches the chief centre of Canada’s fox farming industry to Sweden.
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Prince Edward Island
Fox Ranches
Canada
Sweden
Englishman Creates World’s Only Rising Dance Floor
At the Savoy Hotel in London an English inventor W. J. Huggett and chief engineer F. C. Pay unveiled a hydraulic dance floor measuring 44 by 25 feet that rises to table height in 30 seconds. It reportedly costs over 50000 dollars and uses water from four artesian wells to lift guests into cabaret view without crowding.
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Savoy Hotel
London
England
Savoy
W. J. Huggett
F. C. Pay
When Your Baby Catches A Cold
An ad promoting Baby's Own Tablets for babies showing early cold symptoms like sneezing and runny nose. It claims rapid relief, prevention of complications, and safety, describing the product as a gentle laxative that eases digestion. Sold by medicine dealers or mailed from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville Ont for 25 cents a box.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Small royal cinema with a secret subterranean plan
A palace area cinema built by E C Lascelles for royal use stands on a site once housing an ecclesiastical building. An underground passage was planned to link Buckingham Palace but later abandoned. The other notes mention Mark Twain as the first to use a typewriter for manuscript prep and Miller's Worm Powders claiming to purge worms from stools.
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Royal Riding School
Buckingham Palace Road
Victoria Station
E. C. Lascelles
Lord Lascelles
Buckingham Palace
Mark Twain
Pearl Shell Value Rises Over Ten Years Off Australia
The ten year yield of pearl shell harvested along Australia's northwestern shore exceeded 10.5 million dollars, reflecting a strong period for the industry and regional trade. The figure highlights substantial export activity and domestic economic impact.
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Australia
Little Helps For This Week From Sacred Verse And Prose
A reflective piece contrasts religious reassurance with personal sorrow. It quotes Psalm 94 and Adelaide Proctor, urging resilience and hope. The text also honors George Eliot’s view that suffering should transform, not harden, the self.
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Adelaide Anne Proctor
An Oil That Is Famous
Although not born in Canada, Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil has its fame there. From this country the compound’s name spread to Central and South America the West Indies Australia and New Zealand where it is sold and in demand.
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Canada
Thomas
Central
South America
West Indies
Australia
New Zealand
Airplane Aerial Photo Foils German Blackmail Plot
A wealthy man was threatened by blackmail using a carrier pigeon. A plane tracked the bird to a mine worker's home after a photo was taken of the landing site. The suspect, an unemployed miner from a victim's mine, was identified.
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Germany
Treatment for influenza described in British Medical Journal
Dr. Raymond M. Pearce describes a new compound, para-benzoyl para amino benzoyl amino naphthol 3 6 disodium sulphonate, abbreviated SAP 36, as the latest treatment for influenza in the British Medical Journal.
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S.A.P
Raymond M. Pearce
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