Suzette's Return Reveals a Hidden Marriage
Helena Crosby confronts a tangle of love and duty as Suzette returns home after four years abroad. Suzette reveals she secretly married Frederick in Denver to avoid losing her, leaving Robert for Helena to guide. Helena, torn between propriety and love, accepts Suzette's choice and passes Robert to her sister.
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Spor
Suzette
Eastern College
Helena Crosby
Helena
Sanford
Buzette
Europe
Boroday
Robert
Philippines
Feanda
Roberts
Betea
Philipines
Mr Williams
Reheas
Frederick
Denver
Suzete
Happs
Suezette
No Trouble at All Car Quip in New York Journal
A fragment from the New York Journal quotes a comic line about safe driving and dodging trouble with women, illustrating humor over car woes. The exchange features a speaker claiming no serious trouble with a new automobile and a punchline about avoiding contact to keep his number.
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Abe
New York Journal
First Woman to Appear on Streets Publicized
A witty exchange in the Detret Free Press proposes a publicity stunt to make a woman the first to appear on the streets of Gare Skurt, highlighting early 20th century publicity tricks.
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Gare Skurt
Detret Free Press
Turtle with the numbers 14 spotted on road
Yonkers Statesman reports a turtle seen on a road bearing the digits 14 on its shell, sparking remarks about a possible automobile connection.
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Nhedd
Turtie
Greene
Nn Iutomobile
Yonkers
Whatever is is right to whatever is is wrong
A shift in mood is noted in Catholic Standard and Times as the newspaper contrasts the old motto Whatever is is right with a modern pessimist refrain Whatever is is wrong. The piece labels the change as a cultural mood swing.
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Pone
Catholic Standard and Times
Cat praises song and devotion in playful exchange
A lighthearted dialogue features Cat appreciating a sweet song and a second Cat expressing boundless love, while Woman's Home Companion is cited as the source of the sentiment.
Asters and Chrysanthemums In Garden Advice
An older gardening note discusses growing Asters and Chrysanthemums. It covers starting indoors to endure frost, succession sowings every two weeks to October, spacing and pruning tips, soil and watering needs, and winter protection for chrysanthemums with a light leaf cover.
Root Celery: Large Root Variety For Autumn Harvest
Root celery grows a large turnip like root dug mid autumn. Roots are trimmed scraped and boiled until tender then served pickled in vinegar or with salad dressing. The seed is sown and plants transplanted like the main variety.
Growing Lima Beans Advice for Pole Varieties
The article advises avoiding poles for growing pole lima beans. Clip vines at about two feet high and prune new runners as they appear to yield an excellent crop that lasts until frost. Bush limas have a brief bearing period by contrast. Give limas space of two to three feet each way.
Banishing Radish Worms in Garden Rows
Old gardening tip suggests spreading tobacco dust in furrows with radish seed to deter worm damage. Notes tobacco dust as a cheap purchase for the remedy and promises healthier radishes in the row.
Taxi Fares Rise Stir New York and City Living Costs
Clipped notes from several papers discuss rising taxi rates in New York and broader cost concerns. The Charleston and Pittsburgh items reference calls for a sane Fourth and normal conditions around the third and fifth. A New England paper questions whether a woman schoolteacher can live on under a dollar a day, illustrating widespread debate over living costs.
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New York
Charleston
Mittsburg
Boston
New Haven Register
The Dainty Muskrat and Its Feasting Debate
The Philadelphia Press reports on the muskrat, praised as clean and edible, sparking talk of renaming it musquash or marsh rabbit for menus. Trappers focus on fur, but a growing view favors harvesting the meat as a regional delicacy for eastern markets.
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Baltimore
Tidewater
Philadelphia Press
Mind Power and a Judge’s Fatal Revelation
A Philadelphia North American summary notes a Warsaw case where a lawyer’s ominous prediction about Reymont’s trial led judges to fear the outcome. Judge Fabricius acquitted Reymont then died suddenly, prompting science to discuss the mind’s fatal influence on the body.
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Warsaw
Reymont
Fabricius
Philadelphia
Rivalry in dreadnoughts spans France and Germany
YM Delcasse said in the French chamber that France will equal Germany in 1920 for dreadnoughts and armored cruisers, though Germany would hold an advantage in ordnance. Journal des Deboits cites 1920 projections of 22 French and 28 German dreadnoughts with 7 French armored cruisers, Temps predicts Germany will exceed the republic by about one third.
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YM Delcasse
Germany
Paris Journal Des Deboits
France
Republc
Italy’s Petroleum Search Encouraged by Government
The Italian government is encouraging exploration for petroleum. It notes evidence of oil in Italy, recalling Genoa’s early illumination from oil and peasants collecting crude wells in surface pools for lamps without refining. The article mentions this in the zone of Eroliia with particular purity observed.
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Italy
Genoa
Eroliia
Dickens Vessels and Names in English Punts
The text lists English punt vessels with names linked to Charlies Inekens and other characters. It notes three punts in seven ties with the Charies Pickens and the Sam Weller lost, and mentions other craft now renamed or reidentified as Japanese and Norwegian ships.
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Charlies Inekens
Charies Pickens
Sam Weller
Ces A
Sundial grave marker in Yarmouth Wales casts time
In an old graveyard near Yarmouth a stone cross serves as both gravestone and sundial. The inclined cross uses its arms and sides to cast a shadow that marks the hours cut into the cross shaft. The photographed moment shows about 10:40.
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Yarmouth
Wales
Origin of Candy From Ancient Rome to Europe
The article traces fragatus a Roman confectioner from the Fabius family as the inventor of candy, first form sugar plums called dragati, kept secret within the family for generations. It notes a 177 year BCE practice of gifting dragon during weddings and births and says the custom spread to European nobility.
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Fragatus
Fabius
Dragati
Europe
Game of Neighbors
A party game involves a circle of chairs equal to players split into two equal sides. One side blindfolded sits in chairs, the other side moves to fill empty seats. On sing, singing neighbors disguise voices while blindfolded players guess who sings by voice. Correct guesses remove blindfolds and blindfold the singer.
Baltimore pioneers firsts and a giant sign in Washington
The article notes Baltimore's early achievements including steam passenger railways Morse telegraph tests and a merchants exchange while recounting the first umbrella seen in the United States in 1772. It also describes a colossal sign on the Columbia River east of Beverly advertising irrigation development and open settlement.
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Baltimore
United States
Washington
Pioneer Merchants’ Exchange
Witl Gree
Walcbhman
Columbia Feer
Beverly
Columbia Valley
Inlund Herald
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