Joanne and Godfrey begin anew in a family of growth
In Nice and at home, Joanne comforts Godfrey as they face separation and new life with Margaret’s passing. Their wedding to Margaret’s sister seasons Rita’s childhood, and Godfrey finds purpose in literature while Rita shows musical promise. Jack Dallas returns for Christmas, a playful elder friend whose wit contrasts with aging.
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London Reunion Between Godfrey and Dallas After Margaret's Death
In a fog bound Strand, Godfrey meets old friend Jack Dallas who recognizes him near St Martin's Church. They retreat to Dallas's river-view bachelor rooms. Godfrey shares loss of his wife Margaret and speaks of his daughter Rita, now nearly eighteen, who has grown distant from him and may have forgotten Dallas.
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London
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Mr. Dallas
Vi Beresford
Lillian
Brentwood
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Tillian
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Edith
Helstone
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Shem
Godifrey
December Morning Visitor and a Robin Rescue
Rita and Jack share a moment of warmth as Jack returns from a garden ramble with a wounded robin. He asks for Rita’s help to tend the injured bird, and the scene hints at growing sympathy and lighter notes amid adversities.
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Cruel Job Rejection Echoes After Post Office Meeting
A bystander overhears three men mocking a fourth unemployed man and saddling him with hopelessness. The cruel tale shifts when the listener discovers the fourth man is an undertaker, prompting mixed reactions about compassion and business.
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Chicago Times-Herald
Trades and Animals as Skill Experts
A carnival of fables assigns professions to creatures and objects. Bees are geometricians and cells are built to maximize space with minimal material. The mole is a meteorologist, the torpedo and eel an electricians, the nautilus a navigator, birds a chorus, caterpillars silk-spinners, a squirrel ferryman, beaver a builder, and the marmot a civil engineer. White ants form a soldiers’ regular army.
Insane Man's Clever Reply
A patient in an English insane asylum insists he is dead. A doctor tests this by drawing blood, claiming it proves he bleeds. The patient retorts that the blood proves only that a dead man can bleed, exposing the flaw in the experiment.
Fabulous Letters Fetch High Sums at Auction
The late Bernard Quaritch paid 1000 pounds for Columbus’ autograph letter, later shown at Chicago’s World's Fair. In 1898 a Chicago collector offered $100,000 for a Shakespeare autograph. Only seven Shakespeare letters are known, with doubts about authenticity. Mary Queen of Scots letters reportedly cost £20,000, Titian’s handwriting letter sold for 600, Raphael’s for 300, and Corneille’s single letter went to Alfred Morrison for 500.
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Alfred Morrison
Wilfrid Lawson Uses Wit At Polls In Parliament Bid
A gentleman seeking a parliamentary seat asked Sir Wilfrid Lawson for help with his speech. En route to a meeting a rival taunted him as “Wilfrid and his performing bear.” The baronet replied he was teaching the bear to climb to the top of the poll.
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Wilfrid Lawson
Debtors in Siam Seize Debtor and Family for Debt
Report summarizes Siamese debt enforcement where a person owing s6000 45 may be seized by creditors and kept as a slave. If the debtor flees, the creditor can also seize his wife and children, father, or other relatives, highlighting harsh detention practices and familial liability.
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Siam
Communicate with Mars Requires Ireland Sized Flag
An eminent astronomier argues that interplanetary contact with Mars demands a flag the size of Ireland and a 54 mile long pole. Perrman is his closest friend, while siso is his worst Emmy.
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Vacuum Cow Milker Invented in Iowa
The device speeds milking by using a tight can cover to create an air tight interior and a vacuum. Four rubber cups attach to teats and maintain a steady milk flow until exhausted. An indicating gauge shows air exhausted. Inventors are W R Thatcher and N W Hussey of Oskaloosa Iowa.
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W. R. Thatcher
N. W. Hussey
Oskaloosa, Iowa
Importance of Late Crops for Stock Feeding and Soil Health
Farmers can boost winter stock feed by growing 1 to 3 tons per acre of late crops like Hungarian grass and rape during summer. Hungarian grass rapid growth aids weed control and provides multiple cuttings. stubble protects soil. Cow-peas enrich soil by nitrogen, serve as hay, and shade land. Tomatoes require strong two-beam supports to allow sun exposure while keeping vines off the ground.
Farm Journal plan for crop support with wire netting
The Farm Journal describes an effective setup with a low wooden support placed at eight foot intervals along the row. Across the top two strips of twelve inch wire poultry netting are stretched, leaving space for plants to grow up through, forming a practical trellis system.
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Farm Journal
Selling Vegetables by Weight in Cleveland
The Retail Grocers Association of Cleveland adopts a rule to sell all vegetables by weight, even in small quantities, arguing it protects buyers and sellers. The piece cites old notions of measuring accuracy and notes observed inconsistencies in packing and bushel measures for spinach dandelions and beet greens. It ends with an aside about a woodcutter in the Maize forest told to select a mast.
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Grocers’ Association
Cleveland
Ohio
Trigonometry Aids Sailor In Tree Measurement
The narrative describes a sailor using a six foot pole and his own height to measure a tree from sixty feet away without a tape. By planting the pole and lying on the ground he sights over the pole to the tree, estimating the tree’s height through similar triangles and alignment.
Perfect Winter Wheat Qualities and Wisconsin Deep Well
The article discusses ideal traits for a superior winter wheat variety including early maturity resistance to rust and blight yield stability and lodging resistance. It questions if a single variety can combine all these traits and notes Wisconsin's Deep Well well at Good Shepherd in Wauwatosa reaching 2330 feet with abundant soft drinking water requiring pumping to a cost of 500 dollars for long term supply.
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Wisconsin
Good Shepherd
Wauwatosa
Wis
Do Fowls Need Exercise and Potatoes for Yield
Article discusses fowls needing exercise for digestion and contrasts with the French method of fattening fowls in confinement. It also covers thinning potato plants to one stalk per hill, timing before tubers form, and notes on potato yield. Included are observations on milk prices in New York and best practices for keeping horses healthy in summer, emphasizing clean bedding, regular watering, shade, fresh air, and humane treatment.
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