Fernande Boucher Defies Marriage For Love In Paris Tale
Fernande a Parisian bourgeoise rejects arranged matches and vows to marry only for love. A rich widower suitor pressures her, but she sails to America, where letters inflame passion until she returns to France and marries for the heart.
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Fernande Boucher
Fernande
Mme. Boucher
France
Madame
Mme. Bodine
Madame Boucher
Flore
Fernando
America
Atlantic Ocean
Fernando Bender
Divorce Tale From Arizona Court Circa Frontier Days
A judge recalls early circuit days in Arizona when divorce suits arose amid bandits and cowboys. Witness Timothy Royce recounts a marriage to a camp boardinghouse woman near Bisbee, lasting six to eight months before dissolution.
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Arizona
Timothy
Bisbee
The
Indian School Commencement at Quapaw Agency Highlighted by Demonstrations
The Quapaw Indian agency school near Lost Creek Valley showcased student crafts from weaving to bread making and homemaking, with demonstrations by Hattie Wright Yvette Spencer Ruth Stevens Bella Baldwin and others. Boys demonstrated hitching and unhitched wagon work earning a two minute full run, while Charles Clark showed planting techniques. The school, serving Wyandotte Seneca Shawnee Ottawa Modoc Quapaw Peoria and Miami descendants, balances literary and industrial training under U.S. government supervision.
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Indian Territory
Quapaw Indian Agency
Lost Creek Valley
United States
Schoool
Wyandotte
Seneca
Ottawa
Modoc
Quapaws
Peorias
Priends Church
Kansas City Star
Johnson
Esther Crotze
Mabel Spencer
Effie Walker
Daisy Hinman
Ida Spicer
Myrtle Walker
Ida Schrimpfer
Charles Clark
Dressing on $6500 a Year A Fashionable Englishwoman
From Pall Mall Magazine an exclusive London dressmaker notes a modest 1300 pound annual spend on dress. A detailed bill lists 628 pounds for dresses and 229 for mantles, 147 for millinery, 201 for gloves and sundries, 341 for lingerie, plus 115 for boots and 43 for motor outfit.
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Pall Mall Magazine
London
Wit and whimsy from Yonkers Statesman
The yarn pairs Bacon noting Berlin’s car fitted as a hearse with a quip about dying to ride in it. Egbert jokes about a good looking husband drawing the gaze of his wife and her friends.
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Yonkers
Bacon
Berlin
Egbert
Plunderers Contemplate Returning Fortune After Theft
In tense dialogue, Pat and Elsie debate ending their life of crime and living honestly. Pat weighs giving up the half million tied to a private Everglades mine while Elsie insists money bought illicit pleasure cannot be forgotten. He recalls their thefts, vows to avoid further wrongdoing, yet doubts how to restore the funds. Shell remains tied to the scheme.
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Elsie
Shell
Mr. Shell
Fat
Pat
England
London
Everglades
Mr Theodore Shelf’s Fatal Ballroom Downfall
A London social set reels as Theodore Shelf plans vengeance at his wife Mrs Shelf’s ball. Police chase him after an embezzlement warrant, but he escapes by ship to Newport. The scheme crumbles as Shelf’s empire sinks, leaving Mrs Shelf to staggers through scandal and ruin.
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MR. Sheley
Theodore Shelf
Mr. Shelf
Rio Paraguay
London
George
Amy Rivers
Miss Rivers
Fairfax
Brothers Steamship Association
Amy
Marmaduke Rivers & Shelf
Park Lane
Tramilton
Hamilton
Hampstead
England
Metropolitan Police Force
Shelf
Tesh
Brepgard
Mrs. Shelf
Laura
Paddington
Liverpool
Lime Street
Monmouthshire
Newport
Mrac Theodore Sheif
Stock Poker in Nevada Ends With Return of Lost Shares
In a Goldfield tale reported by the New York Sun, Blake and another man wagered mining stock worth about 200000 dollars in a westward poker style spree. After a dramatic showdown with aces full on tens and four kings, the winner claimed the pot and later agreed to sell back half the stock for sixty dollars.
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New York Sun
Blake
Nevada
West
Goldfield
Tom
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Rodne
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Yaas
Gresaser
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Waal
Eves
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