The Disagreeable Stepsisters Arrive at the House
Ella ventriloquizes about her two stepsisters Laura and Theodora with Miss Reade as governess. The two sisters arrived after their father’s death and their mother’s remarriage. Ella accuses them of constant interference since moving in.
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Miss Reade
Ella
Laura
Theodora
Mr. Newton
Mrs. Newton
Theo
Miss Newton
Miss
Ceith
Tourtenay
Aura
Miss Reads
Ellanan
Isa
Dot
Asaby
Ashby
Ela
Ashley
Colonel Ashby
Cinderella
Cinderella's scheme leads to double wedding in village
Miss Reade guides Ella as she plays Cinderella to win two suitors, Col. Ashby and Sir George Courtenay. Ella’s ruse unveils Dot alive, shocking Ashby and the major, who learns Dot is his true daughter and heir. A wedding joins Ashby to Dot and Courtenay to Laura.
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Father
Colonel Ashby
George Courtenay
Ella
Mijor
Ernest Ashby
Cinderella
George Courtnay
Dot
Hia
Miss Reader
Courtenay
Ashby
Jena
Nia
Laura
Miss Ella
Theo
Miss Reade
Ashley
Ashbey
Bertie
Nursie
Illa
Elia
Ernest
Sir George Courtenay
Nature study bones mix up school scare story
A New York City school superintendent visits two classrooms during nature study. In the first, a teacher reveals a basket of bones and is praised for vertebrate study. In the second, a teacher presents her own bones, prompting a sharp retort and a moral about misfortune.
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New York City
Game Cock Slays a Rat and Goose Imprisons Fox
In Caldwell New Jersey a game rooster named Hen killed a rat that menaced a farm barn after the farmer William Johnson aided by a club failed to deter the rodent. In Fort Jervis New York Martin Flaherty’s goose captured by a barrel trap frightened a fox, which was later killed. the goose fed at the Christmas dinner.
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Johnson
Flen
Fort Jervis
N. Y
Martin Flaherty
Matsmorias
Ile
Hite
Mlaherty
A Biblical Lesson On Trust In The Lord
A Sunday school lesson on trusting the Lord contrasts with a mother’s frustration over jam making. A little girl recalls Ming Holbrook warning to trust in the Lord and not princes, urging belief over reliance on worldly means.
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Waiteh
Mamma
Ming Holbrook
Puck for the Patient. Jlarper's Weekly humor column
A quip from Jlarper's Weekly mocks a doctor who prescribes pills with a vague direction to take one half hour before pain. The exchange features a friend questioning the instruction and the other defending the idea as a blank foolish directive.
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Puck
Jlarper's Weekly
Denver to seat 11500 at Democratic National Convention
Denver auditoriums will host the national convention with 168 by 260 foot hall 83 feet high. It will seat 11500 using aisle space up from 9000 and include many committee rooms. Cost projected at 425000 with a flexible main hall and circular seating around the rostrum for clear sightlines.
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Denver
Robert Willison
America
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Hearst
Great Britain
Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus
Oscar
Riddarholms Kryka
Knights’ Island
Stockholm
Gustave
Denmark
Chas. H. Graves
Roosevelt
Rooster
Denver Auditorium
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