Aunt Thomasina and the diamond ring
A young woman recalls a five year engagement to Peter in India rejected by her guardian Aunt Thomasina. She marries Mr Simpson for money but loses Peter’s ring amid memories of dances, engagements, and missed vows while considering her past and future.
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Mr. Simpson
Thomasina
Peter
India
Captain Agincourt
Betty Marsden
Hurlingham
Sir Dennis East
Mr. . Simpson
Petar
Scotland
Agincourt
Aunt Thomasina
Mrs. Simpson
Love and reunion amid a family feud and a proposal
Monica confronts a former suitor Mr Simpson while her former flame Peter Polruan returns from India as heir. Aunt Thomasina opposes philanderers, Monica juggles heartbreak and a possible wedding journey to India, and Lady Sandway mediates as matters of love, letters, and rings reveal who will wed whom.
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Peter
Monica
Mr. Simpson
Tom
Shrimpington
Thomasina
England
Veg
Polruan
Evans
Sandway
India
Caroline Cadbury
Harpooning a Whale in a Moral Dilemma Sea Tale
A whaling crew harpoons a whale with a calf, pursuing it into a cliffed cove. The whale dies quietly to spare its calf, prompting the crew to feel moral horror at the apparent cold blooded murder before finishing the capture and towing the carcass to the ship.
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Louis
Flinders
Free Trial Offers for Dr King’s Discovery Products
Advertises free trials of Dr King’s New Discovery and New Life Pills. Readers are instructed to send their names to H E Bucklin & Co in Chicago for a sample box and a Guide to Health, with a guaranteed benefit at no cost. Mentions J H Bacher & Co drugstore and a Detroit Tribune quotation about marriage misfortune.
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Dr. King
Ruggist
H. E. Bucklin & Co
Chicago
J. H. Bacher & Co
OWEN
Owen Electric Belt and Appliance CO
State Street
Dr Hand Teething Lotion Praised by Mother in Springfield
Springfield reader Mrs Judson Buynton of 546 Lagonda Avenue says Dr Hand's Teething Lotion relieves gum pain and swelling and is harmless as an external remedy. The note promotes Dr Hand's child remedies sold by druggists at 25 cents.
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Dr. Hand
Free Life Pills Offered By Mail From Chicago
Free samples of Dr King s New Life Pills advertised by H E Buck len Co Chicago. Claims ease of constipation and headaches while improving liver function and stomach tone. Regular 25 cents a box via J H Bacher & Co druggists. Also a Kansas man sues for divorce over wife shouting in church. noted as a joke on college yell.
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Kansas
Washington
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H. M. Carpenter
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Monticello
Iowa
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Butte
J. Fpranois
Omaha
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Eastman Eodae
Rochester, N, Y
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D. Fallon
Temple Bar
Bruton Street
Cincinnati Enquirer
Detroit Tribune
Dawson
Indianapolis Journal
H. E. Bucklen & Co
Lorteionnien
Alalactkioc Steel Lajestic Rev
Majestic
Eastwood & Chase
H. A. Arcorr
Oxford
Brooklyn
N. Y
Castoria
Enwim F. Parvey
125Th Street
7Th Ave
New York City
the Centaur Company
Murray Street
Cook and
Riverside
Stove
Toad
Eagle Drug Store
A Kempf
Deutsche Apotheke
Bucsien
Felix
Cedar Rapids
First Ave
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Paintersville
Victor Medical Association
South Bend
Ind
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