Maine Woods Saga of Chip McGuire and Lovers
In 1906 moral tale Chip McGuire a 16 year old girl escapes a forced sale by her father and finds shelter with Martin Frisbie and family in a Maine wilderness camp. She and Ray Stetson fall in love while dangers including outlaw McGuire and Bolduc unfold. After capture attempts and hidden cave secrets Chip changes homes and names as love and loyalty shift.
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Chip McGuire
Tim
Maine Woods
Pete Bolduc
Martin Frisble
Martin
Raymond Stet- Son
McGuire
Chip
Tomah
Ajay
Levi
Bolduc
Old Cy
Ray
Amzi
Greenvale
Aunt Comforts
Hannah
Aunt Comfort
Judson Walker
Chip's uneasy move to Christmas Cove reshapes life
Vera Raymond nicknamed Chip battles loneliness and dislocation after being placed with Aunt Abby Bemis and Uncle Judson Bemis. At the Corners she flourishes in study and social life, earning small praises from Mr Bell, while a yearning memory of Ray and Greenvale underpins her stubborn hope to someday return to Peaceful Valley.
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Jud
Aunt Abby
Chip
Uncle Jud
Aunt Mandy
Curis
Christmas Cove
Abby Bemis
Capt. Bemis
The
Cove
Abby
Mandy
Mr. Bemis
Miss Phinney
Mr. Bell
Greenvale
Ray
Vera Raymond
Old Cy
Peaceful Valley
Tim
Hfe
Ghostly ruse breaks man’s belief he is dead
A man who believed he was dead refused nourishment until doctors staged a haunting by ghostly attendants eating a meal beside his room. Believing the dead could eat, he decided to join them and began eating.
Youth Triggers Phonograph Meltdown at Staten Island Ferry House
In the St George ferry house on Staten Island a bored crowd gathered around a penny slot phonograph. A young man drops a coin to start a tune, drawing hoards of listeners and later activates all machines including two banjo players. He exits outside to light a cigarette, leaving chaos behind.
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St. George Ferry House
Staten Island
New York
Satin and Tulle Hats Lead Fashionly Simple Spring Style
Fashion notes mid season favor satin and tulle hats with simple shapes and large tulle bows as the main decoration. Designs feature satin hats trimmed with tulle or tulle faced with satin, minimal plumes, and light airy bows, often black with white camellias.
Fancy buttons and seals redefine waistcoats and furs
The piece notes the rise of Louis Seize waistcoats featuring multicolored brocades and extravagant buttons. Wedding presents include miniature painted seals set in diamonds or pearls. Button sets span waistcoat buttons to umbrella handles in tortoise shell and paste diamonds. Fur toques display large ospreys and jeweled buttons, with mercury wing caps and jeweled chains across the front.
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Louis
Dra
Sleeping Sock Crochet Pattern for a Child
Instructions outline making a sleeping sock of any size using wool and a thick hook. Start with a chain from ankle, form double crochets across, turn without chain, and work back and forth. Increase to fit leg, create ankle top, then finish foot, join and decorate with tassels.
Darning Socks With A Wooden Last At Farm
A farm wife gratefully accepts help to darn socks and stockings using a small wooden last. The narrator learns the tool’s usefulness, especially for preserving heel shape during large-hole repairs.
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Kifarper
Easy Afghan for Young Women and Girls
An afghan described as a favorite among young girls and women is easily made with five double crochet strips in pink or pale blue using Germantown zephyr. Strips of 30 stitches and two yards long are joined by four bands of Cluny insertion, with lace edging and a silk lining. The style, called a fascinator, is washable by removing the silkening and can feature embroidery motifs with narrow silk ribbon and silk braid on matching garments.
Dressy Frocks Use Meteor Satin For Delicate Gowns
Meteor satin remains a popular choice for dressy frocks, praised for its light weight and soft tones such as Nattier blue, peach, salad green, Nile, and yellow. The fabric appears in varied delicate shapes in current fashion reporting.
Hair Care Regimen Advised From A To Z Remedies
The guide recommends scalp massage for ten minutes daily after applying tonic and a shampoo cycle every three weeks. It suggests using electricity treatment once or twice weekly if someone can apply it, and mentions a good tonic and egg sham poo as part of the routine.
Care of Childrens Nails in School Health Notes
If children bite nails apply arnica or a harmless bitter lotion to fingertips. Painful hangnails common among children should be cut with sharp nail scissors and the edge rubbed with calamine cream.
Poet Banker Stedman Reclaims Lost Book in Retail Spoils
Edmund Clarence Stedman once hurled a book at a servant in anger. It flew from a window and was later stolen by a passerby. He later found the same rare volume for sale in a boot shop and bought it back for forty dollars, discovering a card inside with his own name. The incident cured him of throwing books at servants.
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
Stedman
Aplenctia
New York
Ministers Tea Talk on Meeting in Heaven Sparks Lively Quip
A minister at a tea table asked who people would like to meet in heaven. Mrs In the swim quipped she would not meet herself, highlighting humor amid a discussion of eternal recognition. Meanwhile a Boston Herald piece notes a small group at Hartshorn’s Enway residence selects world Sunday school lessons each year.
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Mrs
Enway
W. N. Hartshorn
Boston Herald
Europe
Africa
Hawaii
Japan
India
Frenchman in New York Seeks Help for Lost Purses
An anecdote from Youth's Companion shows a Frenchman stranded in New York arguing with a lawyer. He insists the claim is not that his friend Le comte stole his purse, but that Le comte helped him search it, or he would have found it sooner.
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New York
Lecomte
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Mur
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Wildwood Lake
Scott
Lever
Cooper
Hardy
Abigail Bemis
Judi
Wong
Hoyden
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Greendale
Miss Phinny
St.George Ferry House
Children’s Nails
Chicago Directory
Coyne Bros
Water St
Chicago
Hapgoods
Hartford Bidg
Hyde Park
Chisago
Lake
Lc.r.r
Virgin
Michigan Sunda
Oceania County
Herpertn
Thy
Taylor A. Snow & CO
Washington St
Miker
Gunther’s Confectionery
State Street
Heaven
Champ
Sharpe
Helma Lee
Hardy Porte
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