Leap Year Charm Brings Bore to Bold Ruth Morton Love
Ralph Burton, a shy twenty eight year old bachelor, endures a month of social pranks led by a town club. A veiled admirer spurs anxiety until he spends a day at Ruth Morton and her siblings’ apple project. Deepening affection with Ruth leads Burton to reveal his love and announce marriage to Ruth Morton, not Miss Dempster.
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Ralph Burtow
Imada
Norton
Burton
Ike Burton
Ralph Burton
Nature
Ine
Ned Walton
Smithville
Celia Dempster
Morton
Ruth Morton
Ruth
Pardise
Miss Dempster
The Origin of Surnames
An overview tracing how surnames formed from nicknames occupations places roles and traits. It explains how Tom the Taylor became Taylor and notes examples like Smith Bakers Pope King Bishop and Grace from gras meaning fat. It mentions nicknames such as See ly Cameron Kennedy and Fitchie with uncomplimentary origins.
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Tom
Harry
Tom the Taylor
Tom Taylor
Taylor
Pope
King
Bishop
Hogg
Bacon
Purcell
Pourcel
Little Pig
Gait
Grice
Tod
Fox
Fitchie
Polecat
Seely
Cameron
Kennedy
Grace
Humorous Calcutta Ad Inspires Hot Water Misread
Ada Lee recalls an amusing misinterpretation from India. A Calcutta Statesman advertisement sought a mathematics teacher for the Lee Memorial Normal Training School. One applicant promised, I shall not cease to throw hot water into the institution from the time I enter until I leave, misunderstanding the idiom about cooling the project.
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Calcutta
Ada Lee
Lee Memorial Normal Training School
India
Calcutta Statesman
Making One's Life Blessing Quote Reflection
A concise exhortation by Anna Robertson Brown urging readers to shed pretenses and worries and to seize time, work, happiness, love, duty, friendship, sorrow, and faith to live truthfully and inspire others.
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Anna Robertson Brown
A Foe to Fire from the Louisville Courier-Journal
A quoted exchange notes childhood ambitions rarely realized with one speaker reflecting on a life in insurance rather than world burning. The Courier-Journal captures a wry mood about unachieved dreams and practical realities.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Difficult Diet and Calm Reply Across the Table
An ob servant visitor criticizes Americans for being dyspeptic and impatient. A quiet citizen agrees that part of the issue may be a habit of swallowing indignation.
Trench Dreams Haunt Wounded Soldiers, Says Dr Auer
Dr E Murray Auer of Philadelphia reports trench warfare left soldiers with lasting mental effects and tremors rather than physical injuries. He cites coma like experiences after shelling, memory loss, sleep disruption, and vivid trench dream episodes. Photophobia and sudden blindness fears also appear, though vision often returns when eyes are opened.
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E. Murray Auer
Philadelphia
Twenty-second General Hospital
France
Philadelphia Neurological Society
Doctor Auer
Auer
Soldier's Will in Verse for Lt Norman Lowe Killed in France
The will of Second Lieutenant Norman McGregor Lowe D M C London Scottish, killed in France on January 10, was proved recently. Dated September 21, the half sheet note appoints his brother Charles Edward Berkeley Lowe as executor and asks to be buried by a bracken bush beneath the blooming briar with the line that a kindly Scot lies there.
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London
Norman McGregor Lowe
London Scottish
France
Charles Edward Berkeley Lowe
King
Sunlit Warfront: Bombing Near Saloniki Report
Corriere della Sera correspondent Arnoldo Sraccaroli writes from about forty kilometers from Saloniki of a day when bombs fall on both sides. German and French aviators skirmish as allies prepare trenches and fortifications along the front. A field kitchen is hit leaving several dead and injured.
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Arnoldo Sraccaroli
Corriere Della Sera
Saloniki
Giengheli
Petrov
Il Am
Gulf of Oriano
Champagne
Argonne
War Mementos in London Record Office
Hundreds of brown parcels and canvas bags sit in a London Wall building storing soldiers’ personal effects. These tokens comfort wives and mothers of the dead, containing items like pipes, knives, brushes, watches, or letters. The Territorial Regiments record office tracks every officer and man and handles hundreds of inquiries daily.
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London
Territorial Regiments
Why does a woman change her mind so often
A column note in Town Topics questions why a woman revises plans after making them and suggests discomfort with the initial choice may drive second thoughts. The brief remark reflects a humorous take on common decision shifts in daily life.
Front Yard Shrub Selection For Easy Care And Color
The article advises a smooth lawn with side and rear flower beds kept minimal. It praises Hydrangea paniculata for single shrub planting, pruning rules, mulching, and transplanting. It lists Deutzia, Spireas, mock orange, Calycanthus, purple fringe, and Spigella as appealing shrubs, recommending grouped planting for extended bloom through summer.
Plants for north windows in window boxes
To brighten northern exposure, use variegated vineas or English ivy for vines, 1 foot apart. Fill main boxes with begonias in multiple colors. Add taller dracaena terminals every sixth plant to avoid a flat look. Pansies and salvia endure shade. Ivy remains through frost, allowing evergreen fill after other plants die.
Daisies Bloom Throughout the Year in California Climate
The article notes that in California and parts of the South daisies bloom year round and that Shasta daisies bred by Luther Burbank have become popular. It explains variations by climate, the Wild and cultivated forms, and suggests staggered plantings of daisies chrysanthemums and asters to extend bloom from April to November in most regions.
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California
Pacific Coast
Luther Burbank
Paris
Old Fashioned Flowers for Fragrant Garden Bouquets
The rose geranium slip planted in May will become a large plant with lush foliage ideal for finishing bouquets. Leaves scent handkerchief boxes and flavor jelly. Do not rely on mignonette alone for fragrance. many other fragrant plants offer beauty in form and color.
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OOST
George Cobb
W. G. Chapman
Tripoli
Egypt
Cairo
Leona Curtis
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Washington
Capital
By. E. van Benthuysen
Betty Pake
Salt River Valley
Arizona
Lima R. Rose
New England
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