After the Years After the Years
Alton Merrill, broken by Estelle Harraden’s disappearance, learns from a confessor that a rival framed their past engagement. A chance encounter in Iowa leads him to Estelle at a gray-house piano, where she forgives and reunites with him, restoring their love after years apart.
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Alton Merrill
Estelle Harraden
Lng
Bruce Wyant
Brocton
Merrill
Miss Harraden
Estellie
Estelle
Lie
Iowa
Smithsonian Institution: founder James Smithson and American science landmark
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington started 70 years after its 1829 bequest by James Smithson. His fortune funded an American knowledge center, organized on August 8 1846 under a trustee board including the president and chief justice. Smithson’s remains were relocated from Genoa to the institute’s grounds in 1904.
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America
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
James Lewis Macie Smithson
Duke of Northumberland
United States
Supreme Court
James Smithson
Genoa
Women Speakers Equal Voice in Religion Debate
Manchester Guardian argues for women to speak publicly, noting many male preachers lack eloquence. It laments church sermons on Sundays and urges opening roles to women to utilize a distinct, powerful perspective and gift of speech.
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Manchester
England
Guardian
Polite Boy Believes Elder Die First in Banter
In London Answers a boy and his sister debate who will die first with a quip that the elder must go first. The sister replies briskly that he will because he is oldest, while the boy rejects the privilege and asserts ladies first.
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London
Peonies Cultivation Tips And Varieties From C Bestcher
The article outlines peony care including soil preparation with manure and rye, planting depths for different soils, timing for planting, and pruning guidance. It notes shallow cultivation to prevent blooming issues, sun exposure requirements, watering needs, and methods of propagation from divisions and seeds with years to bloom. It lists a catalog of selected peony varieties and color types such as Officinalis tenuifolia, La France, festiva maximi, and Droussé.
Grow Your Roses From Cuttings in Eight Easy Steps
A practical guide explains taking half hardened wood cuttings and rooting them in soil with a glass cover. Cuttings are placed in a sunny bed, kept moist, and covered to root. Growth appears in a few weeks, with autumn planting possible into mid October and winter protection.
Sweet Peas Planted In The Fall Across Regions
In many U S localities sweet peas can be planted late with success. If November is fine plow deeply and turn rich manure under. Sow seeds four inches apart one inch deep, frost may nip but roots survive. Southern regions suit sweet peas with good return. October best for cyclamen planting.
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C. Bestcher
United States
Favorite of Filmcom Stars in The Scarlet Runner
Popular actress noted as one of the stars in the new movie serial The Scarlet Runner. The article highlights her appeal and role in the production.
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Filmcom
Atmospheric interference in long distance wireless signals analyzed
The article notes atmospheric interference remains the main unsolved problem in wireless telegraphy. It explains that while generating and receiving equipment have improved, distinguishing desired signal waves from parasitic atmospheric disturbances remains difficult, despite stronger transmitters and atmospheric-reduction methods.
Poultry Care Tips For Winter Feeding And Housing
Practical guidance on keeping a laying flock through winter. Emphasizes grit and shells, green feed like cabbage and mangel wurtzels, vermin control with lice killers, ample nutritious feed, clean sunny housing, early layers for breeding, and using brand or beef scraps when wheat is costly. Also recommends disinfectants and selling hens after the second molt.
Pet Names of U S Statesmen Affected by Nomenclature
A list of historical nicknames for American leaders including Washington Old Abe Lincoln and Jefferson Sage of Monticello, detailing origins such as Old Hickory for Andrew Jackson and Unconditional Surrender for Ulysses Grant. The collection spans presidents, senators, and notable figures with explanations for each sobriquet.
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Abe
Abraham Lincoln
John ©. Fremont
Richard W. Thompson
Indiana
Navy
President Hayes
Salmon P. Chase
Cox
Samuel S. Cox
Ohio
Stephen A. Douglas
Martin van Buren
Sage
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Gen. A
Grant
Buckner
Sycomore
Wabash
Daniel W. Voorhees
Millboy
Henry Clay
Manover County
Virginia
Slashes
Why the Rainstorm Follows Thunder and Lightning
The article explains that rain after a thunderclap is due to localized drops forming and breaking up in thunderclouds where positive and negative charges interact. Lightning arrives first, then thunder, and rain follows as condensation and fallout proceed in parallel, with light fastest, sound slower, and rain slowest.
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Popular Science Monthly
A Telephone Watch Aims to Speed Calls and Timekeeping
A small watch attached to the handle of the portable telephone brings the time under the user’s eye. It serves as a desk clock and ensures the correct time remains visible regardless of desk arrangement. The device is described as an invention from the son of a large West Coast watchmaker.
Juvenile Logic and a Humble Prayer
Five year old Lester prays at his mother's knee adding a witty line about keeping an eye on the old sheep as well. The child's playful reversal shows early reasoning about his place among the flock and his family.
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Lester
Coffee and Nerves Across the Nervous System
The piece notes tea and coffee affect the nervous system and warns excess use is dangerous. It states moderate consumption is likely harmless unless the beverages are too strong.
New Inventions Across Industries Highlight Advances
A survey of innovations includes an electric heater powered from a light socket and a faucet water faucet aid, a lapel vest that forms throat protection, hidden kitchen appliances, a watch with a dry battery, an adjustable step ladder, a trouser lift device, a micrometer screw for calipers, a clock weight system with Father Time, transparent aircraft wings, deep mine compression gear, peat coal gas plants, and Britain’s coast erosion from advancing oceans.
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Oregon
New York
Colorado
Great Britain
Gibraltar
Marrying Parson Proposes Ten Rules for Husbands Seekers
Oakland’s Rev. John H. Pierce known as the marrying parson offers ten rules for young women seeking husbands. He urges strategic quiet, discernment, bold yet coy behavior, and warns that a man who resists a kiss proves either brute or idiot.
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John H. Pierce
Oakland
Cal
Mr. Pierce
Machiavelli
Fire Loss Surpasses Panama Canal and Military Costs
The article states that U S property lost to fire in the last two years totals 200 million dollars, more than the Panama Canal and military expenses for the same period. It notes an additional 200 million spent on firefighting equipment.
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United States
Panama Canal
Army
Vaudeville Performer Walks on His Ear Amazes Audience
In vernacular exchange a vaudeville performer demonstrates a feat by "walking on his ear." The remark notes the stunt impresses, while a critic’s review in today's paper omits mention of the act. The conversation highlights audience astonishment at an unusual stage moment.
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W. G. Chapman
Srrree
Officinalis
la France
Festiva Maximi
Delachel
M. DuPont
Felix Drousse
D. de Nemours
P. Duchartre
M. M. Chausac
Jenny Lind
Dorchester
Marie Stuart
Edulis Supera
Billie Billings
Daddy
Laura Jean Libbey
John Quincy Adams
Congress
Andrew Jackson
Thomas H. Benton
Missouri
James Buchanan
Juvenile Logic
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