Nada Holmes and Austin Herrick Meet at Charity Event
Nada Holmes attracts London noting for her charm and hidden dancer past. Austin Herrick pursues her after a masked dancer twist at a Hillcrest charity show leads to a promise of secrecy. The pair grow closer as Mrs Herrick and Aunt Anna observe, and fate hints at an engagement after Nada’s independence and artistic dreams clash with conventional courtship.
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Nada Holmes
Anna Walker
Nada
The
Hudson
New York
Hillcrest
Anna
Dan Herrick
Austin Herrick
Mrs. Walker
Austin
Mrs. Herrick
Austin Terrick
Ferrick
Miss Holmes
Folly and Fate in a Tire Tale from Illinois State Register
A reflective excerpt from the Illinois State Register notes a recurring moral struggle. It laments repeated temptations that lead to regret, wishing strength to avoid harmful paths and to choose wiser actions, including a costly sixty dollar tire incident.
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Illinois State Register
One Gift Money Cannot Buy Love in a Marriage
A neglectful husband learns the true gift is affection not price or jewels. The wife asks for love and tenderness from courtship days, prompting him to rekindle warmth. The piece argues love is free and priceless, unreachable by wealth, and that even the poor can be rich in affection.
Noted Recipes and May Day Hydration Ideas
A fragment from a historical cookbook section provides playful beverage ideas for hot days. It includes marshmallow sherbet servings with grape juice and ice, a lemon grape juice gelatine mixture for sherbet, and lemonade grape juice blends. The text emphasizes cooling drinks, iced coffee and tea with lemon, and punch garnishes as summer refreshments.
Inventive feats span sights phones drills and motors
A survey of innovations notes an iris diaphragm rifle sight, pocket telephones, a crank hammer drill delivering 1500 blows a minute, steam driven passenger cars, and European approaches to arc lamp carbons. It also mentions a nail gun for posters, tidal power ideas in Fundy, mobile woodwork units, and UK pest losses estimated at 200 million dollars annually.
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Bay of Fundy
Smoky Joe Wood’s Early Versatile Baseball Start
The article recalls Joe Wood, nicknamed Smoky Joe, beginning as a Kansas City shortstop after being recommended to Hutchinson in the Western Association. He played multiple positions, including pitcher, base and outfield, during his early years while praising Hack Spencer for guiding his development.
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Joe Wood
Smoky Joe
Kansas City
Hutchinson
Kan
Western Association
Joe
Risks Compared in Modern Transport Debate
Broncho Bob compares safety of autos and horses in a light exchange. He notes that society still punishes theft by hanging in the era discussed, highlighting the contrast between new machines and traditional penalties.
Op It Muvver A Cockney Cry From A London Nursery Home
A countess tells of a London nursery home for munition workers babies. A two year old girl cried when parted from her mother and finally told her to open the door in a bold Cockney demand as the mother left. The child later grew reconciled to the new surroundings.
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Countess of
Drogheda
London
Baby
Boston Man Finds Worth in Bird Watching Hobby
A Boston man turned a dull vocation into a life enriching hobby by watching birds in Boston Common. He became a devoted observer and wrote popular bird lore books, as Bradford Torrey did, proving enjoyment can grow outside work hours.
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Boston Common
Bradford Torrey
Stan
Fruit Mint Julep With Mint Garnish
Boil water and sugar then steep bruised mint leaves ten minutes. Strain and mix with lemon juice orange juice and strawberry juice. Add charged water and serve over ice with mint sprigs and lemon slices. Optional strawberry pieces or lemon can be added.
No One Is More Unhappy Than the Impatient Man
A reflective piece notes the restless harm of constant impatience. It argues impatience taints personal dignity and harms harmony at home, comparing fretful temper to vice and urging self possession. Orville Dewey is cited as a source in the text.
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Orville Dewey
Fatalist Soldiers on the British Front
An officer writes home that fate intervened again as he and a comrade traded posts for a patrol. The colleague was killed in the exchange, leaving the writer to ponder whether fate governs the lives of soldiers on the front.
The Woman Who Understands by John D. Wells
A poem from the Buffalo News praised the Woman Who Understands as the unseen anchor who forgives and steadies men. It contrasts romantic pledges to women with acknowledgement of a partner who forgives flaws and helps men grow.
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John D. Wells
Buffalo News
Garden lore and tech notes from 1879 to wartime slang
A collage of early science and daily life references. It mentions radishes from Asia, steam plows breaking ground in 1879, war disrupting singing birds and raising canary prices, army cooks preferring kerosene stoves, Native Americans calling the bee the white man’s fly, and a palladium silver alloy proposed as a platinum substitute for contact and spark devices.
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Asia
Niagara Speeds Up Autos in War Effort
Niagara's alloys and abrasives transformed aluminum from a lab curiosity into a crucial minor metal for the Allied war effort. National Geographic notes the metal underpins the auto industry, with steel-using sectors boosting productivity by about threefold. If not for Niagara, U S motorcar factories would have slowed to one-fifth of normal capacity when the war began.
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Niagara
National Geographic Magazine
America
Sheep Skill Beat Mountain Trekking Time
The big horn or Rocky mountain sheep can move over mountain peaks in minutes, a feat that would take a hunter about two hours to accomplish.
Native bulbs bloom in spring and garden tips shared
The author details native bulbs for gardens including iris and dog tooth violet, plus lilies, anemone, buttercups, and Adams and Eve bulbs. Advice covers growing in jars, soil mixtures, and care, with notes on propagating cuttings of various plants and timing for rooting in sand beds and propagating frames.
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Lima R. Rose
Adams
Eves
Clematis
Paul Crampel
Propagating by Cutting by W R Gilbert
This piece explains a key spring operation for mass plant production. It notes March onward as the prime period for taking cuttings and emphasizes careful planning and skill in the process.
Pansies Sown Mid Summer To Bloom Later
Garden note explains that pansies sown in midsummer bloom late in the season as weather turns cool and produce fine flowers.
Probably His Best
Lillian’s father had been away for his health and the girl had not seen him for a year. He returned thin and pale with a Vandyke beard and mustache, and Lillian, called downstairs, timidly assessed the visitor as a friend of her papa’s.
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Lillian
Open the Shutters of the Soul
A short quotation about sunlight and inner beauty. It urges opening the soul to discover personal beauty and usefulness, claiming sunshine remains unchanged while the seeker gains transformation by letting light in.
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By John Elkins
Smoky Joe” Wood
Hack Spencer
Boston
Hack
Id Spencer
Broncho Bob
W. R. Gilbert
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