Weden on Fate's Loom and Heavithorne Holiday
Stella sits with her aging guardian and restless longing for Louis Felton as cousins revel at Heavithorne. She resists sharing her secret romance while a cold, draughty setting and imagined star-crossed meeting haunt her thoughts during a lively family gathering and a sudden loud knock at the hall.
Christmas Night Intrusion at the Hut
Mrs. Newton welcomes Louis Felton the owner of Heavithorne as a messenger arrives with a note. Felton stays to warm by the fire, shares his solitude at the Hut, and flirts softly with Stella while a rescued messenger recovers nearby, setting a festive yet mysterious mood.
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John Thomas
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Louis Felton
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Heavithorne
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Comedian Hitchcock Tips Doctor For Far Country Club Run
The West touring comedian Raymond Hitchcock invited a physician to drive to the Country Club five miles from San Francisco after a performance. Hitchcock paid four dollars for the service and joked that a pirate hackman would have charged far more.
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Country Club
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Harper’s Weekly
Gearless clock by C H Brigden of Los Angeles
Ingenious timepiece by watch maker C H Brigden uses a perforated disk and a single wheel. A steel ball rolls on inclined plates to release the disk and move balls through a minute hole, with two weights maintaining tension in the tower.
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C. H. Brigden
Los Angeles
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Opera business versus art in Grau method discussed
Maurice Grau told me that his success came from producing opera for business rather than music or art. A composer notes many imitate Grau yet pretend to be artists while pursuing novelty and profit, likening it to a perfume maker selling gasoline scent to tickle vanity and sell cars.
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Maurice Grau
Frank
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Dedicatory banquet tale from Prof Pupin on frugality
Prof M O Pupin told a story at a New York Colony club dedicatory banquet about Mr Smith a frugal Idvor native. A major requests one chop and one poached egg but recalls dining with Mr Smith and asks for two chops and two poached eggs.
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M. O. Pupin
New Woman’s Club
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New York
Idvor
Mr. Smith
Euclid Faces Challenge Over Square Deal
The famed geometrician Euclid boasts mathematical prowess while critics tease him with a test of defining a square deal, provoking dramatic reactions and public scrutiny.
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Euclid
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Burglary Bluff Brings Lovers Together at Last
Bertha Sylvester and Dick Burgess unite after a staged burglary leads to a slander suit by Burgess Sr. The father’s plan backfires as a clever burglar, revealed as a crucial witness, exposes the ruse. Damages erupt, then settle, ending with a five figure wedding gift for the couple.
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Old Burgess
William Sikes
Daily Paper
Liza
Cupid
Nassau Street
Bill
Jack Robinson
Bertha
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