Picture and Postcard Meet on a London Houseboat
Robinson receives a Beaux Brummel postcard from Wilhelmina Wicks. he suspects the beauty is real and plans to woo her. In London he searches for her, then meets her at his sister Jane’s home where their playful banter begins and inheritance of fate.
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Robinson
Jack
Devonshire
Summer
Southern Express
Haymarket
London
Bill
Jerry Robinson
J. Robinson
Wilhelmina-Willy-Billy-Bill
Wilhelmina Wicks
Makenees
Miss Wicks
Jane
Jerry
Sis
Postal Board
Piccadilly
Jeremiah Robinson
Billy
Holworthy Hall Centennial Tied to Lottery Funds at Harvard
Cambridge notes Holworthy hall marks 100 years of occupancy by Harvard students. The hall’s funds came from a 1806 lottery that raised about $29,000, with $24,500 spent on Holworthy. The plan created a north side of a new equilateral yard while Stoughton had earlier benefited from similar lottery financing.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Holworthy Hall
Holworthy
Cambridge Common
Stoughton
Massachusetts Hall
Hollis
Hbdlden Chapel
Old Stoughton Hall
Lowell
Loammi Baldwin
College Yard
Harvard Graduates’ Magazine
Baldwin
New Stoughton
L. Baldwin
Stoughton Hall
Corporation
Scylla and Charybdis Named On Artist’s Sketch
Richard Lieber, visiting Brown county, identifies the Greek myth figures drawn by Will Vawter. The artist, puzzled by the canvas, receives the correct names in Greek from Lieber, a resident of Indianapolis, eliciting a reflective remark on companionship.
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Richard Lieber
Brown County
Will Vawter
New York
Vawter
Indianapolis
Indianapolis News
Women and wills in societies where they lacked autonomy
Dialogue hints that women were denied independent agency in many places and often expected to follow ready made wills imposed by others. The exchange suggests legal and cultural constraints on female autonomy.
Remarkable multiheaded barley and oats from Chico farmer
Chico, California, and Bailey experiments by G W Overton of Chico yield grains with two to five heads per stalk. Barley heads combine to about nine inches with a dominant main head. oats average three heads. Government orders inspection to consider nationwide adoption of the methods.
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Chico
Cal—Bailey
G. W. Overton
United States
Pig Quarters Too Small Leads to Fine
Roman Roblinski was fined 10 dollars and costs for confining a pig in a three by three foot chicken coop in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Roman Roblinski
Pair Must Marry at Sea
Spokane report of S Kono a Japanese restaurant owner who plans to wed his 22 year old bride at sea to meet immigration rules. They will marry aboard a ship outside American waters at least three miles from shore where no reading of the wedding is needed by law.
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Spokane
S. Kono
Kingdom
Kono
Japan
American
Hermit Faces Old Murder Charge
Florence Alabama resident John Legg is jailed on a murder charge for a killing twelve years past. He fled to the Ozark Mountains in Missouri and lived in a cave trapping and shooting, wearing animal skins, until confessing to a stranger led to his arrest.
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Florence
Ala
John Legg
Legg
Ozark Mountains
Missouri
Deserting Lascars Denounced as Oil Ship Crew Arrested
New York sailors in colorful dress are sentenced to 30 days for attempting to desert the British oil steamer Indra at Point Breeze after demanding shore leave. Capt Grann and Chief Officer Kennedy accuse them of starting a row. Mohan Ali acted as spokesman amid language limits.
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New York
Lascar
McFarland
Point Breeze
Grann
Kennedy
Mohan Ali
India
Jy Aji
Seventeenth District
Duffy
Record of Jersey Farmer Who Adopted 26 Children
Philadelphia reports Joseph Hinchman of Merchantville New Jersey as a farmer with 26 adopted children all raised as valuable citizens. He began adopting at age 26 while driving a milk wagon and later joined forces with Mrs Nancy An. He claims to have never argued with his wife over the years.
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Drews
Mr. Hinchman
Hinchman
Philadelphia
Joseph Hinchman
Merchantville
N. J
Man Buried in Coffin Built by Self Has Hen Nest
Edward D. Pomeroy in Buckland Mississippi asked a doctor to keep him alive two weeks so he could avoid disturbing six hens setting in his coffin he made. He died before hatchlings could emerge and nest arrangements were found afterward.
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North Adams
Miss
Edward D. Pomeroy
Buckland
Pomeroy
Chute to Clean Potatoes Uses Slats for Dirt Separation
The Iowa Homestead explains a potato chute with slatted bottoms set one to one and a half inches apart to allow dirt and pebbles to fall away while small potatoes sieve through, enabling easier sorting and separate bins for tubers.
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Iowa
High Value of Good Roads Makes Case for Fast Construction
The piece argues good roads boost national wealth by saving time and labor in transport from farm to market. It cites a 76 cent annual loss per acre on poor roads versus a $9 gain from full public-road improvement, with five year losses totaling $2,432 per land section and land values rising by about $5,760, outweighing two miles of highway costs.
Device for hauling fence wire spool shown
A handy rig for carrying a spool of barbed wire is shown in an illustration. Popular Mechanics says the device makes it easy for one man to handle the spool when erecting a fence.
Lime quantities vary by need and application interval
Lime requirements range from a few hundred pounds to several tons per acre. An average of about one ton per acre is usually sufficient. With lime containing 50 percent or less calcium oxide larger quantities are needed. Smaller applications of 300 to 600 pounds every two to four years are preferable to heavy, infrequent applications. If basic slag provides the phosphoric acid, a second lime application is likely.
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Robinsons
Associated Literary Press
Regina
Saskatchewan
Canadian Northwest Mounted Police
Jose Swain
America
Jersey
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