Christmas romance blooms at Alpha Floral with a proposal
Ardus Ellington helps arrange poinsettias at Alpha Floral and meets Henry Von Hagen, a Public Service engineer. He buys several plants and flowers for his mother. After a winter eve visit, under mistletoe, he asks Ardus to marry him and she agrees, sharing a dream that confirms their match.
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Alpha Floral Rooms
Ardus
Misa Arnie
Jane
Ardes
Henry von Hagen
Henry
Ardus Ellington
Publicervice
von Hagen
Mia
Julien
Bob
Mises Ellington
Hlenry
Western Newspaper Union
Answers to Historical Quiz Questions
A compilation of 20 trivia questions covering geography astronomy history and notable figures. Topics include North American peaks, Dewey’s Manila Bay ship, birthplace of medicine, golf costs, Yale Harvard crew history, opera on poor actors, Philippine islands, New York Herald founder, U S Senate size, sun diameter, Mexico’s chief seaport, a famed American actor, Olympic marathon winner, English tennis clubs, Black Hawk War militia captain later president, Mercator, Germany’s chief seaport, libel landmark, congressional representation ratio, and Mars definition.
Answers to Quiz Question Set No 25
List of answers including names Roger Williams Harry Hartz George Inness Gen Winfield Scott Mary Cassatt Percy Bysshe Shelley and places Indianapolis Columbus Birmingham Glasgow with dates and figures such as 2162 miles and fifteen thousand dollars and a time value of 20 days 12 hours 44.05 minutes.
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Mary Cassatt
Indianapolis
Columbus
Birmingham
Glasgow
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Pennsylvania Packet
Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia
Oddities of global taste and trade in a Parisian memory
In Harper's Magazine Ford Madox Ford notes a paradox of modern commerce and travel. Norwegian anchovies reach Avignon via California peaches sent to London while Norwegians and Californians visit Provence, and he ends up in New York to eat Mediterranean anchovies. The piece closes with the line that the world may not be mad, but it is pretty queer.
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Avignon
France
Frederic Mistral
Mediterranean
Norway
California
Provence
London
New York
Ford Madox Ford
Harper's Magazine
The Soul's Decay
A quotation by Dr. Norman Salit on dignity and self-respect. It asserts that yielding to majority force, ridicule, inertia, and neglect of traditional group customs defeats the soul. The passage contrasts a living conscience with a dead soul tied to conformity.
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Norman Salit
Personality and the Idea of Dual Personalities
The Baltimore Sun notes that the term personality is misused as a single trait in people, while some speak of dual personalities like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, where the contrast is in the same person.
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Doctor Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Baltimore Run
DetourGift of Christmas Hope Brings Two Hearts Closer
Helen and Clay drift from a holiday detour to create handmade gifts for a forgotten town. They transform scraps into stockings, cornstalk candlesticks, and birch bark keepsakes, wrapping each with tissue and ribbon. Their efforts spark joy as Miss Eliot notices Helen’s ring, a betrothal token long carried by Clay.
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Helen
Eliot
Chay
Clay
Miss Gould
Miss Eliot
Eliots
Dawn
Clay Hamilton
Western Newspaper Union
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Rees
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St. John's, N. B
Utes
Cyrus
Middleton
A & Detour
Christmas Cine
Shba, Edith
Fia
Otoa
HIEL
Hill's
Hill
Bell & Co., Inc
Orangeburg
N.Y
Docturs
Nervine
Pat
Tim
Koenig Medicine CO
E. W. Grove
Heraclitus
Elief
Wester Bet
Ron Huey
Giateenes Nols
Hanford
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