Broadway-style farce on a shipboard romance untangles quickly
Mrs Horace Hignett, famed writer, arrives in New York with her ward Eustace. Sam, her nephew, sails with him to join a wedding plot. On the Atlantic pier Sam falls for redheaded Billie Bennett while Eustace's heartbreak and a scheming engagement in Windles create comic confusion before Sam professes and Billie accepts.
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Horace Hignett
New York
Eustace
Windies
Hignetts
Sam
Mallaby Marlowe
London
Atlantic
Bream Mortimer
Bennett
Mree Hignett
Windles
Bream
Wilhelmina Bennett
Littl
Wilhelmina
Ia Wilhelmina Bennett
Billie
Shipboard farce as engagement sparks concert crisis
Sam Marlowe fears Billie Bennett will wed cousin Eustace Hignett while planning to sing at the shipboard concert. Bream Mortimer abandons plans after Billie’s revelation, leaving Sam to improvise with a Frank Tinney impersonation and Eustace to confront a comic, looming dilemma aboard.
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Bream
Sam
Billie
Frank Tinney
Trinity
Father
Bream Mortimer
Mr. Mortimer
England
Deuce
Eustace Hignett
Hignett
Eustace
Trinity Smoker
Pustace
Ernest
Frank
Mortimer
Sustace Hignett
Wilhelmina Bennett
Marlowe
Schopenhauer
Plant Industry Shows Progress in Solving Crop Problems
The report to the secretary of agriculture highlights advances in plant production, disease resistance, and improved varieties. It notes strains resistant to flag smut and rosette, low soil temperatures aiding wheat, barberry eradication, new oats, root and stalk management in corn, and broader efforts in fruits, nuts, and citrus with bud selection and stem end rot control. Port references include cotton quality, olive and fig initiatives, and new tropical plants.
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Abeierkatemae Department
Pahen
Bureau of Plant Industry
Secretary of Agriculture
Porto Rico
Virgin Islands
Philippines
Northwest
Scotland
Origin of the Dumdum bullet name
The hollow-nosed bullets known as dumdums were named after the Dumdum town in British India. It was the Bengal artillery headquarters in the early eighties. The Hague Conference banned their use by international agreement.
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Dumdum
British India
Bengal
Bengal Artillery
Advertisement for Cuticura Toilet Trio and Baby Comforts
The notice promotes Cuticura products for skin care and comfort. It highlights Cuticura Soap for cleansing, Cuticura Ointment for itching and redness, and Cuticura Talcum powder as an indispensable fragrance. The ad emphasizes ease of use and daily routine benefits.
Double Life Jokes in a Civic Matrimony Exchange
A playful dialogue imagines Mrs Junebride and her Husband debating a double life with a jab about financial limits. The exchange pivots on wit and marital banter rather than any serious plot.
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Junebride
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Wodehouse
Myers
George H. Doran Co
Mr. Hignett
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Samuel Marlowe
Omeley
Eustice Hignett
Darling
Peru
Boston Transcript
Bellans
Wright
Pearl St
Houston
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