Pilar’s Real Love and Bryn’s Hidden Truth Unfold
Deborah confesses Bryn offered to marry her to save her from an unwanted match. Pilar learns the arrangement and questions Bryn’s motives while Grandmother praises him. The yearlong plan looms as Deborah faces a future after the staged marriage.
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Emainsan
Bryn
Deborah
Pilar
Sally
Madeline
Grandmother
Simon
Tubby
San Francisco
Graham
Brya
Meanderings and meditations on New York scenes
L. L. Stevenson recalls a panorama of city life from Eighth to Fifth avenues. Bright potted plants, evergreen wagons, busy peddlers, mothers on steps, sailors-in-training at Conservatory Lake, and iconic figures like Alexander Woollcott and Father Duffey are sketched alongside bus rides and storefronts.
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Eighth Avenue
Seventh Avenue
Broadway
Greenwich Village
Eighth Street
Tenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Conservatory Lake
Central Park
New York
Pittsburgh
Phil
William McKinley
Jimmy Walker
Alexander Woollcott
Fifth Avenue
Dudley Field Malone
Dorothy Fox
Ziegfeld Girls Club
Paul Jonas
Museum of Natural History
Mt. Vernon
Father Duffey
Sixty-ninth
Constable
Eighty-third Street
Eddy Duchin
Eighty-first
Janna
Georges
Waldorf
Senorita
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
Ruyeres
Calliope
Gruyeres
Switzerland
United States Naval Academy
Gruyere
High Caste Brahman Objects to Being Seen Eating
A Brahman in India objects to being observed eating by a person of a lower caste, citing beliefs linked to the evil eye and social taboos. The remark reflects rigid caste norms and fear of ritual contamination.
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India
Car Squeak Leads to Nesting Robins in Back Spring
In Columbus Ohio Samuel Taylor quits driving after his five year old son Bobby finds a nest of four baby robins in the car left rear spring. The discovery ends daily use of the vehicle for a time.
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Columbus
Ohio
Samuel Taylor
Bobby
Anne Hutchinson and the birth of religious liberty
A historical profile recounts Anne Hutchinson in 17th century Massachusetts Bay as a heresy trial figure and early feminist whose banishment spurred women’s gatherings and civil liberty ideals later echoed in the U S Constitution. It notes her Rhode Island exile and death in New York and credits her with shaping American religious tolerance.
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Statehouse
Boston
Massachusetts
Athaliah
Devels
Lathan
Anne Hutchinson
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Joan of Arc
Rouen
America
Women’s Clubs of America
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
New York
United States
Artemus Ward the Nation's Jester and His Civil War Role
Charles Browne known as Artemus Ward was a Maine born humorist who created the Artemus Ward persona in Cleveland and rose to national fame with his book and lectures. Lincoln read Ward’s excerpts in 1862 which helped shape the Emancipation Proclamation context and Ward became a symbol in American humor.
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Charles Farrar Browne
Artemus Ward
Maine
Browne
Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York
Vanity Fair
Artemius Ward
Ward
Lincoln
White House
Stanton
Americe
Wormwood Confusion Clarified In Botanical Note
A brief note explains that wormwood is not wood and not a worm, but a bitter plant. It clarifies common misbeliefs and highlights its bitter flavor and botanical classification.
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Frances Shelley Wees
Boryn
L. L. Stevenson
Columbus Circle
Frank Kolbe
General Motors
Maine Memorial
H. S
Plymouth
Bustop
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Western Newspaper Union
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