Maiden Effort Leads Templeton Sayles to Moldavia
Kelsey Hare, an architect recovering from a breakdown, lodges at Holmesholm with Martin Holmes as Purity Pictures plans a film around Templeton Sayles. Sayles becomes lead in Maiden Effort as Moby Dickstein advances the project and Marion Van Stratten is chosen to star amid schemes, fashion, and studio bustle.
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Kelsey Hare
Martin Holmes
Moldavia
N. Y
Holmes
Holmesholm
Kelsey
Park Avenue
Purity Pictures
Snydacker
Templeton Sayles
Sayles
Glunk
Park Avenue van Strattens
Marion
Liggett Morse
A. Leon Snydacker
Peckett
Gloria Glamour
Moby Dickstein
Marsion
Darrling
Moby
Gloria
Emily Post
Marie
Dazrling
Mr. Sayles
Leon Snydacker
Moby Wickstein
Bwana
A. Leon
Malden Featherston
Miss Glamour
New York
Marion Norman van Stratten
Mr. Templeton Sayles
Europe
America
Dickstein
Miss van Stratten
Marne
Darrlings
Maine
Maiden Effort
Lifestyle shifts at Holmesholm after new tenants move in
Holmesholm passes from its lawful tenant under evolving finances and renovations. A weekly payment yields profit, new furniture flows in, and three trained servants arrive to replace Glunk who bites one worker and is banished to the barn. Maine occupies the top suite with Gloria nearby and Kelsey moved to an end room.
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Holmesholm
Glunk
Maine
Gloria
Kelsey
Peculiar Yellowstone geyser clock tells time every 38 seconds
A travel writer notes a London Answers magazine story about a unique American clock in Yellowstone National Park. A geyser powers a 38 second interval clock by hitting a lever, working over 12 years without reset.
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London Answers
America
Yellowstone National Park
El Salvador: Smallest mainland country in the Americas
El Salvador is the smallest mainland country in the Western Hemisphere aside from Haiti. It lies between Canada and Colombia without an Atlantic or Pacific seaboard and has the densest rural population on the mainland of the Americas. About 1.5 million people live in an area roughly the size of Maryland.
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el Salvador
North
South America
Haiti
Canada
Colombia
Americas
Maryland
First Uprising Foretold Before Revolution and Civil War Tale
An 18 year old James Smith led frontier action in 1763 against alcohol and arms trade with Indians, fighting British forces at Fort Loudon in 1765 and hailed as the first rebel after a long struggle. Henry Weston Smith preached in Deadwood during the 1876 gold rush and was killed by a Sioux war party. James Andrews led a Civil War era raid on the Western and Atlantic railroad, burning bridges and tracks before being executed as a spy.
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Ames Smith
England
Young Smith
Smith
Conococheague Valley
His Majesty’s Army
America
Black Watch
Fort Loudon
Barr
Ft. Loudon
Bunker Hill
James Smith
Sky
Deadwood
Black Hills
South Dakota
Henry Weston Smith
Crook City
Marietta
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Big Shanty
James J. Andrews
Flemingsburg
W. A. Fuller
Andrews
Western and Atlantic
Fuller
Western Newspaper Union
Household Tips and Cleaning Tricks From Everyday Life
A collection of practical advice including removing finger marks with sweet oil from varnished furniture. A long handled duster aids housewives with back problems. Pink mayonnaise is achieved by adding tomato catsup or cooked tomatoes. Grass stains on flannel trousers are treated by wrapping a rag around a finger, dampening with methylated spirit, rubbing, changing the rag, and washing with clear water.
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Malaria Relief
A vintage ad touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a malaria cure with tasteless quinidine and iron. It claims to relieve chills and fever, improve health quickly, and is pleasant to take, even for children, available at drugstores with a larger size offering more value.
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Grove
Remembering Locke on Truth and Error in Philosophy
A concise reflection contrasts showing error with granting truth, citing John Locke's enduring distinction between correcting beliefs and enabling possession of knowledge. It emphasizes epistemic responsibility and the quest for certainty.
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Locke
It Takes Little Time to Administer a Rebuke
A Chinese proverb notes that issuing a rebuke is quick, but the memory of it lingers lengthy. The saying contrasts swift discipline with long lasting impact on feelings and reputation.
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Samuel Hopkins Adams
Virgo
Tim
Lehigh Valley
D.t.’S
Sport
Purity Pictures Inc
BBC
Germany
Globe M’'fg. Co
McKinney
Dallas
Texas
Joseph
Nate
Lucan
Doan
Doga
Ae Dean
Beltey
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