What Price Success and Lost Love
Celia and Bill meet by appointment in a crowded public library and share a quiet, tense conversation about marriage and money. Facing poverty, Celia builds a successful career as a bureau owner while Bill travels west and eventually returns, both mature and wary of romance. He asks for a scrapbook. she replies with a blunt challenge and asks for him instead.
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Celia
Til
Cella
Bill
Prissy
Dot
Irissy
Horned Toads Find War on Insects Becomes Business
The horned toad trade grows as collectors sell specimens to tourists. Captured from native homes, many are kept briefly then starved or used as breeders, raising concerns over stock depletion. The U S Department of Agriculture notes these lizards help fight pests like grasshoppers and ants, and urges states to prevent commercialization.
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Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Missouri
Idaho
Salt Box House Style in New England History
A salt-box house features a lean-to on the windward side extending the roof to nearly the ground. It is linked to early salt makers and colonial days, marking a common New England residential style.
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New England
Blind Wife Bravely Seeks Help as Husband Dies
In Hugo Colorado a blind woman, Mrs George Davis, crawled two miles along ditches and a barbed wire fence to reach a neighbor for help for her dangerously ill husband. She was wounded by wire cuts and bruised from several falls when she arrived. neighbors found Mr Davis had died.
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Hugo
Colo
George
Davis
Bubbling Over Bandit Captured in Memphis
After a two year nationwide manhunt the famed desperado known as Bubbling Over and alias Frank Devers is arrested in Memphis after entering a taxi in a drunken stupor. His bride Josanna Bruce, 23, is jailed with gems and about $5,000 in cash as detectives seize the couple’s honeymoon gifts amid a multi state pursuit involving eight sheriffs and police agencies.
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Memphis
Tenn
Northwest
Utah
South Dakota
Chicago
Minnesota
Frank Devers
Tom Underwood
Tom Smith
Josanna Bruce
Winona
Minn
Rich Widow Slain in Lonely Virginia Home
Mrs. Samuel Jones a 63 year old recluse was beaten to death in her Towanda Virginia residence. Her abandoned car on the road led neighbors to search the house where every piece of furniture and ornament was destroyed and a feather bed torn open. Police weigh robbery versus religious fanatic motives as explanations given her isolation and alleged hoarded money.
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Towanda
Samuel Jones
Swallows Fork and Spoon, Will Try Knife Next
Paris January 27 A twenty seven year old Englishman William Hudson swallowed a soup spoon in a failed suicide attempt and was arrested at Dieppe railroad buffet. Doctors X rayed a bulge he said came from a fork swallowed on a previous arrest and he warned next time it will be a knife.
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Paris
William Tludson
Dieppe
Hudson
Car Disappearance Puzzle Ends With Arrest
Mrs Louise Benchert reported her car missing to police and the vehicle was found with her husband inside the next day. She ordered him arrested.
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Washington
Louise Benchert
Fined for fighting Morse asks court to pay lost wages
Charles Morse sought compensation from the court for a day of waiting to be tried after a fight case, arguing he had lost wages.
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Chicago
Charles Morse
St Patrick Day and its legends in Irish lore
The article explains St Patrick Day origins covers Patrick's feast day vs birth date, possible birthplaces and nationalities, and the shamrock's symbolism. It discusses white clover as a likely shamrock, Ireland's agriculture with clover, Brigid and Patrick legends, and a story of their heavenly walk and judgment.
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Scotland
England
France
Kilpatrick
Dumbarton
Clyde
St. Patrick
Rome
Church of
Patrick
Ireland
God
God the Father
Holy Ghost
Europe
United States
New York World
Britannica
David Moore
Stewart and
Corry
Dublin
St. Brigid
James Stephens
New York Times
Brigid
Broom Industry Declines in 1927 Across United States
The broom industry fell 15.1 percent from 1925 to 1927 per a Commerce Department bulletin. Product value dropped from 21.7 million to 17.98 million, with broom plants shrinking from 421 to 894 and employees from 4 725 to 4 450. Output included 8 124 963 dozen brooms and 1 594 street sweeping machines in 1927.
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United States
Department of Commerce
Oldest Kansas Woman Calls Herself a Working Girl
A Kansas woman aged 107 lists herself as a working girl, sewing daily to prove she stays active. She insists that work defines her life and keeps her going stronger than age would suggest.
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Kansas
Trimming the Expense in a Car Purchase
A couple considers buying a car as a salesman extols its features and offers to stamp the owner’s initials on it. The wife warns that the initial cost matters most, urging caution against the extra design feature.
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John
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Guibain
Heaven
Sean O'Casey
Rhadamanthus
Hell
W National Museum
Elmo Scott Watson
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