Wodehouse novel Three Men and a Maid on a lively voyage
English humorist P. G. Wodehouse drafts a brisk action filled tale set in New York and on an Atlantic liner. Sam Marlowe Eustace Hignett and Bream Mortimer chase Billie and Jane amid comic misunderstandings and a Windles estate plot. Mrs. Hignett returns to complicate romance.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Charlie Chaplin
Stephen Leacock
Mr. Wodehouse
England
Bellport
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Sam Marlowe
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Mrs Horace Hignett Awakens in New York Home
Theosophist author Mrs Horace Hignett, famed for The Spreading Light, awakens at eight in her furnished New York apartment. Her nephew Sam Marlowe arrives, stirring morning tensions as she contemplates Windles, her English home she holds in trust for her son Eustace.
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Mortimer
Sam
Erin
Bream Mortimer
Windles Standoff Over Letting and Eustace Return
Mrs Hignett resists Windles letting as Eustace returns from Oxford to Windles for her lecture tour. Sam mocks shared plans while Mortimer presses the Windles issue and a family dispute escalates over the estate. The scene centers on social pressures, suitors, and a stubborn hometown novelist’s mother.
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Sam
Windles
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Frank Tinney
Trinity
England
Mrs. Hignett
Atlantic
Face to Face With an Extraordinary Pretty Girl
A terse line describes a moment where a man confronts a notably pretty girl, capturing a charged encounter through concise prose. The phrase suggests curiosity and tension, inviting readers to infer motives and outcomes from a single striking observation.
Lord Richard Whittington The Legendary Mayor
The article recounts the medieval tale of Lord Richard Whittington later mayor of London famed for rising from a scullion to mayor via a cat’s tale. It notes there is no solid historical foundation for the romance including knighthood or burning the king's bonds.
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Richard
Fair
Shoe Trees Make Cheerful Handmade Christmas Gifts
Among the gifts sure to be welcomed at Christmas are shoe trees dressed with pretty decorations. The pictured trees feature funny faces on the round ends, two colored toe paint, and shanks braided with narrow satin ribbon tied in bows below the faces.
Christmas Candlestick Craft Gift Idea
A paper rope candlestick with a tall candle decorated in sealing wax paint makes a charming Metadate gift for friends. The rope can be purchased ready for weaving, and painting the candle with wax paints is an easy, decorative craft.
Christmas tree ornaments new and homemade
The write up describes homemade decorations including a parakeet with a peanut body fixed to a wooden Standard, crepe paper crest and wings, a wooden skewer with a paper doll face and sleigh bell, a stick candy boy with mosquito netting and yarn, and bouquets of colored gum drops on wires.
Waxdecorated gifts with flowers and dyes described
Plain white brushes and combs are enhanced as gifts with sprays of flowers in sealing wax paints. Small tin boxes are decorated by covering them with melted wax in varied colors blended while soft.
Witty remark on convalescence from a patient’s sly defiance
A speaker defines convalescing as a man outwitting doctors. The quip suggests the patient displays improved vigor while recovering, framing convalescence as clever resistance or subversive recovery rather than passive rest. The tone is humorous and lightly sardonic.
Demand Bayer Aspirin for Genuine Cross labeled tablets
Warning to buy only Bayer Aspirin with the Bayer cross. Do not trust imitations. It has been proven safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 23 years. Say Bayer when you buy.
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Bayer
CESCarets Promote Liver Bowels and Trials
An old advertisement touts Cascarents liver and bowel pills at 100 a box claiming cures for billousness constipation and indigestion. It also mentions Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for indigestion and constipation with a trial offer at 372 Pearl St. N. and includes a cynical note about honesty in business.
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