Pretty Frocks for Your Lamp Shades
Sewing tips show how to transform plain lamp shades with fabric skirts. Use white parchment or bristol shade, add snaps for easy laundering, and choose taffeta, lawn, net, organdy, swiss, or gingham. Trim with ruffles, pinked edges, contrast thread, shirring, and ribbons. booklets offer patterns and orders.
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Ruth Wyeth
Tragedy Promised in May True Story Ad
Advert says read A Girl and My Husband in May issue of True Story Magazine warning of tragedy. Copy urges purchase and on sale now.
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John
True Story Magazine
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Strength of Love in Song of Songs Quotation
A short excerpt presents a biblical metaphor on love’s strength comparing it to death and waters that cannot quench it. The lines echo the saying from the Song of Solomon about enduring love and resilience amid floods.
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Solomon
Gift Wife and a Paris Warsaw Chase for Cynthia
Jebb and Miruma split tasks to locate Cynthia after the Pogodins flee with the child. Jennie Ludlam engineers a memorial hospital plan, while Jebb travels to Paris and Vienna to secure clues and documents. Cynthia reappears in Paris with a tale of her captors, and Jebb confesses his love, deciding whether to marry.
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Folies Caprice
Jebb
Pataky
Cynthia
Vienna
Miruma
Aman
Leesten
Turkey
Besten
Paris
Warsaw
Feerst
Jennie
Brother Charles
Charles
Mme, Janghir
Mirama
Wentworth
Jebb Tries to Return Home and Reports Child’s Safety
Jebb resigns his post and plans a dreary trip to Poland but learns sister Jennie is shopping. A garbled telegram arrives, hinting at Ludlams and a return to Paris. He drafts a cable to Mrs Thatcher to announce her child’s survival and a rescinded bad name, with inventor Charles Ludlam’s interest in marketing.
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Jebb
Paris
Machinespecrre Flaubert
Nikolai Pogodin
Pogodin
Jennie
Poland
Rue de la Paix
Miruma
Thatcher
Charles Ludlam
Letters of Colburn brothers reveal frontier work and homes
Alvin Hamer uncovers letters from Josiah Colburns five sons tracing early 19th century migration from New York to Ontario St Louis and New Orleans. The correspondences show journeymen laborers seeking jobs and land while men mentor each other with faith and caution about roaming.
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Michigan
Ohio
Northwest Territory
Alvin Hamer
Detroit
Josiah Colburn
New York State
Ontario
St. Louis
New Orleans
Youth Without Feeling Baffles Indianapolis Doctors
An 18 year old Indianapolis newsboy, Charles Leonard, cannot feel pain nor distinguish hot from cold or identify objects by touch. He recalls electric shock at age 16, which doctors suspect caused a rare sensory disorder. He reports no pain from injuries and cold weather mainly causes nosebleeds, with heart issues deemed non dangerous.
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Charles Léonard
Indianapolis
Leonard
Simple feminine spring dress pattern Barbara Bell 1909 B
Easy sewing project promises a very feminine spring dress. Pattern No. 1909 B covers sizes 12 to 20 and 40 with busts 30 to 40 inches. size 14 needs 3% yards of 36-inch fabric and 1% yards braid. Send order to the listed address.
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Barbara Bell
Pilots Abandoned Transit Shipboard For Rough Seas
About ten times yearly pilots guide steamships from New York harbor but find the ocean too rough to board the pilot boat. They stay aboard to the port, paid three dollars a day plus expenses by the ship. Recently three men were away at once one bound for Panama another for Philadelphia and one to Southampton according to Collier's.
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New York Harbor
Panama
Philadelphia
Southampton
Collier’s
Believe "Trying Days" with Dr Pierce's Prescription
Health claim promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a daily aid to build physical resistance by improving nutritional assimilation. Ady suggests gradual use over time to support stamina and strength.
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Dr. Pierce
Rule Oneself To Rule Oneself Quote
A compact aphorism attributed to Sir J Lub stating that ruling oneself equates to a personal triumph. The line appears as a brief, reflective motto.
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Sir J. Lub
After Second Trip Thiefs Conscience Awakened
A shop keeper tests thief conscience with three spoiled cheeses placed outside. Each night the first two cheeses vanish and reappear by morning, while the final cheese is carried out with the others returning.
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