Love's Ordeal at Merrivale as Roscoe Blinn Saves Althea
Althea Kendall mourns a lost romance with Roscoe Blinn after a postponed engagement and a dramatic near-miss with a mail box scene. A street accident brings Blinn to the rescue and a renewed emotional pull as he comforts and escorts her home.
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Ajthea
Roscoe Blinn
Hig
Althea Kendall
Merrivale
Hlinn
Nesty
Rosene Plinn
Althea
Agaii
Roscoe
Brinn
Aithea
Tie
Decline of the Bobolink in New Jersey
The bobolink once common across northern New Jersey now retreats mainly for spring and fall migrations. Hunters still target it under game-bird laws for September to December, though federal rules restrict the season to September and October. The bird’s song fades as agricultural and aesthetic concerns clash with gun rights.
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Bobolink
New Jersey
Pompous advocate of preparedness weighs grand plans
A hazy exchange shows a pompous advocate insisting the nation needs vastly larger military efforts, while an inquisitive man probes the scale and meaning behind the claim. The dialogue hints at national debate over defense and readiness.
Prisoner finds learning and purpose in Joliet life
Six years after Joseph Welcome, a confessed murderer, began life in Joliet Penitentiary after killing Mrs Mary McLean, he has become a prison instructor, studying classics and teaching math and English, while hoping one day to write the judge who sent him. He says the sentence helped his soul and he bears no malice.
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Chicago
Joseph Welcome
Jie
Joliet
Welcome
Hile
Heo
Hell On Earth
Joe Welcome
Burns
Tennyson
Chaucer
Confucius
Peter
Mary McLean
Hens Benefit From Alcohol Study At Convention
Philadelphia reports that hens exposed to alcohol and ether in a Maine experiment laid more eggs and fattened, while drunk birds became lazy and quarrelsome. Raymond Pearl presented results at the American Philosophical Society noting surprising effects of drug exposure on poultry.
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Philadelphia
American Philosophical Society
Raymond Pearl
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Mr. Pear
Bonehead Divorce Ground In Butte Suit
Nonie Carl of Butte Montana sues Herbert Carl for divorce alleging cruelty beginning soon after their August 2 1915 marriage. She says he called her a bonehead threw matches igniting a dress scarf causing partial burns and her health to fail. Attorney Charles F Juttner filed the complaint.
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Butte, Mont
Nonie Carl
Herbert
Carl
Charles F. Juttner
Hides Hubby's False Teeth in Divorce Case
Pittsburgh man testifies his wife hid his false teeth to extort money in divorce court. He recalls she refused to return them even when angered, suggesting only government currency could persuade her to part with the teeth. Souvenir shell incident in Wakefield ends in death and injury to Busch family.
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Pittsburgh
Frank Jefferson
Jefferson
Sams
Wakefield
Mass
John N. Busch
Havana
Busch
A Little Boy Billy Dreams of a Magic Midnight Coach
In a bedtime tale narrated by a father, Billy imagines a red cloaked coach with eight white horses and glittering passengers. The dream features a fairy queen, gnomes, and the Tipping Bird as peril and wonder swirl around cliff sides and feathered valleys before Billy wakes in his bed.
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Billy
Daddy
Stags
Wairyland
Mirror Drawing Provokes Laughter and Challenge
The article describes a mirror drawing game where players stand before a mirror and draw a square without lifting the pencil while watching the reflection. The most accurate square wins a prize. It also includes a light vignette about Nellie noting a bonnet fright from a visitor.
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Nellie
Mary
Grasshoppers Stage a Fairy Circus Delight
Daddy recounts a Grasshopper Circus for Fairies with a parade band of fifty Grasshoppers on grass blades, clowns, policemen, and daring aerial tricks. Little Greeny walks a blade rope with an apple leaf parasol while all admire record jumping feats and sing of the show’s grand success.
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Daddy
Grasshoppers
Greeny Grasshopper
Then grandpa must have had some awfully naughty boys
A four year old notices a gray hair on his father and, after hearing that the father gains a gray hair each time the boy is naughty, concludes that grandpa must have had many naughty boys.
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Papa
Grandpa
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