Children of the Heart a tale of Hugh Evans and Ivy Moore
Hugh Evans, under Basil Drake’s patronizing eye, helps Ivy Moore after she is evicted and ill. He marries Ivy after Drake mocks him, then learns the valley strip he owns is valuable. A county sewer project offers five thousand dollars, enabling a modest cottage home for the couple.
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Hugh
Ivy Moore
Drake
County Board of Improvements
Croesus
Basil Drake
Hugh Evans
Blue Stockings Origin in 18th Century England
The term blue stockings described highly intellectual women in 18th century England. Boswell notes women hosted literary salon parties for eminent men including Benjamin Stillingfleet whose grave blue stockings sparked the saying We can do nothing without the blue stocking. Hannah More later popularized the term in Bas Bleu.
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England
Boswell
Johnson
London
Benjamin Stillingfleet
Hannah More
Bas Bleu
Billy Missed Something at the Quiet Tea
A boy named Billy visits a school chum and notices only a centerpiece on a polished table. He imitates his mother by placing his napkin and utensils as if there were a tablecloth, then whispers to the hostess that she forgot the tablecloth.
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Billy
Chicago Tribune
Absolute Size of the Stars Measure Via Parallax
Italian astronomer Signor Ferrara reports photometric based diameters for stars with parallax. Canopus tops at fifty one solar diameters, followed by Castor eighteen Arcturus ten point four P Lux eight point seven Capella eight and Veka six point eight. Such results are highly problematical.
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Signor Ferrara
Termo
Italy
Rivisita di Astronomia
Canopus
Castor
Arcturus
Pollux
Capella
Veka
Former San Francisco land dealer Hyde freed from federal prison
Frederick A. Hyde, 67, millionaire land speculator and former San Francisco board of education president, is released after 16 months. He calls the experience the happiest and most useful period of his life, noting his work to improve prison life and his plan for an athletic field built with his own funds.
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Atlante, Ga
Frederick A. Hyde
Board of Education of
San Francisco
Federal
California
Hyde
Wilson
Hyde philanthropic convict in fraud case on Pacific coast
The text recounts Hyde aiding hundreds with funds to start anew, founding a prison library with his own money, and facing conviction after an investigation by Roosevelt via Detective Burns. Hyde asserts his law violation was technical and denies defrauding the government, while remaining prominent socially in San Francisco.
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Hyde
Roosevelt
William J. Burns
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Ufe
Man thought dead twenty years lives in divorce case
Mrs Margaret Trower formerly Maggie Young Redding remarries to Joseph A Trower after divorce court restores her former name. She had believed Earl Wroughton drowned after their 1894 marriage and later learned he lives in Terre Haute Indiana. The court granted a decree for desertion.
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Kansas City
Margaret Trower
Joseph A. Trower
National Live Stock Commission Company
Mia Trower
Maggie Young
Olathe
Kan
Earl Wroughton
Wroughton
St. Louis
Clyde Redding
Terre Haute
Ind
Trower
Thomas J. Seehern
Circuit Court
Redding
Marion man cites wife as pest in suit for divorce
A Marion iron molder named A. Lloyd charges his wife Carrie A. Lloyd with jealousy and harassment. He says she followed him to factories, watched through a knothole when denied entry, exposed herself to weather until ill, and he seeks a divorce citing her as a pest.
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Marion
Ind
A. Lioyd
Carrie A. Lioyd
Lioyd
Lloyd
Altar Boy Foils Robbery at Park Ridge Power Plant
In Park Ridge New Jersey altar boy Frank English found night engineer Edward Griesch bound and gagged at a local power plant. Griesch reported three masked men forced him to cut power and steal $200 after attacking him. Authorities investigate the claim.
Boy Hoodlum Draws on Movie Image in Indiana Holdups
In Hammond Indiana thirteen year old Richard Dar nion after watching a crime film, the boy crept up behind Mrs John Leary a city official s wife and struck her with a club possibly fatally injuring her He then robbed Miss Delia Hartke and took valuables after detaining several children He was arrested at a skating rink and confessed to numerous robberies saying he practiced to beat movie actors in holdups.
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Hammond
Richard
Darnion
John Leary
Delia Hartke
Tailor at Sing Sing Removed Over Misfits Complaints
John Bowman, tailor to inmates at Sing Sing in Ossining New York, has been removed after inmates complained about misfits in his work and garments.
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Ossining
N. Y
John Bowman
Sing Sing Prison
Marriage Proposals and the Modern Woman in Love Advice
A columnist analyzes why four men were rejected and argues the right approach matters more than grand gestures. Earnest, straightforward lines win a woman’s heart, while sugary chivalry or cold logic falls flat. The piece contrasts lonely women with homemakers, urging hope and perseverance.
Hearts of Homeless Women
A fragment reflecting on homelessness among women who once had shelter and social ties. It contrasts imagined home with the harsh reality of isolation, noting how friends withdraw when shelter details become known and a former social life dwindles to a single small room.
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Love
Sfv
Do Women Know When They Are Really in Love
An essay explores whether women recognize true love versus romantic fantasy. It traces how young women idealize heroes, pursue suitors, and cling to hopeful fantasies, noting how experience softens illusions while appreciating a realistic partner.
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Flere
Also Mentioned on This Page
Children of the Heart
Rose de Witt Tresham
W. G. Chapman
Evans
Basil
Ivy
Valley Strip
F. A. Hyde
Iron Molder
Altar Boy
Boy Holdup
Indiana
Court of Appeals
Mary
Hearts OF Homeless Women
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