Borrowed Plumage at Thornby College Ends in Change
Molly Dodge a poor southern student works the Thornby college cloakroom and dreams of a better life. A porter befriends her and a campus romance unfolds leading to Molly leaving the cloakroom as a new student begins that same job. The story ends with Molly's absence signaling a fresh start.
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Thornby College
Molly Dodge
Big University
Molly
Ayen
Bone
University
University Porcelly
Molly Aad
Ang Ly
Mall
Salemae
Rose A. Ey Opry
Breaking a Wishbone in Myth and divination
The divining rod and forked bones appear as tools of fortune in many cultures. From a tree fork to a bird clavicle, myths link the forked bone to hidden waters and granted wishes across Europe Asia and Africa.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
Chinese eateries and tea houses described in Pittsburgh Gazette Times
The Pittsburgh Gazette Times recounts travels noting a Chinese medical restaurant in Santon where patrons ate monkey meat said to cure illnesses and a multi story tea house where tea price rises with floor level. Guests include coolies and pet birds in cages as they drink and converse.
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Interoo
Santon
Tors
Mr. Abrieub
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
Evolution of writing from symbols to phonetic signs
The text traces writing from bone and rock marks to symbolic ideas, then to a word alphabet and phonetic signs. It follows Egyptian pictographs through Kosetha, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman developments toward the modern arbitrary sound symbols that form speech.
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Kosetha
When Immigrants Were Sold 1774 Advertisement
A fragment describes an 18th century New York paper ad for servants just arrived from Scotland to be sold aboard the Commerce. It lists laminae weavers tailors blacksmiths nailers shoemakers hatters spinsters ages fourteen to twenty years and names Henry White or the master on board as contacts.
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New York
Scotland
Commerce
Ferguson Masig
Henry White
Seid
Gold Snake superstition lures Mexican miners
The Gold Snake is a popular superstition in Mexico. People believe a snake with golden iridescent scales signals nearby wealth. Miners locate a claim immediately if they find such a snake, hoping the nest marks a ledge with precious metal.
Fragmentary confession yields unclear intake of case
The unreadable OCR text shows fragmented phrases and garbled quotes about a practice, intrusion, and seeking someone who knows his business. No coherent events, names, dates, or places are extractable from the fragment.
Public Forum on Women Suffrage and Gender Roles
A speaker argues against universal suffrage for women, claiming it would place government in weaker hands. He contends women are inherently different, destined for protective roles, and warns that granting equal political power disrupts social development and civilization.
Free ports key to growing sea trade says immigration official
Federal Immigration Commissioner F C Howe argues free ports along the coastline enable a tariffed nation to compete with free trade. He cites Germany’s Hamburg as a model and warns that ports surrounded by tariffs drive ships to route farther, delaying wealth and global transit earlier.
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F. C. Howe
Federal
Germany
England
Hamburg
Devilo
Agia
Africa
America’s Role as Counter of the World in Trade
The text argues that the United States will dominate international exchange and serve as the world’s counterweight. It notes America’s seacoast borders all continents and calls it the greatest reservoir of materials and food, while referencing gold payments in iron and the need for real value in exchanges.
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America
Guardian Sale of Real Property Notice
Guardian's sale of real property set for Friday November 6 1916 at 10 00 AM at the west front door County Court House McMinnville Oregon to sell described real estate with issues dated 1915 and 1916 in the notice authority and location specified.
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Nonie Cecil Roberts
Oregon
Tee Ane Savery Ligeree
Stiff
West Willamette
McMinnville
Administrator's Final Settlement Notice
Administrator's Notice of Final Settlement cites filing in ambhill County court on the 22nd of a month. Name of estate and parties not fully clear from damaged text. Notation indicates probate proceedings and final settlement action.
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Clarence Butt
Mt Oottracts
Norberg
Orega
C. R. Chapin
P.F. Hawkins
C. A. Eldriedge
First National Bank
DR. A. M. Davis
Ferguson
al Drug Store
J. C. Price
U. S. Natl
John 8. Rankin
U.S. National Bank
Littlefield & Romig
Thos. W. Hester
Dixon Building
Newberg
Sarah E. Smith
North Street
Marion George
C.E. Brown
D.V.S
Col
W. C. Dunn
ST. Paul
the University Porter
By Jane Osborn
Elihu Root
A.l.tower CO
Tas
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