Love and Superstition at the Military Academy
Gladys, a flirt, and Lieutenant Halloway feud over engagement and pride at a town military academy. After she toys with a witchcraft tale using a wax effigy and an arrow, a prankbackfires. he returns, and they settle misunderstandings with playful surrender and confessions of love.
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Santiago
Gladys
Halloway
Ebhe
Cuba
Hathaway
Catherine de’ Medici
Aniemy
Spow
Tim
Sadoway
Tethlot
Anyauay
Hlim
Bease
Cindy
Kye
Helloway
Anant
No more silver wedding to prove daughters’ ages
Cordelia and Anastasia Pasdetout plead with their parents to reveal their ages while the stern mother and father refuse. The couple explain decades of moving cities to hide the girls true ages, saying they will not celebrate their silver wedding again to appease rumors.
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Mamma
Cordelia Pasdetout
Anastasia
Pasdetouts
Cordelia
Mr. Pasdetout
Harper's Bazar
Higher Purpose, Rarer the Achievement in Success
The Philadelphia Ledger argues that true success scales with noble aims. Easier tasks yield quick results, but elevating community life or inspiring self-reliance demands long effort with uncertain, but eventual, rewards. Even unseen fruits of high purpose will one day appear.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The Veal Outlet Tablet scam and the hard up major
A hard up major inflates a chiropodist loan into a fake investment scheme. He boasts of a veal tablet company worth millions, promising the doctor a secretary post and stock. The doctor demands the dollar he is owed, rebutting the major’s grandiose claims while the con man touts fake profits.
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Cretuat
George
Ste
Veal Outlet Tablet
Crofcot
United States
Disselsa
Fragmented tale of a tablet scam and a major’s defiance
A jagged narrative describes a crooked sales plot for a Veal Cutler Tablet company. The major hides from a creditor, contemplates corporate setup, and ponders whether a Canadian agency should operate from Toronto or Quebec, while a chorus of impatient buyers presses for stock value.
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Flere
Eli
Veal Cutler Tablet Company
Canadian General Agency
Toronto
Qneber
M. Gcap
Water for Medicine and Healthful Living
A health column urges drinking four to six pints of water daily to support digestion and waste removal. It notes water's role in circulation and skin, warns against ice water, and advises mothers to ensure children drink plenty. A second item discusses fireproof safes, arguing thin-walled designs suit modern fireproof buildings and remain supported during fires.
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New York Son
Just Like a Man Biggs to Cabman
A humorous exchange shows Biggs asking a cabman the fare for taking him and his wife to a hotel and then for taking him alone. The cabman replies one dollar in both cases, prompting Biggs to remark about his wife’s apparent value. The passage weaves in editorial quotes about language use and a brief theatre-like quip about wealth and imagination.
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Biggs
Cabman
Blank’s
Chicago
A Drifting Wreeck Skepticism in Medicine Note
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal quotes Wheat describing skepticism, highlighting a woman who has lost faith in doctors as the most hopeless kind of skeptic.
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Indianapolis
Jour
War Correspondents At Front In South Africa Era
The piece reviews early war journalism under strict military licenses, noting risks and censorship. It details reporters like Steevens and Churchill, their permits, and how correspondents operated under mutiny act constraints while following Gatacre and the front lines.
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L Ketmer
Xgland
Russell
Krines
Horne
London Times
London
South Africa
Villiers
G. W Steevens
Steevens
Ladysmith
Pall Mall Gazette
Egypt
London Daily Mail
Frederick Villiers
Sudan
Afghanistan
Japan
China
Kitchener
Khartum
Lynch
Melton Prior
H. H. S. Pearse
London Daily News
Graphic
Bentet Burleigh
London Telegraph
A. G. Hales
The
London Mail
Winston Spencer Churchill
New York World
Bennet Burleigh
Bailiwick
Brooklyn
Hales
Winston Churchill
Julian Ralph
Churchill
Howard C. Hillegas
Amercan
Imea
Spion Kop
Stormberg
Winter
Beautycas Gatecre
Pse
St Bor Tin
Molteno
Artilleery
Melteno
Gatacre
Ranning
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Peter Marthur
Webdyt
Peice
Ober
Elrar
New York
Kansas City Times
Waron
Coloss
Wisstes Churchil
W. Steevens
Hiflegas
Elebant Harding Davis
Pretoria
Herald
Frere
Haldene
Trate
Winstoyw
Baffr
Delagos Bay
Washington
Imperial Aquarium
St Petersburg
Ching
Goldiaz
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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