Hidden Dragon Screen Reveals Family Fortunes
In a cluttered house Polly and Miss Deborah uncover a dragon screen, an old inheritance, and a bundle of securities. The recovered papers promise a restored home as Polly and Dick discuss independence and a possible life together with Deborah guiding the plan.
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Deb
Mina
Deborah
Highboys
Sheraton
Ani
Mise Deborih
Polly
Hester
Weil
Jover
Dilek
Siesheoes
George
Miss Deborah
Fraser
Mies
Baxi on House Plan No 820 Offers Three Bedrooms
This bungalow design features three large bedrooms, flexible front room as a library or den, a broad plaza with a main roof on cobblestone piers, and an ornate oriel window. Finishes include red oak birch or pine options with white enamel floors, at an exclusive building cost of 2200. Plans and specs for design No 820 are available from editor Glenn L. Baxton.
Abroad marriages alter speech and memory in American women
A New York observer recalls an American countess who married a Polish man abroad and adopted a heavy European accent. The tale recounts mispronunciations and mixed languages at a European gathering, highlighting cultural dissonance and the persistence of native English in the doctor’s sharp critique.
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Komolfsky
Alan
Europe
New York
Avithnes
Kaiserpark
Brutanty
Marin Smith
Fragmented OCR snippet from Chicago News recounts store mishap
An unclear report describes a scene in a department store where a young tubby man sustains a dislocated baton incident amid puzzled responses from bystanders and a wife explaining. the fragment cautions about a rough remedy and an attempted check in the second floor area.
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Tubby
Chicago News
A Woman's Great Dea in How to Make Herself Attractive
A vintage health ad extols electric bitters as a cure for weakness and irritability in women. It claims toning the nerves and purifying the blood improves face, form, temper, and overall beauty. The piece promotes modern pharmacy remedies as essential for vitality and health.
Rose to the Occasion in Bizarre Burglary Scene
A dramatic tale centers on a woman facing a burglar with a large revolver held to his face. She coaxes him to surrender, secures him, and orders her husband to remove furniture as they rob him of cards and possessions. The narrative shifts to a traveler and a village inn anecdote with romantic overtones.
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John
Jopu
Ini Goltiz
Yan
Allan
Liverpool
Aupper
Cyllone
Enthusiaam
Robin
Fragmented OCR fragment event title
The readable text shows incoherent phrases and names with no clear event or identity. It cannot establish a factual news item, person, place, or date from the fragment.
Transmutation claims spark debate over Lange Brice experiments
A debate centers on Dr. Frederick W. Lange of Scranton and E. C. Brice who claimed to transmute base metals to gold. Reports describe demonstrations, treasury reviews, and capital attempts, with experts questioning commercial viability and the scientific basis of such transmutations.
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I Lange
Serantin
Eitver
Lange
Due Wan
Austin ‘Granville
Frederick W. Lange
Scranton
E. C
Brice
Lyman J. Gage
Ena
Chicago
Legacy Left For Drinks And Whaling Revival
A Berlin manufacturer bequeathed 2500 with annual interest for free beer distribution to beer drinkers at his favorite tavern. A Tonbridge Wells will left 500 to eleven heirs for wine or port. John Redman, linked to Charles James Fox, left a codicil to keep his house open for a year for visiting friends to consume wine in the vault. The text notes a revival of whaling in New Bedford with nine whalers leaving for Africa.
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Berlin
Tonbridge
Wells
England
John Redman
Charles James Fox
Weasel Tricks Rat in Mill Tale From Harper's Weekly
A Western mill town story tells how a cunning weasel outsmarts a large rat in a long underground chase. The mill workers discover the tunnel designed to trap the rat, with the weasel forcing the chase and escaping through a narrow end. Also a humorous London Standard quip about anatomy notes no new pen bones in ten years.
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Harper's
Lbrary
London Standard
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Legacy
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N. Market
Frederick, MD
Bartholomay
Washington
Baltimore
Frederick
Columbia
L. R. Dertzbaugh
Plymouth
United States
P. L. Hargett &Co
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