Pen Lilhaven Finds Love At Last In Roydon Grey
An aging single woman Pen Lilhaven recalls a lifetime of feeling like an old maid and her transformation after Roydon Grey returns from Venezuela. He proposes to Edith, but Pen finally realizes her long hidden love for Roydon and they marry, starting a new life together in the once familiar cottage.
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Nancy Cavanagh
Penny Lilhaven
Roydon Grey
Pen
Penelope
Roy Grey
Roydon
Venezuela
Roy
Pen Lilhaven
Alt
Edith Lonsdale
Edith
Glen Cottage
Pencil Daven
Aiid
Young Burnham
Fairy Bower
Oedipus
Ule
Raith
Harry Burnham
Qui
Weather and church talk at Captain Pusher's in Ciderville
Silas Ganderfoot recounts a rambling gathering at Captain Pusher’s store in Ciderville where townsfolk discuss weather politics and church matters. Unkel Peleg and Kalup Chillerkum join in as Sister Pusher is touted as indispensable for Sunday school and social events.
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Jess
Samantha
Jim Teester
Unkel Peeleg Wilkins
Kalup
Unkel Peeleg
Alwas
Unkel Peeley
Kollar
Ontil
Kaptun Pusher
Jineda
Hisself
Kaptun
Beliot
Ciderville
Unkel
Manny
Pusher
Holt
Shere Alwas Willin
Sumbody
Preechin Agin
Ben
Kaptan
New York
Muskeetur
Silas Ganderfoot
Tea shops in China as social hubs and news depots
A Shanghai observer describes tea houses as vital Chinese institutions serving news, commerce, and leisure. Patrons cluster at small tables, drink sugarless brew, and settle quarrels over hot water, with each cup refilled as needed, often leaving patrons about two cents poorer.
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China
Shanghai
Baltimore Sun
Divine Right of Kings in English Political Thought
The ancient doctrine held the king as deity's immediate representative and answerable only to God. It sparked seventeenth century clashes between royalists and round heads. Hobbes and others helped develop the idea, but the doctrine was long ago exploded.
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England
Hobbes
Popular Scienc es Curiosities About Animals and Nature
A short compendium of natural facts covering air pressure in humans, Everest height, dog respiration rates, electric arc temperature, camel foot design, horse shoe wear in the Sahara, frog egg hatching, snake habitats, sea turtle egg laying, earthworm regeneration, and wound healing.
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Mount
Everest
Himalayas
Sahara
Tramp Partners in Final Dying Moment
A charred tale from a Detroit Free Press report recounts a dying man and his vagabond friend. The tramp kneels, repeats theLord's Prayer with genuine emotion, and learns his partner has died, with a grim sense of fate and little time left.
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Detroit Free Press
Pard
Jim
Tom
His Honors Toothache Joke From Paducah Dentist
A Paducah lawyer Judge W D Greer recalls a St Louis dentist visit where gas anesthesia failed to go as planned. The dentist under a table fought in a brutal scene while the judge, unconscious, left with a gas flurry paying nothing and losing the tooth.
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W. D. Greer
Paducah
St. Louis
Labor Notes on Unions and Strikes Across Cities
Labor notes report eight hundred Boston brewery workers leaving the K of L for the AFL. Los Angeles trades unions boycott Chinese and Japanese restaurants. Switzerland has 306 strikes in 35 years. Canton bindery girls strike for eight hours and win after arbitration. AFL membership grows from 600 to 12,000. AFL organized in 1881 reaches near 700,000 members. Fort Wayne Central Labor union backs municipal electric plant prompting machinists to quit union. Indianapolis Upholsters union forms with 125 members in a month. Barbers waiters and harnessmakers organize, signaling rapid union growth.
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Boston
K. of L
A. F. of L
Los Angeles
Cal
Switzerland
Roller Printing Office
Canton
American Federation of Labor
American Agents’ Association
Central Labor Union
Fort Wayne
Ind
Indianapolis
Iowa Wins World Exposition Medal and Diploma
The state of Iowa received bronze medal and parchment diploma for farm and garden products at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The award recognizes cereals and farm goods of exceptional quality, with inscriptions detailing the commission and judges involved.
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Drs Moises
Chicago
McFarland
Iowa
Callas
Columbus
Christopher Lumbus
United States of America
Illinois
N. B.critchfield
A. M. Edwards
George R. Davis
T. Imer
World's Columb Commission
John T. Dickinson
World's Columbian Commission
Presidential figures. Reed and McKinley lead in returns
National committeeman Manley reports Reed 162 votes McKinley 265 and 217 for others with 95 contested or doubtful 8 from Vermont pledged McKinley though favoring Reed total 747 with 161 yet to be chosen He says the convention at St Louis will settle the contest General Grosvenor counters McKinley with 49 votes he claims.
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McKinley
Manley
Wasmxatox
Reed
Vermont
St. Louis
Grosvenor
Baron Hirsch Leaves Vast Estate to Loxpox and Wales
The will of Baron Hirsch, who died recently, leaves 89 million to the Loxpox and 1 million to the Prince of Wales. Rumors persist about the baron’s alleged debts to the prince, though details await the will’s reading. The baron reportedly supported the royal highness with substantial financial aid and hosted him on his Austrian shooting domains.
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Jon Hirsch
Baron Hirsch
Prince of Wales
Austria
PAYS THE BEQUEST. Stanford Gifts 2.5 Million in Bonds
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford has given Leland Stanford Jr. University 2.5 million dollars in government bonds as provided by her husband’s will. Her swift payment follows a U.S. government suit victory, with the Supreme Court decision dated March 2. The transfer demonstrates her executive control over the estate.
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Jane L. Stanford
University
San Francisco
Leland Stanford
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