Head of the House Robert Sprague Builds a Plan
In Swansea, Robert Sprague, facing family hardship, launches a plan to drive a team and run a kid wagon to fund his sister’s schooling and his own Path to Keybrook. Despite long hours, illness, and high study demands, he advances, earning late recognition as Dr Jarvis funds a second Swansea scholarship for four years, honoring his leadership.
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Mr. Sprague
Robert
Irs
Clara
Coun
Keybrook
Swan
F ' Brown's
Jarvis
Rob
Sprague’s Hill
Swansea
T .E
Goodddea
Doctor Jarvis
Doc
Fred Smith
Mr. Telfer
Robert Sprague
Board of Trustees
Prince Charming of Wales and Democratic Kingly Manners
The excerpt recounts the future king of England as a plain and personable figure. Anecdotes include a teetotal caddie on a golf course and Maltese shipboard banter, revealing democratic temperament and homely speech. It then shifts to Ralph D. Paine’s description of North Dakota towns, their rapid growth, prohibition, and bank-dominated pioneer streets in The Builders.
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England
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Boston Transcript
Malta
Prince
North Dakota
Munich
Ralph D. Paine
Outing Magazine
Controlling Vicious Horses Method Passed On
Walter E. Reed of Madison Indiana describes a humane sounding control method for dangerous horses and mules. He says to loop the main line through bridle rings and connect opposing rings with the buckle toward the jaw to make the animal stop when pulled. Reed reports success on a mule and another unnamed mule handler achieved work in a day.
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Walter E. Reed
Madison
Ind
Where Romance Fails in a San Francisco Town Talk Note
A Sierran style retelling contrasts romance in fiction with real life. Teey Sap teawhlt rejects a lover who pursues forgiveness, roses, and theatre gestures while she remains distant. In real life the couple parts with farewell, meetings at clubs and dinners, and later another encounter ends with silence and loneliness.
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Lime
Isery
San Francisco
Fragments of humor and wit across periodicals
A collage of quotes from Life, American Spectator, Nineteenth Century, Puck, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Leader, Princeton Tiger, Washington Star, Macon Telegraph, New York Sun, Punch, and Honolulu Commercial Advertiser. It contrasts clever retorts, jokes about politics and marriage, and magazine commentary on volcano imagery in advertising.
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United States Senate
Jennie
Jacok
Olive
Hennypeck
Puck
Stella
Detroit Free Press
Miss Passay
Mr. Blunt
Cleveland
Percy
Awvud
Chimmie
Chee
Me Bradder
Sing Sing
Princeton Tiger
Johnnie
Pandora
Eben
Washington Star
Macon Telegraph
McLandburgh Wilson
New York Sun
Herr Schweitzsalsburghausen
Graball
Ritchie
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J.S. Spurgeon
Alice Louisr Leer
China
Prince Charming
Wales
Banks
Wood
Martinique
Honolulu
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