Parsonage Pranks and a Cow Ride Fling at Burntwood
The Starr family in a 20th century tale endures a teasing minister visit at their new parsonage. Prudence hosts with an improvised luncheon of corn and peaches, prompting a comic table blessing. Carol’s antics continue as she tries riding a cow, prompting Lark’s wary caution and a townish moral.
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Mr. Morgan
Connie
Carol
Prudence
Mr. Starr
Burnkie
Lark
Blinkie
Parsonage Crisis Sparks Aid Day Antics
Prudence and Fairy lead the Starr sisters as the Ladies’ Aid visits the parsonage for a special day. The event tests the girls’ behavior, hospitality, and nerves as rumors fly and a comic chase ends with the parsonage’s guests laughing at a runaway prank involving Blinkie the cow.
Parsonage Family Arrives in Mount Mark Iowa
Mr Starr, a widower Methodist minister, moves with daughter Prudence to prepare the Mount Mark parsonage. The town’s Ladies Aid crowd in to pry on the five Starr girls and their new life. Prudence is nineteen and the family adjusts as prayer begins. Connie completes her own prayer, much to the amusement of the elders.
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Mr. Starr
Starrs
Airy
Prudence
Mr. Morgan
Rev
Fairy
Methodist Church
Young Starrs
Averys
Twins
Connie
Mrs. Adams
Mrs. Prentiss
Carol
Lark
Minnie Drake
Miss Warne
Mount Mark
Iowa
Ladies’ Aid Society
Prudence Probed Over Handling Younger Discipline
Debate rises over whether Prudence is too young to manage discipline among younger students. Critics argue experience matters while supporters cite energy and fresh perspectives.
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Prudence
Farmers Urged to Shop Early
Farmers are urged to shop early for the season, with emphasis on timely purchases to ensure supply. Officials note potential shortages and encourage planning, stocking essentials, and coordinating with suppliers to prevent delays.
Farmers urged to buy spring farm supplies early
The National Fertilizer association launched a nationwide campaign to move fertilizer seeds lime and farm machinery earlier to avoid rail car shortages. Officials warn current congestion could delay deliveries and threaten next year's crops, urging farmers to order before the spring planting peak.
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New York
National Fertilizer Association
Horace Bowker
Do Your Spring Shopping Campaign Aims at Fertilizer Demand
The passage notes farmers push for large yields due to food shortages and rising prices, with spring fertiliser demand expected to be higher than ever. It mentions cooperation among manufacturers railroads dealers and farmers to support the campaign as roads thaw and fields ready for work.
Mongolian Buddha Reincarnation Quest Underway in Peking
Lama Ake wangyenlinpuleh, senior disciple of the late Kanchurwa Hutuhktu, prepares to travel by private car to the end of the Chinese railway in Mongolia and then into Tibet to seek a miraculous boy to embody the dead Buddha. Enquiries will seek signs such as a red light and will culminate in a ceremony in Lhassa to name the reincarnated child.
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Peking
Mongolia
Tibet
Lhassa
Buddha
Supreme in His Egotism
W L George argues in Atlantic Monthly that men often feel possessive and entitled to their wives while women endure a precarious, fading power in marriage. He notes men fear losing status but rarely fear losing wives, whereas women face aging and the threat of losing their emotional hold and social power.
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W. L. George
Atlantic Monthly
Man Pays Bet by Walking Upside Down on Sixth Avenue
A stubborn yet fair man agreed to a wager that Wilson was elected president. He walked up Sixth Avenue in New York upside down as payment, while a cheering crowd watched the unusual spectacle.
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Wilson
Sixth Avenue
New York
Diet Promise Makes Thin and Fat Women Lose Weight
In New York an evening paper showcases a diet claim where a fat woman and a thin woman both lose or gain weight using a class A A 1 plan. Mrs C drops from 218 pounds to 179 with revised measurements. Miss I rises in weight and inches, illustrating dramatic body changes after following the diet.
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New York
Prices rise at Baldhead Row in Chicago theater
Announcement states seat prices in bald head row increase to 2.50 dollars this week. Chorus girls now earn 25 to 30 dollars a week, up from 18 to 20 dollars, theater managers explain as part of higher costs.
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Chicago
Baldhead Row
Freddie’s Circus Seat Prices Revealed
Freddie was instructed by his father to learn circus ticket prices. He returned quickly and announced the prices as twenty five cents for children and fifty cents for overgrown people.
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Freddie
UNEARTHS OLD INDIAN TOWN NEAR CAMBRIA
Prof. W. B. Nickerson of Epworth Iowa completes excavation for the Minnesota Historical Society near Cambria Minnesota where a former Indian village stood on a bluff above the Minnesota River valley about 500 years ago. He finds pottery weapons tools and bones suggesting Mandan inhabitants with possible white ancestry.
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Mankato
Minn
W. B. Nickerson
Epworth
Cambria
Minnesota Historical Society
Nickerson
Minesota River
European crooks target U S jewel events in war years
Private detective agencies warn of an influx of European jewel thieves driven by wartime fortunes. Experts say social guards, sharper guest lists, and caution at gatherings will be necessary to prevent multimillionaire thefts as crime shifts from Europe to American society this winter.
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Washington
Howard
United States
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Cvater
Guess
Mississippi
Europe
Broadway
Effortig
Atlantic
Bellgirls Replace Bellboys In Cleveland Hotel Service
The Cleveland hotel desk clerk notes a shift from male bellboys to bellgirls or attractive female attendants. Guests praise bellgirls for attentiveness and luggage handling, while management says they are almost as helpful as maids. The text highlights a changed service dynamic and a solved "hook me up" issue.
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Cleveland
An Honest Woman
A poorly dressed woman walked into a Chicago police station and laid a purse with $94 on the desk claiming the money does not belong to her. She refused to give her name for any reward and insisted the owner should recover the purse without compensation.
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Chicago
Hold-Up Man Seizes Coal in Bayonne Store
At the point of a revolver an unknown man held local coal dealer Charles Barello in his Bayonne shop. He filled a bucket with coal and fled, leaving the frightened merchant unharmed. Police investigated the incident as a robbery attempt.
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Bayonne
N. J
W Charles Barello
Rat Signals Danger After Connermara Sinking
In Greenore a cattleman recounts a large rat leaping from a hamper as he came ashore from the Connermara in the Irish Sea. He warned the Greenore railway man that it was a bad sign for the crew and urged departure from the ship, before being persuaded to return aboard.
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Connemara
Irish Sea
Greenore
Patrick Killen
London Globe
Pape's Diapepsia Adclaims Quick Stomach Relief
An advertisement promises five minute relief from indigestion and related stomach issues. It touts Pape's Diapepsia as fast, harmless, and the world’s quickest stomach remedy, urging readers to buy a fifty cent case at any drug store.
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Pape
Waterpower Projects Begin on National Forest Lands
Chief Forester Graves announced 20 new waterpower projects using national forest lands began operation in the year ending June 30 and 40 applications for permits were received including eight from Alaska. Forty two percent of developed waterpower comes from streams on national forest land.
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Forester Graves
National Forest Lands
Alaska
National Forest
When a Feller Needs a Friend
The excerpt presents a dialogue about early struggles and hardship with a blunt recollection of hardships, showing tension between a narrator and an elder. It captures a Boston Evening Transcript style with terse, direct quotation.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Bromos and Quinine Patent Remedy Ad Claims Quick Cure
An old ad promotes a cold remedy titled Cures a Cold in One with bromos and quinine. It urges readers to use the full product name Laxatives Bromo Minh and hints at a signature by H. W. Grovh. The short notice emphasizes a penny-saving offer and quick relief.
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H. W. Grovh
Owl Wisdom Quip Sparks Senate Banter
A humorous exchange unfolds as an owl joke prompts Senator Sorghum to defend a cautious approach. The dialogue frames prudence as the wisest action under difficult circumstances, highlighting political wit and timing.
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Senator Sorghum
Gentle Thrust Dialogue on Marrying Ages Reveals Echoes
A brief exchange recalls youth marriage norms as Miss Oldgirl notes earlier marriages. Miss Pert adds that grandmothers describe younger brides in the past, suggesting a generational shift in marital timing.
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