Ring and Letter Mix Up In Hotel Misadventure
A man recounts a morning mix up at a hotel where he shares a room dispute with Miss Chalmers over room 24 and a misdelivered letter. After a comic chase involving the clerk and a tube, he retrieves the ring and letter, elicits forgiveness, and pursues a romance leading to marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldridge
Shechert
Mies Chalmers
Charien P. Atwood
Petucus
Chalmers
Miss Chalmers
Chaplain at Ames Hospital Sees Good in All Patients
A hospital chaplain reflects on years among inmates teaching faith and hope. He recalls an elderly patient dying with forgiveness for an abusive husband and a educated man finding meaning in suffering as “the Lord's scrubbing brush.” He notes nursing grumblers and patients alike, and stays committed to faith without coercion.
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London
Tve
Ames
Disposition of Rameses Statues to Cairo Revealed
Cairo correspondent of The London Times reports plans to transport two giant Rameses I statues from Memphis to Cairo for erection in Station Square. No Theban statues will be moved. One Memphis orator statue needs repairs, freight arrangements are set, and state railways will build special tracks. Estimated cost stands at $1,500,000.
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Cairo
London Times
Rameses 1
Memphis
Station
Thebes
Luxor
Tansport
Patriotism and theft in Cromwell era Holbein work
The piece discusses Holbein's Field of the Cloth of Gold at Hampton Court Palace and a claimed patriotic theft. It notes Cromwell's plan to sell the painting after Charles I's downfall, a would be buyer exposing Henry VIII's head on the canvas, and later Restoration reassertions.
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Hampton Court Palace
London
Eng
Holbein
Charles I
Cromwell
Henry VIII
Shere Shaw
George Hernartve
Hirsch
Timely Hints For Household Repairs And Small Crafts
Practical tips cover plaster repair using camphor and alcohol with shellac, carpet sweeper cleaning with kerosene, drying sparking crackers in water before baking, souffle tips from cold to hot, a blue white guest cushion with lace, and arrowroot jelly made in a double boiler.
Hair Ornaments And Lingerie Fashion Notes
The column highlights new hairdressing novelties such as casque combs and bentau variations in rhinestone and glass, plus a feathered barrette combination for varied wear. Also offered are tips for laundering mildewed white fabrics using lime chloride solution before rinsing.
Marquis Seed Wheat Shows Early Maturity and Yield
Marquis Wheat not intended for general sowing matches the line of prize winners at Oxbow's Seed Pair. The trial reports 43 bushels per acre and earlier ripening than Red Fife, though it does not shell easily. Carpendale notes experimental farm reports on its superiority.
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Marquis
Oxbow
W.M.V. Carpendale
Good Resident Property for Sale
Advertises a residence with stable and loft on four acre tract. Mentions good water well and convenient location. Offers easy terms with small down payment. For further particulars contact The Herald office.
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Herald Office
Aau
House for Sale on Ewen Street Next to Foresters
Listing notes a residence on Ewen Street beside the Foresters' tall with for sale information and inquiry details for further particulars and mail.
The Lard of the Jumbuk A Glossary of Queensland Speak
A writer explains Australian jargon for cattle country life. Terms like sundowner bumpy cocky jumper jackeroo and jumper describe daily routines huts trackers and stock routes. The piece notes some Canadian familiarity yet emphasizes the fresh, descriptive slang of the outback.
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Queensland
T. P
India
Manila
America
Australia
Turkey
Ita
Queen Victoria Wrote Anonymous Letter in Times Defense
A new biography of the fourth Earl of Clarendon notes Queen Victoria authored an anonymous April 1864 letter to The Times defending her retirement from court life. The missive praised mourning for Prince Consort and denied resuming social duties, sent via her secretary and signed Anonyma.
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Grey
Times
Delane
The Man Behind the New English Dictionary
A Scottish lexicographer spent four years compiling 300000 English words for the New English Dictionary. The piece compares him to Dr Johnson, notes his methods, quotes his aims, and describes the Oxford Scriptorium where Sir James Murray works amid a vast linguistic parade.
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Warshall
James Murray
Johson
Johnson
Nia
Aviamne
Prepeh
Bates
England
Pingland
Dr. Johnson
James
Oxford
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Chicago
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Rameses
Marquis Seed Wheat
Sin James Murray
Baird & McOgay
McGay Sask
Eee
Meret U
B. J. Saunders
Waplaka
Pither & Son
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Sas
Alberts Chen
Stone and
Wellington
Reathin
Toronto
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