Ghosts and a Ghosted Romance at the Parsons House
Miss Kitty Vernon and Jack St. Clair meet amid hunting and rain at the old Parsons house. A haunted hall scene ends with Kitty and Jack confessing attraction and plans as a tampered ghost tale dissolves into a couple’s engagement.
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Nate
Mina Kettix Vornon
Keith_Hall
Jack St. Clair
Keith Hall
Miss
Kitty
Jack
Canada
Tom
Kitty Vernon
Ciry Park
Missouri women push for better roads movement
Prominent Missouri women, many motorists, petition the governor and legislature. They have sent hundreds of letters to the capital, showing zeal for improving highways and understanding the possibilities of road betterment.
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Missouri
Good Roads- Movement
Brotherly bond drives inmate to seek prison work pace
In Wyandotte county justice follows a highway robbery sentence for Jim Baughman. He expresses desire to work alongside his brother Charley, who aided his capture and faces additional time after being arrested with stolen goods. Jim asks for mutual confinement to stay together.
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Ansas
James Baughman
Wyandotte County
Charley
Jim
Argentine
Olathe
Yingling split ends in Wheeling social clash
In Wheeling a domestic feud between Thomas Yingling, a meat wholesaler, and his wife escalates from political theatrics to a public spectacle. She resigns control of society events and plans to spend a million from her business while the couple stays at their mansion and wages a joint campaign from the same headquarter.
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Heeling
Thomas
Yingling
Yinglings
Yinging
Celal
Mia
Euterpe Club
Wheeling
Police Chief Escapes from Own Prison
In Hillside Westchester County the village police chief Hewson Stephenson was arrested inside a saloon caucus room for unlawful entry. After being jailed on $2000 bail, he produced a key, unlocked his cell, broke jail and returned home to bed, leaving the caucus to continue.
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Westchester County
Hillside
Sir William
Gilbert
Hewson Stephenson
William Stage
Stephenson
Henry—Fry
Stage
Justice of the Peace
Meanest Man In Flatbush Tries to Shortchange Minister
In New York the Rev. Lincoln Hollister Caswell of Fenimore Street Methodist Episcopal church recalls a bridegroom who teased the minister for a discount after a grand wedding. About 300 guests attended as the couple exchanged rings and vows, but the groom pressed for a reduced fee after the ceremony.
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York
Lincoln Hollister Caswell
Flatbush
Caswell
Fenimore Street
Methodist—Episcopal Church
Grandma Bass Finds Warmth in Kansas City Shack Hope
In Kansas City Kansas the 78 year old Grandma Bass endures a shed like home of cold boards and earth floor. She smiles as police promise to build her a real home and banish the fear of the poorhouse. Her son is away seeking strength after tuberculosis and hardship.
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Kansas ‘City
Kansas “City
Kan
Phidek
Grandma
Grandma Bass
Portable farm colony houses offer movable flock housing option
J T Campbell notes removable fixed-fiture colony houses as advantageous over permanent structures for farms. The 7x9 to 8x10 models use vertical siding, 4x4 runners, and a 2 foot roof overhang to shed snow and provide ample air. Each unit fits 30 to 35 Leghorn fowls with removable nest boxes and perches.
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J. T. Campbell
New England
Farmer Stops Skunk Theft With Shot in Pants
A Tennessee farmer who kept twenty skunks on a fenced farm noticed missing animals and arranged a nocturnal test. He caught a thief by shooting No. 6 shot into the seat of a banjo player, ending the music driven skunk theft.
Fighting Parson Feared in Riverside Indian Agency Change
Reports from Denver reveal Rev. Charles G Brannon the Fighting Parson of the Methodist faith has been named chief special officer of the Indian service replacing Coggeshall who moves to New Mexico. Brannon has survived multiple shooting attempts and is known for his perilous role amid reservations in Riverside County.
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Banning
Cal
Riverside County
Denver
Charles G Brannon
Indian’ Service
Coggeshall
New Mexico
Brannon
Dhang
Fatant
Pursyfoot" Johnson
Pure bred fowl eggs yield higher profits
It took years to learn that selling eggs from pure bred fowls at 1.60 to 2 dollars per dozen brings more profit than barnyard eggs at 26 cents. Twenty five pure breds earn more than one hundred barn yards, illustrating the greater return from quality stock.
Poultry Feeding Advice From Historic Text
A historic guide urges liberal feeding of fme and charcoal, warns against old fowls, and stresses high protein rations. It notes infertile eggs from hens with no male birds and highlights yolk color, market premiums for large eggs, and careful management of lice and mites.
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Miss Kitty
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Parsons House
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Mr. Sinclair
Mr. Ghost
Kould
Women
Apreamnestus
Kansas
Basa
Colony House
Tennessee
Louisville
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