Diplomatic Shipboard Plotland Surprise
On the schooner Emma Louise Captain Snow seeks Mrs. Bland’s favor with rival Brent in tow. The plan collapses into humor as Tom the cabin boy fakes a man overboard to test affection, exposing Cross’s comic scheming and a staged rescue. The captain learns Brent courts the same woman, but the launch is set two weeks hence.
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Emma Louise
Cross
Snow
George
Water Street
Mr. Cross
Capt. Snow
Brent
Tiam
Tommy
Mrs. Bland
Mr. Brent
Bible and Missions Teaching for Young People
A Conquest Meeting outlines biblical verses on giving and missions from Genesis to Revelation, urging readers to study prophecies about the world-wide gathering of God's people and Christ's universal mission, followed by an anecdote of a Boston master influencing a troubled youth with kindness.
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Solomon
Temple
Christ
Paul
John
God
Hallowe'en Pixie Sprite Brings Rest to Heavy Hearts
A verse notes a silver-winged pixie riding the singing breeze on Hallowe'en. The gentle sprite halts where sorrows lie and touches world-weary men. They grasp the boon fate has withheld as dead souls glow with heaven-born eagerness, and in a dawn of dreams they know fame and praise.
Dare to pay the price of success in youth
A mixed selection notes poems and prose about love, poverty, ambition, and opportunity. It contrasts bleak poverty with hopeful dreams and urges readers to have the lion heart to pursue greatness, warning that success requires bold sacrifice and courageous choosing.
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Maude
Dare
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Praised By Reader
A reader from Ponder Missouri, Otto Dodd, writes of a year long ugly sore cured by Bucklen's Arnica salve. He calls it the best salve on earth and notes it costs 25 cents at Henry M. Langerak's drug store.
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Otto Dodd
Ponder, Mo
Henry M. Langerak
Maude’s Berry Row Wins College Pathway
A pair of berry-pickers debate Maude’s fruitful harvest as she fills another basket, sparking talk of thorny work and gloves. Maude earns her college chance that autumn, while the others lack similar opportunities.
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Maude
Dr King’s New Life Pills Cure Constipation Claim
Cavendish resident S LeQuinn says his chronic constipation vanished after using Dr King’s New Life Pills and Rocky Mountain Tea. Advertised remedies promise health, built flesh and blood, and improved digestion at Henry M. Langerak and Allen & Stubenrauch for 25 to 35 cents.
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S. LeQuinn
Cavendish
Dr. King
Henry M. Langerak
Allen & Stubenrauch
Rocky Mountain
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Daily Story Pub, Co
Dilineator
William McLeod Raine
Miles Bradford
Livingston B. Morse
Young People’s Meeting
the Bible and Missions
Boston
Hallowe’en
Hallowere
Rogers Bros
International Silver CO
Berkdes
Seitery Xe
the Chronicle
Emma A
Opper
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