Whistling Girl Ends in Love Reveal
A wounded man longs for his whistle companion as nurse Annie Mor ton tends him after battle. He believes his brother Jim Curtis sent the signal, but the nurse confesses she is Annie and his true love. The blast of truth turns grief to hopeful romance in a quiet hospital room.
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Sumer
Ips
Annie Morton
Khanner
Jim Curtis
Jim
Nurse
Bitch
Annie
Fle
Surse
Nebet
Australian Trees Known For Value and Size
Kanai timber ranks among Australia’s most valuable and useful woods with Yosemite like slants. A felled specimen reached eighty four feet to the first branch, exceeded six feet in diameter, and had an estimated cubical content around 13 500 feet.
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Australia
Caught In The Act A Kiss Scene In Chicago News
Clara and Jack attempted a kiss last night but Maude notes it was not a theft. The exchange occurred in Chicago reflecting a flirtatious encounter rather than a crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara
Jack
Maude
Chicago News
Breeding and Care of Swine by Waldo F Brown and Bulmer Pigs
A sustained guide on hog breeding, stressing purebred, straight stock and long trials with any leading breed. It warns against shifting breeds every few years and outlines gestation, housing, bedding, and winter feeding practices to keep pigs healthy and productive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldo F. Brown
Oxford
Suburban Dwelling Design Promises Open Air City Life
A suburban dwelling design by C H. Venn of New York outlines a seven room home suited to city dwellers seeking country air. It features a parlor with bay window, dining room with mantel, practical kitchen, porch, cellar, three second floor rooms, and an unfinished attic. Balloon framing, rubblestone foundation, and silver gray stained shingles are specified, with a total build cost of £2,500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C H. Venn
West Twenty-fourth Street
New York
Philadelphia
Year 1881 as Chronological Oddity and Prophetic Folklore
A compact note on the year 1881 noted as a mathematical curiosity with palindromic readings and arithmetic quirks. It links the strange properties to fortune tellers and astrologers and cites Mother Shipton’s prophecy claiming the world ends in eighteen eighty one.
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Mother Shipton
Wonder in Penmanship Emancipation Proclamation Copy
A Minnesota Historical Society item features a lithographed engrossment of the Emancipation Proclamation by W. H. Pratt of Davenport Iowa. Pratt shaded letters to form a portrait of Abraham Lincoln at the center. Likely many were struck, but such copies are now very rare.
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Minnesota Historical Society
W. H. Pratt
Davenport
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
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Oregon
W. C. Minnis
Main Street
Haneford
Sellers
Gatarrh
Bly
NASA
Lee
Mai
ELY Brothers
Warren Sr
CoryricuTs &c
Pateriia
Tanabe
pareDta
Patesia Tagen Shiroxh Moon & Co
Bithiul Chante
M the Scientific American
M & Co
Notary and Corporation
Order of Us
EAST
Oregonian
San Francisco
Augusta
Bright
Charlotte A. Canty
Hamber
OO Kiso
Iss
Pendirigy
van Dran Bros
Pengigi
Cong
Colden
Hom
Corner Court
Johnson Biresy
Pendleton, Oregon
M. F. Kelly
Hoel SG
GEO. Daryeau
Prep
The
Columbia Lodging Hous
Bacar ae _ALTA&W
F. X. Schempp, Paw
Delry East Oregonian
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