Left in the Lurch by Mrs Dibble's Glamour
Fanny Wheeler, a poor aspiring woman, climbs into the social circle of Mrs Frederic Scott Dibble through the Women’s Club. Dibble lavishes attention and favors, drawing Fanny into a life of service and flirtation with wealth, until emotional and financial costs overwhelm her. Sam Wheeler stands by her side after the fallout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farnny Wheeler
Fanny Wheeler
Fanny
Mra Hallam
Mrs. Hallam
Woman's Club
Frederic Scott Dible
Sam
Frederic Scott Dibble
Mrs. Dibble
Mra Dibble
Ashe
Grace
Mrs
Sam Wheeler
Scott
Elge
Panny
Fanny E
Fannny
A New England Girl Reunites With an Old Flame
Jean Fones, a brown eyed Oberlin College student from New England, grows popular at school, enjoys music, lake days, and social life. At a New Year masquerade she and Robert Mackenith reconnect, revealing a shared childhood secret. He confesses love, recalling Granite Lake and their secret game, and she accepts.
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Robert
Jean
Oberfin College
Alice Fones
Alice
Jeas
Uncle Sam
Mackenith
Granite Lake
Yale
Fortner’s shop girl Loie Glyn endures awkward day
Loie Glyn works at Fortner’s counter waiting on customers while enduring sly taunts from Ella Landis and awkward admiration from Morgan Wright’s mother. An old customer, Mr Shad, favours Loie with attention and a rare gift, drawing Morgan into the scene as tension grows over past affections and looming motoring plans for Loie’s ailing mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortner’s
Ella Landis
Lois
Loie
Mr. Shad
Morgan Wright
Morgan
Wright
Eliza
Lole
Mr. Portner
Elia ‘Landis
Ebenezer
Byways and Inventions From Early Popular Science
A narrative of underwater treasure surveys and a new survey craft that lets a passenger view the ocean bottom through a window, plus a list of innovations from plant plastics to foot powered swings and surgeon headlights, ending with a rope dam method to regulate irrigation flow.
Life saving skirts and floor hardening tricks from old notices
A. Scientist in California describes anchor lines across a stream with floating ropes for life saving skirts inflated by a tube attachment to support wearers in danger. Elsewhere in factory care, iron floor plates are corroded with sal ammoniac and sand, dampened then swept. rivet counts decline for weeks before repeating the process.
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California
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Abner Anthony
Sid Sam
Liberty
Afee
Misa Gray
Mr. Allyn
Alice's
New England
By Joella Johnson
Anita
St Art's
Laie Glyn
Fortners
Fortner's
Elsie Endicott
Peters
GilGeult
Japan
Prof. & Sata
Tokio
Moga
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