Hetty Green and daughter stay in Pomfret inn misgivings about kidnapping
Mrs. Hetty Green and her daughter Sylvia visit Pomfret Connecticut. They stay at Miss Vinton's inn on a rainy departure day. Mrs Green worries a syndicate will kidnap them for wealth and reads Sylvia's love letters aloud to guests before leaving. They choose the open buckboard over the station wagon due to rain and clothing.
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Hetty Green
Sylvia
Connecticut
Pomfret
Miss Vinton
Mrs. Green
Disabled soldiers to fill 5 percent of work forces
Government estimates 800000 disabled soldiers, about five percent of national workers, with a request to employers to hire not less than five percent of their staff from partly disabled veterans. About seven eighths have found work. 100000 remain unemployed.
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Asia
Fie
St Pauls Cathedral Awe Shaped By London Skies
Bayard Taylor writes in 1844 of St Pauls Cathedral with grand praise. He notes the dome towering high over coal soot darkened spires and a vast interior of arches creating a skyward vista. He marvels at human ingenuity lifting such a mighty edifice.
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St. Pauls
Bayard Taylor
London
Ging& Tt
Professor Warns Wind Could Help Moths Cross Tanglefoot
Professor F. L. Washburn warns that wind may drive canker worm moths onto sticky bands on trees. Leagues likely to be blown against the bands could trap moths. Old hands should be made sticky again to prevent escape.
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F. L. Washburn
Washburn
Sunshine-tanda and the Elfin Fleet Mystery
A lyric yearning for summer seas and sunny ships. The speaker fantasizes about blue leagues, fairies, and ships gliding under starry autumn skies while hearing captain roars and the steamboat whistle.
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Elfin Line
Infant joins Red Cross in Seattle birth notice
May Rogavich was born at Providence hospital at 2 21 PM and weighed seven pounds one ounce. Parents Mr. and Mrs. John Rogavich of 110 West Rackett Street welcome their daughter while the Red Cross notes their youngest member and presents a white on red membership button.
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Red Cross
Seattle
May “Rogavich
Providence Hospital
May Rogavich
John
Enjo
Mr. Rogovich
Burroughs Adding Machine and Typewriter Ribbons For Sale
Office reports ribbons for Burroughs Adding Machine and L C Smith typewriter available at the report office.
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Sale
Burroughs
L. C. Smith
Sun Power Could Shift World Power and Populations
A Smithsonian insight from Prok P. Langley suggests harnessing solar energy may redraw global power centers. He envisions deserts and barren shores becoming industrial hubs. empires could move to regions heated by sun as civilization learns to make it a servant, not a god.
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P. Langley
The
Smithsonian
North Africa
Red Sea
Gartage
Old
Egypt
Lightning oddities spurring tales of strange outcomes
A centuries old note describes lightning striking a stable with cows killing every other animal and sparing the rest, and a pair of friends sheltered in a corrugated shed as a vivid flash struck a golfer’s knife, melting the blade and scorching fingers.
Shoes Tie up Hearts in University Church Mixup
A college sermon drew a crowd as a student and a young woman found their shoes tangled when their footwear hooked on eyelets. Both rose with difficulty, leaving onlookers amused at the unexpected stumble.
Restoration to Entry of Lands in Tongass Forest Alaska
Notice grants settlement and entry rights to 139.71 acres in Tongass National Forest Alaska with homestead preferences for pre 1906 claimants and ex servicemen. Describes two tract descriptions near Kasaan and Sukoi Island with metes and bounds, listing applicants Ben Leibrant Kasaan and Harry D Colp Petersburg. First publication June 4 1920. last June 9 1920.
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National Forest
Tongass National Forest
Alaska
United States
United States Land Office
Juneau
Germany
Metes
Forest Service Monument
Long Island
Kasaan Cannery
S. M
Ben Leibrant
Kasaan Alaska
Forest Service
Five Mile Creek
WFSM
RSBC
Sukoi Island
Wood Point
Thomas Bay
Seabe
Harry D. Colp
Petersburg
D.K. Parrott
General Land
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Vover
P. Jorgenson
St. Paul’s Cathedral
California
Afi
Sunghinean
B. B
Baltimore Sun
R. York
Brennan
New York
Sam Nakamoto
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Jihan
Ar Bryley Fy
Tacoma
I Gén Store, Inc
Tacoma, Wash
Northwest
Pacific Steamship Companye
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San Diego
F. Nelson
K. L. Steberg
Sunde Building
Bert Haug
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Glacier Fish Company
J. Maddock
Mgr
N. Nelson
Dawes Hospital
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