Paris to New York Adventure of Claire and a Reluctant Escort
A narrator recounts a summer with Ann Preswick through Holland and Belgium, meeting Claire, a fifteen year old girl, and then guiding them from Paris to boarding a steamer to America. Claire pleads to travel with the narrator as her father presses for the arrangement, but the narrator resists, citing propriety and the risk of sharing a stateroom. The scene ends with the narrator delivering Claire to a hotel under the watch of her father’s arrangements, and a fragile bond forms.
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Claire
Ann Preswick
Holland
Belgium
Ann
Lkely
Vevay
Paris
Monsieur le Pere
Mademoiselle
Madame
America
Indies
Monsiers
Monsieur
New York
Madame de Ravenol
The Slipper Chapter II and a Paris Find
In a hotel scene Ann learns Billy Rivers has returned from New York for his mother’s health. The narrator reunites with Claire aboard a steamer, and recalls acquiring exotic slippers in Paris that defined a past extravagance, a memory revived by meeting Claire, the Lady of the Slippers.
Ring and Gems Spark on a Steamer Voyage
On a voyage I meet Mrs Delario an American woman of forty who befriends me after an awkward sea dive. She obsesses over gems claiming gems are alive while we share a stateroom and discuss ring legends and Belgian topazes later I appraise her stones and the ring she wears. She hints at seeking my expert opinions for future wedlock.
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Claire
Mrs. Delarlo
Laser
Mrs. Delario
Mrs. Delurlo
Thad
Belgium
T Han
Blank
Wanted to Buy Land for Cash in Loss for Cheap Quarters
Ralph Vandercook of Ft. Pierce offers to buy multiple inexpensive quarter sections with cash payment. He states he will pay promptly and seeks land opportunities in the area.
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Canb
Ralph Vandercook
Piarre
D. Ath
Onida Bonds Backed Waterworks and Light Plant Plan
Onida citizens voted bonds at a special election last week to fund extending the waterworks and to acquire the local electric light plant. The town faces a housing shortage with locals joking a man seen running in a nightshirt was not an escaped lunatic but a newcomer seeking a house to rent.
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Onida
Philip Weekly Review announces official Haakon county paper
The Philip Weekly Review is a legal weekly newspaper published each Thursday afternoon with offices on North Center Street in Philip South Dakota. It is the official paper of Haakon County and entered as second class matter August 2, 1907 at the Philip post office under March 3, 1879 congressional act.
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North Center St. Philip
Sonth Dakota
Haakon County
Philip
8. D
Plumb plan in operation in Russia minus railroads
A St. Paul Pioneer Press note states that everything about the Plumb plan is active in Russia except the railroads, suggesting a broad implementation with missing transportation routes. The remark hints at strategic or economic parallels between the two regions while omitting railway elements.
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St. Paul
Russia
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California
Monsieur de Ravenol
Gareva
Papa
Billy Rivers
North
Tonawanda
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Philip Weekly Review
J.D. Rainey
South Dakota
Short Horn Breeders’ Association
Aberdeen
Huron
Prof. Holmes
Selby
M. J. Flanagan
Outh
Dakota
Mrs
Philip, South Dakota
H. A. Shafer Ottumwa
Bank of_Philip
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