Ramsey Milholland and the Decoration Day Dream
In a hometown tale Ramsey Milholland recalls his Civil War grandfather's lessons at a Decoration Day parade. He faces school troubles and a rivalry with Dora Yocum while Dora excels. A class picnic leads to a first love with Milla Rust who marries, then Ramsey meets Dora again in a World War debate where he is decisively defeated.
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Dora Yocum
Dora
Ramsey
Milla Rust
Milla
State University
Ramaecy
Linski
Fred Mitchell
Our
Fred
Enterprise
Amsey
Fumen
Lis
Linsk
Wall Street
Fred Mitchels
Ife
Flo
Sprig
Butterfly
Red
Poe
Tamsey
Frat Debates and German Tensions Shake Campus
Ramsey Colburn and Fred Mitchell face social strains as Linski the debater departs and a campus debate group stirs, while tensions over World War I surge after the Lusitania incident. Dora Yocum seeks a word with Ramsey about the Frat's circle and its uneasy shifts in loyalties.
Global News Briefs of War, Finance and Fire
Trials in Britain report Ronald True convicted of willful murder and death sentence. Mount Etna erupts violently with dense smoke and roaring skies. Ireland peace conference yields a temporary truce. French police charge espionage plot against Russia. Battle reports near Beijing conflict with defenders holding ground. Japan alleged to back invaders as Mexico clashes kill one. Allies offer up to 20 million pounds to aid Russia via international consortium. China Civil War continues with no decisive battle. Corporal Mason shot near firing line in China. Senate attack on tariff hearings and farm relief debates. Public debt rises by 45.6 million in April to 23.19 billion. Major General James A. McAndrew laid to Arlington with honors. Smoot accuses Roessler Haslacher of wartime profits. tariff issue debated.
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Ronald True
British Aviation Service
Gertrude Yates
Mount Etna
Ireland
Dail Mireann
France
Peking
Japan
Mexico City
Association of Young Catholic Men
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Fletcher
Florida
Tariff Commission
Eugene Meyer, Jr
Warinance Corporation
House Banking and Currency Committee
Congress leaders delay army navy bills until pay schedules enacted
The leaders plan to postpone annual army and navy appropriation bills until the new military pay scales, formed by a joint congressional commission, become law. News also notes naval aviators Har oId F. Seldon and Frank Miller died in a Potomac midair collision. Canada may join the fifth Pan American Conference in Santiago, Chile. The House Rules Committee split 6-5 to grant privileged status to the Johnson-Woodruff probe into wartime contracts. The Senate revived an extradition treaty with Austria Hungary and renewed a copyright treaty with Hungary. The Miller Act to tighten narcotics control passed the House. Twelve soldier hospitals costing 17 million dollars are proposed. Senate probes Ford nitrate projects. American railroads valued at 18 billion. Duncan, economist, testifies on railroad issues.
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Harold F. Seldon
Frank Miller
Potomac River
Washington
Canada
Santiago
Chile
Union of
Great Britain
House Rules Committee
Johnson-Woodruff
Senate
United States
Austria
Tanary
Hungary
Federal Narcotics Control Board
House
House Appropriations Committee
Times Neh Lad Lassie Cloth for Rompers For
Fragmentary note describes cloth items for a lassie romper line. Limited readable details list fabric types and potential quantities. No clear dates or firms identified.
Diverse 1920s incidents span crime, finance and travel
The report covers a murder case retrial request near a judge, a New Jersey bride shiving related case, robberies affecting safes in Scranton, a Pine Bluff bank notice of a 21758 shortfall, a million dollar cement plant plan at Old Hickory, a 12 hour 200 minute San Antonio to San Diego flight, the Laymen's Missionary Movement formation, and a forest ranger killed by lightning near Asheville.
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Jonath Rebold
D Bogarth
Alabama Supreme Court
Whit Seay
Mlorones
Post Office
Scranton
Merchant and Planters Bank
Pine Bluff
Ark
Willard Jarman
Old Hickory
Nashville, Tenn
J. J. Doolittle
L. J. Andrews
San Deigo
Cal
San Antonio
Texas
North America
Missionary Board
Leroy O'Whelley
Asheville
N, GC
Interview Scene Reveals Bank Cashier Mention
A fragmented dialogue shows a thin, hostile speaker accusing Daniel of being a piker and avoiding danger. The speaker sneers at Daniel for entering a lion’s den and hints at following or observing Daniel, then mentions an interview with a bank cashier related to an overdrawn account involving Tom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel
Wait a Little. Ladyvy-Tobe in Alida Tale
Min expresses sympathy over a pot gone awry and a quarrel with Tobe. The dialogue hints at household duties and a pattern of brief, heated exchanges. The fragment suggests a domestic scene from a small town setting with rural speech.
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Yessum
Alida
Whistle and Horn Clash In Bizarre Dialogue Flight
A fragmentary, quirky exchange mentions a bob whistling to distract, a horn signaling someone named Jinck, and a distracted response. The text reads like a muddled street dialogue with aside remarks about cause and effect and cautious spending.
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By Booth Tarrington
Doubleday, Page & Company
Milholland
Brother Colburn
Chicago
Jed
Iarry
Audmin
Sulieet
Ters
Lusitania
Rene Uemen
Congress
Samuel
D—W Kaiser
Secretary of War
Germany
Colburn
Bis
Russia
Statesman
China
Mason
Colorado
Arlington National Cemetery
James A. McAndrew
Roessler Haslacher Chemical Company
New York
Smoot
Utah
Blyen
Henry Ford
Musee Shoals
Alt
Senate Agriculture Committee
W. B. Mayo
JW. Worthington
Detroit
Duncan
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Ies
Misses Gingham
ENVIL
Ake
Chesebrough Mfg. CO
Consolidated
State Street
Cote
Brame
Vapomentba Lake
Ltt
Esteel Ang Ee N.C
International Sales Co
Norfolk
Otsense
Lasta Nilaenrson
Extresa
Harold Somess
Lircoklyn
N. Ye
Iida
C. P
ROYAL
Royal Baking Powder Co
William St
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