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Pocahontas County Sun in Laurens, Iowa

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Pocahontas County Sun

Location

Laurens, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1914

Page

6

A Tory Hill Picnic and Love in Quiet Opposition

Ivory Boynton and Waitstill Mason walk home from a Tory Hill meeting house after a sunny picnic. Their restrained bond deepens as Ivory shields his mother’s illness and Waitstill plans to break social bounds to help Ivory’s fragile family. They share unspoken love, duty, and the threat of paternal disapproval.

Ivory Baxter Intina Merry Group Rodi Patty Waitstil Cap'n John Smith Weetine House Waitstill Tory Hill Wyait Ivory Boynton Deacon Braxter Fle Riverboro Lois Boynton Wait Meeting House Jed Merrill Loo Jacob Cochrane Mother New Hampshire Saco Rodman Burt God Father Cochrane Twumphrey Barker Pliny Waterhouse Walt

Wisdom of a Woman in a Chinese Parable

Two women claim to be the mother of a child before a mandarin. His wife, famed for wisdom, orders a test with a live fish and the infant. The true mother dives to save the child. the impostor is exposed as false. The mandarin awards custody to the genuine mother.

China Sorey London

Easy Money and a Millennial Bet at Garrick Club

Theodore Hook, famed Garrick club member, would stay at the club from afternoon till morning to avoid night air per doctors. A fellow member once predicted the millennium in three years. Hook replied, If you give me a pound now I will repay you fifty at the millennium.

Theodore Hook Garrick Club Hook

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