Desire and Delight Face Family War Over Love and Duty
In a tense farm scene set during a wartime rift, Desire openly tells her father of her engagement to Gilbert Merridale, a British officer, risking exile to pursue love. Delight clashes with Desire, urging obedience to parental authority while contemplating romance with Dave and Gilbert.
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Desire
Salome
Horie
Lexington
Gilbert Merridale
Sam
Somerset
Timothy Leland
Fiever
Delight
Srivia
Dolly
Dave
Plesent
Del
Robin
Birdie
Leis
Salome Gond-By
Ho Cato
Boston
Cate
Father
Gilbert Moerridale
Gilbert
Elause
Aguin
Dorchester
Funes
Archie
Carnot
Jon
Tony Trary
Seare
Leland
The Real Reason Behind De Feuilleton’s Stars
A writer mocks De Feuilleton for disjointed essays often interrupted by lines of stars. He says the stars mark where the author flipped his pen into the gum bottle and stopped abruptly to insert remarks.
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de Feuilleton
Domestic Thrills and Shocking Nighttime Revelations
A fragment from a domestic anecdotes page contrasts two startling awakenings. One recalls a house fire waking residents at night, while the other notes the moment a wife believes the baby swallowed a thimble. The tone suggests a column of quirky, personal shocks.
Rag-time Parcel Tangles A Flat Life Tale
A fragmentary dialogue mentions a couple's marriage and a neighbor living in the flat below who plays rag-time piano with persistent force, described as worthy of a better cause. The scene hints at domestic friction and misdirected passion within a city living arrangement.
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Hetter
O'Batch
Benedict
Campfolk Expect Crime Rise Warned By Two Eastern Professors
In a rough spoken scene a girl questions rising crime as a camp fears two eastern professors visiting to give lessons on piano plays. A practical girl notes the man’s collar is too high for refusal, while another character mentions his possible head shake.
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Laziat
Charlie
Why They Are So Called Phrases and Jokes From The Public
The excerpt presents a collection of quips about stump speakers and distinguishing waiters from guests. It features lines on public understanding and a humorous take on generosity. Names or dates are not specified.
An Ideal Brood Coop and Spraying Advice
Two designs for brood coops protect chicks from weather and vermin with weatherproof roosts and wire netting to keep older fowls out. A mobile approach moves the coop daily for fresh grass. Spraying guidance covers a force pump setup, long hoses, and a four foot wagon platform for tall trees, plus timing across mid-summer and late spring.
Rural New Yorker findings on strawberry cul tivation and gear
A Rural New Yorker correspondent reports that a large keen edged rolling disk, bought as 13 inch disk and frame for 25 cents, offers a simple effective strawberry runner cutter. The article also covers humane colt feeding practices and the protection value of a nearby living tree against lightning, noting live trees are rarely struck.
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New Yorker
Welling
Sheep Pasture Clovers Improve Grazing and Water Need
Clovers including white medium red and alsike mixed with timothy offer excellent sheep pasture. Ensure pure fresh water, soil line crop maintenance, and keep 30 heads on hand to bridge shortages of Thisture.
Lard press tips and a King of Spain anecdote
Farmers should own a lard press to improve hog lard yield and lifetime durability. Dairy guidance stresses proper cream temperature 65 to 70 degrees and frequent stirring to prevent loss of butter fat. A London Telegraph tale follows about the King of Spain seeking policy advice from a history professor, hoping to reclaim colonies as he matures.
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Spain
London ‘Telegraph
Leason
Jose Chile
Mexico
Iad
Fighting Quakers and Free Quakers in Revolutionary Era
A Quaker woman recounts the First of July disturbances in Phadtel pirate terms, noting mobs smashing Quaker windows and divisions between peaceful Friends and those who fought against oppression. Lydia Darragh and Elizabeth Hoss emerge as Free Quakers connected to the era’s liberty debates and earlier war efforts.
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Phadtelphie of Our Nations
Bees “Ree
Lydia Darragh
Waslington
Elizabeth Hoss
Agnes Ip
Philadelphia
Priena
Washington
Franklin
Spanish Women in Europe and Fashioned Society
The piece portrays Spanish women as restricted outdoorsy amusements limited, with the bolero of propriety fading. It notes queenly admiration, convent education, embroidery, and knitting as main pursuits. It claims San Sebastian as a summer luxury for elites, rapid early marriages, scarce divorces, and casual household splits after unhappy unions.
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Uader
San Sebastian
Scania
Europe
France
Indian Wisdom and Asiatic Subtleties in Diary Anecdotes
Curated examples from a southern India diary as published by Sir M. E. Grant-Dutt illustrate Asiatic subtleties and superstitions. Tales include a Christianized native appealing for mercy over a fine and resurrection day, a Gan jan district judge counting bracelet beads to bias judgments, and an Eastern rail line announcing age limits of 45 for workers. Two more yoked sayings note boys feigning illness to fish before Saturday and fools calling wild oats.
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India
M. E. Grant-Dutt
Ganjan
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Natong Atural Society
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Parisian
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Western New York Society
Ohio
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Railrd
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