White House Marriages and Presidential Secrets
A reader asks if any president married in the White House and notes Grover Cleveland wed Frances Folsom there in 1886. It also asks which presidents died in the White House, and why certain cabinet heads cannot succeed to the presidency. The booklet Know Your Government offers answers for 25 cents.
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White House
Grover Cleveland
Frances Folsom
Agriculture
Labor and Commerce
West 17Th St
New York
Kept His Eye on It The Decimal Point Mystery
A classroom anecdote shows a teacher erasing the decimal point to illustrate multiplying by ten. Alfred jokes that the point rests on the duster, highlighting a playful math moment.
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Alfred
Grace Leland Returns to Milldale Under Secret Strains
Grace Leland, back in Milldale after eighteen years, rents a room near the drug store. Ace and Sam spy her from a window as rumors swirl about a past linked to stage life and a headlines making divorce that hurt her son David. She aims to give him material comforts, including a car, to shield him from questions about the family scandal.
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Ase Hawkins
Sam McQuade
Grace Leland
Ace
Sam
Milldale
Grace
Butcher Boy
Chic Myers
Chet
White House
Thomas Slater
Europe
Leland
David
Window Car and a Forged Name Mystery
Grace Leland schemes to buy a luxury car for her son David by signing the late Thomas Slater’s name to a three thousand dollar check. Slater dies in London before return, bank seizes affairs, and Grace is confronted by officers as two onlookers comment on Grace’s familiar habits.
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Icarus
Africa
David
Broadway
Grace Leland
Thomas Slater
Europe
Grace
David Arash
Slater
Milldale
Headquarters
Textile Bank and Trust Company
Mister Slater
Crossword Puzzle Clue List Fragment
Readable puzzle clues range from silkworm to nunneries headwear and electrical terms. The list includes entries for to spend time in idleness to poke around and a girl’s name among various brief definitions.
Get It Learn to Do Everything for Life Improvement
A speaker recounts three visitors who feel limited and shares Alexander Graham Bell’s advice from the Smithsonian secretary Joseph Henry: become more accomplished by learning to do many things. The message urges broad knowledge over mastery in one field and promotes versatility as the path to a richer life.
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Dean
Doan
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
Joseph Henry
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Henry
Pattern No 1628 for multiple sizes with yardage note
Pattern No 1628 offers sizes 10 through 20 with size 12 cap sleeves and yardage details of 3% yards of 35 or 39 inch fabric. The Summer FASHION provides sewing information for home dress makers with top fashion designers and a children’s page. Send your order.
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Flelt
Practical Kitchen Tips for Food Quality and Cleanup
Advice on selecting fresh fish with bright eyes and using round or square pot holders for removing pies. Tips include soaking linens before washing to lift stains, refrigerating opened canned goods covered, and adding horseradish to dressings. Also prevents flavor transfer with careful can handling and lunch box prep ideas.
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School of Cookery
Sioux City, la
Mayfair
Duncan Hines
Sioux City
Bill” Wachter
Rube Goldberg
Florida
Greece
Peer Gynt
Spain
Ric
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Richen
Snoop Hound
Batu Ype
Fleischmann
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