Soap Box Babies at River Bluff Nursery
Miss Selina Sue runs a day nursery for local infants behind her gro cery in River Bluff. Cynthia Page learns Selina’s single status invites sympathy, and Alan Kent, a young artist, becomes a focus of affection as mortgage troubles threaten the Page homestead. Blossom recovers from pneumonia with help from Selina, Cynthia, and Alan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selina Sue
River Bluff
Cynthia Page
Widow Page
Cynthia
Blossom
Miss Sue
Alan
Julius
Lena
Evelyn Ranch
Alan Kent
Selina
Mr. Kent
Dove
Blossom’s Recovery Brightens Bluff in Village Rally
Miss Selina Sue rallies neighbors as Blossom shows signs of recovery after a scare. Ethel Maud sleeps on the floor with relief, while Mary Ellen and Mrs. Dobbs soothe fears and praise community care. Carroll visits, Cynthia praises Mr. Alan’s garden and art, and Miss Selina Sue urges happiness and shared duty. Blossom’s hope lifts spirits on the Bluff.
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Mrs. Dobbs
Mrs. Tyne
St Bradford
Wwe
Seling Sue
Mrs. Kinney
Blossom
Miss Dobbs
Ethel Maud
Miss Selina Lue
Carroll
Smiling Through Tears in a Southern Smithville Kitchen
Miss Selina Sue and Miss Cynthia guide a hopeful scene around church hall plans while neighbors share meals and prayers. A boy named Alan awaits a letter promising forgiveness as Ethel Maud’s cake diplomacy and Bennie Dobbs’s riverbank sketch friend moments unfold into a cliffhanger at the grocery door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses
Dobbses
Dobbs
Ethel Maud
Miss Selina Sue
Cynthia
Miss Selina Lue
Bennie
How She Was Squelched
A traveler recalls meeting a woman who mocked her husband Cyrus and his wealth. On a voyage from New York to Liverpool she criticized the mutton thick as she ate. He finally silenced her with a measured remark about English mutton. The tale ends noting she never spoke of Cyrus again.
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Dame
New York
Liverpool
Cyrus
England
Globe pins track epidemics to guard New York ports
The New York health officer monitors global disease risk using a large earth globe with colored pins indicating epidemics around the world. This visual tool helps flag potential importation of contagious illness and safeguard the port city.
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New York
Note of Flowers Rings with Stolen Style
A young man paid in clothes to get roses for a mistress. He delivers a bouquet but receives a frosty welcome and a blunt note accusing him of owing a pair of pants. The note, scrawled on dirty paper, reads You owe me a pair of pants for em.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Most Beautiful Thing Prompted by Readers
The paper asked readers to define the most beautiful thing in a few words. First prize went to "The eyes of my mother" and second to "The dream of that which we know to be impossible." The humorous entry claimed the beauty is seeing a man carry his mother-in-law across a dangerous river without dropping her.
Revered Ballot Box Quote From Rev MacArthur
A New York City Baptist minister Rev R S MacArthur expresses reverence for the ballot box He says he never votes without removing his hat and that a man should pray as he votes and vote as he prays His words reflect devotion to voting as a duty and a form of personal reverence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. S. MacArthur
New York City
Indolence and Talent Compared in Quiet Thought
A reflective aphorism contrasts indolence choking talent with genius that, though slothful, resembles a beautiful ornament perched high like a spire.
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Madame de Puysieux
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Marie Thompson Daviess
Agn Cof
Bodes- Merrill Bee
Chicago
Flarity
Dobbies
Kinneys
Miss Cynthia
Hisself
Mr. Kinney
Safe & Effective 50 & Druggists
Henry ST. Brooclyn
Post
Postum Cereal Coo., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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