The Fenway Pride and a Christmas Renewal
Fanella Fenway, long isolated in the old Fenway house, receives a Christmas invitation from Nelson Travers, a former suitor and now a farmer. The encounter breaks her pride as she accepts a simpler, warmer future, admitting her loneliness and changed heart after fifteen years.
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Fanella Fen
Fenway Place
Fenways
Miss Fenway
Fenway
Whalen
Nelson Travers
Fanella
Japan
Miss Fanella
Madam Fenway
Nelson
Travers
Vinegar Bible of Oxford Baskett Press 1717
The Vinegar Bible named for the misprint parable of the vinegar in Luke 20, was printed at Clarendon Press Oxford by John Baskett in 1717. It is famed as the Oxford Bible but criticized for typography errors. Baskett issued a two volume imperial folio in 1716 17 with frontispiece by du Bose and Vandergucht vignettes. Copies have sold from 8 to 50.63 dollars. Of three vellum examples two are known to have sold. one brought £255 at Sunderland sale.
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Clarendon Press
Oxford
John Baskett
Baskett
du Bose
Vandergucht
Sunderland
Christmas Return and a Double Wedding Shock
Clive returns to his hometown for Christmas and encounters Fay, Gretchen Lawrence, and Bob Patterson. He learns Gretchen—Fay’s cousin—will marry Bob, while Fay reveals her engagement to Gretchen’s cousin. A rekindled kiss with Fay ends with a hopeful wish for Christmas.
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Bob
Ell
Eilves
Clive
Gretchen
Fay
Gretchen Lawrence
Tasmania’s Apple Boom Drives Record Exports
Tasmania expanding fruit industry aims for 30 000 orchards and 3 000 000 bushels yearly. Season produced 1 348 000 bushels from 20 412 acres. Twenty one mail steamers carried apples to London, exporting over 945 000 cases.
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Tasmania
London
Westminster Gazette
Christmas Presents From Mr and Mrs Dobb
Mr Dobb gives his wife a practical Christmas gift a couple of good brooms while Mrs Dobb responds with a sturdy coal scuttle for carrying coal from the cellar. The exchange highlights a practical holiday exchange between the couple.
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Mr. Dobb
Mrs. Dobb
Illinois News Briefs Panic at Insane Asylum
Fire in the women's building at Bartonville asylum started by an overheated electric sterilizer. 136 patients were moved to another building as firemen contained the blaze with nominal property loss. Other items note police shooting of a riot participant near Springfield and various local incidents across Illinois.
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Bartonville
Peoria
Illinois State Insane Asylum
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Susan Glenn
Zola. Forrester
Associated Literary Press
Christmantree
Mr. Dunkley
Express
Lawrence
Veet
Bob Patterson
Illinois
Springfield
John Shaw
Elmo Etter
Carlinville
Marion Cain
Shaw
Champaign
T. J. Burrill
University of Illinois
B. 8. Pickett
Purdue University
State Horticultural Society
C. G. Woodbury
Granite City
John B. Wise
Goldie Hold
St. Louis
Wise
Mascoutah
George Oberbaurer
Belleville
Mary Mueller
Oberbaurer
Madaline Erring
Udeaconess
Rockford
Frank Gambries
United States
Joliet
Supt. R. O. Stoops
Clifford
George Milkusia
Prophetstown
John Riley
D. Nedin
Kigner Plow Company
Olney
Joseph Schnell
Eva Milan
Mounds
University of Millinois
Young Women's Christian Association
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