Dan Blair Joins London Society At Osdene Park Shoot
Twenty two year old Dan Blair arrives in London from Blairtown Montana to visit Gordon Blair and meet the duchess Lily of Breakwater. He inherits fifty million dollars from his father and chooses a gun at random, amusing himself while adjusting to aristocratic circles and a promised no gambling rule.
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Dan Blair
Breakwater
Galorey
Lily
Lord Mersey
John Fairthrope
Blairtown
Montana
Gordon
Edith
Osdene Park
Eden
Dan
Edie
Lady Galorey
Parkins
West
States
Rockies
Blair
London
Osdene Park House
Lord Galorey
Mandalay
Dan Elsive
California
Old Blair
Costs Less Than 55 Cents A Bushel To Raise Wheat In Canada
A Winnipeg Free Press canvass shows Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta wheat cost production and freight total about 68 cents a bushel with harvest costs and weather reducing July yields. Despite weather and threshing woes farmers earned margins of about 17 to 19 cents on high and low grade wheat respectively, implying a modest but real profit for 1911 crops unless prices fall further.
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Western
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Winnipeg Free Press
Music by Electricity and the Telharmonium Invention
The telharmonium by Dr. Thaddeus Cahill generates electric music using alternating currents. Improvements allow new original tones while faithfully imitating trumpets horns violas and violins. A single receiver reportedly covers bass to treble and can produce a pure note or full chords.
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Thaddeus Cahill
Cahill
Scotch Dog’s Untiring Herding Feat On Wagonfire Mountain
A shepherd dog left with 3,086 sheep after the master John Sagaday died and two weeks later, under harsh privation, delivered 3,085 male sheep to Manuel Saunders, losing only one. The dog was a new mother days old when the master died.
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Wagonfire Mountain
John Sagaday
Manuel Saunders
Grave Garments Ready In An Old Custom
An account of Lucy Hickey's death at 104 in Gloucester notes she was buried in a shroud she prepared years ago. A Hast Side resident explains the tenement habit of keeping grave garments ready for burial, reflecting a customary practice among some elderly Jewish families.
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Lucy Hickey
Gloucester
Vanilla bean plants in English garden intrigue society ladies
London society women take interest in Mrs Jo seph Chamberlain’s horticultural activities as she cultivates vanilla bean vines in her garden. The delicate terrestrial parasite grows on many trees and yields early beans, attracting amateur growers with its dainty leaves and tendrils.
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Joseph Chamberlain
London Mail
Just Like Bennett and the English Novelists
A New York editor extols Arnold Bennett as the greatest living English novelist while noting Wells and Conrad in contention. A club critic once taunted a boastful young writer by saying he reminded him of Bennett, provoking a blush and laughter from the author.
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Bennett
Arnold Bennett
New York
Wells
Conrad
Stage Play Rewritten By Carpenter and Usher
In a witty exchange, the question of whether he had help writing the hit play is settled as the stage carpenter and the head usher are said to have rewritten it for him. Their involvement reshaped key scenes and helped secure its success.
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Socrates
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Promote Digestive Health
An advertising blurb touts Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a regulator and invigorator for stomach liver and bowels. The sugar coated granules are described as easy to take and not gripe. Pericles is referenced with a remark about hair and social perception.
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Dr. Pierce
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Texas
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Chicago
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Huntsville
Ala
Apefruit Grove
Redlands
Florida
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Bilami
Fla
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Cana
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Woodward
Board of Trade
Dept
Woodmar
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Mwoodmar
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Atlantic Coast Line
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Uonterma
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Woodrow
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Holder Block
Ocala
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