College Plan Sparks Family Path Through Shared Farm
Richard declares a desire for college not farming, while Mrs. Derring schemes to adapt the farm for other hands. She envisions Tom Bishop taking the farm on shares and the Derrings moving toward housekeeping, as Richard explores a scientific room left by Geoffrey Crane and contemplates love, study, and a future beyond the fields.
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Geoffrey Crane
Richard
Emily
Edwards
Worth While
Greek Learning Forges Town Fame for Richard Kinney
At dawn Richard toils in the woods with Tom Bishop as he analyzes Greek grammar beneath the trees. His nightly recitations delight his wife, while the village learns of his studies and the old man’s pride grows with each stanza.
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Tom Bishop
Richard
Tom
Seth Kinney
Derring Returns Home to Family Dalliance and School Plans
Richard Derring arrives at his mother’s farm Ome after winter in the woods. His uncle and wife arrive for a visit as Aunt Jerusha probes Richard’s supposed sweetheart Emily Hutton. Emily is to marry merchant Edwards. Richard’s disappointment spurs ambition. hermit Seth Kinney advises college prep and Greek lessons.
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Richard Derring
Ome
Jerusha
Emily Hutton
Richard
Edwards
Derring
Seth Kinney
Kinney
Deceived By The Shadows
A lawyer visits his broker and, while in the waiting room, notices silhouettes on the glass showing a man and woman in an intimate discussion. He discovers the woman is his wife. The broker jokes about her wanting to speculate, and the lawyer asks for an oculist due to his eye troubles.
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Tom
Sweet Girl Graduate Drives Quaker School Demand
A private Friends school enjoys popularity and finances as a graduate claims living there changed her from a sharp-tongued girl to a calm soft spoken young woman. She attributes this to using the quaint thee and thou during boarding school, suggesting a nationwide demand for Quaker girls seminary in towns lacking one.
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Friends
Saintly Guide Baffling Misunderstanding at Danish Rail Station
An Englishman in a Danish town asked locals for directions to a house but refused a guide. One man offered to accompany him, recalling English service norms. The man insisted he did not want a guide yet declared, My dear sir, I am the guide, I ask the bishop.
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England
Land hunger drives Iowa families to Saskatchewan farms
An Iowa man explains migration to Canada as a family move to keep sons on the farm and to form homesteads with relatives, citing far cheaper land in Saskatchewan and a widening land rush. The piece notes the broader push of Midwestern farmers and references loyalty to flag and country as motives amid the land trek. Tuberculosis Death Rates among workers exposed to dusts show higher mortality for organic dust and metallic dust occupations, with 23 percent and notably higher rates overall.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Dominion
Saskatchewan
America
Kansas
Minnesota
Mid-West
Canadian
Toronto
Ontario
Globe
Bureau of Labor
Department of Commerce and Labor
Where is Bessie Hartman
In 1901 Bessie Hartman and sister Rosanna lived with their mother at Chapman Nebraska after their father was killed in Anada Missouri. In 1903 Bessie was taken by the Nebraska Children's Home Society and her sister Rosanna, now Mrs George Duerr, awaits her address to forward mail.
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Bessie Hartman
Rosanna
Chapman
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Anada
Omaha
Smith
Bessie
Nebraska Children’s Home Society
P. O. Box
Turned About Hushed Talk Between Spouse Pairs
A quip about married couples shows the wife of a busy man says it is always talking shop while the husband of a bargain hunter notes her wife speaks mainly of shopping.
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Crane
Eben
Marcus Derring
Uncle Eben
Phoenicia
Cadmus
Western
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