Phoebe Percival Finds Purpose Through Neighborly Kindness
Phoebe Percival awakens despondent yet spends a day aiding neighbors and sewing for Freddie Westall. Her acts of care include mending a groceryman’s wrist, helping Mrs Gaines with stove lining, and finishing Freddie’s garments. A late-night revelation confirms Nellie’s engagement, lifting Phoebe from loneliness to hopeful contentment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoebe
Percival
Nellie
Freddie Westall
Mrs. Gaines
John
Laura
Mrs. Westall
Freddie
Not His Kind and a Salt Import Note
Dialogue shows Mr Nodd dismissing a toy bank for children while Mrs Nodd questions it. A Judge then remarks India’s salt deposits contrast with imports, noting 1,582,784 tons of salt were imported in 1907 07. The excerpt mixes domestic humor with a statistical trade fact regarding salt imports.
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India
Punjab
Doctors and Lawyers Leave Large Fortunes at Death
The British Medical Journal notes immense posthumous fortunes for doctors, lawyers, and writers. It also recounts last words of notable figures and chronicles several medical men who left sizable estates, with names such as Brampton Murphy Jenner Gull Armitage Wilson Clark and others. The Abbe Garret, famed Swiss Italian Alps climber, dies at 73 in Aosta after a life teaching alpinism and guiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nothnagel
British Medical Journal
Traube
Leecock
Amens Cuvier
Charles Bell
Dyce Davidson
Aberdeen
Astley Cooper
Bright
Chambers
Benjamin Brodie
Oliver Goldsmith
William Hunter
Pasteur
Darwin
Mirabeau
Cahanis
Lord Brampton
Murphy
K. C
Blundell
William Jenner
Willam Gull
T. R. Armitage
Erasmus Wilson
Andrew Clark
Abbe Garret
Aosta
Italy
Humbert
Tyndall
Good to Somebody Else Dialogue
A brief exchange features Mrs. Nages and Naggs in a humorous line about companionship and traditional roles. It hints at social views on self reliance and marriage with sharp wit. The dialogue format resembles a street or panel conversation.
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Naggs
Dreams vs. reality haunt a child in Virginia nursery
Little Virginia, a three year old, wakes in fear asking if her body is really present. Her mother reassures her that she is safe in bed as the child describes a nightmare in which she dreams she is a chocolate stick and has eaten herself.
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Phoebe
Kittie
Peterkin
Miss Percival
Percival
Freddie Westall
Bardger
Dickens
Virginia
Dearie
Mamma
Two Cures of Eczema and One Quinine Remedy
A Louisville reader reports eczema relief after Cuticura remedies curing a baby and later his own severe case. He cites a winter with virulent sores and eventual relief in 1907. The note includes Pere Scott and Addison quotes and mentions Lewis' Single Binder cigar for smokers.
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M. W. LaRue
Louisville
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Mr. Nodd
Sowder
Luapige Binetter
Baby
Grandfather
Sir Walter Scott
W. Grove
Addison
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Til
Beaumont
Dodds
P. E. Maddux
Lith
Oakland
Pacific Investmapt Syndicate
Estat Fine Celal
Myrahia
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