Miss Selina Lue and the Soap Box Baby
Miss Selina Lue presides over a River Bluff day nursery for neighborhood babies called Soap Box Babies. Cynthia Page learns of Selina and Alan Kent, a failed painter seeking a studio, while tensions rise around a mortgaged homestead and Selina’s care for Cyn thia’s ward Blossom. Alan’s affection for Cynthia grows as pneumonia strikes Blossom.
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Selina Lue
River Bluff
Cynthia Page
Widow Page
Cynthia
Miss Selina
Alan Kent
Boss
Miss True
Alan
Cynthia Selina Tella
Evelyn Ranch
Sefina
Mr. Kent
Ynthia
Blossom
Belina Lue
Miss Cynthia
Miss Selina Sue
Selina Sue
Mr. Alan
Miss Selina Lue
Mrs. Dobbs
Blossom's Night of Hope in the River Town
Miss Cynthia and Miss Selina Sue tend Blossom the ailing baby as Mr. Alan keeps vigil. The family bonds deepen as love and care surround the child, and dawn brings recovery hopes while neighbors offer sympathy and support.
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Ethel Maude
Vin
Ming
Mrs. Simmons
Clemmie
Miss Cynthia
Miss Selina Sue
Mr. Alan
Rho
Cynthia
Selina Sue
Selina Lue
Charity
Carrot
Blossom
Eoon
Mrs. Kinney
Miss Kinney
Dobbses
Mary Ellen
Mr. Dobbs
Ghostly rent scam by immigrant tenants in U S
A facet of immigrant arrival shows a landlord tenant scam where tenants feign hauntings to secure rent relief. The pattern includes a headless figure of horror and a lady in white, spreading gossip and prompting landlords to strike deals to reduce rent in exchange for silence.
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United States
Primitive School Books in Early Education
A historical note on the horn book used in schools from 1450 to the 18th century. It describes a wooden slab with letters and syllables covered by parchment and horn to protect ink, plus a Bible and sampler used by girls, with a Mary Smith provenance.
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Mary Smith
Freed From Skin Disease By Cuticura Remedy
A Toronto born infant aged three months suffered a severe skin eruption that covered the face head and shoulders. After trials with various remedies and hospital care, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Remedies were used beginning May 1909 and the skin cleared with no recurrence, according to Robert Mann of Proctor.
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Toronto
Duluth
Robert Mann
Proctor
To Apprehend Contempt Is To Have Deserved It
A compact quotation by Pierre Loti asserts that seeking contempt is equivalent to already earning it, framing contempt as a self-inflicted consequence of behavior. The line emphasizes moral cause and effect in social judgment.
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Pierre Loti
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Miss.selina Lue
Marie Thompson Daviess
Po Agus G. A“ Vyright
the Dodes
Merrill Learany
Euclid Avenue
Cleveland Plain Dealen
Cholly
Cholly Champleigh
Miss Caustique
Vienna
Libby
Libby, McNeill
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