A Rural Travel to Herrington's Hope Homestead
The narrator joins Murray and family to visit a rustic homestead along rough roads, passing through park-like fields, swamps, and timber stands. They encounter a whitewashed house with red roof, outbuildings hidden by brush, and a quiet countryside scene with birds, rabbits, and a distant creek.
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Mr Wilson
Murray
Darien
Teddy
Christopher Collms
Marco Foto
Margaret Ann
Edo
Nicolas
Park Country
Hsi
Rupert
Double Fork
Gagnon’s
Cameron Place
Herrington’s
Herrington
Simont
New Home Day by Day in a Rural Retreat
The family explores a large southwest facing house with a creek view and a hand built interior. They settle in with shelter water and fire, plan to fetch furniture from Spruce Creek, and imagine a Robinson Crusoe life among fields, stables, and a carpentered store room.
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Herrington
Murray
Teddy
Mr. Herrington
Spruce Creek
Twins
Gilead
Rupert
Nicolas
Haven
Fortune Knocks When Misfortune Drops In
A reflective note on luck and ignorance, contrasting blissful ignorance with fortune’s unpredictable visits. The author muses that misfortune often arrives without announcement, while good luck sometimes goes unnoticed.
Mustard Ads Claim Health and Flavor Boosts
An advertisement extols Keen's Mustard as a superior two hundred year old product. It urges use in meals for flavor and digestion, notes royal James VI endorsement, and claims added daily mustard boosts egg production in hens without harming health.
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Daustard
Keen
George
Wealth in America Noted by Visiting Englishman Mondgednes
Sir Alfred Mondgednes described his U S trip saying the country is overwhelmed with money. He observed bankers and industrialists view a fortune of £10,000,000 as modest and noted high living standards and cars for workers versus bicycles in England.
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America
United States
Alred Mondgednesday
States
England
Cathedral at Lund Marks 800th Anniversary
Sweden observes the eight hundredth founding anniversary of Lund Cathedral with elaborate ceremonies. Delegates attend from England Germany Norway Denmark and Finland. The cathedral's central altar was consecrated in 1132.
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Sweden
Lund
England
Germany
Norway
Denmark
Finland
English guffer ponders hole and stymied rival
A beginner watches another player and asks why the ball won’t drop in the hole. The caddie explains the rival was stymied. A quip about the lunch remark follows. Nearby, elephants tested a garage door’s strength. Spiders preceded humans on Earth.
Temper and Self Control In A Boy Scout Lesson
A reading on temper explains it as self control that shapes heat into good form. The narrator recalls a gallows prisoner, a king’s equerry on a fierce charger, and Calgary rodeo scenes to illustrate keeping temper under firm bridle. The Bible and wartime analogies reinforce temperance and steady discipline for boys and girls.
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Emper
George
Duke of York
Canada
Winnipeg
Foch
Calgary
China Names Tsau Kon President After Interim Gap
Tsau Kon, elected leader of the Whitese republic, becomes president succeeding Yurzhang who fled amid national turmoil. The 35 year old former common soldier rose through military ranks, attending a military school and holding posts in several provinces during the war against the south.
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Tsau Kon
Fl Yurzhang
China
Mmilitary
Terilitary
Trae Kin
Tsao Kui
Father s Fear Mother
A Boston Transcript reader notes that proximity drives marriages with a tongue in cheek warning: among men who call most often the daughter of the house tends to choose a husband. The writer jokes that the daughter faces a doomed match with a bill collector.
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Boston Transcript
Southern Chivalry in Arkansas Newspaper Columns
A Batesville editor prints a local note about Miss Beulah Blank, a twenty year old Batesville belle, visiting her twin brother aged thirty two, revealing a playful example of Southern chivalry in the town column.
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Arkansas
Beulah Blank
Batesville
Toronto Woman Advises Young Mothers in Favorite Prescription
Rosa Peters of Sackville Street testifies that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription strengthened her during four pregnancies and kept her healthy, noting babies were plump and healthy from birth. The ad urges mothers to obtain the tonic from local druggists in tablet or liquid form and to request a trial package by sending 10 cents.
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Toronto
Ont
Rosa Peters
Sackville Street
Dr. Pierce
Bridgebore
Tria
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