Mary the Inn A Tale of English Life Continues
Mary and Richard Parker face danger as a squire is slain during a night plot at the abbey. Parker and Foster seize the bag and plan escape while Mary, driven by love and fear, discovers the murderers with the hat bearing her crowning cockade under the inn’s firelight.
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Mary the Inn
Joseph Hatton
Richard Parker
London
Parker
Foster
Whitby
Yorkshire
Mary Lockwood
Mary
Alsle
Abbey
Wilson
Taylor
Tom
Mr. Taylor
Aft
al Jence
Mary discovers guilt over hat in a tense bar scene
In a crowded room Mary faints upon learning of her lover's guilt. Morley reveals the hat and a party learns of murder rumors surrounding Mary and Parker. Jack Meadows rushes in to protect her as tensions rise amid a wager and a fateful night.
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Gentleman Parker
Old Morley
Mary
Wilson
Jack Meadows
Goodby
Kirkstall
Star and Garter
London
Jack
Morley
Barnsley
Mr. Wilson
Conti
Beet sugar, irrigation, and alfalfa boom fuel farming notes
The notes report a beet sugar growers association formed at Fort Collins and a Denver company to manage beet sugar factory development. Morgan county celebrates the Bijou canal project boosting 30,000 acres, reservoir sites, and storage capacity. Alfalfa expansion in Colorado and nationwide yields multiple cuttings, with encouragement for stock farmers and diversified hay production.
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North Park
Fort Collins
Denver
Sugar Factory Constructon Company
Michigan
Ladington Fruit Company
Morgan County
Fort Morgan
Colorado
Naas
Alfalfa for Lambs Finds Advantage at Laramie Station
Wyoming experiment at Laramie compares alfalfa with native hay for lamb feeding over ninety five days. Fifty lambs per group show alfalfa delivering 27.8 percent higher gains and 1.5 percent more dressed carcass, plus 1,280 pounds more mutton per acre and 15 percent lower feed cost. Native hay used less hay per 100 pounds gain but required more total feed and cost per head. Director concludes irrigated regions should favor alfalfa for lamb feeding.
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Laramie Plains
Wyoming
Colorado
Wyoming Experiment Station
Laramie
Green River
Colorado Point
Greatest Men of Colorado for St Louis Hall of Fame
The state may choose two representative nonliving figures for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Hall of Fame at St Louis 1903. Readers are invited to submit opinions to honor Colorado's history and its role for the United States and the world. Zebulon Pike and ex-Governor Gilpin are among suggested choices by Governor Thatcher.
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St. Louis
Louisiana Purchase
United States
Zebulon Pike
Gilpin
Thatcher
Fancies of Fashion and Home Arts Outlook
An essay on finding beauty in duties and labor in daily life, voiced by Linda Hull Larned, with notes on women’s sphere, housewifery, and education of the mind. It discusses attitudes toward labor as pleasure and hints at evolving fashion and domestic crafts. It mentions a belt brace, belt wear, and winter gown trimming with chiffon and lace details.
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Jefferson Avenue
Woodward
Grosse Pointe
Blinky
Detroit Free Press
Sor
Eunice
Papa
United States
Chicago Tribune
Ruskin
Linda Hull Larned
Dinser
Velveteen and Velvet Dominate Fashion Sets This Season
Velvet and velveteen gowns lead the latest outfits with seven other fashionable fabrics like corduroy and broadcloth. Street costumes feature tan broadcloth with applique embroidery and bias velvet folds. Parisian dinner gowns use pastel blue satin soleil mag with lace and tucked bodices. Corticelli silk suggested for recreating the looks.
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Ming
Prince Albert
Bective
Paris
Moserream Tea Towels Highlight Linen Kitchen Dress
The item presents large ready hemmed tea cloth towels in heavy linen with a blue border. Woven motifs include a teapot, cup and saucer and the words Tea Cloth. A nod to old fashion initials marks the towels’ specialized use.
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Moserream Tea Towl
Velvet Louis XV Coats and Velvet Gowns Gain Popularity
Fashion writers note black velvet Louis XV coats with brocade waistcoats and lace jabots set a universal sartorial desire. Velvet gowns rise in favor in simple cuts with occasional embroidered corset bands.
Peacock Feather Sequin Headdress Feature Debuts
The article describes an evening headdress using two peacock feathers entirely covered in sequins to reproduce feather detail. Feathers rise from black velvet knots and are tied with a velvet band around the hair coil for a secure fit.
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Shaw
Eee
Squire Bellingham
ruMan
Dick Parker
Bellingham
York
Ned
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