Squire Gardner Bests Pompous Law Clerk
A visiting southern lawyer named McNaught meets Squire Gardner in his office. The pompous attorney insists on his name, prompting repeated misnaming by the squire who finally quips goodbye as McNothing. The scene ends with the squire’s quiet amusement at the encounter.
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McNaught
Squire Gardner
CANNOT FIGHT THE MEMORY
A discussion of conscience funds shows how private guilt prompts donations to atone for thefts through unknown sources. The essay argues memory intrudes on daily duties and can cost careers, suggesting restitution is cheaper than sustaining a guilty conscience.
Turner jokes reveal blunt humor of English painter
The Bristol Times and Mirror recounts Turner’s blunt and gruff nature with rare jesting. His work The Slave Ship is praised for color yet mocked by a critic as “a cat having no fit in a dish of tomato salad.”
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Turner
Bristol Times and Mirror
Language Familiarity Of Filipino Boy Aboard San Francisco Arrival
A Filipino eleven year old, son of a Philippine head-hunter, arrived in San Francisco under care of an Episcopal missionary who has spent five years among Luzon tribes. He claims knowledge of the United States and baseball, though he calls it mili fula or Cageball. The missionary tested him by asking the umpire’s name, prompting the boy to hesitate.
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Franklin Daily
Episcopal
Luzon
Ands
United States
Jee dangerous. DI Carrel famous eur
The fragment shows a terse and unclear mention of a person or term Jee and DI Carrel tied to something described as dangerous and famous in Europe. Details are insufficient to establish a clear event or identity.
Love and ambition collide at a Rockbridge wedding
Stewart, the Recorder's young reporter, lands a New York job and pursues Margaret Wheaton, the society reporter. He learns rival Fred Davis beat him to a post, and questions arise about Margaret's feelings and an engagement she hints at declining. The autumn night deepens both longing and doubt as they walk home.
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Mr. Denham
The
Recorder
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Mim
Denham
Freda Davis
Rockbridge
Margaret Wheuaton
Fred Javis
Margaret
Patton-Whitney
Rochbridge
Whitney
Chodalty
Acher
Wheiton
Davis
New York
Yye
Carbon
Loase
iCopyright
McClure News2 Paper Syndicate
Remarkable Shagbark Justice of the Peace Remembered
An Old Lodger recalls Tip Waller, a former justice of the peace in Shagbark township. He notes Waller’s wooden leg and quirks that baffled jurisprudence yet earned voters’ trust and overwhelming re election. Waller’s unconventional methods and pipe smoking made him a legendary, entertaining figure.
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Tip Waller
Shagbark
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