Christmas in the Custard Cup raises Penfield joy
Lettie and siblings prepare a grand Christmas party at the Penfield home. Neighbors share gifts and food while Lorene Chase sings, Uncle Jerry arrives with ducks, and the family celebrates a festive tree scene amid careful social lessons and renewed hope for Lettie.
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Bonnie Geraldine
Lettie
Settle
Plymouth
Lorené
Dick Chase
Drink
Mrs. Penfield
Lorene
Crink
Penzie
Penzle
Uncle Jerry
Lette
Carrie
Jerry Winston
Mrs. Penfields
Mrs. Sanders
Thad
Penfelds
Mars
Penfield
Hler
Wopple
Orlnk Penfield
Lorene Chase
Mr. Drake
Youthful Couple in Luck
A London philatelist recounts a 1618 Swedish rate change and a misprinted 12 ore stamp that circulated from the tiny Guliksberg post office. Aforester’s daily letters to his sweetheart used 80 of the error stamps, later sold for 200 kroner each, funding their wedding and home.
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Pred J. Melville
London
Harry Wennberg
Stockholm
Rikedag
Guliksberg
Norland
Forester
Gullksberg
General Pershing Receives Grand Cross of the Bath
General Pershing was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on July 17 1918 and was decorated by King George with the badge of the order on August 18 1618. The honor carries knighthood and the right to use Bic before the name, though later British Who’s Who entries omit the title.
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Pershing
General Pershing
Order of the Bath
George
Sir John Pershing
Diax
Mexico
Cadorna
Manshal Foch
Denmark
Sweden
Siam
Morocco
Afghanistan
Must Be So. Rockefeller interview quote and reflections
The late William Rockefeller recalls changing public opinion about rich men citing lack of proof and muckraker claims. He compares to a schoolboy’s three proofs for Earth’s roundness and notes the danger of basing beliefs on hearsay. He adds cautions about sensational framing and marriage misfortunes.
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William Rockefeller
Lawson
Hall's Catarrh Medicine advertisement claims cure
The notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine with an ointment for catarrhal inflammation and an internal tonic that acts through the blood to restore normal mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists for over 19 years by F. L. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
Jack Holt Biography From Virginia to Stage Star
Jack Holt, son of an Episcopal clergyman, was born in Virginia and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute. He became a civil engineer then a cattle puncher and expert rider, appearing in stock companies and vaudeville. He is six feet tall, 173 pounds, with dark brown hair and eyes, married with three children, and makes Healtywood California his home.
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Virginia
Virginia Military Institute
Jack
Healtywood
Cal
Right Thing at the Right Time on Summer Etiquette
Mary Marshall Dufee argues heat weakens etiquette, but Palm Beach fashions ease dress codes. Men can wear Palm Beach coats, unstarched shirts, and belt straps for informal daytime wear while remaining comfortable in high temperatures.
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Palm Beach
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
The Hoosier Word Origin Mystery
A compact discussion of how Indiana earned the nickname Hoosier and the debated roots of the term. Etymologists split between derivations from Who's there or from usher and hoosher, linked to early settlers and lumbermen in the Midwest.
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Indiana
United States
Middle West
Usher
Wheeter Syndicate
Ing
How Sects Grow Across a Rural Community
A Columbus Dispatch item notes two prominent church workers observing two adjacent churches in a sparse settlement. When asked why two churches exist for a small population, a local resident explains that one side believes Adam was tempted by Eve while the other views him as inherently flawed.
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Mr. Drake
Columbus Dispatch
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Mrs. Wenfield
Wes
Crini
Sreseseneerses
Jack Holt
Mary
Marshall Dufeee
W. W. Beam
First National Bank
Rolfe
E. L. Hollis
Sarah Matthews
D. C
W.E. Powley
Palmer School
West Bend
Iowa
DR. T
D. Jones
L. M. Graham
Kent Building
Bessie Gay Patterson
School of Music of _ Grinnel College
M. BH. Hammes
Pocahontas Loan & Trust Company ( Incorporated
Pocahontas, Iowa
J. M. Bush
Plover
Col
H. H. Grove
Joseph Zimmerman
Gilmore City
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