Western Romance Aboard the Dust Storm Ranch
Edith Alcott, a college girl, grows fascinated by foreman Harry Esterly on a western ranch. After a dust storm strands them, she learns her feelings for the cowboy run deeper than her lifelong vow to marry a college man, as he reveals a sheepskin pledge.
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Edith
Alice
Mrs. Alcott
Jimmy
Harry Esterly
Harry
Josephine
Jim
Mr. Alcott
Mr. Allcott
Beatrix Reade
Rings, pearls, and a lovers feud in a tangled engagement
Gabrielle and John argue over wearing two engagement rings while Mr. Algernon Phelps hovers with gifts. Gabrielle's right hand bears a white sapphire ring from Phelps, her left a pearl circlet. a yellow sapphire ring comes from the same suitor’s generosity. The feud deepens as both rings threaten the couple’s future.
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Pomona Penrin
Gabrielle
John
Gabriellé
Mr. Algernon Phelps
Algernon Phelps
Holden's
Holden’s
John Baden
Michief
Ion
Mr. Phelps
Mrs. Jocelyn
The Snippy Girl Susan Jones Story
A childhood tale recounts Susan Jones becoming snippy after a flood. She scorns offers of apples and pencils and answers the Sunday school questions with defiance. Her attitude earns many enemies and her peers mock her, while shopkeepers react with insult and rejection.
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Mother
Susan
Jones
Susan Jones
Jamestown
Moses
Theology and Art in The Bibliotheca Sacra
The Rev. James Lindsay argues that theology and art share essential spiritual ideas and that art’s vitality mirrors theological thought. He posits that both seek elemental spiritual concepts, and theology should draw from life’s fountain just as art does, embracing the artist’s soul even in abstraction. The piece asks how theology can ignore art forms when God is the Absolute Artist and nature His universal artwork.
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James Lindsay
Bibliotheca Sacra
Oberlin
Ohio
Lindsay
Peculiar Electrical Treatment Effect Observed
The American Electrician reports a peculiar reaction during electrical therapy. Hands and faces turn black when the chair is positive and the head negative, especially with oil-heater flames in the room. Carbon particles from burning oil cause the darkening, and reversing polarity or removing the oil flames prevents it.
No man who depends on special laws to prosper was ever a patriot
The statement condemns reliance on special protections for wealth, arguing true patriotism requires fair, universal rules instead of privileges. It reflects a political principle reinforcing equality before law and merit over favoritism.
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White
McClure, Phillips, & Company
America
Susana
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