Don’t quarrel, Jim. Anne contemplates new path
In a dining car conversation after a car crash, Anne confronts Jim about divorce, Brooke, and freedom. He urges protection and hints at love, while Anne weighs leaving him for Lacy and a possible future apart. The scene ends with Anne considering Jim’s offer as the chapter closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapte
King Fea
Thade
Trémaine
Barry de Couresy
Towers
Jim
Hich
Brooke
de Courcey
Ralph . Lecy
Park Manor
Hodkins
Ca S
Fim
Relph
Jeanie
Ralph
Anne
Mauself
Ares Syndicate
Lacy
Donit
Pat
Advice to the Lovelorn From Beatrice Fairfax
A reader asks how to heal after a broken romance with a man older by five years. Beatrice Fairfax counsels forgetting the unhappy love, maintaining friendships with other young men, and being ready for wiser love when it comes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Fairfax
Miss Fairfax
Mtha
Foxy Grandpa Narrates a Newts Spring
Bunny and Bobby discover a sleeping newt under a tree and bring it home in a shoebox. They observe the newt shedding its skin as spring arrives, noting the creature’s slim body and tiny fairy glove like limbs before it crawls toward water. Copyright 1925 International Feature Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunny
Bobby
Runa
Jek
Dong
Foxy Grandpa
Newt
International Feature Servier, Inc
Meditations on a Married Woman by Helen Rowland
A humor piece compares married life to driving a car, urging couples to read signals in each other to avoid fights. It argues many marital mixups stem from not recognizing signals, misreading moods, and failing to show courtesy. Copyright 1925 King PT Syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Rowland
Quote on merit and applause by Emerson in 1838 speech
The remark notes that silent acceptance of merit is the truest applause recalling Emerson in a trade study address from March 1838. It urges reflection when one feels undervalued and praises the idea that merit should be celebrated rather than taken for granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne
Jim
Rou
Hmerson
Stury
A Pretty Peony Puzzle No 144
A compact Sunday puzzle item from 1925 features a crossword grid with clues and partial fills. The header notes Our Cross Word Puzzle A A PRETTY PEONY and lists many fragmented entries across vertical and horizontal positions, reflecting a vintage King Features Syndicate puzzle format.
Our Street Youngsters Fight and Mothers Interfere
A 1925 column decries a sidewalk brawl between 16 year olds Mabel Bekin and Mils ly Shade, followed by their mothers clashing in defense of their children. The piece argues parents should let youths settle disputes, preserve street unity, and view cruelty as a rite of passage toward grown responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Bekin
Mils Ly Shade
Miss Bekin
Miss Shade
Mother’Love
Mabel
Mame Bekin
Fate
Sera
Mama
Bekin
Mrs
Shade
Dirs
Shades Mother Love
America
Milly
Bassie
Indy
King Features
Budget letters reveal family struggle with a $200 month limit
A reader's budget letter details feeding six people, three adults and three children, on $200 monthly. Dietitian advice and menu ideas follow, arguing for varied fruit and vegetables, limited bread and potatoes, and careful meat use to trim costs to about $50-$60 per month. The piece contrasts different budgets and urges savings while preserving nutrition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eould
The Rhyming Optimist by Aline Michaelis
A reflective poem describes twilight visions of cloud ships and a glowing moon. The speaker notes night’s arrival, the moon’s lantern light, and promises of future joys as a delicate, golden flower unfurls in the twilight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aline Michaelis
Jon
Early chemists used pictorial symbols for elements
The earliest chemists and alchemists used drawing symbols rather than initials to denote elements. Symbols like a crescent for silver, a looking glass for copper, and the sun for gold illustrate this practice before adopting the modern letter abbreviations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venus
Lydia Pinkham Medicine Cos 98 Percent Recommendation
Advertisement claims over one hundred thousand questionnaires sent to women who used Lydia H. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Ninety eight percent of respondents said they were helped by the remedy, praising relief from various ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia
Mar Laboratory Soap Promises Slimming Without Dieting
An advertisement for Mar Relacing Soap claims it reduces body areas such as the douche chin abdomen wrists and sides without dieting or exercising. Sold on a money back guarantee at select druggists and department stores nationwide with prepaid return options and distribution through HL Wagner and Co and other labs in Cleveland and nearby retailers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tannina Mar Laboratories
Wagner Ding OD
AH Laboratomier
Glerrlead
Also Mentioned on This Page
Asertal
Ann Lisle
Foxy
Mr. Newt
Ilness
Piolo
Olive Pellage
Chicago
Budlong School
King Peatyres
Hideo
Hlelaleloin
King Features Lynd, Inc
Morizontal
Elsie Robinson
Alice Irwin
Polly and
Pals
By Cliff Sterrett
QUT I
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!