Spearman Goes North in Search for Ferry Survivors
Constance Sherrill learns from wireless reports that Number 25 sank after a collision. the Benton crew were saved in lifeboats, while Alan Conrad and Uncle Benny are missing. Henry Spearman’s quiet pursuit of power masks fear as drum signals indicate only partial survivors.
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Spearman
Corvet, Sherrill and
Constance
Sherrill
Eee
Frankfort
Alan Conrad
Alan
Uncle Benny
Henry
Petoskey
Manitowoc
Number 25
Alway
Connie
Wis
Anna S. Solwerk
Solwerk
Solwérk
Benton
Mr. Sherrill
Manistique
St. Ignace
Richardson's
Benny
Conrad
Richardson
Gan
Nir
The Watch Upon the Beach Continues
Constance travels by train and snowshoes in a bid to uncover family secrets tied to Uncle Benny, Alan, and Henry. She pens a telegram to her mother, heads north, and locates a Sherrill cottage caretaker as she nears a snowbound shore house seeking answers.
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Constance
Henry
Alan
Chicago
Benny
Uncle Benny
Duluth
Captain Stafford
Petoskey
En Alan
Sherrill Cottage
The Boaster and the Poised Man of Verse
A fragmented OCR snippet hints at a literary figure described as a boastful poet. The line appears incomplete but suggests an article about personality and poetry, possibly a profile or critique of a poet known for vanity.
Vegetable Compound Helps Churubusco Woman Conceive
Mrs. Frep Miner of Churubusco New York writes she suffered five years with backache under a doctor’s care. A neighbor recommended Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and she afterward carried a child. She endorses the remedy for female troubles and urges others to try it.
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Churubusco
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miner
The Illusions as Seen in Real Life
The piece notes a cinematic hero who saves the day appearing in ordinary scenes. It contrasts the idealized villain and heroine with real sightings of such characters in everyday life, including a collar seller, a dish carrier, and a ticket seller in a theater context.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
Ostrich Joke Sparks Summer School Gag
An ornithologist employed by the government quips that ostriches digest everything, prompting a girl in a summer school audience to remark that an ostrich would make an ideal husband. The exchange comments on views of marriage among young women.
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Sollo Voce
The Novice's Dilemma
A Boston Transcript note by J. B. reflects on amateurs spotting plants in gardens they did not plant and hesitating to pull them, fearing they might have added them unknowingly.
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J. B
Boston Transcript
Ready-made lawns prompt mowing question
A light note from the Boston Transcript questions whether ready-made lawn strips sent back to the factory can be mowed again. The cartoonish inquiry plays on the concept of modular turf and maintenance returning to the source.
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Orden
Boston Transcript
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