Three Girls Seek Summer In Ashore Cottage Mystery
Three friends Elizabeth Gabrielle and Elise travel toward Canada for a summer voyage aboard a steamer a troubling stranger glimpsed with a bag and a photo to scrutinize. They discover a vacant seaside cottage on a bluff near the border and decide to rent it as a retreat while Mrs Graham remains aboard the ship awaiting her husband.
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Elizabeth
Gabrielle
Elise
Canada
Graham
Mrs. Graham
Blake
Apollo
Venus
Thalia
Bennett
Harry
Gabreille
Washington
Children’s Hospital
Congressional Library
United States
When Children Were Made to Smoke In London Diary Note
A Georgia ex change notes a literary figure whose earnings funded a farm and mule, then shifted to business. A diary excerpt recalls a Plague of London era practice forcing juvenile smoking as discipline, with a Beadle recounting schoolboys obliged to smoke every morning.
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Georgia Exchange
Georgia
Hearne
London
Tom Rogers
Yeoman
Beadle
Fteu
Making Shakespeare Ancient in a Stratford Visit
A noted drama critic, in Stratford on Shakespeare's birthday, questions locals about the famed playwright. He queries a street sweeper near Irving's inn, who replies that Shakespeare “writ” and perhaps wrote the Bible, touching on the town's reverence and curiosity.
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Stratford
Irving's Inn
Excellent Weather and Rich Crops Across Southern Alberta
A Winnipeg Free Press correspondent reports Pincher Creek district in Southern Alberta yields 40 to 60 bushels per acre of No 1 Northern wheat with excellent quality. Profit margins are high and harvests promise regional prosperity for wheat and other crops, stock, and dairy, with strong rail and market potential.
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Winnipeg
Man
Free Press
Pincher Creek
Alberta
Crows Nest Pass
British Columbia
Jim Hill
Great Northern Railroad
Canada
Marshall (Minn.) News
Messenger
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Minnesota
A Mere Cipher Dialogue
A brief exchange presents Bertha and Bertie arguing over possibility. The wordplay hints at the theme that nothing is truly impossible in the mock dialogue.
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Bertha
Bertie
Eye expressions reveal temperament in a quirky quiz
A playful piece contrasts eye types with temperaments. A stony gaze signals a cold nature while blue eyes denote gentleness, and cross eyed folk are labeled as amiable yet irritable.
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Scott
Matt—Bosh
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Fray” Walters
Western
RED Cross
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria, Ill
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