Natalie Dare and the Maine camp letter mix up
Natalie Dare faces a romantic muddle as a bank clerk, Ted Markham, plans a Maine camping trip while a costly trousseau list and an aunt’s letter push expectations. Natalie learns the mix up in a tense family episode and forgives Ted after a candid confession.
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Mabalie
Joshua
Coralie
Natalie
Ted Markham
Forestville
Cousin Adaline
Ted
Game Bank
Adaline
Aunt Esther
Esther
Maine
Mrs. Eldged
Anne Whitmore
Jber
Whitmore
Kidred
Misaltex
Markham Wa
Hitle Hostotthe
Markham
Notalile. Uare
Harry Gaston
National
Bank
Pussy on the Ocean stage scene in a shipwreck comedy
The scene shows a shipwreck with a comic man and heroine adrift on a frail raft. The audience roars as the comic merchant chastises fate and jokes about walking home. A gallery voice notes a wet voyage and a cat hopping on the waves, adding to the farce.
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Tlonden
Charles Dickens Jr. praised for wit at Boston dinner
A Boston club dinner hosted Charles Dickens Jr. years ago with many admirers of his father. An awkward slip by the presiding officer prompted a toast to Charles Dickens the younger for his own merits and his father's, to which Dickens responded citing his father's superiority and candor. A witty heckler cried Long live Charlies the second, who never lost his head.
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Dickens
Charles Dickens, Jr
Boston
Charles Dickens the Younger
Charlies
Boston Transcript
Time divisions of history by historians
The passage outlines three major eras used by historians ancient medieval and modern. It notes the ancient period spans from ancient times to A D 476 with the fall of the western Roman Empire. The medieval runs from 476 to roughly 1402 the discovery of America by Columbus. Some place the medieval end at Constantinople's capture about forty years before Columbus while others reserve dark ages for early medieval times.
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America
Constantinople
Floating water guns: Chicago battery powers city fires
A new revolutionary firefighting battery showcased on riverfront platforms uses two large water guns able to swing and deliver up to 4,500 gallons per minute from pumps. A larger setup could combine both pumps to yield 9,000 gpm. Nozzle variations send streams 500 feet, with multiple hose connections enabling distant supply to engines. The system aims to protect Chicago's business district from several river or lakefront points.
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Rver
Lake Front
Chiceago
Popoular Mechanics
Telephone and Phonograph Advance for Absent Callers
A London Standard report describes a new phonograph aided telephone system. The device answers when the called party is away, playing back a message left by the caller with return time destination or contact location. It repeats each message automatically for repeated inquiries.
First International Congress to Curb Street Noises
A report from the New York Tribune notes that the first international congress for suppressing street noises will convene in Berlin in June 1910. Delegates from the United States England Germany Austria Holland Belgium Switzerland and Denmark will attend. The London and New York meetings are also referenced with plans for future conferences under Mme Isaac L. Rice.
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Berlin
Bordengreen
London
United States
England
Germany
Austria
Holland
Belgium
Savitzerland
Denmark
New York Society
New York
Mra
Isaac’ L. Rice
New York Tribune
Her Telephone Nurse Creates A Midnight Call Aid
A lone woman recounts how a doctor ordered the telephone company to ring at 10, 12, 2, and 4 in the night to remind her to take a prescribed four time daily medicine. The system ensured she woke and followed the schedule, forming a new use for the telephone according to the New York Sun.
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New York
Sun
Makas Cannibal Custom Reported by German Force
A Kamer punitive force commander reports to the German government about the Makas tribe. He notes a cannibal custom where chiefs fatten slaves to eat them, and a practice of offering a slave to visitors as a welcome entertainment. Captain Dominik cites this as a local custom.
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Makas
Kamer
Dominik
London Globe
Grand Army post organized in Oldham England
The 61st Grand Army post has been formed in Oldham Lancashire, housing twenty former Union soldiers. It marks the first European post, though not the first outside the United States, with others existing in Canada Peru and Hawaii. About 5,000 pensioners live abroad per the U S pension commissioner.
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G. A
Grand Army
Europe
Oldham
Lancashire
England
United ‘States
Canada
Peru
Honolulu
United States
StiJoho
Quieting Title in Point Pleasant Hardin County Iowa
Joseph W. Stage sues to quiet title to the village properties of Point Pleasant in Hardin County Iowa. He alleges long term adverse possession under color of title and seeks a decree confirming his fee simple ownership while barring all defendants claims. The filing names numerous defendants and unknown owners asserting incomplete conveyances and unsettled deeds across Moore’s Addition and surrounding lots.
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Hardin County
Joh W
Brainun
Joshua Allen
John H. Dunn
DeWitt
Charles W. Stongs
Charles W. Hough
Henry Mack
Ienry Mack
Oscar. Donaldson
John L. Ail
John Melson
Michael Zahm
John I. Fyne
John Fy
Miles Manning
John M. Melson
John D. Melson
Joseph
Plummer
Joseph 8
Planmer
Thomas B. Abell
Amasa Collins
Amasa Colling
Lem Colling
Lem Collins
John OG. Molsby
John U Molsby
Eva St. John
B.L. St. John
Samuel St. John
Reuven St. John
Reuben St. John
Delos St John
Deos St. John
May St. John
Emma St John
Eddie
J. Joan
John St. John
Alanson
William Jones
Morris Jones
Sylvester Jones
James H. Jones
James Ti. Joneas
Alex Jones
Charles H. Jones
Aken Jones
Ann Jones
George Jones
Mary Jane Haughey
Haughey
Albert Morrison
Robert ©. Casebolt
Wm. B. Evans
Wm. H. Evara
John Whiteford
Abraham Garrison
KF. O. Lowden
F. O. Lowden
Alice Samis
Samis
May Hammer
Slammer
Eleanor Lowden
Luke Stage
A.d. Stage
A. J. Stage
Henry Ff. Dewolf
Henry H. Dewolf
Nathan Dilon
Nathan Altson
Elizabeth Baker
Joseph ‘I’. Baker
Joseph M. Conley
Christopher Columbus
Nestlerouis
Nestleroads
Mary A. Nestlerude
Mary & Lord
W. J. Ford
Mary Word
Cyrus Smith
Oliverg Ashton
Oliver
Macy J. Mills
Minnie Mil's
General Assembly of Presbyterian Church
City of New York
General Assembly of
Ereapytore Church of
U. S. of America
Joseph Dillon
Josel Ditlon
Hardin
State of
Iowa
Bed .M
Point Pleasant
Moore
District Court
Iardin County
Joseph W. Stage
Josuus Allen
Atwater
John A. Wunn
Michael Sluster
Bioale
Ovrnel Hamilton Buckingham
Hamilton Buckingham
Ulery Patton
Amilton Ckinghar
Meslery Patton
Tery Patton
Daniel
Wood
Daniel C
D. C. Wood
Gilbert A Bawin
Gilbert A. Lawin
Lotitour
Oscar O. Donaldson
Jock
Brinkerhoff
Jacob
John L
John
Joseph M.conley
Michael “Zohm
Michael Yeh Hla
John Ef, Pyne
John Ffyne
John D Melson
Fitm
Joseph S
Gaid Hardin County
Thomas B Abell
Amnasa Collins
John C. Molaby
John O. Molsby
Eber Jones
Noble
Albert Mocrson
Robert C. Casebald
Wm. HB. Evans
Robert
GC. Casebolt
Wim. H. Vans
UL. W. Garrison
Louis W. Garrison
Lewis WW. Garrison
Tlole
L. W. Garrison
Lewis W Garrison
Luke
Luther Nott
Sal
Oron Lowden
Durdin
Oren Lowden
Elizzabeth Baker
Augustus Mitterer
Joseph T. Buler
Eizabeth Baker
Joseph v. Miller
Elizabeth Balermo
Rock
Oliver O. Ashton
I. G. Crookham
Moores
I. G. Grookham
Jacob Kramar
Jacob Kroamer
Oxcar O. Donaldson
Tchevier
Jacob Kramer
Nathan Frost
Nathaniel Frost
Joseph Elliott
Joseph Hillott
John Leonard
Joseph Snott
W. ‘I. Hammond
W,t. Hammond
Wm. T. Hammond
Wim ‘I. Hammond
Isaac
Mra
Saac
Youson
Aks
Smontaage
County Recorder
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Mareieee Henderson
Aaseatek Literary Press
Nataile
Annes ‘Whitmore
Cotalle
Trousseau
Coralle
Deak
Vanite
George
Anne
Jeter
Wade
Eldred
Mc Markham
Kim
Natalie Dare
Shhalfenberger
Chicago
Eldora
HOTEL
Winchester
Shallenberg
Bright
Wilbert Shallenberger
Oakwood Boulevard
Chicago, Ill
Drexel State Bank
Little Polly
Borders
Walla
Harrah & Stewart Manufacturing CO
Dea Moinen
Towa
Sat
James Scurry
F. D. Lynn
F. E. Schultz
Asit
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