Not Engaged After All A Glib Ruse
A hapless narrator confronts Edna over an engagement that never was amid a comic tangle of rings, wages, and motives. Edna reveals she is already engaged to Mr Ketchum, and the pair part with sharp wit and a plan to exploit the ruse for advantage, ending with a future marriage to the daughter.
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To a Child Frow by Sophie Jewett In Scribner's
Poem fragment reflecting a tender moment where a child calms fears and brings peace, guiding the speaker through a dreamlike hour. The verse evokes nature imagery from a green forest and a transforming heart, suggesting renewal and shelter provided by the child's presence.
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Sophie Jewett
Scribner's
Diamond Lateral Claim Sparks Self-Commitment Note
A fragment notes a real diamond lateral and a statement that it was not bought on instalment terms, followed by a remark about securing personal commitment despite that stance. The text presents a personal financial assertion without broader context or identifiable parties.
New Care for Tight Doors and Drawers in Furniture
A downtown furniture dealer offers simple fixes for stubborn drawers and doors. Rub soap on wood surfaces to ease movement and prevent varnish wear, especially on new pieces and in spring. For dull waxy finishes on mission furniture, apply floor wax or beeswax to restore smoothness, or use a squid remover to prep surfaces before reapplication.
Vegetable Millinery at Ocean Grove Statue Unveiling
At Ocean Grove unveiling of the bronze statue of Dr. E H Stokes a Methodist minister praised his modesty and humor. He recalled Stokes joking about fashions, telling a hat story about large hats adorned with cherries beans and grapes and a man hearing a knock at his door with a vegetable bearing remark.
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Burmuio Enquirer
The Business Lie and the Call for Honest Trade
The speaker denounces the "business lie" in modern commerce. He condemns fraudulent advertising and false claims that deceive consumers and contaminate food and army stores. He argues these acts stem from covetous self interest and must end for social and commercial reform.
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F. R. Keighley
Windsor
Learning to Walt in the House Keeper
A lyrical meditation on growing up and time's passage as youth stands at life’s gateway. The poem reflects on patience, love, and the ache of awaiting future milestones while the speaker watches youths and adults face entwined promises and losses. It attributes the piece to Irene Pomeroy Shields in the House Keeper column.
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Wuttle
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Ireno Pomeroy Shields
In the Rush of 1950 Dairy Plant Tour
A dairy owner shows a visitor around his plant explaining the vast milking system. Cows are milked by machinery and milk travels via an underground conduit to a central reservoir reaching distant points. He notes a drawback: no cream is produced and separation cannot be done on site.
Trade notes show growing demand and cash needs in Chicago market
The Chicago weekly trade review reports heavy activity across fall and winter staples, with higher bank loan demand and currency absorption for crop making. Railroad earnings rise from freight, livestock receipts gain while grain shipments decline. iron ore and lumber up. dairy and hides mixed. 18 failures in Chicago district this week, down from last year.
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Chicago
Weekly Review of Chicago
R. J. Dun &I Co
Dismiss Tanner From Army In-pay Dispute Fallout
San Francisco reports Lieut W Tanner son of Corporal Tanner and recent Grand Army commander-in-chief arrived from Manila to find a dispatch ordering his dismissal from the Army over pay account troubles. Tanner denies the charge, insisting a different Tanner is involved. A Washington dispatch notes some court findings were disapproved, sparing him from dismissal. Also reports a rail wreck near Huntingburg Indiana injuring fifteen mildly, and a German Emperor donation to Calabria quake victims in Italy.
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Murderer Escapes Hanging in Walla Walla
A man convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death has been allowed to remain in jail, with the hanging postponed for nearly three years amid ongoing legal delays and appeals in Walla Walla.
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Wash
Jal
French Explorer Bragza Dies in Dakar Dispatch
Paris reports Comte de Bragza, the noted French explorer, has died in Dakar French West Africa, with the death confirmed by a telegraphic dispatch dated Sept. 18.
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Dakar
French West Africa
Comte de Bragza
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted for tumor cure
Advertorial claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures uterine tumors and related menstrual symptoms. Includes patient letters from Fannie D Bradford Pa and Luella Adams Seattle Wash praising tumor disappearance after treatment. Notes advisory contact and a North Saxony ordinance unrelated trivia follows.
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Pinkham
Lydia FE
Luella Adams
Colonnade Hotel
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Wash
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