Miss Annes Christmas Visitors Brighten a Lonely House
Miss Anne Armstrong hosts five orphaned children at her large home after the St Elizabeths orphanage invites others to spend Christmas, and the five find they have chosen the right house. The lamp in Miss Annes window and the care by Rebecca and Peter set a new festive tone for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Elizabeth’s Orphanage
Shiver& Children
Alice Martin
Tom
John Bell
Jane Smith
Mary Moore
St. Elizabeth’s
Tom Martin
Alice
Anne
Peter
Rebecca
John
Miss Anne Armstrong
Simpkins
Miss Anne
Mrs. Simpkins
Mary
Little One
The Proletarian Who Outshone Nobles at St Peter’s Gate
A fable where a plutocrat aristocrat scientist and pugilist journey through social ranks at a trade hall a colonial mansion a university and a stadium. In a deadly stadium crush the proletarian saves lives and is killed. At the gates of St Peter the four are rejected while he is admitted revealing true worth over birth or wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter
Pugilist
Percival Blueblood
Bath
B. Games Pott & Co
London Stone legend linked to Brutus and Troy origin
The article recalls London Stone in Cannon Street near the Bank of England as the city’s oldest masonry. Legends tie it to Brutus and Troy, and it is seen as London’s palladium. Historians note it may have been a Roman milestone marking Watling Street.
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London
Cannon Street
Bank of England
England
Europe
Homer
St. Swithin’s
Troy
Brutus
Diana
Rome
Watling Street
Maitland
Stow
Anecdote of Success from a Chicago Editor
A Chicago editor praised Melville E. Stone for loving his work at the Associated Press. He contrasted Stone with an Australian boy in Perth who delayed reporting a family murder and suicide to Perth papers, noting such sensationalism would have harmed the press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melville E. Stone
Chicago
Stone
Associated Press
New York
Perth
Mr. Stone
Park Row
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Retty
By Lena M.mccauley
Skbelt Loomis
Old London
St. Paul's
Royal Exchange
Christ
Jack Cade
Mortimer
Earl of March
London Stone
Christopher Wren
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Swithin'’s
Thomas Maiden
Sherbourne Lane
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