Suspects Oscar Bennett’s attack on Polly Hopkins and Lamb
Marcus MacKenzie confronts Daddy Hopkins after Polly’s plea. Oscar Bennett's violent clash ends with Polly's lamb killed and Bennett defeated. Polly vows to help the Silent City while MacKenzie seeks to rally squatters to his plan to break up the settlement and burn the shacks.
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Jeremiah
Marcus
Jerry
Pollyop
MacKenzie
Hopkins
Crook
Polly
Brat
Larry
Marc
Wee
Marcus ‘MacKenzie
Squatters and Intrigue in the Silent City Near Ithaca
In a dilapidated shack near Ithaca Polly and her father with squatters endure threats from Marcus MacKenzie who seeks to drive them off his land. Evelyn Robertson and her secret husband Oscar Bennett clash over wealth and love while Robert Percival Hare plots aid for the squatters. Polly allies with Percival as tensions mount and forbidden affairs unfold.
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Oscar Bennett
Granny Hope
Evelyn
Marcus MacKenzie
Bennett
Polly Hopkins
MacKenzie
Oscar
Pollyop
Jong
Pilyop
Plone
Tye
Polly
Nanny Hopkins
Nannyop
Wee Jerry
Miss Poll Hopkins
Jerry
Red Cross
Percival
Ray
Silent City
Ithaca
New ‘York
Hopkins
Small Jerry
Evelyn Robertson
Robertson
Robert Percival
Larry Bishop
MacKensie
Untouched Western Canada Land Draws Settlers and Investors
A speaker relates crossing into No Man's Land and discovering vast fertile soil. He describes farming 480 acres at Lowe-farm, yielding crops equal in value to land cost multiple times. Comparing favorably with Indiana and other states, he cites low machine prices and wheat at 1.15, plus rail access and hog and stock opportunities, urging buyers to consider Western Canada with government agents.
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Lowe-farm
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota
Canada
The Privileged Ones
The narrator quotes an economic investigator on middle class hardship and Mr. Chuggins remarks that a man of mid wealth status, between private car and flivver, cannot tour as freely and spend summers in Florida and winters in Maine.
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Mr. Chuggins
Florida
Maine
Woman readers urged to check kidney and bladder health
An appeal notes thousands of women suffer kidney or bladder trouble often misattributed to other causes. It touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy for kidneys liver and bladder with offers for a sample bottle by mail and options to buy larger sizes at drug stores. The ad closes with a quote from Thomas Huxley.
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Kilmer’s
Health Ad Claims Favorite Prescription Heals Nervous Women
Mrs Helen Bennett of Wenger Street shares that Favorite Prescription cured her sister who doctors had given up on. The ad urges quick nervous strength boost and promotes tablet or liquid forms available at all druggists.
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Pierce
Helen Bennett
Mary Bird and family visit grandam as song ends
Mary Bird five visited their mamma and aunt Jane in a rustic moment. Mary B della sang with mamma joining the refrain, and Jane remarked that the record was scratched.
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Mary Bird
Mamma
Mary B
Della
Jane
Berry
Cuticura Advertisement Promises Relief for Skin Irritation
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness roughness or itching. It advises applying the ointment then bathing with Cuticura and hot water, rinsing, drying, then dusting with Cuticura Talcum for a pleasant fragrance. Each item costs 25 cents.
Omission on Eye Medicine Question in Doctor Visit
A young lady asks if to drop the eye medicine before or after metals during a telephone conversation. The doctor responds asking for clarification, noting uncertainty about the correct timing. The fragment mentions the proverb novil thing is success and no good thing is failure unrelated to the medical query.
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Cornell
Women of Middle Age Find Relief Through Dorothy Pinkham’s Remedy
A Philo Pennsylvania resident shares relief from the changes of life through Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She describes years of weakness dizziness and headaches before using the remedy and reports improved energy and ability to perform household work.
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Philo
Lydis E.pinkham
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Dexter
Ray Dexter
Robert
Robert Kut
Chila
Daddy -Hopkins
Alli
Granny _ Hope
Daddy Hopkins
Poly
Thomas Huxley
Kman
Leararte Ig Seston
C.e-Lively & CO
Pimns Aks
Territo
Blossom Road
Les
SPE Yvison Company
Clevielan
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