The Stratagem of Old Man Wimpole’s Marriage
In Tuxtree, the bachelor old man Wimpole advertises for a daughter to care for him. Amelia Jarragh accepts the ruse and gradually gains control, driving changes at his home. The climax reveals Amelia already married to Jim Wimpole, leaving the old man stunned.
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Wimpole
Tuxtree
Mr. Stiles
Daffy
Winpole
Miss Higginson
Miss Gras
Miss Follows
Amelia Jarragh
Miss Amelia
Jim Wimpole
Make
Will
Littlewood
Amelia
Mliss Amiclia
Old Man Widipole
Amita
Hi Hat
Aelig
Wimpele
Winvole
Amela
Vin Geidis
Wimnole
Elephant Butte Dam Victory Marked By Last Cement Pour
The Elephant Butte dam near Elephant Butte New Mexico completes as the largest storage reservoir in the American reclamation service. It will hold 65 billion gallons and surpasses Boston New York combined storage, with 12 passages for power irrigation and stuicing. Ora McDermith explains the Rio Grande project links Mesilla El Paso valleys and Mexican water use under a 1906 convention.
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Elephant
New Mexico
Elephant Butte
American Reclamation Service
Rio Grande
Boston
New York
Assuan
Egypt
Delaware
Globe
Texas
Ora McDermith
the Rio Grande
Reclamation Service
Mesilla
Mesilla Park
Mesilla Valley
el Paso
Tex
Sonora
Gulf of California
Mexico
Paso del Norte
Juarez
Palmos
Rincon
Leiden
Leasburg
United States
European War Recap From One Year Ago This Week
A year-old war roundup notes French capture Ablain-Saint-Nazaire after a three week battle. Heavy fighting in Russian Baltic provinces. Italians reach the Isonzo and seize towns but are repulsed at Caporetto and near Plava. Venice bombed by Austrian planes. French gains at multiple French and Alsace locations. Russian San crossings fail. Cortina and Stry battles. Turks seize Allied trenches at ANZAC coast. Zeppelins raid London with fires.
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Ablain-St. Nazaire
Isonzo
Caporetto
Plava
France
Alsace
San
Przemys
Cortina
Avi Burnu
America
Lusitania
Crouchez
Carency
Strytalians
Gallipoli
French Hold Souchez as Teutons Attack French Lines
In fierce fighting at Souchez the French defend as Teutons press under heavy fire. Austro German forces claim Stry and Przemysl forts are stormed. Serbia renews operations against Austria as British repulse a major Gallipoli assault at Gaba Tepe. The British steamer Saidieh is torpedoed without warning.
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Gaba Tepe
Gallipoli
Saidieh
Germans recapture Souchez sugar mill and more to report
Germans recaptured the Souchez sugar mill while British forces stormed Chateau Hooge with bayonet. Reims endured renewed bombardment as Italians held Monte Nero ridge in Friuli. A British submarine sank a German transport in the Sea of Marmora.
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Souchez
Reims
Monte Nero
Friuli
Sea of Marmora
Terrific fighting near Arras and Scuchez
Terrific fighting described in reports near Arras and Scuchez with heavy artillery and infantry clashes. In Transalpine theaters Przemysl reportedly captured by Austro-German forces. Alarm over multiple sea losses due to German submarine activity across European waters.
German Push Regains Givenchy Trenches and Ga prefix Front
German forces from the east renewed a drive to retake the Givenchy trenches and the Cha teau Hooge as severe fighting raged along the Galician front. A combined general assault targeted Turkish Gallipoli positions while several ships were sunk by mines and a Zeppelin raid on the English coast. Germany expressed regret over the accidental torpedoing of a ship in the Gulf flight area.
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Gallipoli
Germany
Gulflight
Gathered Here and There Summary of Industrial and Health Facts
A collage of 1910s facts notes steam brick production of eighteen thousand per ten hours and banana ripening in a 110 degree room. It cites a Philadelphia campaign to train 40 000 citizen soldiers and compares tuberculosis death rates across New York Philadelphia and Boston, showing a decline from 1882 to 1914. It also mentions a pier plant and a potato yield comparison to wheat and ends with a fragment about granite and Pike’s eye.
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Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Woman Credits Pinkham Remedy With Restoring Health
Mrs. Wi. Green of Indianapolis states her health improved after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes severe weakness and low weight before treatment, then gains to 133 pounds in five months and resumed household duties. She urges other women to try the remedy and invites questions to the Lynn Mass company.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Lydia E. ‘Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Wi. Green
Addison Street
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Record Ad Claim Would Last as Long as Dance Floor
A manufacturer asks for a slogan to show durability of phonograph records. An ad man puffs a cigarette and proposes a line promising that one of their dance records will outlast the finest hardwood dancing floor.
Epilepsy Medicine Trial Promises Lasting Results
A Red Bank New Jersey company advertises Dr Kline's epilepsy medicine with claims of rapid relief and uninterrupted success. A large trial bottle is offered free as a guarantee of efficacy.
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Dr. Kline
Lange
Eline Company
Red Bank
N. J
Adva
No Lack of Rations Returned Soldier Dialogue
A returned soldier recalls a shell blowout on a ration wagon as a sympathetic woman notes their hunger. The soldier quips that enemy shells supplied them with perforations and lacerations, highlighting wartime sacrifice and danger.
Red Cross Ball Blue Endorsed by Millions of Women
An advertising note claims millions of women use and recommend Red Cross Ball Blue. It urges shoppers to ask grocers for the product.
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Red Cross
All Grocers
Adv
Blushing Brides and the Subdued Lords of Creation
A humorous exchange features Saffron Long quipping that brides blush because they worry how they will subdue their husbands after the ceremony. The wagon's tongue quote adds a wry, social-media style note about talk behind the scenes.
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Saffron Long
Lords of Creation
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Elephant Butte Dam
Venice
Teutons
Przemysl
Stry
Chateau Hooge
Arras
Scuchez
San Marino
Austria
Givenchy
Bright
Dean
Harrison Levi
Nas Sexton St
Rushville
Ind
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N
Carter
Borer
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