Chestnut Stream Sparks Love After Accidental Shot
Dolly Meserve and a hunter at a back lot chestnut tree share a near tragedy when a misfired shot wounds Dolly lightly. The young hunter volunteers aid and a village doctor tends her, sparking a courtship that ends with a marriage proposal. The tale closes with a moral from Lord Macaulay on maternal memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Clay
Aasociates Literary
Dolly Meserve
Dolly Wheank
Gianc Mor
Dolly
Miss Dolly
Miss Dolly Meserve
Dr. Smith
Will Batley
Batley
Scotts
Brother Sam
America
Lord Macaulay
Dream of Billionaire Artist's Garden of Art
A New York artist in West Sixty-seventh dreams of starting an institution funded by a colossal fortune. He imagines using two billion dollars more to support artists and raise art standards worldwide, despite his attorney’s attempt to stop the speculation. The dream ends with a wakeful reminder of debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stern
C ‘Ony
New York
Children games and shadow plays from a school manual
The text describes classroom activities for children including singing lessons, teacher swaps in a musical chair style game, a sea and sea shell circle game, and shadow picture plays. It also includes short humorous pieces about conundrums, a lost boy, and a hunting tale, concluding with a stray news item.
Free Column Classifieds for Farmers and Stock Sales
A rural free column lists sales and wants from subscribers. Items include 200 bushels of corn, 75 gallons sorghum molasses, two Berkshire sows with piglets, two tons of hay, 300 bushels seed rye, 30 stock ewes and a buck, 15 sheep, Rhode Island roosters and pullets, and a request for agri goods advertising. Names and locations appear with several Rt. addresses and towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Tucker
Rt. 2
John Deboe
Rt. 4
Onn Grama
C. L. Brady
Plymouth
R. B. Cregor
Lebanon
Rt. 3
Deboe
Gale
W. D. Claybrooke
Gibbs & Birch
Springfield
Sam Tucker
Rhode Island
Minister Endorses Chamberlain's Diarrhoea Remedy
Methodist pastor from Biles Grove endorses Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, praising its effectiveness after years of use. He notes buying a bottle recently and commits to recommending it whenever possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
R. R. Brooks
Iterai
M. E. Church
Biles Grove
Pat Eer
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Abe
Gil
Kind
May
Chidires Teo
Regalir Pl
Audienc
Michigan
small-Edgar
Edgar
Milster
Sydney
Bydney
ABC
Seymour Eaton
Philadelphia
Associated Press Dispatch
Oklahoma
Texas
Chicago
Matey
Home Sewing Machine Company
Orange
Mass
Ed M. Russell
Lebanon-Springfield
Sun Way
Spraaa
S. J. Moran
Rt. 1
King Comstock
B. D. Lake
Orpington
Redgeton
National Sewing Machine
Belvidere
Illinois
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