Wealthy Englishman’s daughter seeks escape from planned remarriage
Beryl Lindon, daughter of the rich Eustace Lindon, fears a stepmother and a loveless future after her father announces an imminent marriage to Miss Maunders. With no relatives to turn to, she leaves Elchester Square for a seaside school, hoping to shape a safer life away from her father’s secret past and a coerced union.
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England
London
Beryl Lindon
Beryt
Brussels
Tate
Beryl
Elchester Square
Mr. Linden
Berets
Mire
Markham
Eustace Lindon
Chester Square
Bey
EL - Dt
Mrs. Markham
Papa Uever
Mamme
Papa
America
Brighton
Doctor Burgess
Sehost
Tenner
Beethill-on Sea
Isa
Lindon
Invaluabe Grass and Its Alleged Value in Chinaman Life
Fragmentary OCR note discusses an "invaluable grass" said to supply a Chinese life from cradle to coffin and to yield precious stones. It mentions a mineral component of lime or silica and potash, claimed to be formed in the plant’s tissues, with references to diseases and a London Mail remark.
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London Mail
Fatal Saloon Shootout In Vergonges Illinois
A quartet of men drank in Riley Crain’s saloon near Vergonges eight miles from Morphy’s Bar on Christmas Day. Charles Fox quarreled with James Davidson and was later shot in the chin. a second shot wounded bystander Willard Pyatt who is dying. The Davidson brothers were tracked by a posse and shot by John Tippy and Zanne Craine, one hit in the right eye and the other in the right shoulder.
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Byulasder
Vergonges
Morphysboro
Joe
James
Davidson
Riley Craine
Charles Fox
Fox
James Davidson
Joe Davidson
Willard Pyatt
Davidson Brothers
John Tippy
Zanne Craine
Miss Grace Giller Abducted From Whitehall Home
Miss Grace Giller, 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Giller and senior in high school, was seized in her Whitehall home by Albert Shenkel who choked her and assaulted her before robbing her. Shenkel was arrested an hour later and jailed at Carrollton to avert a threatened lynching. The article also covers related legal cases and a state insurance inquiry in Springfield.
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Grace Giller
Whitehall
Albert Shenkel
Presbyterian Church
Tess Tudh
Shenkel
Carrollton
Miss Giller
C. H. Giller
Planis
Schenkel
A. J. Allen
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Allorney Sullivan
Railroad Consolidation Rumor Across Major Lines
Charleston, reports say Toledo St Louis and Western Clover Leaf Missouri Pacific Jima Northern and Ohio Southern railroads may consolidate. President Norton of Clover Leaf could lead the new system W E Tremp master mechanic at Frankfort Ind to join Missouri Pacific Supt G A Gehring to oversee the entire network, potentially over 6000 miles.
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Charleston
Toledo, St. Louis and Western
Missouri Pacific
Jima Northern
Ohio Southern
Norton
Clover Leaf
W. E. Tremp
Frankfort
Ind
Missour Pacific
G. A. Gehring
Charfeston
Minors Teachers Assemble In Springfield Meeting
The Illinois State Teachers Association held its annual session in Springfield across Wednesday to Friday with 1,900 educators attending. Morning sessions met in Representatives Hall, afternoons in the state house and at Springfield High School, as new officers were elected Friday morning. Accuses Wrong Man of Murder in Warrensburg Case. Merrill Wakefield, arrested in Decatur for the Dick Bivens killing, is released after the coroner's jury absolves him. Anderson Burnside is declared guilty and has fled.
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Illinois State Teachers’ Association
Springfield
Representatives’ Hall
State House
Springfield High School
Mornolng
Merrill Wakefield
Decatur
Dick Bivens
Warrensburg
Anderson Burnside
Burnside
Fragmented Social Philosophy Aphorisms
A garbled column of social philosophy with fragmented proverbs and stray quotes. It weaves themes of hate, love, hustle, wisdom, economy, and marriage with numerous misspellings and nonsensical lines.
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CEPR
T. I. Seed
Jalen
Ot H A
Vom Con Vite
Bie
Illinois
Itiself
Avneal Lessen
Bortugield
Giel
Mar Ocll
Mutual Late Insurance Company of
Ilinois
New York
van Cleave
Il- Movis
Rim
S. M. Ribbison
Sfiwe
Exvy
Inter Ocean
Inter Ocear
West
S. G. Lewis
F. Sumner
Attorneya and Counsellors At Law
Samner
F. Breen
Lawrenceettie
Itmne
Herald One
J. MH. Bosart
Notary Public
Trasurance and Tear Argent
Emaer
J.T. Dollahan
Suaner, Tlinote
Social Philosophy
Heaven
Assooston
Boston
Chapman
Elve
Gchicago
Sir. Atiat
St. Louis Globe-Dem
Chicago
Cincinnati Gazette
Cincinnat Engther
Century Magazine
St. Nicholas
Demorest’s Magazine
Harper’s Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Young Pe
Toledo Blade
St Louis
Phi
St. Louis
Louisville
Pittsburg
Baltimore
B&o Faw
Popo
Be &F
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Vle
Cooymaure &Ranting
Moyes Raates
The
Scientific American
Erie
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