Margaret Leckie Defies Father To Teach
Margaret, educated abroad by her father John Leckie, rejects a housekeeper role and aims to lead in teaching. She takes charge of district school No. 16, faces discipline issues, and meets Homer Graydon, whose influence could alter her fate. The tale follows her struggle between family pressure and personal ambition amid social norms.
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Margaret
John Leckie
Baying
Leckie
Mia
Jenking
Leekie
Teckle
Harriet
Crayston
Wertecester County
Bfe
Margaret Leckie
Dletriet School
Billy Dobwen
Homer Graydon
Graydon
Navy laureate Jamon Connolly joins the Alabama as yeoman
James B. Connolly, famed American sea writer, enlists as a yeoman in the navy and serves on the battleship Alabama in the West Indies and the Philippines. He enters the service at President Roosevelts personal request and may later write naval tales like his fishing stories. Connolly, a Harvard man and Gloucester native, rises from Olympic athlete to naval author.
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Pierce
Nly
TD K. V. Pierce
Buffalo
Pieter
Jamon B. Connolly
Kipling
United States
Hgsters
James B. Connolly
Alabama
Navy
Navy Department
Connolly
Gloucester
Grand Banks
Roosevelt
Mr. Connolly
Rudyard Kipling
Mr. Roosevelt
New England
Aristide Briand New French Statesman in Spotlight
Article profiles Aristide Briand, French minister of public worship, noting his rise from relative obscurity to international prominence over church and state separation issues. Describes his age, background in parliamentary committees, and role in shaping the separation bill while maintaining socialist views without extremism.
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France
M. Aristide Briand
Aristide Driaxomittees
Bin
Seearing St Douksage
Socialist Party
Probate filing in King Zilpha estate case in Michigan
Judicial notice announces the estate of Marcos King and Zilpha King, asking for appointment of a guardian or executor. The court orders publication for three consecutive weeks and sets the hearing date for January 9, 1919, at ten o’clock in the forenoon. The notice appears in the county court records with clerk Seaver signing as probate judge.
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State OF Michigan
Peoware Cupar
Searer
Marcos
Zilpha
Feeakd County
Seaver
Igen
Piotate
Celery King Promoted Despite Imitation Teas Warning
Cautionary note warns against imitation celery teas offered with Celery King medicine. Readers are urged to avoid cheap counterfeit products that may harm health. Celery King itself is advertised at 25 cents and claimed to never disappoint.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets for Busy People
An early 20th century advertisement touts Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets and related patent remedies for colon cleansing and cold relief. It promotes Dr Colwell's Pile Cure and Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as household tonics sold by Chas Rhodes in Madison Wisconsin, with a money back guarantee on the pile cure and bold claims of rapid symptom relief.
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Colwell
Chas, Rhoades
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Golton Health
Rinsey Troubles
Preverna
Sapam Roweln
Howsarin
4Ocuueren Daca Comrasy
Madison
Lourem
Kennedy
Chas
Rhodes
Kennerly
Chas, Rhodes
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Promises Quick Relief
A scientific wonder Bucklen's Arnica Salve is praised for curing E. R. Mulford of piles and healing burns cuts sores and ulcers. The ad claims it treats wounds chilblains and salt rheum and notes availability at Sharrar's drug store for 25 cents.
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Bucklen
E. R. Mulford
Patrons of Husbandry
Waynesboro
Sharrar's
Advert for Foley’s Honey and Tar and Kennedy’s Laxative
An old advertisement touts Foley’s Honey and Tar as a quick remedy for inflamed lungs and pneumonia symptoms from a hard cold. It also promotes Kennedy’s Laxative for coughs and endorses Pine-ules with ingredients from pine forests, sold by Geo. E. Sharer.
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Foley
Geo. Sharrar
Geo. E. Sharer
Dean's Regulars Offer Mild Regulation of Bowels
A fragment discusses positive claims about the Dean's Regulars and their results as “they act mildly and regulate the bowels perfectly.” It notes a book sale at Repubis office offering teachers' contracts at moderate price and advises school directors to remember this.
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Geo. B. Krause
Walnut Ave
Altoona, Pa
Repubis
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Meat Man
Alma
Estre Serge Fertycie
Ken-Ox Remedy Company
Detroit
Mich
Stannard’s Central Drug Store
Som Amd
Shoop
Dr. Shoop
E. Sharrar
Yed
Poratcos
J. L. Miller
W. E Wilber
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Atlas Soap
Toliet
Tae
Atlas Soap Works
Saginaw
Michigan
Hirron
Majeatic Big
M. M. Cunningham
M, Aristide Briand
la Grippe
Geo, Sharrar
Oneida
Newhouse
Ned
Tre
Munter
Vents Scragg
Harding Fur. CO
Columbus
Ohte
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