New Neighbor Clive Sterling Impresses Riverview
Margery Kearney and her sisters meet Clive Sterling after he moves into The Oaks. Bertie befriends him and sketches his portrait, which Margery later tears up in embarrassment. A playful romance unfolds as Sterling befriends the girls, enjoys tennis, and earns their approval.
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Margery Kearney
Clive Sterling
Margery
Janet
Claude
Emerson
Ruskin
Bertie
Jack
Clotilde
Kearneys
Smother
Riverview
Clive Sterfing
Mamma
Mr. Sterling
Lassie
Kearney
Kitty Kearney
Twig
George
the Oaks
Kate M. Cleary
New York Ledger
Held for ransom in Australian bushranger attack
In colonial Australia, a stagecoach bound for Murray City is ambushed by four bushrangers. Five travelers including an American and four Englishmen are robbed, coerced into captivity, and held for ransom. After days of extortion, the Englishmen capitulate, while Davis and the narrator aid, Eva the child is spared. The gang is slain by the hostages and the leader killed by police at the escape site.
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Melbourne
Murray City
Murray River
Australia
Big Island
Valley of the Murray
Davis
Ile Fae
Rangers
Bush Rangers
Eva
Gal
England
Sydney
New York Sun
Alfred's Pipe and Gran'ma's Quiet Sacrifice
Gran'ma Hubbell hides her dislike of tobacco for forty years while supporting her husband as a furrier faces economic ruin. After a sheriff seals the store they part, and she clings to the old pipe. In grief she forbids touching it until a telegram brings joy and tobacco smoke fills the room again.
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Gran'ma Hubbell
Charlotte Hubbell
Alfred
Alfred Hubbell
Mr. Hubbell
Hubbell
Hudson Bay
Gran
Gran'ma
Eeek Allie
Gran’ma
Washington Post
Alligator Nests Resemble Hay Cocks in Form and Function
A St Louis Republic piece describes alligator nests as roughly four feet high and five feet in diameter built from grasses and mud, with 100 to 200 eggs laid in layers. Mothers defend and care for the brood after sun hatchings, while nests are camouflaged by trailing vegetation. A New Orleans scientist once shipped eggs to St Petersburg but they hatched en route.
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Dr. Lutzemburg
New Orleans
St. Petersburg
St. Louis Republic
Flavoring Eggs By Fragrance In Storage
A New York Commercial Advertiser note explains eggs absorb surrounding scents. Placing eggs in baskets lined with roses or violets imparts floral flavors, while storing them in barrels of straw gives them the straw flavor. This method highlights how eggs readily take on odors from their environment.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
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Orese
Mayfield Herald
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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