Wardville Rivalry Ends In Small Town Romance
Vera Dane visits Wardville where a local contest awards a five hundred dollar piano to the most popular girl. Rose Tyler, the dressmaker’s daughter, wins after Rose gains aid from Vera’s circle, while Blanche Ridgeley’s elitist stance falters. Gerald Wynne asks Vera for advice about love, and Vera reveals she is engaged to Robert Layton. Vera and Gerald’s friendship leads to a marriage between Vera and Rose’s ally, concluding the tale.
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Vera Dane
Wardville
Olga Wolcott
Olga
Blanche Ridgeley
Vera
Tose Tyler
Miss Tyler
Andy
Ridgéley
Miss Ridgeley
Ridgeley
Rose Tyler
Rose
Wolcott
Gerald Wynne
Gerald
Tove
Robert Layton
Layton
Early Day Missionary Titus Coan Life Sketch
Titus Coan born February 1 1801 in Killingworth Connecticut shaped by tutoring and early teaching. He studied at Auburn Theological Seminary graduating 1833, then became a Congregational minister and Hawaiian Islands missionary who died December 1 1882 at Hilo. He converted over 14000 natives and explored Hawaii to Marquesas and Gilbert islands while publishing key works on volcanology and life in Hawaii.
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Titus Coan
Killingworth
Conn
Auburn
N. Y
Boston Board of Missions
Patagonia
Coan
Hawaiian Islands
Hilo
Hawaii
Marquesas
Gilbert Islands
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Time Card Walter Anthony praises secretary’s piano joke
Walter Anthony, once a music critic, observes his secretary Jean typing with nimble fingers and quips she would be good on the piano. Jean replies the typewriter has one edge over piano it doesn’t require keeping time.
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Walter Anthony
Walter
Jean
Los Angeles Times
First Month Names of Hebrew Sacred Year and Aleph
The text explains Ablb and Nissan as the initial month names of the Hebrew sacred year, aligning with Mareh and April in the Gregorian calendar and noting it contains 80 days. It also defines Aleph as the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
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Nissan
Migration of Birds Studied by Smithsonian Expert
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secretary at the Smithsonian, argues bird migration is a complex, inherited behavior influenced by seasonal changes. He cites global field work, banding data, and diverse flight patterns across species to explain direction sense, daily versus nightly flight, altitude, speed, and the Arctic tern’s 11,000 mile twice yearly journey.
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Washington
Alexander Wetmore
Smithsonian Institution
American Ornithologists’ Union
Doctor Wetmore
Salt Lake Valley
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Pampas
Argentina
Uruguay
Buenos Aires
Arctic
Antarctic
United States
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
C. Mortensen
Denmark
Bureau of Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Manhattan Boy with Million Dollar Life Policy
Frank E B Campbell Jr, age fourteen, is reported as the most heavily insured boy in the world. His New York undertaker father secured a $1,000,000 policy for the boy, a 20 year endowment written with 37 cooperating insurance companies. Jackie Coogan holds a $50,000 policy for comparison.
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Manhattan
New York
Frank EB. Campbell, Jr
Jackie Coogan
Young Campbell
Pauper Grave Reveals Fate of Noted Physician
Berkeley physician Dr George Hillegass, once a UC California graduate and civic figure, resurfaced as a pauper. Taken from a Utica NY grave in 1925, his body was to be moved to the San Francisco Bay region for burial. His story spans 1913 disappearance, Philadelphia probate links, and Oakland family searches.
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Berkeley
Calif
America
Utica
N. Y
George Hillegass
San Francisco Bay Region
Hillegass
California
Cucea
Michael Hillegasy
Great Britain
Michael Hillegass
University of California
Oakland
Berkeley Avenue
Philadelphia
Elmira A. Boullet
Fred. Peterson
Chocolate Bunnies Inspire Morning Grocery Quest
Grandpa Jack Rabbit recounts a village morning trip for lettuce interrupted by chocolate rabbits and chicken figures in a candy shop. The tale ends with the rabbits laughing at the joke, while Grandpa Andy recalls the lettuce for their luncheon.
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Daddy
Nick
Nancy
Bunny
Molly Cottontails
Jack Rabbits
Jack Rabbit
Grandpa Jack Rabbit
Grandpa
Riddles and Jokes from a Historic Paper Column
A collection of light riddle style jokes and wordplay. The items contrast swallow and cat, organist and flu, a bald head, hinges on a door, broken English in a British paper, a bankrupt list, a red reprinted page, and a worn old coat with a new army recruit.
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England
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Gertrude Sheridan
National Capitol
Capitol Building
United States of America
West Indies
Central Africa
Eurasia
First Congregational Church
Toledo
Ohio
Utica, N. Y
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