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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1918
Page
8
Philip Wentworth, blind from measles, travels into a village where a telegraph mix up leads to a mistaken time and a chance meeting with Helen. After weeks in hospital, he hides his feelings until Helen’s brother, Lieutenant Dick, reveals their bond. A hospital cure and new love follow.
In a village near old Panama Hal McCraig confesses a first love for Juanita, a girl of mixed color, prompting Dick Warsworth to challenge his feelings and remind him of family prejudice as they reflect on possible marriage and social constraints.
Hal and Dick depart the tropical camp with plans to return north, while Hal confesses a wish to stay. They visit Juanita, admire her beauty, and Nip a future with her is hinted as her father questions Hal about his intentions.
Hal confronts an elder about a girl he raised claiming she is white and his daughter. The old man asserts she is Spanish descent and as white as Hal, revealing a tangled history from the Canal era and northern settlers. Hal declares he will return to retrieve her.
Elsie Emms narrates a wedding tale where Hal marries Juanita in the tropics. He returns from Washington with a Canal Zone post as Dick serves as best man. Five years later their son bids goodnight as Hal joins a quiet worship under tom tom drums and a tropical sky.
A devoted mother recalls winters of waiting as Dean plans a May trip to see Guy and Gladys, the couple with their child. Years of separation, a stern father, and a quiet longing frame a tale of sacrifice, debt, and fragile family ties in a modest home.
A wife saves every penny of her allowance to buy house and baby goods for her son and daughter in law. She plans a holiday trip with Dean Stanifer, carrying a hundred dollars for the children, only to lose the bag in transit, realizing too late that her saved funds are gone.
A stern man comforts Mary, asking her not to cry over a lost sum. He vows to share a large amount for their son and admits past selfishness. He pledges to become a better father and husband as they sit together on a hopeful spring day.
A doodle of various early 20th century home science notes covers stump burning methods with a novel air draft device, earthquake frequency observations, forest product uses for tent pins, fountain pen filling trick, reversible shirt cuffs, radiator shutter for cars, chicken feed from sand crabs, spark plug cleaner, and a Metropolitan Life statistics snippet on deaths and ages, plus paper from twine and a bottle handle idea.
A. Scientist describes a stout tool with a neck grasp and a handle for bottle storage, plus a new trouble truck designed for auto repair shops to lift and move damaged cars. The article notes rapid horse training via trumpet signals and a vibrating pusher aiding locomotive firemen by sliding coal toward the tender.
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