Cicely's Ordeal Ends in Hope and Love
Cicely Baring, a bright but poor banker's daughter, is drawn into a web of gambling and theft at a London social set led by Mrs. Arundel. The diamond necklace is stolen, Cicely is arrested, and suspicion falls on her. Mr. Mordaunt reveals the culprit, and the truth exposes Mrs. Arundel, clearing Cicely. Claude Arundel forgives and asks Cicely to marry him, ending the ordeal.
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Cicely
Pen Dileas
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Mr. Mordaunt
Mr. Baring
Claude Arundel
Claude
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Mrs. Arundel
John
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Ustar
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Captain Curtix
Bessie
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How the King Visits London Answers
The article details King Edward’s discreet country house visits with minimal pomp. It covers private wing arrangements, guest selection by Lord Knollys, and host duties to ensure privacy, plus carriage, arrival around six, and a ceremonial two hour dinner at nine with visiting servants and careful hosting.
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London
Edward
Lord Knollys
Buckingham Palace
Windsor
Royal Visit Etiquette And Costs Of Hosting King Edward
The article details royal hospitality rituals during King Edward's visits, noting table manners, post-dinner activities, and conversations. It covers morning walks, motor excursions, and engagement of private letters, with emphasis on privacy, etiquette, and the burden of duties. It also explains expenses for households hosting the monarch, including uniforms, redecorations, staff, music, and souvenir trees planted in estates.
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Ancheon
London
England
The Next Luxury Washington Letter on Cooling Homes
Professor Willis L Moore, Weather Bureau chief and acting agriculture secretary, predicts widespread home cooling within five years. He compares refrigeration advances for food to cooling rooms, urging practical evaporative cooling for arid western regions and noting that comfortable indoor temperatures can be achieved with modest heat removal.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Willis L. Moore
Weather Bureau
Agricultural Department
Kansas
Coast Range
Mountains
Sphinx Lore: Enigmatic Knots for Leisure Hour
Readers are invited to explore odd and ingenious knot lore in a Leisure Hour feature. Notes reference irrigation plans and point to administrator BE. R. Chadbourn of Lewiston Maine for correspondence and inquiries.
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R. Chadbourn
Lewiston
Maine
August Days Reflect a Silent Farewell
A melancholic poem recalls childhood summers and lingering memories of a lost beloved. The speaker laments the passage of time, the weight of sorrow, and a sense of impending death as August days fade into fog and memory. The verse closes with a somber reflection on enduring love and mortality.
Anagram Echoes of War and West in Breakfast Verse
A reader’s jumble of memories from travel to the East mixes scenes of city sights and a cold day with a small restaurant and unfamiliar French dishes. The piece shifts to reflections on war era life, social scenes, and a braided set of number riddles about work and play, ending with a moral urging industry and balance.
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Warback
Dorothea
Fragmented Prose and Verse Skims in a Crowded Page
The passage blends fragments of organizational vows and duties with a long eccentric poem about a castle crowd and a theatre bill. It includes dooms of ration, harmony, and leadership, interspersed with streetwise wordplay and scattered dictionary-like entries.
Alternate Deletion and a Wild West Rescue
In the early fifties a contented Scotch family settles in a remote Wild West area. The youngest child wanders while seeking a spot to plant a four, spots a large five advancing, runs to a nearby three for shelter, and a hunter fires a rifle, saving the child and guiding her back to her grateful parents.
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Wild West
Evaporation cooling and humidity in arid regions
The author discusses using evaporation to cool buildings in the West, noting that adding humidity improves comfort in dry regions and detailing how sensible temperature depends on air temperature, moisture, and wind. Experiments include flowing water cooling, windmills, and building designs, with hopes for practical portable coolers using ice and salt.
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United States
Poulation
Wanted a boy who never saw a base ball game
A Washington Post item urges finding a boy who has never witnessed baseball and cannot distinguish third base from a foul ball. It questions the usefulness of such a candidate, praising outdoor life and athletic sports and noting the value of boys active in swimming, theater, and crowds, while contrasting with a less engaged temperament.
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Washington Post
Hudson
N. Y
Corn belt buying signals brighter stock outlook
A Kansas City stockyards dealer states that farmers have begun buying cattle, indicating a shift from waiting as the interior trade eyes fall and winter activity. The Western view sees this as an end to delayed purchasing tied to the previous grain outlook and calamity.
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