Pups, Daisy, and Rosaline at Rose Hill Farm
Five new puppies at Rose Hill Farm share Miss Daisy affection until a quarrel with a new doll named Rosaline ends with the pups plotting a daring mischief. Jane intervenes, Daisy reflects, and rebalances attention to all, uniting pups and Rosaline in care and play.
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Rose Hill Farm
Wood House
Miss Daisy
Farmer Osree
Dolly
Humpty
Abe
Rufus
Tyrrell
England
Pew
Miss Dalay
Haslo
Daisy
Peta
Jane
Rosaline
Pape
Hosaline
Dumpty
Nike
Rofus
Little Dick
Country Cousin Joins the Stafford Family Meet Cute
Ross Stafford meets Adele Chester at Chicago Union Depot after a case of mistaken meeting. A playful, affectionate courtship unfolds among the Stafford clan as Adele’s presence sweeps the house. Ralph and Dick react with humor, while Henry worries about appearances as romance blossoms into engagement and a forthcoming wedding.
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George
Stafford
Godfrey Chest
Henry
Deaming Paterfamilias
Chester
Chicago
New York
Ralph
Ralpte
Mewberry Library
Henry Stafford
Mia
Fafford
Ross
Union Depot
Ross Stafford
Denver
Brigham
Miss Chester
House of Stafford
Stafford Senior
Mias
Adele Chester
Rose
Helen Stafford
Helen
Rosas
Disk
Miss Chester Pie
Hoss
Rons
Hire
Rich Men Greed and Botton Shell Industry Rise Prompt Change
A New York Press writer argues for laws forcing aging millionaires to retire from business to free opportunities for youth. The Botton shell industry along the upper Mississippi has surged, with about 5 000 people earning livelihoods from shell gathering. Counts near La Crosse and Dubuque show increasing workers as button factories spread to Muscatine and nearby towns, with steamboats dedicated to towing shells.
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New York Press
Botton
Mississippi River
Gen. Barnard
la Crosse
Wis
Clarkesville
Dubuque
Muscatine
Tale of Two Shirts and a Soldier’s Theft
A discharged soldier returning from the Philippines recalls a tale from The Argonaut about a man who helped himself to two shirts drying on a residence line beside a large stone church. A woman warned him of judgment day, and he quipped that with such credit he would take both shirts.
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Union Depot
Jehu
Ross Stafford
Athletic Club
Philippines
Yale Graduates 1895 99 By Region And Profession
Of Yale University graduates from 1895 to 1899 only 29 percent hailed from New England while 88 percent came from the middle Atlantic states and 22 percent from the north central states with seven percent from the South. A notable share pursue business careers with one third entering business and another third taking up the law as the century began few became beacons of fame.
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Yale University
New England
Middle Atlantic States
North Central States
South
Bea ‘Noms
Crusade Against English Sparrows A Wakefield Plan
Rufus Hendrick started a local drive in Wakefield to reduce English sparrows. With boy helpers, he reports 6,000 birds and 6,500 eggs destroyed. A $30 start funded the effort, with 8 cents per bird and $1 per hundred eggs offered as rewards. Funds were soon exhausted, then replenished.
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Rufus Hendrick
Wakefield
Boston Transcript
Turkey’s PeeX-Door Reform Sparks Back Door Gibe
A snarky note claims Turkish reforms vanish at the back door with only a single dynamo in Constantinople passing the customs house and washing machine. The TeeRaga of authorities avoided the rest, preserving limited changes.
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Turkey
Constantinople
Wolseley to resign as commander in chief
The New York Press reports rumors that Field Marshal Lord Wolseley plans retirement amid discontent with England's military leadership in South Africa and China. The piece mentions calls to replace him with the popular “Bob” as war leaders debate hair and facial color as distractions.
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Wolseley
England
South Africa
China
Lord Wolseley
Lord ‘Wolseley
Boba
Woman mall carrier proves a lone mail rider on fifty two mile route
The piece notes Mr Sarah M Burke of St Johns Anna as the country’s only woman mall carrier and the only one who routinely hauls mail over more than fifty miles of wild Indian inhabited terrain. Burke makes two weekly round trips between Johns and Jimtown Aziz carrying revolvers for protection. She rides about 208 miles weekly alone, except when a prospector or cattle buyer accompanies her.
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Sarah M. Burke
St. Johns
Anna
Mechanical Man Stands 7 Foot 8 In High marvel of Tonawanda maker
Louis Perew of Tonawanda New York claims nine years of effort yield a mechanical figure seven feet eight inches tall. The windup figure wears special clothing and a wax face and can walk fast and haul heavy loads when connected to a engine. The inventor plans to use it as both showpiece and utility. Charles Watson and wife of Jackson township DeKalb county celebrate sixty years on their farm and their sixty-seventh wedding anniversary.
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Louis Perew
Tonawanda
Peraw
Charles ‘Watson
Jackson Township
DeKalb County
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Mra
Mix
Lloyd MiMin
Independent
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Anon
Adele
Chicago Tribune
Philip of
Macedon
Carr
Norrow
Francisco Brashella
Eurrope
Brashella
Hoe
Miss Burke
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