Christmas Dilemmas Weave Through Titman Family Tale
In a 1916 short story, RJoun Titman faces gift anxiety at Christmas. He recalls a late uncle’s will, petty family pressures, and wonder about Miss Purdy and Miss Gray. His yearly charity impulses clash with personal hesitation and a lingering wish to please a mysterious recipient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Roberts Barton
Merture
Rjoun Titman
Bissade
Bratiers
Rene
Generis West
Tipman
Lly
Joni
Miss Purdy
John
Sawyer
Joli Lad
Miss Mardy
Ind Law
Miss Gray
Confessions of a Wife Tale of Renewal at Atlantic City
Margie Salvia regains hope after a near drowning and a pivotal talk with Malcolm Stuart on the Atlantic City pier. He urges a fresh start and reveals Margie’s hidden one million dollar pledge to help crippled children, changing their lives and future. Coraline Peddfoord to visit Wheeling as guest of Miss Mary Morean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvia
Margie
Mele Coraline Peddfoord
Wheeling
Mary Morean
DAME FASHION PREPARES FOR SPRING F AND SPRING FASHIONS
Betty Brown introduces three models in a West Virginian fashion feature at the National Cloak Sale and Show. Descriptions highlight weights, fabrics, and colors in pale tau, midnight blue, and green velvet coats with belts, embroidery, and wire panels. The preview notes upcoming spring styles and the trend toward fussy details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Brown
Simone Panne
Ue Fashion
Skiee
Chicago
Elastic truth and stretched old notes in Houston script
A fragmentary exchange about truth rising again when pressed, noting its elasticity and ease of stretching. The quirky line hints at a local host or script performance context in Houston with playful wordplay.
East Side News Holiday Travels and Local Notices
Teachers from East Side schools depart for holidays with travels to New York Ripley W VA Holidaysburg Pa and Pittsburgh among others. An elderly woman Adeline Morgan breaks her thigh after slipping on ice on Haymond Street. Christmas entertainments planned at Palatine Baptist and Diamond Street M E churches with cantatas and a First M P school program. Russell Stevens returns home after typhoid fever at Cook Hospital. Mrs Eliott of Tirriton county visits daughter Lute Brown on Diamond Street with Rev L E Olduker of Shinnston in town.
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East Side
Stella Brown
New York
Pauline Frey
Ripley
W. Va
Eliason
Holidaysburg
Viola McElfresh
Elliott Springer
Pittsburgh
Florence Wagner
Grafton
Myron Spellman
Bruceton Mills
Hustead
Adeline Morgan
Jacobs' Street
Haymond Street
Morgan
Arla Stevens
Palatine Baptist Church
Diamond Street
M. E. Charel
M. P
Russell Stevens
Jacobs Street
Cook Hospital
Eliott
Tirriton County
Lute Brown
L. E. Olduker
Shinnston
Hayes Morris
Tri
Skating Girl Ready for the Rink
Betty Brown describes a winter skating suit modeled after a Lysie design from Kasil en Are. The red and white outfit features a polished leather surface as trimming and a double surfaced fabric turned outward.
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Betty Brown
Kasil En
Americ
Grace Barnes Plans Visit From Colfax Tomorrow
Miss Grace Barnes will go to her home at Colfax tomorrow to spend a few days. The note records her planned return after a Thursday stay in the city, indicating a short domestic visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Une
Grace Barnes
Colfax
St Johns Day Plans Completed by Masons in Fairmont
The general and entertainment committees of Fairmont Lodge A F and A Masons finalized plans for the St. Johns day reception to be held Wednesday December 27 at the Temple on Jefferson Street. Invitations go to local and visiting Masons their ladies and widows of Masons. Grand Master Charles E Carrifan and Past Grand Master Frank Wells Clark were invited and indicated they would attend. Refreshments will be served and the event aims to be the largest such gathering in years. Also noted are holiday arrivals from New York and Charleston visiting Governor Fleming and family while Dr W R Dougan travels to Waynesburg Pa for Christmas with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiper
Tpinau
Isfe
Miss Gray
Westin
Tip
Ian
Tipinay
Jehier
Bookelsper
Tipman
Miss Purdy
St. John’s Day
Fairmont Lodge
Jefferson Street
Masonic Club
Charles E. Carri Fan
Moundsville
Frank Wells
Clark
Wheeling
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the Daily Short Story
Mr. Tipman
Malcolm Stuart
Malcolm Stuagt
Nile
Atlantic City
Dame Fashion
Triune
Myrtle Shuttlesworth
Inez
Vansy Jacobs
Lindsay Jacobs
Bald Herbert Barnes
Nere
1St Benton
St. John’s
George Watson Flemsing
A. B. Fleming
G. Ward
Caroline
Charleston
Fleming
W. R. Dougan
Waynesburg, Pa
Walter Baker & Co Ltd
Corchester Ass
Mountain City Drug Store
Hayler
Mountain City
The
Robb’s
Meredith Street
Seaman & Tetherington
Dupfs
Allman
Merry Christmas
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