Mission Pupils Win Free Voyage Contest Prize
Orphan Mary Louise McCachren, tied to the Presbyterian Mission school at Concord North Carolina, won a Bible story telling contest open to Sunday school pupils. The prize included a 67 day trip to Europe aboard Leviathan from New York on July 4, with Mary Louise, a sixteen year old mountain girl, the daughter of parents who died in the flu epidemic.
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Mary Nouise McCachren
Presbyterian Mission School
Concord
N. C
New York
Mary Louise
Mary
Europe
Lost Faith in a Fairy Tale Nursery Exchange
A fragment from Laulaville Goyrler Jour presents a dad and child in a garden chat about stories and fairy tales. The dialogue hints at skepticism toward tales as the child asks about a tale of a heroic figure and the father counters with doubt.
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Dad
Jock
A Flirtation of Convenience on the Utopia
Harold Bangle aboard the Utopia meets Virginia Claremont after a voyage from Cherbourg. Their deckside courtship deepens as he performs attentive acts and they exchange names, with pressure to declare love looming as Liberty’s statue nears.
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Neptune
Harold Bangle
Utopia
Cherbourg
Europe
New York
Harold
Trovaseaux
Paris
Berlin
Naples
Camorra
Harvard
Lila
Cigremont
Virginia
Key
Lily Segurance
Liberty
Miss Claremont
Claremont
Waller
Bangle
No Sign Necessary in Busy Day Desk Habits
A fragment notes men dispense with paper passes by using their golf sleeves as the same signal. The detail reflects casual workplace cues and informal signaling in daily routines.
Wealth and happiness in common life, a reflective view
Edith Summers Kelley notes that happiness cannot be bought and that poverty and wealth balance into equal truths. She observes from close range that possessions matter little to true contentment, merging with the herd teaches more than solitary extremes.
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la Rochefoucauld
Edith Summers Kelley
Hearst
International Cosmopolitan
Ingenious Burlington Cat Outs EGG-scene Puzzle
A black cat owned by a Burlington Vermont store leapt onto a counter and toppled an egg basket. It pushed out an egg, ate it, leaving shells, then knocked over a glass chicken jar and consumed the contents but not the glass.
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Burlington
Boston Globes
American bungalow influence spreads to Brazil housing
The article notes that 55 percent of new Sao Paulo dwellings imitate American California bungalows with built in furniture and modern conveniences. It cites a scarcity of servant rooms as a chief issue, attributing it to the low cost of labor in Brazil.
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Brazil
Sao Paulo
California
Largest Beaver Fur Sale in Alberta Records Prices
The government fur sale saw 214 beaver pelts sold to Alberta dealers. The average price was 12.78 dollars per pelt and the top price reached 100 dollars for three fine skins.
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Game Guardian's Department
Alberta
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promises Baby Skin Care
Advertisement touts Cuticura Comforta for irritated skin with hot baths using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. It urges occasional use of Cuticura Talcum for its fragrance as an essential part of the trio.
Igloo Fisheries and Eskimos Build Igloos for Winter Dinners
Fragmented text describes Eskimos and Igloo Fisheries making igloos on lakes and cutting holes in floors to fish for winter meals. A segment mentions learning trades in shoeing horses, with a blacksmith teaching the process.
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Ballin Fel
Eskimos
Science Service
Prize Competition Insight Reveals Organizer
A line from a sympathetic dialogue notes a fine motor claimed to be prize-derived and hints the speaker did not win but organized the competition. The exchange underscores clever participation and agency behind an award.
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