For Love of Chloris and a Mother's Pride
Betty Wetherell submits a story to a magazine competition but hides the manuscript from her mother Lizzie Wetherell, who secretly enters the same tale under the name Elizabeth Wetherell. A conflict over authorship leads to revelation, forgiveness, and renewed mother daughter ties as Betty learns humility and takes responsibility for her actions.
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Brownlow Street
Betty
Betty Wetherell
Ambrazon College
Scott
Stevenson
Milton
Browning
Macaulay
Lizsie Wetherell
Eversham's Magazine
Chloris
Litzle Wetherell
Ste
Nancy Towle
Maine
Nancy
Lizzie Wetherell
iLizzie Wetherell
Nanty Towle
Hattie
Eversham’s
Chloria
Prig
Ambrazon
Eversham
Evergham
Hiversham
Elizabeth Wetherell
Evért Wain
Everahan
Evernham’‘s
Lissle Wetherell
Eversham's
Liszle Wetherell
Words of Wisdom Folio Quips and Quotes
A collage of aphorisms and maxims from varied sources. It surveys judgments on virtue, happiness, economics, religion, and life’s motives, attributing each reflection to authors such as American Cultivate, Scottish Reformers, Puck, Buddha, New York Times, and Mary Emily Case while noting the uneven quality and fragmentary nature of the collection.
Petrified Forests and Wireless Tracked Electric Truck Innovations
The piece notes blue sub orb visuals, Rubner's registering device for noise waves, a 61.¢ hundred square mile petrified Arizona forest, and logs in hues of pink purple red gray blue yellow. It mentions Agassiz on Maine ice thickness, artesian wells in France with long construction times, and Maisons Lafitte depth plans. It ends with an electric truck in Union Pacific yards guided by wireless waves, startling observers as multiple motor tracks move and halt autonomously.
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Arizona
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Honest politics joke echoes at dinner party in Chicago
A Washington Star item recounts a joke about politicking in Chicago where Longworth notes honest politics pay in the end. In Cincinnati, Lurgan canvassed for votes and tried a grocer, who refused to promise support, prompting Lurgan to quip that promising and performing differ.
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Longworth
Chicago
Lurgan
Cincinnati
Rural police needed for safer towns and crime control
The Philadelphia Press argues for an efficient rural police system with constant service patrolling roads. It notes the difficulty of crime suppression in a country with no rural police and relies on closer ties between police and elites to advance public safety, acknowledging change will be gradual under the American system.
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Philadelphia Press
The Feminine Way Shoes Prompted A Shopping Quandary
A humorous exchange from Chicago News features a wife returning ill fitting shoes she wore an hour without pain yet proving them too large. Her husband insists they look comfortable, revealing gendered attitudes and shop floor misperceptions in a brief urban vignette.
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Joan
Chicago News
A Married Man Station Sergeant Prying Question
A brief delirious exchange reports a sergeant asking a prisoner if he is married. The prisoner denies, the sergeant scolds, and jail officers reveal a clipped receipt for curing croup a sample of allk and two unposted letters in a week old woman’s handwriting found in the prisoner’s pockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarge
Speech Pattern Note Skims Around Dense Word Flow
A fragmented OCR style text notes a speaker pacing at about 7600 words per hour while insisting on addressing certain topics or directions, with garbled placeholders such as wo ad dre fa and ilmagnns. The readable portions imply a focus on rapid delivery and possibly planned multimedia elements or imagery.
David Grieves For Absalom In Final Victory and Sorrow
In a Mahanaim lesson on 2 Samuel 18 the writer shows Absalom’s failed plan without God, the triumph of David’s side, and Absalom’s ruin. The piece links Ahithophel’s folly, Joab’s revenge, and divine justice, ending with a sobering note that what a man sows, he reaps.
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B. C
Ahithophel
Sam
Hushal
Absalom
David
Joab
Ahimaas
Abimaas
God
Ahimans
Jehovah
Jehowah
Abimaasz
Christ
Farmer Killed by His Horses in Narrow Lane
A. L. Craft, a Thompson, Susquehanna County farmer, was instantly killed when his team backed his wagon over an embankment while he tried to pass another team on a narrow dug route between Susquehanna and Thompson. The frightened horses threw him from the wagon and broke his neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. L. Craft
Thompson
Susquehanna County
Susquehanna
Mr. Craft
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Words OF
Puck
Atchison Globe
Buddha
New York Times
Mary Emily Case
Indiana
Terie May
Terrence
Industry
Professor Rubner
The
Univerversity of
Berlin
Louis Agassiz
New England
Grenelle
France
Passy
Maisons- Laffitte
Surday-School
International Lessny
David Grieves
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