Mollie Hillacre Refuses to Sell Old Homestead
Mollie Hillacre keeps the Hillacre homestead amid relatives' scoffing, transforms a run-down farm into a thriving boarder house, and discovers valuable magnesian limestone on the sheep pasture. Professor Tallman confirms the rocks, buyers offer a share in a quarry, and Mollie announces a September wedding to Tallman while Steve Kimble exits. Uncle Dabney Mellen proclaims Mollie’s smart handling of the old place.
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Melzena
Mellen
Uncle Simeon
Gideon
Stafford
Hillacre
Fay
Mollie Hillacre
Grandpa Hillacre
Mollie
Dabney Mellen
Dabhey Meilen
von Steve Kimble
Hull
Mollle
Mdihe
Misa Mollie
Professor Tallman
Steve Kimble
Molle
Mr. Kimble
Steve
PUCK'S MODERN COOKBOOK DELIGHTS CURIOUS DRESSING IDEAS
A quirky 1920s style cookbook fragment lists playful kitchen crafts. It mixes odd kitchen tips and decorative food ideas, from veiled celery washing to cake garnishes and whimsical biscotti like waffies and ribbon cake, with humorous non culinary steps.
Energetic New Hampshire farmer Mrs Nellie Lakin praised
The article profiles Nellie FE Lakin of Boscawen who carried 500 dollars of farm produce to local stores and managed hay, corn, potatoes, apples, and garden work largely by herself. She also ferried her 16 year old son to high school twice weekly and handled household duties in a five person family. The piece links her effort to support for women’s suffrage in New Hampshire.
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Nellie FE. Lakin
Boscawen
N. H
Penacock
Franklin
George
Franklin High School
Ave
Woman's Home Journal
New Hampshire
Pat's Plea and the Wage Increase Tale
A three year old lake town strike brought together two negotiators, L. Hanna and Pat Ryan. Hanna argued for employers, Ryan for workers, with an arbitrator chosen by mutual consent. The referee ruled for higher wages, surprising Hanna as the decision came via telephone.
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Pat
L. ©. Hanna
Hanna
New York Evening Post
Hanna P
Pat Ryan
Mrr. Hanna
Anecdotes and Scenes from Gorky to Kipling in Far Lands
A collage of humorous vignettes from art, music, and travel shows. Lord Randolph Churchill’s diamond quip in South Africa, juror bribery case, Davis’s musical misstep, a Moscow encounter with Maxim Gorky, and a rural Buffalo News tale of a man named Jake who ferries a body and squanders the village’s generosity.
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Lord Randolph Churchill
South Africa
Erlahman
Hoar
Joseph Drakine
Edinburgh
Erskine
Richard Harding Davis
Kipling
Danny Deever
Mr. Davis
Paderewski
Moscow
Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Smallpox Patient Hidden in Village Quarantine Tale
An amusing Rochester story travels to Buffalo about a Monroe County village facing a smallpox scare. A traveling Rochester man is detained after a train platform check reveals symptoms. Village officials struggle to manage care until Jake Helser volunteers to house and tend him for payment in provisions, fuel, and whisky.
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Rochester
Buffalo
Atlanta
Monroe Count
New York
Jake
Helser
Bis
Rake Jake
Timothy Perry Oldest Bridgetender of Port Clinton Bridge
Timothy Perry aged 90 has taken charge of the county wagon bridge over the Portage river at Port Clinton Ohio, likely the oldest bridge tender in America. Born 1814 he married at fourteen and raised nineteen children with his wife, recalling Ohio history from Marblehead to Cleveland.
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Timothy Perry
Port Clinton
Ohio
Portage River
America
Perry
East Harbor
Marblehead
Lower
Sandusky
Fremont
Maumee
Toledo
Cleveland
Cuyahogs
Inter
Ohio City
Columbus
Detroit
Fort Wayne
Monroe
Cincinnati
E. J. Bono
Bono
Bible Quotation Sparks Atheist Youth Parley
A Kentucky parson Goodloe detains a youth at a tavern after a heated religious talk. The youth boasts of atheistic views and challenges Jesus. The parson responds with a scriptural quip from Jehu 12 14, noting Jesus found a young thief.
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Porson
Hugh C. Tenteccoat
Pertecort
Parson Goodloe
Kentucky
Thea West
New York Times
Jesus
Dominie
Goodloe
Funeral service sparks curious duck tribute tale
A city employee recalls a funeral where mourners left a roasted duck on the grave and a boxer girl jokes about the dead returning to eat it, highlighting a curious moment from the service and the local chatter around it.
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Yiuy
Misleading Notice Cites Payment Date Dispute
A fragmented notice shows a quarrel over overdue versus earlier payment timing. Two speakers argue over a sign reading that payments are due on the 10th, while one insists the date refers to a different month and context.
America's Food Promise and the Nations Dependence
A Washington report argues every American deserves a full food supply from corn to eggs as population rises and production shifts. It notes the U S as granary to the world with variation by state, highlighting Texas cattle, California fruit, Iowa oats, New York apples, and Ohio eggs, stressing reliance on domestic output and occasional imports.
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Washington
United States
Providence
Americas
Profesor Blodgett
Agricultural Department
Ae Timois
Minnesota
Raines
California
Louisiaga
New York
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Maryland
New Yorks
Massachusetts
Indiana
Staten
Florida
Texas
Nevada
Missouri
Nesbraska
Kansas
Ohio River
Montana
New Mexico
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
Oregon
Michigan
Colorado
Iowa
Blodgett
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Great Coat
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Peter's
Oe Sareimanien
Gittin
Tol Bly
Buffalo News
Bridgetender
Timothy Parry
Charles M. Sholioa
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