Sunny Bank School Days Begin At Pine Hill
Rosa Lee, a young teacher, arrives at Captain Thompson’s Pine Hill to start a summer term. She faces fierce local opinions, jealous rivals, and meddling neighbors as she inherits a rough class from Mrs. Randall and navigates Thomas family tensions and small town gossip.
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Bre Jong
Sally Wright
Pine Till
Captain Thompson
John Thompson
Ome
Cap'n ‘Hoompson
Cap'n Thompson
del Thompson
Randall
Pine Hill
Wother
New Mingland
Mr. Randall
Uunger
Don
Thompson
Mre. Randall
Oriental Bulls and Kurdish Tales in a Turbulent Dispatch
A muddled clipping blends a quarrel over hiring Miss Brown with a satirical Oriental Bulls column. It retells Arab views of Kurds as foolish, offers anecdotes of bungled measurements and a Bach anecdote about resolving chords, ending with a musical joke about dinner interruption and the dominant seventh.
The Chaplains Deal Story Of Cards And Tracts
An army officer recalls a chaplain aboard a transport who paused a card game by distributing tracts at breakfast. The chaplain announced that tracts are trump cards and led the reading with no cards played that day, showing tact in presenting his case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iyas
Infernal dynamite plot on Umbria thwarted at New York pier
A Mafia plot to blow up the Atlantic liner Umbria with 100 pounds of dynamite was stopped when a ticking clockwork device was found in a pine box aboard the ship. Detectives hauled the device overboard to neutralize the threat as the ship set sail with passengers awaiting departure.
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New York
Umbria
Anid
General Post Office
Captain Piper
Dey Ity
Piper
McClusky
McCarthy
Farley
Cunard
Gleason
Captain Watson
Mr. Floyd
Dutton
Cunard Line
Plucky Farmer's Wife Fights Bull To Save Husband
Mrs James Morton near Flanders New Jersey defended her husband for about an hour as a vicious dehorned bull attacked him. Armed with a pitchfork she jabbed the bull’s side and head, while children and neighbors arrived to drive the animal off. Morton suffered multiple broken ribs and severe injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Morton
Flanders
N. J
Big Fire Displaces Thousands in Ottawa Ontario
A major blaze in Ottawa Ontario destroyed about 250 houses between the Ottawa and Parry Sound tracks and the Prescott Line, leaving an estimated 2,000 people homeless and about 10 to 15 million feet of lumber burned. Insurance covers about half the 500000 dollar loss. Initial incendiary theories faded as the fire spread through grain and lumber areas. Firefighters faced late water pressure and extended effort with help from Montreal sources and military support to protect power infrastructure.
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Ottawa
Ont
Ottawa and
Parry Sound
Albert
Canadian Pacific
Prescott
Third Avenue
Barricaded Monastery Besieged as Fallow Arrests Friars
In Marseilles the Capuchin monastery was seized by the fallow who arrested the friars and others inside. VW H Pope, judge of the Court of Justice in the Philippine Islands, resigns due to ill health and will return to Santa Fe, N.M. Miss Virginia Hyans, daughter of Bear? follows family news.
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Marseilles
H. Pope
Court of Wizat
Philippine Islands
Aa -Resig
Aatayes
N. M
Virginia Hyans
A Expressman Sees Strength in Youth at House Visit
A Brazils Arkansas article recounts an expressman admiring a young athlete's strength after assisting with a heavy box. He tells the boy's mother he would pay fifty cents for such strength, praising the college student for his vigor. An obituary note from May 11 details Mrs. M. O. Garrett recovering from a spinal condition after using Dodd's Kidney Pills.
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Land
Fay
Brazils
Ark
M. O. Garrett
Mr. Garrett
Dodd
Facetious With The Wrong Man In Congress Doorway Gaffe
A Texas constituent asked if Kilgore was in Congress in a doorway scene at the House. The doorkeeper replied Kilgob is not on the floor, he went out his door a minute ago and won’t be back. The next day the doorkeeper sought a job with the Capital Traction Company.
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Boston
Captain Thompson
Fante
Fidhea
Handal
New England
Hved
Ross
Isaac
Iké
Tell
Miss Lee
Misa Ross
Nick
Otto
George Randall
Folke
George
Susan Brown
Miss Brown
Maebby
Tael
Buck Kilgore
Congress
Lis
Texas
Kunnel Kilgobh
de Foh
Kuntel Kilgoh
de Floh
Capital Traction Company
Baltimore Herald
Kidney health claim from Mrs Pare of Glasgow Kentucky
Mrs C B Pare of Columbia avenue Glasgow Kentucky, wife of prominent brick manufacturer C B Pare, credits Dean's Kidney Pills with regulating kidney secretions and curing back pain and scalding urination. The ad offers a free trial and states price of 50 cents per box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y and druggists nationwide.
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C. B. Pare
Columbia Avenue
Glaarow
Kentucky
Dean
Questioning the Moment on a Quiet Sofa
A man begins an interview after thirty seven minutes of sitting hand in hand with his partner. He asks why she loves him and she replies with a coy, knowing answer. The young man wisely lets it go.
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Fair Maid
That Woman Has Yet to Be Born Observation
A man who often speaks his thoughts notes that a woman who can look at a hole in a newspaper without wondering what was cut out has yet to be born. The exchange shows a playful and curious dialogue about perception and irony.
Laundering the Haby’s Clothes
A typed notice warns mothers about washing infant clothing with strong whehing powders and hapire coap. It urges home laundering under the mother’s directions and only Ivory Soap. The piece stresses care and contains humorous asides and product mentions.
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Sunny Bank Farm
Sis
Juliet
Rosa Leo
Lizzie
Char- Bo
Anna
Father
Trank
Mra. Randall
Waal
Destrict
Iight
Sunny Bank
Dee'am
Rosa Lee
Rogs
Jexne
John
Jem
Rosa
Dell
Miss Rags
Nancy Smedley
Oriental Bulls
Orient
Asia Minor
Saxe-Weimar
John Sebastian Bach
Bach
Algeria
Russia
Sattles
Montreal
Kieffer
Bample
Allen
LeRoy
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