From Dream to Reality in a Cottage Industry Tale
Edmond Spier, a flawed craftsman, dreams of labor saving ideas while his wife Molly bears hardship in a cramped English cabin near a pottery. After a fever and mounting poverty, Edmond secretly works on a device, faces hunger, and finally shares a breakthrough that transforms their fortunes through the pottery, proving Molly’s patience and pragmatism.
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England
Edmond Spier
Molly Spler
Herusband
Edmond
Molly
Kita
Dimond
Molly Spier
Hendon
Aia
Eli
Terrible ordeal at lonely farmhouse near Budapest
A young girl at Count Karolyi's estate in Buda pest shelters a weary stranger. A knife emerges from a sack as the man is found dead by the farmer's daughter, later aided by two gendarmes. A gunman nearby is shot. others are captured.
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Gir
Count Karolyi
Buda
Pest
Thoroszhly
Stanley and the boy who became Stanley explorer story
A long column recounts Henry Morton Stanley adopting John Rowlands in a Wales origin tale and his later fame as a war correspondent and explorer who found Livingstone in Africa. It also includes a humorous London anecdote about tobacco and a brief note on cocaine as a drug.
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Stanley
John Rowlands
Denbigh
Wales
St. Asaph
Amey
New Orleans
Henry Morton Stanley
Henry M. Stanley, Jr
United States Navy
Turkey
Abyssinia
Africa
David Livingtone
Kongo
Peru
Bali
Father's Music Bragdon Faces Baby's Awake Lullaby
Composer Bragdon, at work on a symphonic poem, heard the baby's cry from the nursery. He kept at it for five minutes, then opened the door and asked if Harry was teasing the baby. The child answered no, and Bragdon urged him to help lull the infant to sleep with his lullaby.
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Bragdon
Harry
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