Rose Stanton Chooses Rodney Aldrich for Marriage
Rose Stanton accepts Rodney Aldrich's proposal after a rain soaked meeting and a long talk about life and law. The Chicago University student and Aldrich, a lawyer, face family doubts and seek a quiet June wedding as Portia and Frederica weigh in on the match.
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Rose Stanton
University of Chicago
Rodney Aldrich
Martin Whitney
Miss Stanton
Aldrich
Portia
Frederica
Rose
Rodney
Stanton
Freddy
Rosaling Stanton
Key to Flanders Bapaume Through History of sieges
The fortress town of Bapaume, repeatedly fought over since the Thirty Years War, details how sieges and assaults shaped its fate. It saw French, Austrian, Bavarian, and Spanish occupations, with notable leaders including De la Meilleraye and D Artagnan, and later changes in control through kings, wars, and peace.
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Bapaume
Flinders
Kansas City Times
Europe
Ferdinand 11
Austria
Maximilian of Bavaria
Germany
France
Marshal de la Meilleraye
de la Meilleraye
Richelieu
Bapaulle
D'Artagnan
Gasecogne
DY Artagnan
Tie
Francois I
Fuidherbe
Rose Announces Engagement to Rodney Aldrich
Rose tells her mother in the den that she will marry Rodney Aldrich, a moment that shocks Mrs. Stanton after sixty years of a eventful life. The scene unfolds as Rosalind delivers the news in a calm, mechanical tone, prompting disbelief and surprise.
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Rose
Rodney Aldrich
Portia
Indiffer
Real adventure of marriage opens for Rose Stanton
The piece hints at the next installment of extraordinary interest centered on Rose Stanton as she embarks on a new phase of married life.
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Rose Stanton
Incorrigible pupil quips about father’s fee
A teacher warns Robert that he is incorrigible and will summon his father. The doctor's son retorts that his father charges two dollars a visit, implying a hefty price for parental intervention.
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Robert
Birds Classified as Sprinters and Distance Runners
The text divides birds into sprinters with short square wings and distance runners with wide wings. Gallinaceous fowl are sprinting types, capable of bullets-fast takeoffs. The quail and ruffed grouse reach momentum quickly, with wing beats of five to seven per second, and quail cover 45 to 50 feet in the first second. The ruffed grouse’ wing noise can be heard 200 yards away.
Handel's holograph will sold at London auction
The holograph will of Handel with four codicils sold at auction in London. It bequeaths to Christopher Smith Handel's large harpsichord, house organ, music books, and five hundred pounds. The collection includes relics of Lawes Morley Carey Playford and a manuscript score by Arthur Sullivan written as a Chapel Royal choirboy.
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Handel
London
Christopher Smith
Lawes
Morley
Carey
Playford
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Lord
Savoyard
Chapel Royal
Won the Bet
A club conversation ends in a joke about a wager stated as the man leaves. The punchline reveals he won the bet as the others recall the remark about getting the chickens from his wife.
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Henry Kitchell Webster
Bobbs-Merrill Co
Mother
Crist
Maude Adams
State's Attorney's Office
Chance
Lamb
Flanders
D’artagnan
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