No Blooming Flower Show as Bob Pretty Wins
In a village, a controversial rival fuels a burst of chaos as Bob Pretty wins the best cottage garden prize after neighbors uproot their plots to cheat the contest. George English warns no blessing comes from such deceit. The tale ends with a tea party at the Cauliflower hosted by Bob to christen the prize teapot.
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Bob Pretty
Bob Hisself
George English
Bob
Australia
Miss Wicks
Bill Chambers
George
John Rigge
Bill
Henery Walker
Peter Smith
Oliday
Joe Gubbins
Joe
Henery
Sam Jones
Eases
Ouse
Mill Lane
George English Hisself
Henry Walker
Sam
Ralph Thomson
Ralph
Practical Fashions Ladies Seven-Gored Skirt Pattern
Paris Pattern No. 2614 offers a seven size seven-gored walking skirt with backward turning plaits and a simple hem. Suitable for broadcloth serge Venetian cloth tweed or cheviot, it pairs with silk or flannel shirts and costs ten cents to request from the Pattern Department.
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Paris
Misses Shirt-Waist Suit Pattern No. 2589
Pattern department notes a versatile shirt-waist suit for young girls in serge Panama cloth Mohair cotton voile or canvas. Describes front waist fullness box-plait back detail nine gore skirt attachable or separate with belt or ribbon buckle. Three sizes 13 to 17 years. For a 15 year old, yardage varies by fabric width.
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Paris
Quote on virtue and crime by Terence
A reflection argues that same action can be criminal or not depending on who performs it. The moral point is that intent and context shape verdicts, not the act itself. The passage contrasts two individuals doing identical deeds to question fairness and judgment.
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Terence
English linguist appointed expert adviser to China
Sir Walter Hilyer, born in China to English parents and noted linguist, has been named expert adviser to the Chinese government. Li Hung Chang praised his fluency and writing in Chinese as comparable to the most educated mandarins.
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Hai
China
Walter Hilyer
Walter
Li Hung Chang
Clock at St Chad's Shrewsbury Uses Record Pendulum
A clock at St Chad's Shrewsbury features a record pendulum with a 22 foot length and a 200 pound counterweight ball.
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St. Chad's
Shrewsbury
Child urges immediate spanking over bedtime punishment
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note recounts a small girl who, after being sent to bed, asks her father to spank her and get it over with. She argues lying in bed won’t improve her and a spanking would help her sleep, expressing frustration with rules.
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Wallace Knight
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cure at City Mission Helps Woman After Piles of Sores
Laura Jane Bates of New York narrates a city mission case where a young woman with scabies incipient paresis rheumatism and exposure was treated with Cuticura Soap Resolvent and Ointment. After seven weeks of effort the patient improved and within five weeks could seek work.
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Laura Jane Bates
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
Mar. 11
Notation Progress for Your Girl’s Singing
The speaker notes improvement in a girl’s music with praise, saying she used to lag two or three notes behind but now stays two or three notes ahead. The remark highlights rapid musical development and confident progress.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim and Cure Offer
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and argues for constitutional remedies. It asserts most cases arise from catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Included are mail circulars, price details, and a urging to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Cracking the Sabbath Misstep at the Cherry Tree
Edwin and his mother stroll on a Sunday. The mother lowers a limb for him to pick cherries and he asks to climb higher. She warns that would be breaking the Sabbath, and he quips that they are only cracking the Sabbath.
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Edwin
Sick Syracuse Man Demands To Go Out In Bedside Drama
A Syracuse businessman, ill with a pneumonia attack, resists rest and pleads to leave his bed to continue with his business affairs. After a sleepless night, the exhausted doctor arrives to find the patient abruptly offering to swap roles and let the physician lie in bed while the patient takes the medicine bag outside.
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Syracuse
Mix for Rheumatism Remedial Formula Advised
A newspaper note promotes a home remedy claiming a complete cure for rheumatism. It suggests mixing one half pint whiskey with one ounce Toris Compound and one ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound and taking tablespoonful doses before meals and at night. The recipe emphasizes ease of procurement from drugstores.
Insane Senator Admits Fee From Trust
The lawyer asks if the senator took a $50,000 fee from the trust and the senator replies I do and I sent it back. The court is told it cannot prosecute an insane man and adjournment is set to summon alienists.
Thief Drowns After River Escape Money Sinks
A thief leapt into the river with heavy pockets and sank to the bottom. Police recovered every cent of the stolen money, prompting a remark about using the funds as the nucleus of a sinking fund.
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Houston Post
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W.L. Douglas
L. Douglas
Spark St
Brocktos
Mass
Sloan
Sweeney
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
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