Wallflower Millie Nurse Heals Town’s Fever Case
Millie Parker known as the Wallflower cares for dying patients amid a spreading fever in Laneboro. Doctor Wynne returns, they marry after Jenkins the sick man leaves a fortune, and Millie becomes a nurse for hire as the outbreak grows.
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Millie Parker
Doctor Wynne
Elsie
George
Alfred Brown
Mark Wynne
Uttle
Elsie Lee
Afilie
Peter
Millie
Mr. Jenkins
Susie
Wallflower
Peter Jenkins
Laneboro
Mark
HHS
Crabs as House Watchdogs in the West Indies
Land crabs about football sized with large eyes and a strong claw are used as deterrents against intruders in the West Indies. The crabs display intelligence affection and faithfulness to frequent companions. When alarmed the crab raises its claw in a threatening gesture and can grip as firmly as an English bulldog, making it hard to break free.
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West Indies
Farmer Hauls with Mule and Ox in Silent Labor
A farmer short of teams ties a mule and an ox. The ox balks, is unhitched, and the mule hauls all day. At night the ox asks what the boss said. The mule says the boss is talking to a butcher by the fence, implying danger or harm.
The Flashy Townsman Counsels On Farm Feed
A flashy townsman swaggering around a farmyard offers advice to the old farmer. After criticizing poultry and hayricks, he visits the stables and asks how to make a slow horse fast. The farmer bluntly replies, Dont feed him.
Fraternities Return to Good Standing at Monmouth College
Monmouth College in Illinois restores local fraternities and sororities to recognized status after senate action at the annual meeting. The 1874 ban is rescinded, with groups placed under faculty supervision ahead of possible national chapter reestablishment. Monmouth, birthplace of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Pi Beta Phi, now hosts four fraternities and two sororities under strict oversight.
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Monmouth
Ill
Senate of Monmouth College
Senate
Monmouth College
United States
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Strange conduct cited at millinery-store beat
A judge questions a prisoner about odd behavior described by an officer who says the man led his wife to every millinery store window on the officer's beat in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
The Fatal Thirteen in Ancient Reckoning
The piece notes twelve as the ideal number among ancients due to the Zodiac's twelve signs. It states they counted the year by thirteen lunar months, signaling an older calendar practice and the idea of thirteen months in a year.
We Guarantee This
A concise motto from the Boston Transcript urging courteous speech to earn trust and respect, with emphasis on speaking well of others to cultivate high regard for one's word.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Bunce Re-appointed Tiler of Grand Lodge
Iowa Masonry adjourned its seventy-ninth annual communication in Des Moines with Sioux City chosen for next year’s meeting. New officers were installed and appointive posts filled including L. V. Bunce of Washington as grand tiler and W. R. Hulin named junior grand deacon. An amendment to the secret code and a monitor were adopted. Fifteen hundred members attended.
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Bunce
Tiler
Grand Lodge
Des Moines
Iowa
Sioux City
Fordycé van Hoesen
Des. Moines
W. W. Phillips
Perry
Co. C. Hunt
Cedar Rapids
W. R. Hulin
Melcher
J. C. Madsen
Minden
W. N. Hockman
Council Bluffs
L. V. Bunce
Washington
Delegates from Iowa Lodges Attend Sessions at Orpheum
About six hundred eighty delegates from Iowa's 680 lodges gathered at the Orpheum theater for the sessions.
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Dred
Iowa
Orpheum Theater
Budget meeting eyed before Dawes retirement in July
President Harding may summon a second meeting of the government business organization near Washington before Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes leaves as director of the budget on July 1. General H. M. Lord of the army will succeed Dawes, with preparations under way to outline progress and remaining tasks under the budget law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Harding
Charles G. Dawes
Chicago
H. M. Lord
Army
Gen. Dawes
Budget Bureau
General Lord
General Dawes
Gen. Lord
President Harding
Government Business Organization
Centre College invites Parsons College president as new leader
Centre College in Danville Kentucky announced its board of trustees extended an invitation to Dr KR Ames Montgomery president of Parsons College Fairfield Iowa to become Centre’s next president His background among Presbyterian churchmen and four years as a pastor in St Louis mark him as a leading educator Bush.
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Danville
Centre College
KR. Ames Montgomery
Parsons College
Fairfield
Iowa
Centre
Montgomery
Presbyterian Church
St. Louis
W. A. Genfield
Tows
Carroll College
Waukeshaw
Wis
United States
Wisconsin
Three Slayers Die in Chair at Columbia Penitentiary
J Kerby J C Gappleo and C O Fox were electrocuted at the Columbia penitentiary for the murder of taxi driver William Brazell near Lenaville on the night of August 7, 19lL.
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Columbia, D. C
Columbia
J. Kerby
J. C. Gappleo
C. O. Fox
The
Penitentiary
William Brazell
Lenaville
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