Jilted Mermaids Rocks Cap'n Steve at Fulton Market
Cap'n Steve Bagnaill returns to New York with his Star schooner in disarray after a four month absence and a tale of romance with a mermaid. He tells Jimmy McCann of a vanished fiancé Emily, a ring and a foggy Atlantic meeting with rival Captain Olaf Olsen, ending with a cautionary note to beware mermaids and long engagements.
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New York
South Street
Cap'n
Steve Bagnaill
Star
Fulton Fish Market
Cap
Steve
New
Jimmy
McCann
Cssure
Venus Belvicere
Atlantic
Sankaty Head
Connecticut
Fanny
Emily
Olaf Olsen
Boston
Hands
Olsen
War Garden Book Praises Press Leaders and Victory Gardens
The press receives credit in The War Garden Victorious by Charles Lathrop Pack for mobilizing a nation to grow food during World War I. The volume, sent to libraries as a permanent record, highlights many garden initiatives from Camp Dix to Boston Common and notes the lasting impact of victory gardens on American life and immigration programs.
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Charles Lathrop
Pack
National War Garden Commission
Commission
Thomas Edwards
Oberlin
Edwards
Camp Dix
N. J
Uncle Sam
Boston Common
Bryant Park
New
York
Forty-second Street
United States
America
Mr. Pack
Red Cross
Jbut
Aften
New York City
Oryant Park
White Mountains
Louisiana
New Mexico
Middle West
Santa Cruz
California
Henry Starr Freed From Prison After Four-Year Term
Tulsa report details Henry Starr the notorious Cherokee outlaw freed after four years of a 25 year sentence. Biography covers his Cherokee nation roots, early crimes, the Cherokee Bill incident, multiple parolings, and later parole aided by his wife and son.
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Tulsa
Okla
Henry Starr
Oklahoma
Starr
Henry
Nowata
Floyd’ Wilson
Fort Smith
Ark
Columbua
Cate
Columbus
Bill
Jeter Starr
Roosevelt
Fox ‘Roosevelt
Colorado
Amity-ville
Rob ‘Berry
Starr Gang
Stroud
A Bolt of Ribbon Sparks a Suburban Romance
In a suburban town a chance ribbon purchase at the Emporium sets off a romantic chain. Ralph Beaton helps a girl named Carol Warren, who loses her pay envelope, and a mistaken likeness to Annie Gordon leads Mrs. Beaton to reunite with Carol. The pair wed soon after, closing the tale of a simple ribbon with a wedding journey.
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Ralph
Cupid
Emporium
Carol Warren
Forestady
Garol
Carol
Mrs. Beaton
Minnie
Ralph Beaton
Beaton
Annie Gordon
Meather
Riebhen
Burglar Alarm Inventor's Lab Ransacked After He Leaves
New York inventor Lawrence J. Lesh designed a burglar alarm driven by motors wires and a phonograph. On returning from a short lab absence he found his workshop ransacked with his typewriter jewelry and phonograph records missing and the alarm device used in the job taken.
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New York
Lawrence J. Lesh
Lesh
Easier to Die Says Erring In Glasgow
A coroner’s inquest found letters on John Middleton of Ashton Under Lyne and on Eleanor Sheldon of Ashton hinting they fled together after planning suicide. They visited Liverpool and the Isle of Man before drowning themselves, with Mrs Sheldon writing that life with her husband would be misery and Middleton describing their island happiness before ending.
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Medora
Kemper
Dan Cupid
James Stotler
Minnie Kramer
Chesterfield
Ill
Jerseyville
Stotler
John Henry McKernan
Royle Township
Jersey County
D. W. Thompson
S. ‘B. Lyons
John Madden
Wienty Prince
Glasgow
John Middleton
Ashton-Under-Lyne
Audenshaw
Eleanor, Sheldon
Ashton
Middleton
Sheldon
Liverpool
Isle of Man
Isle of’ Man
Jack
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the Courier
Shirlex Symonds
Canal
U. S. Department OF Labor
Department of Labor
W. B. Wilson
Roger W. Babson
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