Ragtime Romance at St. Agatha’s Mission
Grace Byrne, a mission teacher, witnesses a street scene as poor children react to ragtime entertainment from a well-dressed dancer. After meeting with a pianist and organ grinder, she learns of Fred Yerkes’s risky bet and her private heartbreak. Grace contemplates leaving mission work while her brother Tom jokes about sisters and a pin.
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Pandemoniium
St. Agatha's Maasion
Plano
Grace
Grace Byrne
Jes
Goodby
Fred Yerkes
East Side
Tom
Stace
Fred
Cummings
Klondike
Real Life Villain Uses Stage Venom as Cover
A New York detective recalls shadowing a notorious East Side ruffian in a Bowery theater. He followed the man, avoided an arrest inside, and outside the crowd, witnesses a melodrama where the villain is cheered by a cutthroat while the hero endures misfortune. The man then lunges in rage and tries to stab as officers close in.
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East Side
New York
Bowery Theater
Family Jars and Quibbles at Church Funeral
A London Tit-Bits item shows a schoolmaster scolding his wife over phrasing and a quibble about letters from in laws. In a separate London Answers note a vicar’s funeral sermon prompts an unexpected titter from attendees over the text There shall be no night there.
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Henry Jones
Sunderland
London
Knight
Examination changes for state and primary papers
State and primary examinations will not be held again this year and there will be no special examinations. Mary Z. Hanrer, County Superintendent.
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Weiser
Cambridge
Qchapter
Boise
Pocatello
Salmon City
Moscow
Rathdrum
Mary Z, Hanrer
Wanted to Rent Furnished House for Two to Three Months
Advertisement notes classified style under one cent per word. Reads as a wants and services section urging readers to announce employment or sale needs. Specific request: a furnished house for two to three months via Mrs IW Doak at Mrs N M Hawthorn's.
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Signal of Ice
Doak
N. M. Hawthorn
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Columbias
Imperials
Rambler's
Churchill Drug Co
Truephone
Omtoe
Wm. McBratney
Mbalmer Weiser
Daho
Idaho
Alexander
Masonic
Boise and
Baker
Weiser, Idaho
Durbin
C. A. Campbell
Meadows
Geo. W. Hartley
C. B
Antelope
Oregh
RAMS
Delaine
Rambouillet
W. A. Morehead
Nore
Thos. Ranahan
OPP & Davis
Rouch
Denver & Rio Grande Rio Grande
Salt Lake City
Ogden Union Depot
Oregon Short Line
Neareat
Rio Grande
I. A. Benton
Pass. Dept
O. B. Jackson
J. G. Watts
Washington County
International Id Vehicle Co
Drawer G
Stanford, On
Lick Creek House
Cal Seven Devils
Daily Mail
Bear P. D
N. J. Sheffield
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