Bella Finds Her Place in the Klondike Saga
A penniless New England farm family fractures under poverty until Bella uncovers a hidden quitclaim deed. Her estranged father returns with her brother Jack and wealth enough to save the farm. Bella keeps the home, and Joe, now a lawyer, wins his first case in guiding the transfer.
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Pyuina
Arabella
Joe Vincent
Evaline
Mrs. Martin
New England
Jim Randall
Bella
Joe
Harum-Scarum
Jack
Klondike
Tildy
Richard Martin
Martin
Elizabeth Pepperell
Squire Elkins
Mr. Morton
Matilda
James
Far West
Fussing Place described in a child's view and verse
A child describes the Fussing Place as a house corner or stair area used when naughty. The mother’s stern but loving tone, the hidden smile, and the desire to please illuminate a domestic discipline scene. Annie Willis McCullough cites Youth's Companion to frame the concept of a quiet, corrective space.
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Mother
Ani
Atic
Annie Willis McCulough
Battery Game For Boys From The Orange Judd Farmer
Instructions describe making a homemade game named Battery using a board wedges and five brass rings. Players aim to flip rings onto opposing pegs, tallying points. best to fix a set score like 50 or 100. Also mentions fur seal fact and Atlantic shipping statistic.
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N. K. Briggs
Orange
Judd Farmer
What the Lion Meant A Tale of the Hippo and Roar
A fable from the St Louis Post Dispatch where the Hippo wishes to roar like a king on the Nile. The Lion warns against costly vanity, sets a brutal training with loud howls, then exposes the Hippo’s folly. The resulting cure is a cannonball pill and a harsh lesson about pretension.
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the Hippo
Nile
Hippo
Mr. Lion
Lion
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tuatara music charms curious lizards in New Zealand tale
New Zealand tuatara a large native lizard is studied for its slow nature. A Christchurch Auckland experiment uses singing to entice the lizards out from their rocky homes. The songry chorus makes them wriggle and dance briefly before returning to rock shelters.
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New Zealand
Christchurch
Auckland
Mosquito Plats of Nigeria Reported Plant Remedy
A German paper describes finding in North Nigeria of a plant from which two of three placed in a room act as Temova mos quitors. Natives extract an essence from the plant, an excellent quinine substitute, equal in effect and lacking quinine's disagreeable attributes.
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Nigeria
Miraculous Cure and Miscellany From Manhattan Column
A Kansas item reports a Riley County case where a three zone daughter of Jonas Brubaker recovered from whooping cough pneumonia malaria and Bright's disease after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, praised by the father as life saving. The page also advertises Salzer seed catalog features high yields and a testimonial for Allen's Foot-Ease and Lydia E. Pinkham's remedies among jokes and short quips.
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Manhattan
Kans
Riley Co
Jonas Brubaker
Bright
Dodd
Brown
Lity Robinson
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House of Arabella
Maurice Smiley
Leo
Maesty
Lincoln
Abe
Jaer
Salzer
Victoria
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la In
K. L
Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
Shakespeare
Putnam
Sir Sidney
Mae
Aria
Gil Sayy
Gilbert
Beaton
Agnes Miller
Chicago
Tydia
Pinkham
Agnes Mina
Potomac Ave
Ill
Inpaniss
Saa Ahalis
Sadie Oe
Pac Simile Signature
New York
Gastoria
Bears
Castoria
Pope Coaster Brake
Dale
Pope Manufactwing Co
Cleesee
Otte
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