The New Girl by W. R. Rose
Annabel Maitland hires a cheerful maid through Unique Employment Agency to help before her husband George's aunt Mary arrives. A playful deception reveals Aunt Mary is in fact the new maid, who bonds with Annabel and George as a lighthearted ruse ends with breakfast together.
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Unique Employment Agency
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Mercy
Lena
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Art in Architecture Six Room House for 1300 Dollars
Architectural ad details a JLHIS six room house with large veranda priced at 1300 dollars complete. Specifications include parlor 14 by 16 4 percent, living room 13 3 by 14 4, kitchen 11 by 11, brick foundation, double floors, tar paper, five panel doors, Star A Star shingles, American double thick glass, Georgia pine finish, green press brick chimney, 4 inch siding, 2 by 4 studding, 2 by 10 joists, 2 by 4 rafters, and ornate veranda columns. House to be left brook clean ready for occupancy by George A. W. Kintz.
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Star A Star
George A. W. Kintz
Contagion and germs shape public health actions
A Youth's Companion piece explains how contagion hinges on specific microbes and their transmission. It urges stricter water and food purity, exhalations and droplet spread cautions, and bans on public expectoration. It also notes fumigation of sick rooms and destruction of contaminated items to curb disease. The Malay Peninsular government is planting gutta percha trees as new tapping methods emerge.
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Malay Peninsula
The World's Pearls and Pearl Luggers Near Thursday Island
A detailed description of the Pearl fishing grounds around Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, highlighting the vast value of shells, the size of oysters, the scale of the industry with 250 luggers, and diverse divers including Japanese and South Sea islanders. It notes dangers from sharks and squid and the method of shell opening under managers.
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Thursday Island
Torres Atrait
South Pacific Ocean
New Guinea
Australia
PITH AND POINT Jokes And Quips From Various Papers
A collection of short humorous lines from Punch Atchison Globe Chicago Post Boston Transcript Crabbe Philadelphia Press Columbus State Journal noting wit on manners love and daily life in a light, clipped format with multiple punchlines about behavior hats piano lessons and quick comic takes on small town scenes.
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Atchison Globe
Chicago Post
Hilton
Buffer
Boston Transcript
Nexdore
Crabbe
Johnnie
Pepperhole
Columbus
The Giant Cactus and the Desert Spring
An excerpt recalling Harriet Monroe in At lantic on Africa’s giant cacti and desert life. The speaker admires the ages of cacti, their stillness, and the miraculous April blooms that summon renewal, comparing blooms to resurrection and noting how rain can transform the barren land overnight.
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Africa
Nile
Harriet Monroe
Atlantic
Ramesia
Sphinx
California
Prudishness and Decency in a Nation’s View
Reader notes reflect on prudishness and virtue in American society amid criticism abroad and domestic dismay over divorce. An editorial quote from Century Magazine praises Americans as the decentest in gender relations, while a New York Tribune anecdote about a child praying to make all good people nice adds a nostalgic moral frame.
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America
London
Century
Alice
N. Y. Tribune
Pity is All to Love In A Mayhem of Sentences
Dialogic exchange between Pity and She reveals cautious affection and banter on a first meeting. He recalls steady gazes and notes her lack of close ones to critique his taste in neckties, framing an awkward courtship moment in a dramatic tone.
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