The Answer Ted Received
Elizabeth Deering faces a chosen fate as she accepts wealth limits for love. Ted Drummond, earning two thousand four hundred a year, plans marriage but fears the life he can offer. Elizabeth finances the home and mills while Ted proves himself, choosing a future built on shared effort over luxury.
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Elizabeth Deering
Elizabeth
Ted Rich
Ted
Ian
Deering Mille
Forest Park
Pederville
Diana
Teddy Drummond
Teddy
Primrose‘terrace
Primrose
Trousseau
Tobacco as Medicine in Old London Apothecaries
Old-time London apothecaries sold tobacco as a medicinal, praising its cleansing odor, breath freshening, brain sharpening, and eye restoration. John Archer, physician to Charles II, charged two shillings an ounce and recommended smoking to patients. By 1877 ready made Virginia cigarettes shifted chemists away from selling tobacco despite initial uptake by London tobacconists.
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England
John Archer
Charles II
London
Archer
Wrestling With a Leopard in Tanganyika Territory
The report from Kilossa district describes J Turnley aided by Major Bradstock trapping a leopard terrorizing a village. The leopard sprang the pit, then Turnley wrestled the animal at arm’s length until Major Bradstock fired a risky shot killing it. Turnley was badly mauled but expected to recover.
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Tanganyika
J. Turnley
Major Bradstock
Kilossa
Turnley
Mr. Turnley
London Times
Macaroni Meaning in Revolutionary Times
The term macaroni once meant swell and high toned in early America and was used for dandy figures like Yankee Doodle and a Continental regiment from Maryland and Virginia. The usage faded, and in modern Italy macaroni is a dunce, a doit.
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Italy
Maryland
Mount Pleasant News Briefs From Virginia
Mount Pleasant Virginia notes detail visits among local families last Sunday with William Lamp Thurton Renner W L Cadwallader Clint Barr Venar Milhon Calvin Pitcock Barney Linebere Loring Lineberg Virginia Barr Lavene Barr Geraldine Lamp and Harry Lamps family. Residents express appreciation for a much needed rain.
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Mount Pleasant
William’ Lamp
Thurton Renner
W. L. Cadwallader
Clint Barr
Venar Milhon
Calvin Pitcock
Barney Linebere
Loring Lineberg
Virginia Barr
Lavene
Mary
Elijah Renner
Misha Orndoff
Mount, Williams
Geraldine Lamp
Harry Lamp
COP SHOT OFFICER INDICTED IN VIRGINIA
In Danville Virginia Patrolman C T Cook was indicted by the grand jury after Judge Price Withers urged an inquiry into police firearm use. Cook shot and wounded R A Benton a few days earlier when Benton did not halt. Cook says he believed he faced a car thief. Cook is suspended on bail of 2500.
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Price Withers
Danville
Gran Jury
Corporation Court Grand Jury
C. T. Cook
R. A. Benton
Cook
Special Dinner on His Sixty First Birthday in Lebanon Church
A surprise birthday dinner honored A B Snarr's sixty first birthday at his Lebanon Church home. Attendees included the Snarr and related families from Strasburg Mountain Falls Wheatfield and Lebanon Church. Other notes mention births and visits including a son born to D H Duke of Sycamore Ohio and travels of several local residents.
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Wheatfield
A. B. Snarr
Archie Unger
Pennsylvania
Helen Shull
Medboro
Marie Funkhouser
F. J. Frye
Richmond
Denzil Wisecarver
Washington
W. H. Wisecarver
Forrest Campbell
Esther Lucille
Harristown
Campbell
Mary C. Campbell
Cletus Campbell
Congressman on Relative Hunt in Strasburg
Congressman W F Lineberger of California's Ninth district and publisher G Y Hardy visited Strasburg seeking information to expand the Lineberger family tree. They traced ancestors from Metz to Fredericksburg and noted variant spellings Ligneberger and Lineberg. Letters for information were to be sent to Washington in care of the House of Representatives.
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W. F. Lineberger
California
G. Y. Hardy
Canon City
Colorado
Strasburg
Lineberger
John Henry Lineberger
Metz
Alsace-lorraine
America
Rochambeau
Yorktown
Fredericksburg
Shenandoah Valley
Lineberg
Washington
House of Representatives
Remarkable Pilgrimage of Purple Land Crabs
The passage describes land crabs found worldwide with West Indies preference for sugar cane. Each year they migrate from inland highlands to the sea, typically in May or June, forming vast nocturnal columns miles long that face no hindrances on their march to the coast.
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West Indies
Marci iGhe
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Oxford
Tancalf
Baby Louis
Thi League Shoe Store
Reliable Shoes and
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Boilermaker
Carmen
PGW
United States Labor Board
Winchester
Baltimore and Ohio
R. R
Brunswick, Md
N. G. Hottel Bell Phone
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Mount Pleasant News Mention
Editorial
H. K. Green
Moling & Seal the
R. M. Swimley
Bugs
Funk & Son
Main St
National
South Main Street
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