Nat Davis confesses love as Betty learns of engagement twist
In a soda shop Betty Graham returns home and proclaims admiration for Nat, who reveals his plan to marry Josie Lockwood. Betty reacts with happiness yet misreads Nat, mistaking his intent, and Nat, overwhelmed, contemplates drinking, smoking, and despair before racing to church in a dramatic cliffhanger.
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Betty
Nat
Kellogg
Betty Graham
Father
Josie Lockwood
Beth
Cockfighting in Mexico Across Century Pastimes
Mexican Herald recalls cockfighting as a popular, long standing sport from Aztec times to Guadalupe festival days. It details social classes, wealthy patrons risking large sums, bird strains, travel to the villa, and the rise of professional gamblers who judged birds at pitside to win most bets.
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Mexico
America
United States
Canada
Europe
Guadalupe
Mexican Herald
Columbia
Florence
General Assembly
Newberry Herald and News
Secrets of Grasse Perfume Industry Revealed
A Detroit Free Press summary explains the Grasse perfume trade in the Maritime Alps. It covers rose leaf processing, maceration in heated fat, extraction with alcohol, and the creation of pomade soap from distillates. It notes vast harvests, including forty eight pounds of rose leaves per gram of oil, and lists eight basis flowers for perfumes.
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Grasse
Maritime Alps
France
Detroit Free Press
Inaugural Address of Gov Blease Acknowledges Opposition
Gov-elect Coleman Livingston Blease delivers a lengthy inaugural address read by a clerk due to his frail condition. He condemns press hostility, appeals for fair treatment, and lays out platform goals including education, liquor laws, public morality, and state finances, while praising supporters and urging unity.
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Blease
Thos. C. Dunbar
Ellenton
House of Representatives
McGowan Simpkins
Coleman Livingston Blease
General Assembly of
South Carolina
United Daily Press
News and Courier
The
Columbia Record
Columbia
Columbia State
Featherstone
Herald and News
Edgefield Chronicle
Columbia Daily Record
Record
Please
Army tests new shell to pierce targets and scatter bullets
The army is testing a shell that can pierce a vessel or building with a solid steel head and then release scores of bullets carried behind it.
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Louis Joseph Vance
Winchel Smith
Winchell Smith and
Vsla Rota Rota Rota Roca
Tracey
Genze
Ince
Venin
Mr. Duncan
Cole L. Blease
Macon, Ga
Charleston News and Courier
New Orleans
United State
the Common Schools
South
Hospital For Insane
State Hospital
Independent
House
Senate
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