Lina Linnette and Gerald Spaulding Twist Fate in Wedding Plot
Linnette reveals no engagement while Gerald Spaulding declares impending marriage to Josephine. John Gail accuses Spaulding of courting Linnette, warning of heartbreak from Georgia to Georgia, as Linnette’s wistful charm hides her rising resolve. The scene ends with Spaulding announcing nuptials and Linnette absorbing the news beneath the bending trees.
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Fohn
Gail
Linnette
Gerald Spaulding
John
Jerry Spaulding
Georgia
Spaulding
Gerry
Gerald
Josephine
Lucia
John Gall
Farm Renting Shows One Percent Gain in Ten Years
MADISON Wis Oct 9 A report by the Institute for Research in Land Economies and Public Utilities argues farm tenancy rose only one percent in the last decade based on 1920 census data. It notes tenants farm roughly 28 percent of land by acreage and 35 percent by improved land, with regional and state variations across the corn belt and South.
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Aneress
Madison
Wis
United States
Institute For Research In
Richard R. Ely
Institute
North
South
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
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Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakotas
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
Utah
New England
Nevada
Memorial Homes Honor Blandy and Other Americans in Russia
Harold F. Blandy of New York who died of typhus while aiding famine victims is commemorated with Blandy Memorial Hospital in Ufa and Blandy Memorial Home in Miass. Similar Heroic memorials exist in Simbirsk for Philip B. Sheild, as American relief furnished food and medicines. The AR A relief mission ended with Russia no longer starving, yet grateful to America persists.
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Relief Administration
Harold F. Blandy
New York
American Relief Administration
Ufa
Russia
Blandy
America
Miass
Ekaterinburg
Siberia
Harold Blandy
Simbirsk
Philip B. Sheild
Soviet Republic
Local church elects new officers and teachers
Brother Russell preached here Sunday and Sunday night. New officers and teachers were elected Sunday. R. W. Wood was elected superintendent, Mr. Ritts vice superintendent, Mrs. Nellie Bob Munday secretary. Teachers: Mr. Munday, Mrs. R. W. Wood, Herbert Jepper, Ruth Wood and Emma Coley. Miss Vendetta and Juanita Smith spent Friday night with Miss Retha Anderson. Mrs. Marvin Laughlin hosted dinner for all local parents Sunday. Lorena Anderson spent Friday night with Addie Smith and both Anderson sisters had dinner with Nina Mae and Jennie Henry Sunday.
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Brother Russell
R. W. Wood
Ritts
Nellie Bob Munday
Mr. Munday
Herbert Jepper
Ruth Wood
Emma Coley
Vendetta
Juanita Smith
Retha Anderson
Marvin Laughlin
Lorena Anderson
Addie Smith
Nina Mae
Jennie Henry
MR Read All the Ads All the Time
A short column highlighting a store’s constant ad coverage and customer interest in promotions. The piece notes steady reader attention to weekly inserts and price comparisons across departments.
The Famous Mrs Fair film opens at McSwain Theatre
A Metro Pictures presentation from Louis B Mayer adapts James Forbes The Famous Mrs Fair into a motion picture directed by Fred Niblo. The story centers on Mrs Fair returning from Red Cross service to find her family fraying under her extended lecture tour and fame, then choosing home over vanity.
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James Forbe
Fred Nible
McSwain Theatre
Metro Pictures’ Corporation
Fred Niblo
James Forbes
Fai
Hollywood
Louis B. Mayer
Mrs. Fair
Metro-Louis B. Mayer
Fair
France
Frances Marion
Charles J. van Enger
New Zealand Sheep Decline Cited in 1922 Report
A New Zealand report notes a drop of 1,009,000 sheep this year compared to 1921. It also states insect life causes damages exceeding 35 million dollars annually in the country.
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New Zealand
Main Street V V1 Satirical Column Snippets
A collage of wry lines and aphorisms on parenting, aging, speeders, and rural life. The sketches lampoon welfare workers, society norms, and roads policy with tongue in cheek humor. Cumulative snippets reflect a midcentury small-town newspaper voice.
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Crool
OFA
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LATTA
May
Lynch
Effie Lee
Ola Gipson
Charlie Neely
Texas
Mrs. Chapman
Near Ada
Grandma
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Zack Davis
Mr. Carter
Stonewall
Johnsey
Bob Davis
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Gwin & Mays Drug Store
McSwain
Catherine MacDonald
Jeffrey Fate
Angy Brice
Regus
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