Adventure Romance in an Unknown Land
An American traveler with imagination pursues a quest through Tan Kuan beyond the Great Wall. He encounters traders and thieves united against him while a sophisticated hero and unhappy heroine navigate love and danger, with an Arab maiden adding peril and intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
He'en
Tan Kuan
Empire of the
Yellow Sun
Great Wall
China
Tower of Babel
Tat Kuan
Koresh
The Wait and the World of Con in Dowagiac
A drifting poet John Levington loses his love Mary through poverty and social scorn. They marry, Mary bears a child, and hardship follows as John’s poetry cannot pay a living. Mary dies in childbirth, John spirals into grief, and their son Con grows through years of travel, work, and memory, ending with a harsh Manila voyage where a shipboard knife tragedy echoes old racial tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Levingter
John
Thesrorld
Mary
Porte-Cochere
Amba
Michigan
Julia
Gary Ts
Hele Gattayse
John Evew
Polly Coupe
Nawity
Herlee
Mars House
Chaself
John Levington
Alse
Mr. Martin
Big Girl
Mary Leyington
Dowaglac
Couto
Dowagiac
Tagny
Leington’s
Jali
Jobo
Dowiglie
Sant
April
Diwaglae
Levington
Ecouncil
Little Con
Jean
Con
Chicago
Dearborn Street
Memphis
Shasta
Gulf of Air
San Francisco
Dory Street
Philippines
Gon
Bill
Elomars
John Leyington
Con Chee Ming and the small leather sack
Con Chee Ming appears in a fragmented text discussing shell shapes from Everybodys Magazine and an expedition note about a gorai mountain goat. The piece references racing car tail shapes and vacuum effects, then shifts to a London data note about starving cats being rescued and euthanized for fur, with a stray Brooklyn Eagle mention.
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London
Brooklyn
Eugle
Road Builders Study Soils A Rural Highway Durability Probe
The Bureau of Public Roads and the Bureau of Soils are launching a joint study on soils relation to highway durability. Samples from Maryland sites will test moisture effects, bearing value, and laboratory characteristics, with state department cooperation to expand tests along the Washington Baltimore corridor and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Spatsi
Bureau of Soils
Maryland
Washington
Federal Highway Engineers
Poor Roads Block Better Market Communications
The farmer gains rapid market knowledge from wire communications and can time shipments for peak prices if roads are good. Poor roads or impassable routes negate these efforts and hinder delivering market news to farmers.
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United States
Money to Improve Highways Strengthens National Infrastructure
Counties and states have appropriated over 1 billion dollars for local road improvements. The emphasis is on building and maintaining highways to boost interstate commerce, economy, and national defense.
Weeds and Joy Riders on Farms Highlight Farm Issues
The text notes weeds as a major farm problem due to lack of vigilance in monitoring new growers and early denting of infestations. It laments urban joy riders shaping farm life and warns against overextended, costly eradication as weed spread increases across fields.
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Celtics
Service as Requirement in Modern Road Plans
Modern roads are being built or planned with service as the primary requirement. The interests of both the business man and the farmer are served in the comprehensive program for road work now under way.
WAYS WITH FRUIT From Can to Kitchen Relish and Preserves
Practical guide on canning cherries raspberries currants and peaches. Instructions cover cherry olives preserve peaches with sugar and vinegar, plus a recipe for green apples and onions fried as a vegetable accompaniment. Includes notes on jar sealing and storage.
Fresh fruit cocktails and chicken with asparagus tips
A mid summer menu offers a refreshing fruit cocktail with berries melons and citrus served in chilled glasses with Canton ginger or mint sauce. Also suggested are a pink watermelon ball dish and a chard hot dish with white or drawn butter sauces followed by a chicken and asparagus noodle entrée cooked in broth with celery and pepper for seasoning.
Dentists Memorial and the Modern Operator
A reflective meditation on dentists past and present, contrasting ancient healers with today’s practitioners. The piece contemplates how modern dentists leave memorials, whether through gold croagh-like monuments or teaching future generations about health and aesthetic value in their craft.
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Dentists
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Safe Use for Headache Pain
An old advertisement touts aspirin branded Bayer as safe for over twenty years and prescribe by physicians. It urges consumers to buy only unbroken Bayer packages with directions to relieve headaches toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Tin boxes hold 12 tablets at low cost and larger packages are sold.
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Bayer
Howard
Drugsista
Adirondacks Mentioned By Pupils In San Diego Union
A boy returns home saying pupils were told by the paper to wear glasses have teeth fixed or have their Adirondacks cut out. The remark suggests officials advised cosmetic or preventive actions as a joke about student appearance and behavior.
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Adirondacks
San Diego
Cah
San Dego Howe
M.P S
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Endures Trust
A Knoxville reader praises Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and related remedies for curing long standing back pain and illness. The testimonial claims improved appetite, strength, and ability to work after using the products. The letter urges others to try the remedies for women’s ailments.
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Knoxville
Tann
E. Pinkham
Ascha E. Pinkham
Pearl Hill
Jacksboro St
Tennessee
Lydia I. Pinkan
Nervous Spells Stop With Eatonic Says Lay Resident
Mr O B Loats of Lay Maryland reports a sudden relief from nervous spells and heart pressure after one box of Eatonic. He claims the remedy removed the toxin and offered a money back guarantee if not pleased. He urges others to try Eatonic for quick relief.
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Eatonic
Mr. O. B. Loats
Lay, Md
Batonie
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Chee Ming
Everybody’s Magazine
Roy Andrews
American Museum of Natural History
Washington, D. C
E. B. Browning
Soux City
Ghrowig
Dundee Bldg
Fort Worth
Misa Mary Hill
Eitteburgy
Peterson
Giles
A. B
Washington Avenue
Acing
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