Rug of fate shapes Farraday family decline
The Farradays prosper on the proceeds of a costly Oriental rug left by Aunt Abbey, resisted sale, and after a series of tragedies the family loses wealth and status. Dora’s elopement, Skippy’s death, and Mrs. Farraday’s struggles culminate in moving to a hotel as the rug’s unforeseen power humbles them.
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Ellen Farraday
Skippy
Dora
Danny Wright
Mrs. Farraday
Abbey
Mr. Farraday
Aunt Abbey
Farradays
Ellen
Van
Ora
New York
Mrs. Parraday
Cities Grant Pay Increases To Help Meet Rising Costs
Cities raise municipal pay to offset higher living costs. Cleveland approves 2,109,000 extra this year with 240 yearly for fire and police and 180 to white collar workers under 3,000, plus 6.5 percent over 3,000. Pittsburgh sets 1.2 million for raises. Chicago 8.5 percent for under 5,600 and about 300 for higher earners. Omaha gives flat 15 per month to about 1,260 workers. New York City boosts pay for 42 top officials adding 86,000 to payroll.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Omaha
New York City
Harmonize Bedroom Decor With Solid Bedspread Advice
Evtta Haley guides room planning from light colors for dark spaces to choosing plain bedsprings for small rooms. She favors simple spreads over heavy patterns, suggests matching pillows, and outlines practical sewing options for twin beds and semi formal looks with gathered or plain skirts.
Bedspread Craft Guide for Period Rooms and Styles
Instructions for creating bedspreads with gathered or pleated skirts in various fabrics. Covers measurements for center length 90 inches, skirt depth 26 inches, and edge finishing. Recommends materials like satin quilting, organdie, chintz, velvet or brocade, with decorative elements such as ruffles, corded seams, and tailored edges for different room styles.
Go Smart Glove Adds Subtle Shine For Elegant Evenings
A quiet season trend features a mesh glove in silver or gold. The color is woven into the plastic yarn, ensuring no polishing is needed and offering an ever-changing, reflective effect.
Colorful Bluebird Bedspread Pattern Offer
Needlecraft patterns detail a bluebird motif for a bedspread with transfer sizes 17 by 19 inches. Due to high demand, filling times are longer for popular patterns. Send orders to Sewing Circle Needleart Dept. B64 W Mandolph St Chicago 80, Ill enclose 20 cents for pattern. Name and address wanted.
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Sewing Circle
Needieernalt Dept
Mandalph St
Chicago
Spider Cautious To Stay Free Of Its Web
A spider avoids its sticky strands by treading only on nonstick lines and keeping its body off the silk. It also secretes a liquid to oil its claws so they won’t stick. Still, accidents occur when a spider becomes trapped in its own web.
Bullet Path Theory From Plane Speed Debate
A backward fired bullet from a plane moving at 300 mph would drop toward Earth in a straight vertical line in theory, assuming equal air resistance and no external forces beyond gravity, illustrating relative motion concepts.
49 Questions and Answers Quiz Style Exchange
A collection of trivia prompts and answers covers wonders from Fort Duquesne’s city to the Arctic frost. It includes FBI investigators, MacArthur’s birth, one dollar bill length, DAR history, wheat germination, permafrost, and Hamlet origins via Saxo Grammaticus.
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Old Fort Duquesne
FBI
Douglas MacArthur
Daughters of American Revolution
Alaska
Saxo Grammaticus
Hamlet
The Answers 1 Pittsburgh 2 No
The excerpt notes responses about FBI employment for women, location mentions Little Rock, a measurement of six inches, a note about permanent soil freezing to hundreds of feet, a twenty five year item, and a statement on snow reflecting the spectrum to appear white.
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Pittsburgh
FBI
Little Rock
Mn Gag GGi and a scattered village vignette
A fragmented text blends odd references to Mn Gag GGi and a village scene. A tourist asks for Biddlese barge distance, with a local reply about rising miles. A collection of jokes and witticisms ends with a line on the taxi’s definition as the longest distance between two points.
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Evtta Haley
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Neve Fast
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