One Inventor's Son Fights His Father's Will In Court
A son plans to challenge his late father's will claiming undue influence. The father, a renowned inventor, left between two and three hundred thousand dollars to the son, with the other siblings receiving more. The case questions the father's mental state at the time of the will and ponders how best to divide a fortune among three children.
Wounded Chinese Demands Promise From Lee Chow Meeting
In a tense bedside scene Madge agrees to translate a letter for Mrs Graham while a wounded Chinese man asserts a bid to show Lee Chow a letter and arrange a meeting with the head man of the bad men. He insists the promise be kept when Lee Chow arrives.
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Katherine
Lee Chow
Madge
Box
Lee Chow Contact Plan Described in Hidden Letter
An ominous exchange describes a covert message orchestrated through a white cloth on a fence to alert Lee Chow. A courier is instructed to conceal a letter and signal readiness for talks, with a watchful guard ensuring the plan proceeds.
A Fashion Model's Diary on Season and Sales
A fashion diary discusses midseason sales to make room for resort wear in Havana, Palm Beach, Miami, and Nassau. It notes brisk orders, job preservation, and charity by shoppers while describing a desired cost price evening frock in creamy white crepe with purple velvet details and twisted velvet straps.
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Havana
Palm Beach
Miami
Nassau
Madame
Stars Say For Thursday December 24 Horoscope Note
The edition warns of a tense day with lunar influence affecting writings contracts and speculation while employment may bring anxiety. It advises tact with authorities and cautions against treachery and slander. Notable nativity highlights Kit Carson as a pioneer and scout.
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Kit Carson
Fashion ensembles shine in lighter fabrics with single color schemes
On Fifth Avenue designers stage rapid comebacks with coordinated frock and coat ensembles in light fabrics. Highlights include a center-belted coat look linked by a belt through side coat slits, and a black crepe marocain frock with white maro cain accents. Brown for evening remains strong with lace satin and metallics, often paired with pink. Worth leads the brown evening trend with a brown satin Worth gown and pink satin jacket, while many Worth gowns feature brown trim or gloves.
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Worth
Brown
Ready-Cooked Foods Aid The Time-Strapped Homemaker
A reading lists ready cooked and partially cooked foods that suit busy kitchens. Canned sauces, mincemeat, plum pudding and fruit cake mix ease holiday prep. Semi ready products include canned apple sauce cranberry sauce and cooked sweet potatoes. Ready biscuit dough and other prepared flours offer home made taste with less effort.
A Miracle Restores Lucrezia Bori Voice After Silence
The life of Lucrezia Bori, last of the Borgias, as her voice fades and returns. A decade of medical battles, pilgrimages, and devotion precede a miraculous recovery that propels her back to opera in triumphant form.
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Lucrezia Bori
Castile
Italy
Miss Bori
St. Francis of Assisi
Keep Fit by Exercise A Splendid Health Rule
Royal S Copeland argues modern life limits daily physical work and promotes regular outdoor exercise. He prescribes a daily walk of one to two miles, proper posture, and open air activity as the core regimen, noting walking, swimming, horseback riding, tennis and golf as options, with no excuses to avoid walking. He suggests a medical check before starting any routine and warns against excessive exertion.
Health Q and A 1931 postal advice column snippet
A 1931 newspaper feature service Q and A column covers catarrh diet. questions range from eye muscle weakness to cramps dizziness and dandruff guidance. medical tips suggest circulation improves with general health, prism exercises, properly fitted glasses, daily hair brushing, and framing a typical teen weight reference.
Helpful Advice to Girls By Nancy Lee
A reader asks how to handle a yearlong crush on a neighbor who has not written back. The adviser suggests writing to explain concern over his illness and absence, then accept if there is no reply and move on to consider other prospects.
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Mary
John
Harry
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Nancy Lee
Sis
Qsis
Good-Night Stories Worms Versus Robins War Ends
A whimsical tale set beyond the nursery wall features a tin-soldier general and his shadow army defending garden worms from robins. The robins swoop in, eat the worms, and end the war as the soldiers fail to deter the birds. Copyright 1931.
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Hanid
Serviga
Our Rhyming Optim by Aline Michaelis
The narrator reflects on a moonlit night as a lone figure races through dark skies toward the horizon. Night imagery, cold air, and distant stars frame a hurried escape among pale clouds and retreating hosts.
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Aline Michaelis
Compiled Aphorisms From Noted Authors
A collage of quotes from Churchill Carlyle Reynard Horace Henry Cicero Horace Seneca Chapman and Cibber on fame courage temptation and human nature. The selection juxtaposes views on error courage and social judgment.
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Horace
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