Courage Counts and Hall Caine’s Survivial Through Adversity
The article reflects on Sir Hall Caine, noting how early poverty and ridicule failed to deter his confidence and courage. It traces his path from orphaned youth to acclaimed novelist with stage adaptations and royalties, emphasizing that persistence forged his success. It also comments on prohibition and public opinion, citing Dr. F. Scott McBride and others.
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Sir Hall Caine
Dante Gabriele Rossetti
Hagar
Hall Caine
Sir Hal] Caine
The School Bell Rings in Missouri Past
Glenn Frank recalls a bronze school bell once rung for forty years in Missouri country schools. The bell now sits as a quiet paperweight, symbolizing a bygone era of unquestioning education and teachers as moral missioners. He ponders how back-to-school season invites questions about the value of education today.
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Glenn Frank
Missouri
Eli
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Liane Barretts Daring Path Through Love and Danger
Liane Barrett faces love triangles with Van Robard and Clive Cleespaugh while a rumor of a past scandal haunts her. Detective Shane McDermid reassures her as danger from Johnny Barbados looms, and Tressa plots to break the engagement amid Chicago winter streets and social high drama.
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Liane Barrett
van Robard
Willow Stream
L. I
Cass
Liane
Elsie Minter
Van
Chuck Desmond
Shane McDermid
Alexis Club
Johnny Barbados
Johnny
Shane McDermit
Old Cleespaugh
Lhane
Shane
Clive
Tressa
Trousseau
How It Began Series Requests Reader Ideas
The Globe invites readers to submit ideas for the origin of customs or sayings. Readers can write to Russ Murphy and Ray Senusky to suggest topics and have them illustrated in the series.
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Russ Murphy
Ray Senusky
Slump Spreads Odd Jobs Across New York High Rises
In New York a surge of economic shifts reshapes daily life as people swap luxury for modest quarters many turn to service jobs beneath former status. Henry Seli discovers a former colleague now serving as a hotel staffer under an assumed name, highlighting blurred class lines and renewed courage amid tough times.
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O. O. McIntyre
New York
East 63d Street
East Side
Henry Seli
Westchester
Sell
Henry
Majestic Radios Highlight New Features in 1932 Line
Radio program listings include Marconi to speak on The Beginning of Wireless from London. Evening schedules feature WEAF NBC WHK WJZ stations with entertainers and news. Majestic unveils Spray Shield Tube Twin Power Detection and Modulated Circuit at Amarrillo Electric Co.
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Ay C.e-Butterf
Associated Press
New York
Guiglielmo Marconi
America
Wabc-Cbs
London
WEAF
NBC
Julia Sanderson
Frank Crumit
Don Voorhees
Earl Spicer
Hank Keene
Rudy Vallee
WABC
CBS
Ben Bernie
WHK
Cleveland
Frank Winegar
WJZ
the News
Washington
Ray Tucker
New York World-Telegram
Burgoyne
Saratoga
Dream Pictures
Archer Gibson
Los Angeles
Hollywood Bowl
Majestic
Amarillo Electric Co
East
8Th St
Heart of Liane the note to lure in her
A distressed woman pushes for action to reach a woman named Liane. She questions past efforts and presses for a solution, urging a written note and a visit to the heart of the matter. Page 14 reference implies continuing discussion.
Twitchtail and Mrs Twitchtail Seek a New Home
In a 1931 Burgess tale Twitchtail and his mate abandon their old wheat field for a safer home away from men. They face a long trek, testing choices and neighbors before crossing a highway and meeting a sudden danger from an oncoming automobile.
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Twitchtail
Mrs. Twitchtail
Catalog culture and furniture lore in humorous digressions
A 1931 McNaught Syndicate column riffs on catalogs shaping tastes from furniture wood to vellum bindings and gilt backs. The narrator laments catalog obsession, cites Giesheimer and Durante, and quips about stage life and Parisian fashion in a playful, literary aside.
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Metropolitan Art Museum
Crossword puzzle clues from a seaside puzzle page
A list of crossword clues including Oceanic questions on punishment compounded prayers shields shapes and body parts with vertical and horizontal entries spanning astronomy geography zoology and common phrases. The page mixes wordplay and definitions such as sun personified call for help at sea and various linguistic hints.
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Wet
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Tunney
Deems
Taylor
Theart FY
Jane
Mabel McElliot
Beane
Great Britain
Slump
Grand Rapids
Chippendale
Adam Brothers
Sherator
Hepplewhite
Aroute
Bedtime
T. W. Burgessy
Hergesheimer
Jimmy Durante
Morocco
Levant
Wilde
Variety
O. C. McIntyre
Vallee
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
King
Japan
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