Idle Ife Love Journey Across America
Hal Ireland, son of a wealthy banker, travels from New York to San Francisco with a cross country auto party on a share expense plan. He grows closer to Kerrigan while growing wary of Crack, and romance sparks with Barry Trafford after a mistaken room assignment. Barry declares love but believes she must not.
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Hal Ireland
San Francisco
New York
Barry Trafford
Glies Kerrigan
Anastasia
Martin Crack
Barry
Kerrigan
Crack
Wals
Hay Be
Hal
Mal
Wal
Crack's bold proposition ends in a tense confrontation
Hal and Kerrigan encounter Crack in a New York bar where Crack flirts with danger by steering talk toward Broadway and a place called the Wrong Door. Cracks of jealousy surface as Kerrigan and Hal confront him and a bartender intervenes to avert a fight. Crack reluctantly apologizes amid sober restraint.
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Crack
Hal
Kerrigan
Haul
Barry
Star
Tial
Broadway
N'York
New York
Wal
Talcully
West Fifty-third Street
Jed Silver
Ile
Jed
Clark
Kenigan
Kerikan
Val
A Car Ride Toward Summer in Iowa
Hal and companions travel westward with Rasputin’s steady pace under a bright Iowa morning. Tension eases as Hal reconciles with Kerrigan and focuses on Barry, whose fear and past constraints begin to lift in the sunlit journey toward a foreseen, unfolding future.
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Iowa
Hal
Rasputin
New York
Mrs Pulsipher
John Pulsipher
Arkansas Traveler
Kerrigan
Joe
John
Crack
Barry
Anastasia
Ruasputin
Penalty for Sending Blackmail Letters in Mail Service
Legal penalty for sending blackmail letters via the U S mail includes a $5,000 fine or up to five years imprisonment, or both.
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United States
Why So Many Men Bitter Berlin and Mussolini's War Discussed
The piece notes Berlin war bitterness against Catholics with posters calling out a grafting Center party allied with Bolshevism. It also reports Frank A Hitchcock's death and his pioneering mail aviation role. Several other anecdotes touch on war talk, a rattlesnake preacher, bonds loss, and social observations.
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Berlin
Frank H. Hitchcock
Mussolini
Abyssinia
Japan
Arthur Brisbane
Grafting Center
Reich
Germany
Quiltmakers Favor Old Time Patterns
Patchwork quilt making remains in the limelight with popular old designs such as Log Cabin Rare Old Tulip Poinsettia Pineapple Butterfly Pussy in the Corner Thin Wheel Sunbonnet Babies. The piece offers sewing tips and promotes Book No 21 from Home Craft Company for mail order.
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Home Craft Company
Department D
Nineteenth and
St. Louis Avenue
St. Louis
Parole System Critiqued by Eminent Police Chief at Convention
Six hundred police chiefs gathered at Allamiec City for the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention. J Edgar Hoover condemned current parole practice as a national scandal while urging reform, with support and caution from officials like Winthrop Lane and Lewis Lawes.
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International Association of Chiefs of Police
Allamiec City
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice
Homer
Literary Digest
Inconsistencies in Word Usage Across Nations
In this Atlantic Monthly excerpt, Herbert W. Horwill notes language mismatches between British and American English. He cites varied terms like cracker versus biscuit, administration versus cabinet, boot versus shoe, and humorous misnamings such as shoobrick and booblick to highlight cross cultural linguistic drift.
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United States
National Cracker Company
National Biscuit Company
Washington
Westminster
Herbert W. Horwill
Distinguishing Looks Trick For Self Perception
The reader notes that feeling young and looking distinguished inspires risk taking. The piece argues that vanity fades as one gains experience, and true style comes from character, not mere skin deep changes.
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Nooman
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Frank Hitchcock
Thomasville
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Campbell Thlmes
Indies
Sacramento River
California
Madame Evelyn
New Jersey
Texas
Exas
Nathan Straus
Ulese
King
Grandmot Yashio
Coleman Mantles
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Coleman Lamp & Stove Co
Factory & WomenMice
Wicarra
Kana
Dopt
Miiesia
Milnesia
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