Ester Boone Sells Hope and Resists a Bad Marriage
Ester Boone wheels away a life of struggle as she marks her farm for sale only to repel Merton Finch’s bid to marry her for wealth. After three men scout her land Bramley forces a compromise on oil rights, and Ester later drives home in a new roadster with a flourishing oil well, feeling vindicated and financially secure.
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Ster Boone
Stephen
Ester
Merton Finch
Mert
Ester Boone
Mrs. Gurnsey
Rufus J. Bramley
Mr. Bramley
Buster
Brook Farm: A 1841 Communistic Experiment in Massachusetts
Brook Farm in West Roxbury Massachusetts began in 1841 as the Brook Farm Association of Education and Agriculture. The project aimed to solve social problems by equal rewards and task adaptation, growing from Transcendentalist circles led by George Ripley with Emerson Thoreau Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller among supporters.
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Brook Farm
West Roxbury
Mass
Brook Farm Association of Education and Agriculture
Transcendental Club
Ripley
Channing
Emerson
Thoreau
Hawthorne
Dwight
Margaret Fuller
Brook Farm Association
George Ripley
Washington anecdote praises Bonehead Muir painter of battles
A rich Washington couple argued at dinner but then considered commissioning a portrait. An aged diplomat suggested Bonehead Muir, famed for World War paintings, as the artist for a two-person portrait group.
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Bonehead Muir
Washington
Air Survey Tracks Saskatchewan Mineral Wealth
Air planes and seaplanes conduct a three year geological survey in Saskatchewan aimed at northern mineral wealth. Air crews map unknown territory, supplying data to geologists who work with the pilots, followed by expert prospectors.
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Saskatchewan
Foot Shapes Across Nations Describe Global Differences
The text contrasts national foot characteristics, noting the French foot as narrow and long, the Spanish foot small and curved, the Arab foot with a high arch, and varied Irish Scottish English types. It adds Swedes Norwegians and Germans as large feet, Americans as smallest, and Russian toes described as webbed to the first joint.
Oases in London Parks and Public Squares
London hosts about 250 squares gardens and terraces described as oases in a wilderness of brick and stone. Ownership varies among the London county council city corporation several boroughs and private owners.
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London
London County Council
City Corporation
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Chevrolet
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Oldsmobile
Oakland
BUICK
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Cadillac
Frigidaire
G. G. Green, Inc
Woodbury, N. J
Utah
HINES
Midland Savings Bldg
Denver
Colo
Parker
Pengers
Pate Ogue
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
Hall & Ruckel
Waverly Pl
New York
Oregon
California
Heald’s
Heald
Busina
van Ness Ave
San Francisco
Technical Schools
Elect
Mentone
Ellis Street
Jones
Selig Bros
Hotel Roosevelt
Eddy
Auto
Paris
Little Auto
Golden Gate Ave
Write Or Call. Arts Co
Wiltshire
Stocktoney
Union
Auare
Sutter
Harry Boyle
Bath
Faber
Los Angeles
Brooklyn N. We
Harold Somers
Dr. G. H. Berry Co. Rept. W
Chicago
Harry Winfield
Champaign
America
Panama Canal
Havana
Old
Pasma
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington, D. C
Niagara Falls
Canadian Rockies
National Parks
Grand Canyon
Panama Pacific Line
International Mercantile Marine Company
Market Street
Mexico
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