Gail Sargent's Evening of Power and Ambition
In a Market Square church vestry scene and later at a gala, Gail Sargent navigates intrigue as Edward Allison consolidates rail stakes. Gail matures amid social entanglements with Rev. Boyd, Rodley, Van Ploon, and Aunt Helen Davies guiding her choices and awakening a new view of marriage and ambition.
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Market ‘Square
Gail Sargent
Edward E. Allison
Smith Boyd
Allison
Gail
Jim
Jim Sargent
Juanita
Boyd
Grace
Aunty
Jelle
Ted Teasdale
Handsome Rodley
Arly Fosland
Hi van Ploon
Lucile
Ted
Rodney
Howard
Arty
Rev. Smith Boyd
Mrs. Davies
Aunt Helen
Dick Rodley
Willis Cunningham
Houston van Ploon
Helen
Vedder Court property condemned for city terminal
Edward E Allison advances a map marked plan from New York to San Francisco while negotiating a Vedder Court property condemnation for the Municipal Transportation company. Tim Corman confirms no hitch, setting a thirty one million appraisal and one week notice to proceed.
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Pines
Nugget City
Copperville
Wilcox
Yando Chasm
Golden West
Priestly and
Gorman
Allison
New York
Pacific Slope
Puget Sound
Orange Valley
San Francisco
Los Angeles
P. S
Gail Sargent
United States
Edward E. Allison
Chicago
Tim
Vedder Court
Tim Corman
Municipal Transportation Company
Tim Cutman
Vague Explanations in Ireland on the Causes of War
Norman Hapgood cites Irish ignorance about the war citing a smithy tale that the Servitudes provoked the conflict by marrying a Morgan woman and vows it mirrors Herodotus. He also recalls a man who joined British troops after attempting to join Boers and quips he would have given his soul for a fight.
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Denver
Chicago
Inland Pacific
Silverknob
Nugget City
The
Inland
Wilcox
Allison
Pines
Copperville
Range
White Range
Ireland
England
Germany
Herodotus
Norman Hapgood
Harper's Weekly
Fray Bentos Fish Gas and the River Plata Illumination
In Fray Bentos Argentina the world’s largest kitchen produced beef extract from 40 pounds of beef per pound of extract. Waste from 1,000 bullocks daily drew fish from the River Plate as fish gas lit the district. Now the town uses all bullock parts, fish gas is replaced by electricity, and fish abandon the river.
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Fray-Bentos
Plata
Astronomer Characterized as Flash Writer
A dialogue notes the astronomer is a flash writer and on authority about meteors, prompting questions about credibility and storytelling.
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs Thomson of Philadelphia describes severe six year change of life pains and relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She endorses it as a trusted woman’s remedy and urges others to seek advice from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts with confidential responses from a woman.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Philadelphia
Mrs. Thomson
W. Russell St
No Smoke of Battle in Modern Warfare
The piece notes smokeless powder eliminates smoke on the firing line in the European conflict. Artillery emits only a thin mist that vanishes quickly, while smoke appears mainly where shells explode to conceal gun positions and reveal impact points.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Population figures of ancient Egypt debated by historians
Herodotus places at least twenty thousand inhabited cities in Amasis era around 525 B C, a number many scholars doubt. Maspero Champollion Flinders Petrie and Rawlinson are authorities cited, with Britannica offering a comprehensive article on the topic.
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Ancient Egypt
Herodotus
Amasis
Maspero
Champollion
Flinders
Petrie
Rawlinson
Encyclopedia Britannica
Feed Children On Properly Selected Food Pays Dividends
A mother testimonial from Battle Creek promotes Grape-Nuts and Postum as the key to healthier, sturdier children. She notes avoiding potatoes with coffee and excess meat, adding fruit, Grape-Nuts with cream, soft boiled eggs, and Postum. She claims a teething baby improved after Grape-Nuts with milk. The ad ends with the slogan There’s a Reason.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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van Ploon
Collié Nursery
Uncle Jim
Helen Davies
Aunt Helen Davies
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