Wealth and romance blur as Mary Brown seeks independence
Mary Brown, daughter of a millionaire, adopts the identity of M Brown an engineer at the Paradise Valley Project. She faces class and gender barriers on the way to a new life meeting Denis Craig and joining a merit group of engineers wives while navigating a shabby house and a hopeful budget lifestyle.
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Mary
David Brown
M. Brown
Paradise Valley Project
Sho
Denis Craig
Mary J
Alao
John Stark
Craig
Allcker
Miss Brown
Lucretia Dorsey
Lucretia
June Leigh
Claribel Moore
Hawaiian Islands
Helen Rich
Flo
Junior Leigh
Kay
Mary Brown
Jane Leigh
Yenra
Five hundred dollars and dreams of a million project
Mary Leigh debates Denia Craig the promoter and a town set for a multi million development. She encounters Hank Johnson who offers questionable help and meets engineer Don, a romantic yet driven figure, as she enters the run down town home of a friendly engineer wife.
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Mary
Hank Johnson
Tle
Sune
June Leigh
Bealdes
Junior
Kay
Nancy
Uttle
Jimmie
Jimmy
Miss Brown
Mr. Johnson
Mary Brown
June
Ahd
Denia Craig
Earth
Miss Leigh
Tolke
Hia
Don
Twelve-Month Calendar Plan for League of Nations
A World War II era expert urges the League of Nations to study a reformed year starting January 1 1989. The plan keeps current month order but shifts days, adding Year-end day and Leap-Year day to balance 864 days and maintain Sunday starts.
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League of Nations
Council of the
New York World-Telegram
Journal of
World Calendar Association
Athle
Development of Cellophane and Its European Spread
The article describes the origin and production of Cellophane, noting its trade name status in the United States and Europe. It details a process of creating solidified viscose sheets from wood pulp, including treatments with sodium hydroxide and carbon disulfide, and attributes the invention to a French man in the Vosges region between 1900 and 1908.
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Europe
Vosges
France
Chinatown debate on language hindered progress
A source quotes Hi Ho noting that evaluating what everyone means delays progress as multiple languages complicate understanding in Chinatown.
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Hi Ho
Chinatown
Jesus Praying In the Garden of Gethsemane
Lesson text outlines Jesus predicting his death, Mary anointing Jesus, Judas betrayal, and Jesus praying in Gethsemane. It emphasizes Jesus choosing obedience over comfort, the disciples’ failures, and the spiritual weight of taking sin for humanity.
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Jesus
Gethsemane
Mary of
Mary
Judas
Christ
Satan
Gethsemmne
Zechariah
Peer
Peter
Gethsemaane
Jerusalem
James
John
Mount of Transfiguration
Climate shifts in Palestine traced by ancient fossils
Scientists Miss Dorothy Garrod and Theodore McCown report from excavations near Mount Carmel that Palestine's climate varied from warm, forested Mousterian times to a dry desert in early periods. Fossils of rhinoceros hippopotamus and crocodile indicate subtropical conditions, while deer fossils suggest changing topography.
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Palestine
Israel
Dorothy Garrod
Theodore McCown
Berkeley
Calif
Mount Carmel
American School of Prehistoric Studies
British School of Archeology
Jerusalem
Science Service
New York World-Telegram
Plucking Bunny Causes Kitchen Misadventure
A young housewife weeps over her failed attempt to prepare her husband’s first meal. The husband asks if the oven is broken, but she reveals she spent the morning trying to pluck a rabbit.
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Hubby
Lost 37 Pounds With Kruschen
Texas woman from Waco reports dramatic weight loss using Kruschen Salts. In three months she shed 87 pounds and encourages friends to try the remedy promoting health and vitality. A four week supply is sold with a money back guarantee at drugstores.
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Waco
Texas
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