Impressions of Zona Gale by Mary Stewart Cutting Jr
A tribute to Zona Gale, praising her understanding and small town focus. The piece notes novels like Friendship Village Miss Lulu Bett and The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre and highlights her sympathy and lack of judgment. It mentions her interest in joining Star Author Series of Matrimonial Adventures and discusses The Clausens as an example of universal married life.
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Zona Gale
America
Pelleas
Etarre
Lulu Bett
Clausens
Mary Stewart Cutting, JR
Miss Rickson Inspires Clauson In Quiet Moment
In a Missouri city tale, Clauson, weary of his dull boarding house life with Jep, visits Ruth Rickson the scarred boarding house tenant. He contemplates romance while Jeps routines frustrate him, then offers help and discovers Rickson wants stability marriage and a stenography path.
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Clauson
Miss Rickson
Jep
Darling
Dibble
Arthur
Clawson
Paradise
Ruth Rickson
Claus
Clausson
Clausen
Calico and trade shape language across regions
The Kansas City Star notes that calico derives from Calicut in India and that foreign peoples renamed cloth after source towns. American calico spread through trade with Arabs and Levantines, who called it Mericani, a pattern of language formed by commerce.
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India
Calicut
England
America
Near East
Kansas City Star
Bomb used as andiron for 57 years explodes wrecking plantation house
A Civil War era bomb kept as an andiron and used for shot putt ing exercises finally exploded two miles south of Opelousas Louisiana. The blast wrecked a plantation house that was empty at the time and caused the building to burn to the ground.
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Hyde
Jefferson City
St. Louis County
Soldier Bonus Commission
W. N. Phillips
Phillips
Missouri
Missouri Association
Geo. A. Pickens
Marysville
The
Pickens
Greater Missouri Movement
H.J. Blanton
Paris
D. C. Simons
Grant City
William Southern
Independence
Fred Naeter
Cape Girardeau
E. B. Roach
Carthage
Fred Mitchell
Excelsior Springs
George H. Neff
Kansas City
Douglas V. Martin, Sr
St. Louis
James Todd
Springfield
Gertrude Alexander
Francis N. Whitney
Supreme Court
Daisy McClure
Harrison County
Joseph B. McClure
Albert Clotfelter
James J. West
Industrial Workers of the World
Sarcoxie
Jasper County
Robert Lacey
Boonville
Prairie Home
Cooper County
Lacey
Wiliam Hedges
Bowling Green
Hedges
Marie
Pully Reeds
Pauline Hedges
Cuba
Crawford County
Geo. W. Lockridge
Plattensburg
Davies County
Webb City
Paul Boyts
James River
Patterson Springs
Opelousas
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Matrimonial Adventures
Pel- Vi
Wee See
United Feature Syndicate
Mr. Clauson
Q Dearest
Missouri News Nuggets
Mead-Patterson Grain and Feed Company
J. D. Mead
W. M. Patterson
E. A. Shaver
W. H. Austin
J. W. Milsap
Peer
South Main Street
Poplar Bluff
James Shelley
Galena
White River
Norfolk
Ark
Harry Lay
Warsaw
Politte Hivins
Bonne Terre
Lay
Senate
Sedalia
W. D. Smith
State Fair Board
Smith
Charles A. Lee
General Assembly
Department of Education
Suda Hardware Company
Louisiana
Buck Ragan
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