The Girl in the Mirror Mystery by Elizabeth Jordan
Elizabeth Jordan delivers a compelling mystery blending romance and adventure in The Girl in the Mirror. The author, famed for Wings of Youth and The Lady of the Pentlands, draws on a career spanning Harper’s Bazaar editorship and literary advising.
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Elizabeth Jordan
Baldpate
The
New York World
Harper’s Bazar
Wings of Youth
Lady of the Pentlands
Blue Circle
Barbara Devon Wedding Lights Devondale Society
Devondale Ohio hosts Barbara Devon wedding as Jimmy Harrigan watches from the crowd. Barbara and Laurie Devon’s high society union unfolds with New York guests, an Infant Samuel in the procession, and whispers of a dramatic past and future in city theatre.
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Devondale
Ohio
Elm Avenue
Curbstone
Shore High
Jimmy Harrigan
Barbara Devon
Jimmy
St. Gilles
New York
Devons
Arthur Lytton
Country Club
Miss Devon
Devon House
Mercy
Laurie
Barbara
Mrs. Lytton
Reuason
Japan
Robert Warren
Pered
Prince Laurie Devon
Devon
Mrs. Renway
Mrs. Ordway
Sonya Orleneff
Samuel
Samuel Mrs. Lytton
Babs
Sonya
B& Lawwie
Lawwie
Wobert
Rodney Bangs
Jacob Epstein
Epstein
Bangs
Broadway
Odd Masks At Melanesian Dead Festivals
A Detroit News report notes Melanesian dead festival masks exhibited by the American Museum of Natural History. Masks include crested helmet designs carved in secret view during funerals, with hair shaving origins and winged forms. Some masks use plant fibers, wood faces, and boleige coverings, while burk shells at Legeach Peninsula are crafted from facial bones with earth substitutes.
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South Sea Islands
Detroit News
American Museum of Natural History
Etruria in History and Its Ancient Geography
Etruria lay north and west of the Tiber with the Arno valley, corresponding to modern Tuscany and part of Rome province. It housed twelve independent Etruscan cities with advanced political organization, reaching peak around 500 B C as allies of Carthage before Rome's rise reduced them to tributary status by 309 B C.
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Etruria
Italy
Tiber
Apennine Mountains
Arno
Tuscany
Rome
Etruscans
B. C
Carthage
Proverbs on gender and choices in old sayings
A narrator distills old sayings about men and women, noting men grind axes or grind for a woman and women believe what they want to hear. The piece reflects baked-in gender stereotypes and the clash of sticking to coal or choosing danger between two bad options.
Mrs Nichols Narrowly Escapes Ill Health
Springfield woman suffers nervousness headaches dizziness and backaches and says she feels like a 16 year old girl after using a tonic touted as Tanlac or Tidalac. The mixed text praises health tonic benefits and includes lingering unrelated ad phrases and quotes.
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Jennie Nichols
Olive St
Springfield
Missouri
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