Lady Blanche Farm A Romance of the Commonplace
Philip Starr, recovering from typhoid, meets Blanche Manning beside a brook on her Hamstead farm. They share lunch and trade stories of Lady Blanche and the Manning clan, including the founding tale of Lady Blanche farm and its enduring superstition. He plans to travel to Burlington but is invited to stay with Mary Manning at the local estate.
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Philip
Philp
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Mary
Jane
Paul
Tania
Blanche Manning
Blanche
Starr
Php Starr
Aldes
Ian
Ana
Mae Lke
Philp Starr
Lady Blanche Farm
Connecticut Valley
Hamstead
Mascachugetta
Wallacetown
Lady Blanche
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Moses Manning
Lafayette
France
Mat
Cohen
Moses
Ive
Jane Manning
Seth
Homstead
Burlington
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Our Government How It Operates
A 1932 feature extols the Department of Commerce as a national monument to American industry. It tours the vast agency’s units the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce aeronautics mines standards and patents office plus shipping safety services from lighthouses to navigation. It argues the department embodies commerce and industry and warrants continued attention in future articles.
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United States
Congress
Washington
Department of Commerce
St. Peter's
Rome
Assumption
Moscow
Bureau of Foreign
Bureau of Mines
Bureau of Standards
United States Patent Offices
Commerce and Industry
Patent Office
Pation
Bureau of Lghthouses
Bureau of Fisheries
Bureau of Navigation
The
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Steamboat Inspection Service
Coast’ and Geodetic Survey
Wentern
Dalton
Etiquette rule on maid of honor and best man roles
Emily Post outlines strict etiquette for wedding partners. The maid of honor and the best man never speak to each other during the ceremony or reception. They stand on opposite sides, with the best man near the groom and the maid of honor near the bride, and only briefly interact in specified moments.
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Maid of Honor
Emily Post
Wnu Soryloe
Russian scientists find weed as nicotine substitute
A weed found by two Russian scientists offers all the desirable qualities of nicotine. The plant is a farm pest, abundant and inexhaustible, providing a cheaper source for treating aphids and other plant pests. Government experts seek cheaper substitutes to reduce material costs.
Great Bird Collection Given To Harvard Museum
A vast gift of thirty thousand mounted bird specimens and eighty thousand skins, nests, and eggs, from John H Thayer, Harvard alumnus, enriches Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. The collection includes extinct species such as the Labrador duck, passenger pigeon, and Hikimo curlew, plus ten eggs of the great auk and several California condor eggs. The California condor remains rare but not extinct, laying eggs only every two years.
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Harvard Museum
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard
John Hot Thayer
Thayer
Chocolate Cascarets Enter Commercial Field
An old favorite candy laxative gains a new form as Chocolate Cascarets join the market after two years of experiments. The original Cascarets remain in use, and both versions tout strong flavor, effective action, and appealing packaging as they ride on the well advertised slogan they work while you sleep.
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Cleveland
George Ade
Adv
Extemporaneous Speech exchange between Mick and Pat
Mick asks Pat if he spoke before a large audience and Pat retorts he did. Mick then asks what he said, Pat replies Not guilty, presenting a terse exchange with a regional speech cadence.
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Mick
Pat
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Ady Blanche Farm
By Frances Parkinson Keyes
WNT
Frances Parkinson Kegan
Boston
Sree
Wight and
Sorning
Woodward Avenue
Cadillac Square
Detroit
Cole
Remi
Pete
Izzy Epells
Eaid Indlee
Ind Dally
Nx Chemical Works
Patchopun Wie
California
Grae & Cnattey
N. U
Dea Moines
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Matden
Mesa
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