Hal Ireland Faces Coastbound Quest Amid Family Tension
Hal Ireland leaves his father's luxury office after a blunt warning that the San Francisco job must be earned. With six dollars and a train ticket, he vows to reach California on his own terms, reflecting on his strained relationship with his powerful father and a plan to prove himself.
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San Francisco
Hal
Dalrymple
Frederick Ireland
Cromo-Seltzer
California
Ohio
Dimples
Bromoseltzer
West Forties
Chicago
Miami
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Tony
Broadway
The Los Angeles Run Starts for Hal and Companions
Hal enters a crowded garage office as a rough plan to drive four hundred miles in hot weather unfolds. He meets a solemn girl with a fox terrier, Larsen manages three seven passenger cars to Chicago and the West, and a cheerfulmysterious man named Crack Martin signals the tension of an uncertain journey toward Los Angeles.
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Hal
Dalrymple
Larsen
Los Angeles
Néw Rochelle
Thal
L. A
Hallet
Chi
West
Chip
de Soto
Under & Cir
Jake Miller
Miller
Mart
Dad
Frederick Ireland
Curacao Governing Islands and Colonial History
The article notes Curacao as the principal island of a group including Aruba and others off South America near Venezuela. It records discovery by Spain in 1538 and Dutch possession from 1634, with two brief British periods in 1798 and 1806 to 1814, framing Curacao as a Dutch colonial outpost.
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Curacao
Aruba
West Indies
South America
Venezuela
Chicago Tribune
Netherland
Great Britain
Tall Tales of Human Marvels Across Centuries
A voyage through reports of giant bones and myths from 16th to 17th century Europe and Asia. It critiques 31 to 81 foot claims, notes fossil elephant bones misidentified as giants, and offers folklore origins from stilts, siege towers, and distant memory.
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India
Mazurier
Lucerne
England
Thorneway
Cumberland
Calcutta
William Harvey
Gloucester
France
Folklore size contrasts in ancient races
The New York Herald Tribune notes that short races like the Celts clashed with tall peoples such as the Danes or Saxons, though no folklore records giants thirty one feet high.
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New York Herald Tribune
Invincible Mind When Reason Fortifies Self
A compact quotation notes the mind’s invincibility when self-reliant and brave, and asks how much stronger she becomes when she uses reason to engage in thought and deliberation. It cites Marcus Aurelius as the source of these reflections.
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Marcus Aurelius
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