Mystery despite vows in Farnel’s seafaring romance
In the tale a highwayman known as the Galloping Parson kills a man in vengeance while Sir Richard and Helen flee. They reunite after a daring escape, ride to the Moat House with plans for a crucial revelation, and ponder a secret Richard will not yet disclose.
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Roper's Row and Other Tales Review by Richard Maslock
Warwick Deeping's Roper's Row follows a mother's devotion guiding Christopher Hazzard from medical student to healer amid hardship and scandal. Ellen Glasgow's Stooped to Folly portrays three unmarried mothers and modern female autonomy, while Susan Ertz's Galaxy shows an English girl breaking Victorian repression and eloping for love.
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Victorianism Vanquished Sketches of Moral Shifts in Novels
Two novels arriving almost together trace changing morals from mid Victorian to modern times. They map social manners and tensions as literature shifts away from strict propriety toward more open questions of behavior and identity.
Three More From England of Three Other English Novels
The Fiddler by Gertrude Millin chronicles a failed elopement with a violinist who proves fickle. The Prophet's Wife by R O Prowse offers a detailed portrait of a modern minister prophet and his wife. Lark's Fate by John Owen explores a man driven toward brooding madness by love.
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John Owen
Robbery Hero Refuses Credit for Accidental Act
James De Roche, now a policeman in Pawhuska Oklahoma, says the act that brought him hero status protecting a train from robbery was an accident. He had basked in the glory for 30 years before finally speaking out.
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Much Harassed Mayor Reinstates Miss Douglass In Dallas
Miss Mildred Douglass, a Dallas welfare worker, was reinstated after the mayor admitted a mistake in abolishing her $100 a month job. Club women led petitions from 25 000 voters demanding her return, praising her mediating role and noting she helped avert about half of divorces while fighting loan sharks.
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Mildred Douglass
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J. Waddy Tate
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Wake Forest Names Hal Weir as Assistant Coach
Patsy Miller succeeds Stan Cofall as Wake Forest head coach and signs former pupil Hal Weir as assistant coach. Weir brings prior coaching experience and familiarity with the program to the Demon Deacons staff.
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Wake Forest
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Patsy Miller
Stan Cofall
Wake Forest College
Hal Weir
Decatur Assistant Clerk Henry Hartung Plans Two Week Vacation
Henry Hartung assistant city clerk of Decatur will leave next week for a two week vacation to Mont Eagle accompanied by Mrs Hartung.
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