Christmas at the Glen with the Vances and The Stranger
In 1918 Christmas near, Ira Vance and wife await Emery's return as family strain and loneliness haunt them. A mysterious Stranger arrives, guiding renewed hope. Emery reconciles with his father, and a Christlike awakening weaves through Tommy and Bess. The lettered note signals a Gate of Understanding as Eleanor and Emery pledge a new partnership and home. The tale ends with a hopeful, intimate Christmas morning.
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Ira Vance
Emery
Eleanor
Tommy
Bess
Glen
Vance
Vances
Ira
Hess
Kitty Mack
Philip Knox
Amande
Iest
Knox
Mother
Atock
Will Darrow
The
Darrow
the Glen
Elizabeth Vance
Nicanor
Ife
Nothers
Darrew
Cmaclen
Stranger
Grandfather
Toby
Joseph
Marie
Emery Vance
Joseph Hess
Gien
Father
Sister
Christ
Mary and Joseph
Will
Grandmother
Hopsy
Eli
Mary Hess
Franklin
Ira Vance & Son
Ira & Elizabeth Vance & Son
Eleanor Vance
Outlook Justifies State Participation In New York Fair
Grover Whalen says the 1939 World’s Fair in New York will draw fifty million attendees from all states and nations. He notes the event’s vast commercial impact and a $125 million total investment. New York has funded park, roads, bridges, and a state building plan, with an 18 member commission advancing preparations.
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New York
Grover Whalen
New York City
United States
Mr. Whalen
America
Fair Corporation
George Washington
Whalen
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
New York World’s Fair Commission
Carlyle's Sarcasm on Rousseau and political theory
The great Carlyle, seated at table, mocked the idea that political theories affect practice. After listening in silence he declared that Rousseau once printed a book of theories and nobles laughed, but the next edition was bound in their skins.
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Carlyle
Rousseau
National Women's Advisory Committee for 1939 Fair
Mrs. Vincent Astor is named chairman of the National Women's Advisory Committee for the New York World's Fair of 1939. Winthrop W. Aldrich leads the men's National Committee. Together they will mobilize more than 10,000 workers in a national drive to build interest and support for the fair. Grover Whalen says state chairmen will be appointed and every state will participate actively to make the fair nationwide.
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New York
Vincent Astor
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase National Bank
Grover Whalen
The
Fair Corporation
New Lighting and Bubbles to Beautify Fair Lighting
Grover Whalen announces advanced illumination experiments for the New York World's Fair. Engineers test quarter inch scale models using fluorescent dies colored bubbles concentrating lamps and floodlight systems. The aim is not spectacle but large scale beauty and appeal through design.
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New York
Grover Whalen
The
Fair Corporation
Whalen
Ancient Olympic loin cloths and a surprise win
The text recounts 720 B C events where Orsippus of Megara reportedly lost his loin cloth during a race and ran to victory unimpeded. It notes boys wore loin cloths as uniforms and jokes that for years afterward they dressed only in smiles and frowns.
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Orsippus
Megara
Small Salem Park Yet Holds One Giant Sequoia
A tiny 15 by 10 foot city plot in Salem Oregon contains a single California sequoia tree eight feet tall. This miniature park stands amid a neighborhood street, highlighting its quirky urban green space.
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United States
Salem
Ore
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Frome
Doan
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Crisco
N. B. C. Ritz
Rockwood
Legrande
Washburn
Kellogg’s Shredded Wheat
Marco
Small
MES. Filbert’s
Tanna Ua
Maryland
Willard L. Swann
Denton
G. C. Cohee
Denton Harvey Fleetwood
T. L. Trice
Preston Arnie
A Cash Grocery
Preston Milford Kline
Hillsboro
Harry Stedman
Ridgely
E. Calvin Butler
Greensboro
J. W. Sylvester
Goldsboro
J. F. Lane
H. A. Porter
Burrarike
R. H. Gibson
Queen Anne
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