The Story Chapter: Unwin Seeks Help From Old Pledge
L Floyd Unwin and his friend Howard Bettington dine with Alfred Gibbons, a financial magnate and college associate. Unwin presents a written pledge they once took to aid each other in adversity, asking for support to educate his son Bob and daughter Mary. Gibbons scoffs at the pledge yet agrees to place Unwin’s daughter in his organization Sheim, calling at his office next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Unwin
Howard Bettington
Alfred Gibbons
Unwin
Bob
Mary
Gibbons
Sheim
Memphis
Toledo
Mary Unwin
Radway
Smith
Mr. Gibbons
Harrod
Harte
Buford
Planning the Cruise Amid Old Sea Objects
In East Thirty-fourth Street Bettington keeps a seaside studio with figureheads and a sparse workspace. Unwin, eager to fund his children's futures, dreams of selling paintings to finance schooling while Bettington plans a two day departure for a Maine coast painting expedition. Mary at Elgar Madwy’s office awaits an opportunity tied to Alfred Gibbons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unwin
Bettington
New York
Tubby
East Thirty-fourth Street
Gibbons
Harvard
Gloucester
Maine
Mary
Alfred Gibbons
Smith
Northampton
Radway
Hallett
Albatross
New York Yacht Club
East Twenty-third Street
Bar Harbor
W. Clement
S. S. Albatross
Gibbons schemes as Radway’s daughter faces aid offer
Mary Unwin visits the man she once trusted as Elgar Radway plans an ocean voyage with a secretary. Gibbons plots to disguise a loan as a favor while Mary weighs leaving Radway’s service and a sister’s future. politics, debts, and shipboard intrigues set the scene for a dramatic continuation.
First Change Carrier Simple but Ingenious
Massachusetts investigators uncover a claim of the first change carrier used in a mercantile store. A Lowell merchant, seeking efficiency, modified hollowed croquet balls and wooden stilts to create a two-sided pneumatic-like carrier sending coins from the front to the rear cashier, a precursor to modern carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Lowell
Ganing Wisdom Bear 8 Restour and Mend
A fragmentary note cites wisdom about endurance and repair. It suggests that bearing pain or strain properly leads toward belonging, while foolishness diverts the path. No clear names, dates, or places are present.
Dairy slumps blamed on substitutes debate roils Wisconsin
Senator John C. Schuman of Watertown rebuts claims that butter surpluses stem from farmers consuming substitutes. He argues misattribution, noting other dairy products also face low prices and rising storage surpluses, urging public scrutiny of those blamed.
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Watertown
Wis
John ¢. Schuman
America
Senator Schuman
Dairs
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wonder Cavern Tours Draw Motor Tourists in New York
At Howe Caverns near Cobleskill New York motor tourists now descend 150 feet by electric elevator into vast underground chambers lit by electric lights. Geologists deem the cavern a twin wonder to Niagara Falls, made accessible by the new road improvements along the Schenectady route.
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Cobleskill
N. Y
Rip van Winkle
Hudson Highlands
Nature
Mynherr van Winkle
Rip
Howe Caverns
Dame van Winkle
Niagara Falls
Wlite
Caaverns
Schohanna ‘Trail
Albany
Schenectady
Stock Market Crash Boosts Book Sales
New York reports the market tumble stimulates book sales as readers seek reference works and history. Barnard College professor Harry D L Hollingsworth says literature thrives on upsets, with demand for World Book Cyclopedias and scientific volumes rising amid uncertainty.
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New York
Wall Street
Harry DL. Hollingsworth
Barnard College
Colnabin University
Hollingsworth
Edison Inventions Include Electric Pen And Wireless Tele Orbs
The list cites Edison's notable devices such as the electric pen and inklineograph the carbon telephone transmitter the megaphone to magnify sound the phonograph a incandescent lamp and light system electric valve wireless telegraphy to and from moving trains and alkaline storage batteries.
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Edison
Farm Auction Signals Move from Maryland to Indians
Discontinuing farming, I will sell at public sale my entire personal property and part of the real estate including a canning factory and equipment. Sale begins 10 oclock at my home on the Preston to Bethlehem road, prior to April 1. Property includes mules, cows, wagons, implements, tractors, bees, tools, household goods, kitchen furniture, stoves, and chicken-raising supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Preston
Bethlehem
John Deere
South Bend
Land sale notice at Tanyard Crossing on B. A. Railway
Immediately after the gale of the above personal property I will sell my canning house and equipment and the land described as All that parcel of land at Tanyard Crossing north side of B. C. A. Railway fronting 234 feet along the public road from Tanyard to Frazer's Flats and extending 200 feet easterly along the railway, containing slightly over 1 1/2 acres, improved with a well equipped up to date property.
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Tanyard Crossing
Tanyard
Frazer's Flats
Equipment for sale from Scott Waddell estate auction
Equipment includes an 80 hp boiler nearly new three kettles conveyor steam crane and all required factory machinery with electric lights. Personal property terms require 1000 cash with six month credit on larger sums with note and security plus interest. Real estate terms: one third cash day of sale balance by September 16 1940 or all cash at option. Sale without reserve. Auctioneers James Temple and E T Moore.
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Scott Waddell
James ‘S'Emple
E.T. Moore
Farm for sale in Denton Maryland by Wallace E. Clark
Wallace E. Clark offers his Denton Maryland farm of 59 acres near Thawleys Church for public sale on March 15 1930 at 2 to 3 p m in front of the Court House. Property includes a six room house, barn, silo, granary, sheds, poultry houses, well water, gas lighting, orchard, and high cultivation with optional easy payment plan or all cash. Possession April 1 1930. Auctioneer James Temple. Inquiries to Oscar Clark or J Fletcher Clark. My personal property sold April 1 1930.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Johnson
Denton
Maryland
Court House
Thawley’s Church
Richmond
Wallace E. Clark
James Temple
Up-to-Date Seafood Market Ad at Denton Maryland
Up-to-Date Seafood Market at 6th and Gay Street Denton Maryland offers fresh crab meat oysters trout and fish wholesale or retail. Free delivery in town. Proprietor James H Pollard. Phone number 202 Denton Md.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
6Th & Gay St
Denton, Md
James H. Pollard
Denton
Two-Dollar Dinner for Six Menu and Recipes
A historical dining guide shows a dinner for six costing under two dollars with recipes for Corned Beef Gravy Buttered Asparagus and a Cabbage Pepper and Grape Salad. The menu lists prices and preparation steps for each dish using canned goods and common pantry ingredients. The plan includes serving suggestions and notes that prices vary by region.
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc. Publishers
Wyndham Martyn
U. & Wnu
Elgar
Europe
Elgar Radway
White House
Whitburn
Washington
Evelyn Radway
Ile
Paris
Evelyn
Elena
Ganing Wisdom
Frankith
John C. Schuman
Wonder Cavern
Anil
Guernsey
T. B
Farmers and Merchants State Bank of
Venton
Calvert C
Merriken
Lvelyn M
M. A. Bracket
Dun Tist Market St
Uenton Auto Co
RFARM
Tuckahoe Neck
Caroline County
Hazel Clark
Easton
Oscar Clark
J. Fletcher Clark
WM. Pepper Constable
Maryland Trust Building
Baltimore, Md
Elkton, Md
U. & Pat
W. Ganoung
Chic-Tone Company, Inc
Angola
Indiana
Del-Mar-Va
Whippet
A. L. Miller
Willys-Overland Co
Bullock & White
Willys Six
Willys Knight
Bullock & Whittpe
Willys and Overland
Fiske Air Flight
Thea and Tubes
M. K. Newnam’s
M. K. Newnam
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Nlewspa Permalhive
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