Joyce Sewell Faces Choice At La Barranca Mystery
On the eve of her twentieth birthday Joyce Sewell rebels against her detested stepmother Irma who hires Helm Blackadder to press a rich marriage proposal from Michael Kirkpatrick. Joyce learns La Barranca, her father’s Mexican hacienda, legally belongs to her and receives a letter with a ten thousand dollar Treasury compensation claim for her mother’s murder.
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Joyce Sewell
Irma
Helm Blackadder
Joyce
Michael ’ Kirkpatrick
Mike
Blackadder
la Barranca
United States Treasury
Bradley
Mexico
Elsinboro
Mr. Bradley
Frances Holder
State Department
Newark
Joyce Sewell Seeks Her Power Over La Barranca
Joyce Sewell, daughter and heir of the late Cutler Sewell, pursues ownership of hacienda La Barranca in Mexico. She secures legal help, navigates embassy barriers, and allies with Margarida Fonseca to leverage a plan with General Zacharias Onelia as part of her quest.
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Cutler Sewell
van Suttart
Department of State
Mexican Claims Commission
Washington
Joyce
Margarida Fonseca
Cara’o
Margarida
Mexico
la Barranca
Zacharias Onelia
Chica
Onelia
Joyce Sewell
Hacienda la Barranca
Polished diplomat Dirk Faces Interruption From Joyce
Dirk Van Suttart, second secretary of embassy, navigates the refinements of a high born air while testing a polo mallet. The reception clerk delivers Joyce's slip and hints at a request to see the chief as Dirk prepares to face the dispatch.
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Joyce
Mike Kirkpatrick
Dirk van Suttart
Dirk
Model Hayloft Is Placed in U S Farm Building
The new standardization building in Washington houses the Department of Agriculture laboratories and regulatory bureaus for major farm products. It includes haylofts, a cotton research area, and a fireproof warehouse storing over 1000 bales. The facility serves as the headquarters for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics cotton market news service.
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U. S. Farm
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Washington United Press
New York Herald Tribune
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Cotton Market News Service
Croagh Patrick Mountaintop Revered Despite Small Size
In County Mayo Ireland the Croagh Patrick holy mountain is described as grand in stature though not very large in actual height. The piece notes its monarch-like presence and enduring religious significance on the landscape.
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Croagh
Patrick
County Mayo
Ireland
Deanna Durbin to star on Broadway early spring
Deanna Durbin may play on Broadway early spring pending approval by her mother manager vocal teacher and Universal Studios physician all cautious about adding public appearances amid her high profile life. Other notes cover radio stars actors and upcoming films with Marjorie Weaver Loretta Young Tyrone Power and Leslie Howard in It’s Love I’m After and industry moves at Warner Brothers Paramount and CBS details.
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Eanna Durbin
Universal Studios
Deanna
Motion Picture
Radio
Loretta Young
Tyrone Power
Marjorie Weaver
Marjorie
Louisville
Kentucky
New York
Helen Claire
Aunt Jenny
CBS
Miss Claire
the Serpent
Adelina Patti
Alice In Wonderland
Foxy Little Terrier For Tea Towels pattern 5746
Embroidery transfer pattern features six motifs of a terrier named Terry to decorate towels. Includes material needs color ideas and stitch illustrations. Pattern number 5746 costs 15 cents and is available from the Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept 259 W Fourteenth St New York NY.
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Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Quotations on character and conduct from historic voices
A collage of maxims from James E F Ament Walter Lipp man Joseph Hall and Edward Young. The quotes urge self belief noble action steady minds and appreciation of small moments shaping a life.
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James EF. Ament
Walter Lippman
Joseph Hall
Edward Young
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Petaca
Leonine
Virginia Vale
Fred Allen
Walter O’keefe
O’keefe
Warner Brothers
Fernand Gravet
George Brent
Errol Flynn
Russel Gleason
Twentieth Century-Fox
Leslie Howard
Bette Davis
Olivia de Haviland
Gertrude Berg
George Raft
Paramount
Deanna Durbin
Leslie Howara
Foxy Little Terrier
Terry
Nujol
Denton
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M402
23Rd Street
Long Island City
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