Jim and Colonel Map Political Reform in School Board Race
Jim contemplates a ten year plan to win a rural school board seat. The colonel suggests coordinating votes against Benner while Jim weighs the ethics of campaigning and personal reform. They resolve to rally support including Jim and Old Mein Simms to challenge the incumbent.
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Jim
Dan
Dolly
Benner
Haakon
Bonner
Irwin
Jin
Candy
Simauis
Laughel
A Minor Casts Half a Vote in March Farmyard Echoes
In a Bronson pasture Newton Bronson and Raymond Sims face Pete the hired man amid a changing rural landscape. They debate duck shooting spots, water access, and a shift from local markets to distant farms as older hunting routines fade.
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Bronson
Colonel Woodraf
Pete
Newton Bronson
Raymond Sims
Saymond
Enowdaa
Raymond
Newton
Minnesota
Faribault
Spirit Lake
Red Gilbert
Election Weighs On a Nebraska Town Teenagers
Newton and Raymond argue over voting rights and party loyalties while their father sides with old notions. Jim Irwin inspires citizenship as the boys confront family pressure and local politics on the eve of a four o clock school director election. Nebraskan setting.
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Newton
Pete
Sand Hills
Nebraska
Devil's Lake
Raymond
Newt
Bonner
Peterson
Jim Irwin
Calista
Dad
Richmond
Tre
Jim
Paw
McGehee
Mrs. Grons
Poisoned raisins trigger family crisis in rural tale
Newton experiments with strychnine raisins to kill pocket gophers. He falls ill from the poison, convulses, and his father races with the doctor and sheriff toward help, while the family fears a fatal outcome. The scene ends with a cliffhanger as they head for medical aid.
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Mr. Bronson
Newton
Jim
Ife
Fanny
Torrie
Ts Fathers
Newte
Leo
Ezra
Sheriff City
Bronson
Silenced at a wedding supper over a crude joke
A newly married couple hosted guests when a rude attendee provoked others. At supper he held up a fork with meat and asked humorously if it was pig. A quiet guest at the end of the table responded with a dry rebuttal about the fork's end.
Noted Truths and Shakespearean Echoes Reverberate
The line ponders human deeds and misdeeds, contrasting villainy with burial of virtue. It reflects on moral memory and Shakespearean themes of consequence, fate, and the public record of life.
Pledged and Redeemed in a Park Fine Incident
Mrs Graneel Fitz of Philadelphia and her husband were arrested after entering Pennypack park where lamters are forbidden. They were fined $15 and Mr Fitz left as security to fetch the money, later reclaiming his pledge.
The Vine statue sparks clash over credit in prize controversy
Harriet Finsmuth’s The Vine won the Julia 4 Shaw memorial prize amid a dispute between dancers Dasha Podgorska and Renee Wilde. Wilde posed for the initial sketch while Podgorska later did the elaboration, leading Wilde to claim most credit and Podgorska to dispute the balance.
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Harriet Finsmuth
Julia 4. Shaw Memorial
Dasha Podgorska
Renee Wilde
Miss Wilde
Miss Podgorska
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Xili
Herbert Quick
America
East Sixteenth Street
New York
Dame Fortune
Crawford Shops
The
Association For Improving the
Cuba
Havana
Morra Castle
Turkey
Mrs. Harding
Harding Girls’ Club of
Chicago
Harding
John Gobbler
Esther Wilton
Erie Railway
Marlon, Oliju
Walter McMahon
Cleveland
Ohio
Cosizo Ferrante
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