Barbara Thorne's Birthday Changes Family Ties
Barbara Thorne turns eighteen and receives a birthday ring from Bruce MacLain at Provincetown. He shares a tale of a gypsy boy and girl with a silver flute, mirroring Barbara’s own loves. Her joy fades as her father drowns, and relatives seize the brood. Brice urges marriage to avert separation, while Barbara, guardian to her siblings, faces upheaval. Uncle Drake, the godfather, becomes their shelter amid looming change.
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Barbara
Christopher ‘Thorne
Bruce ‘MacLain
Bruce
Provincetown
Barbera
Herbert
Allly
Lol
Brice
Casper
Drake
Chapter IV Continued Pome II
The scene shifts as Gay and companions debate their plan to flee and find a safer place. Barbara notes the authoritas of family pressure while Uncle Stephen guides, yet the group longs for Florida and a calmer life away from the city.
Escape Plan Amid Rain and Gypsy Dreams
Barbara and Martha plot a morning escape with the four children to Uncle Stephen, planning to leave at five after expecting a confrontation at home. Barbara clings to Bruce in memory and imagines a safer future, while Martha vows to speak her mind and defend the idea of a new life away from the complicated family.
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Fidently
Martha
Jake Prebley
New Bedford
Orly
Barbara
Stephen
Martha-Ann
Jake Preble
Father
Gay
Kit
Uncle Stephen
Aunt Josephine
Josephine
Jamie
Bruce
Fragmentary description of a dress and room scene
The text shows Stephen Drake in evening attire before a mirror, fumbling with suspenders. A richly carved wardrobe and opulent furniture fill a large high-ceilinged room, notes on black elk leather and carved details appear amidst the incomplete narration.
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Stephen
Drake
River Boundary Change Aimed By Rio Grande Straightening
A Mexico City signed convention plans to straighten 87 miles of the Rio Grande below El Paso to fix the international boundary between the United States and Mexico. It calls for deliberate banco creation, a new channel, and engineering works with levees and protected curves.
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Washington
United States
Mexico City
Rio Grande
el Paso
Texas
Mexico
Rio Grandes
National Geographic Asociety
New Mexico
Old Aexico
United States Supreme Court
Fabens
Elephant Butte
Improvised Incubator Saves Baby Born on Ship
Two babies born aboard the Pacific liner Orcoma after a 4000 mile voyage from Valparaiso. One infant weighed three pounds at birth and was saved by an improvised incubator made from an old sugar box. Chips the carpenter built a glass-topped unit kept at a steady temperature from the tropics to Santander Spain where the baby landed. The infant was fed with milk from a fountain pen filler.
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Liverpool
Valparaiso
Santander
Spain
Missouri to pay long overdue bill to Barnhart
The state of Missouri will pay William Frank Barnhart $18.45, owed for about 35 years. The amount covers the period from his call to serve in the Missouri volunteer guards during the Spanish American War to his later entry into service. Barnhart notes it is too bad the state does not pay interest on such claims.
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Missouri
Mont
Willam Frank Barnhart
Barnhart
Missouri Volunteer Guards
Warnhart
Oceana
Capcorn
Trade Figures Show Upturn in Philippines Timber Exports
Trade figures reveal a rise in Philippine timber exports to Japan in 1932, reaching 36,010,848 board feet valued at 722,787 pesos, while exports to the United States and other nations declined. US shipments totaled 6,315,088 board feet valued at 40,275 pesos, versus 20,318,080 board feet in 1931 valued at 1,200,728 pesos. Other destinations included the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies, and Africa.
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Philippines
Manila
Japan
United States
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Hongkong
Dutchest Indies
Africa
Planes Banned From U S Forest Primitive Areas
Missoula Montana regional forester Evan W Kelley bans landings inside the primitive areas in South Ford Spanish Peaks Absaroka and Mission mountains except for emergencies or official business. No roads penetrate these districts and emergency landing fields exist for rapid fire control. Wildlife roams freely and rangers may lead parties during vacations in these virgin expanses.
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U. S
Missoula
Mont
Montana
Evan W. Kelley
Ford
Spanish Peaks
Absaroka
Mission Mountain
Plow Unearths Gold Jar in Texas Farm Tale
Limerson Polk, a Black farmer, quits farming after his diseased plow uncovers a jar of gold coins said to total $25. Polk buys a new car and retires, signaling a sudden windfall from the dig.
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Texas
Limerson Polk
Polk
Indian Prince Tops European Wealth List in 1920s Report
A 1920s survey lists the Nizam of Hyderabad as the world's wealth leader with bullion worth 500 million dollars and art valued at 1 billion. Other tycoons include Sir Baharoff with 500 million, Italian Senator Agnelli at 127 million, England's shipping magnate Sir John Wildman, and the Duke of Westminster. The era notes shifts among Europe’s rich, with Rothschild and Coty figures also cited.
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London
Buddy
Europe
Nizam of
Hyderabad
India
Baall Zaharoff
Agnelli
Hae
Italy
England
John Wildman
Duke of Westminster
Coats T
Willa
World's Largest Fat Man Joe Baggio of Philadelphia
The Philadelphia resident Joe Baggio is described as the world's largest fat man, weighing about 7560 pounds and unable to leave his home for fifteen years due to size. He reportedly consumes vast daily quantities of food, including spaghetti, hot dogs, coffee, ice cream, and eggs, with extensive fabric needs for clothing.
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Joe Baggio
Philadelphia
Stillman and Morgan Compared in a Moral Debate
In a column heavy with opinion the writer mocks Jim Stillman of New York for chronic trouble with women, praises elder J. P. Morgan as a model lover, and surveys beliefs about favoritism, science, and honesty. The piece also recounts a German boys’ rowing anecdote and comments on authors H G Wells and Alfred Payson Terhune.
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Jim Stillman
New York
Fation
Stillman
J. P. Morgan
Benny
Morgan
Morgan the Magnificent
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Gwen
Cane
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Baron de Rothachild
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