Nancy Nelson Comes Out In Pine Ridge Debut
Nancy Nelson a nineteen year old sub deb and gay girl faces a market crash ruin for her family. An eccentric Colorado cousin offers a home and Nancy and Jack travel to Pine Ridge where Nancy discovers her debut will occur in a small town with new plans. The tale follows her loneliness and the idea of starting a public library while adjusting to simpler living.
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Nancy Nelson
Colorado
Columbine
Nancy
Jack
Pine Ridge
Aurora Tubbs
Matthew Adams
Mark Adam
Luke
Jack Nelson
Nance
Matthew Adam
Matthew
Boston
Aurora
John Adam
Christmas Guests and a Brave Smile Across the Door
Miss Columbine recounts a tale of a mother facing raiders with a brave smile and a child’s Christmas gift exchange. The intruders depart peaceful, leaving a hermit thrush's song as they vanish. Nancy Nelson later celebrates community support for her library project.
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Littleother
Miss Columbine
Aurora Tubbs
Darling
Columbine
Eve Adam
Matthew Adam
Christmas dinner sparks Aladdin Library plan
Nancy unveils a plan for the Aladdin Library at Christmas dinner, drawing quick support from John Adam who offers to supply the sign. Mark delivers the sign from the ranch in January as the family notes the father's temperamental painting efforts and the promise of the corker sign.
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Nancy
Aladdin
John Adam
Mark
Art Museum
Nance
Nancy Dreams Of A Fireplace In Pine Ridge
A reflective line from Nancy gazing at Pine Ridge with plans for a future fireplace to make the stay seem permanent, hinting at a developing storyline. The fragment suggests a homey wish tied to the location and ongoing tale.
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Nancy
Pine Ridge
Ford introduces alternating current rustproofing at Flat Rock plant
Ford Motor Co perfected a new rustproofing method for head and tail lamps using alternating current at its Flat Rock Michigan plant. The process, not electroplating, uses a dirty surface oil prewash to prevent an alligator finish and achieves 1000 hour salt spray tests with no rust. Articles alternate as cathode and anode 60 times per second to allow zinc deposition without hydrogen interference.
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Electro-Chemistry
Ford Motor Co
Ford Lamp
Flat Rock
Mich
Meadow
Ford
World’s Worst Volcano Koh-i Tafatan Erupts Again
The Koh-i-Tafatan volcano on the British Persian boundary in Baluchistan erupts once more. It is described as the world’s worst mountain, emitting lava and dense ammonia fumes that kill plants and drive off animals and humans. Birds flee as fumes suffocate and blind, making frontier troops untenable. It is called the Mound of Hellfire by Persians.
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Koh-i-Tafatan
Baluchistan
How Club Was Named By World printers Judgment Day Club origin
An organization of veteran New York World printers got its name after a composing room clerk joked during the World suspension night that it was Judgment Day. The remark stuck and the fraternity adopted the name reflecting the end of the World.
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New York
Judgment Day Club
New York World
Old
New York World Printers
Man and wife debate control at home in clipped exchange
A short exchange frames a conflict over domestic authority with an assertive man insisting on full say in the home while another voice agrees in form but not in content, signaling a gendered dispute. The dialogue hints at broader social enforcement of traditional roles.
Skeletons Reveal Ancient Migrations on St Lawrence Island
An expedition led by Dr Otto Geist on St Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea documents successive immigration waves from Asia to America. Eskimo laborers brush skeletal remains with paraffin for preservation as researchers trace cultures predating Vitus Bering's 1728 discovery.
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Asia
America
St. Lawrence Island
Bering Sea
Otto Geist
Savoonga
Vitus Bering
St. Lawrence's Day
Geist
Webster Air Trophy Won by Gordon R. McGregor at Cartierville
Gordon R. McGregor president of the Kingston Ontario Flying Club captured the Webster memorial trophy and Canada’s top amateur airman title at Cartierville Montreal. He outpaced 11 rivals including two westerners to win the award staged by the Webster family with the Canadian Flying Clubs Association and the Montreal Light Aeroplane Club. Wes Hodgson, an 18 year old Regina newsboy, finished last after failing to gain sufficient points in the tests. Fred Lasby of Moose Jaw Flying Club also competed.
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Gordon R. McGregor
Kingston, Ont
Canada
Cartierville
Montreal
Webster
John C. Webster
Shediac
N.B
Canadian Flying Clubs Association
Wes Hodgson
Regina
Fred Lasby
Moose Jaw Flying Club
Speeding with the Times From 1820 to Now
A comparison notes that 1820 wheat farming required 57 hours per acre for 20 bushels, while toronto observer T A Russell says today about eight hours. The piece asserts people travel more than seven times faster than a century ago.
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T. A. Russell
Toronto
Lund University to establish first chair on spiritualism
The world’s first chair devoted to the study of spiritualism will be established soon at Lund University in Stockholm, Sweden. The appointment marks a historic academic recognition of spiritualist inquiry within a major Swedish university.
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Lund University
Stockholm
Sweden
Frigate Birds Trained to Carry Messages in South Sea Islands
In the South Sea islands frigate birds are trained to carry messages like homing pigeons. The birds are used to relay notes and small items between islands, showcasing an unconventional communication method.
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South Sea Islands
Little Helps For This Week
A devotional excerpt emphasizes that acts of small kindness and daily duties can fulfill God’s plan. It reflects on fellowship, labor of love toward the saints, and the sacred value of everyday deeds done to serve the Lord. It notes that definite work may come from conscience and imperfect ability.
Noisy City Gets Noiseless Nights Under LaGuardia Plan
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia launches a citywide noise reduction program with a month of noiseless nights through October and a hoped for noiseless days in November. The plan names a Noise Abatement Commissioner, Major Henry Curran, who is currently in Europe studying abatement systems.
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New York City
F. H. LaGuardia
NAC
Henry Curran
Major Curran
Europe
Rabbits Trigger Floods in Valais Causing Dyke Failures
In Valais Switzerland rabbits burrowed through river dykes as heat melted historic snow and swelled the Rhone headwaters into floods. The dykes collapsed where the burrows weakened their banks, threatening towns and farmlands downstream.
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Swiss
Valais
Switzerland
Rhone
Grasse's Vast Flower Trade Feeds European Perfumeries
Grasse France supplies the perfume industry with billions of blooms yearly. About ten billion jasmine blossoms forty million pounds of roses and fifty million pounds of orange blossoms are harvested. The city ships flowers by special trains to nearly every part of Europe.
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Grasse
France
Europe
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