Lady Larkspur Theme Tangles a World of Shadowed Lives
American playwright Searles confides to Bob Singleton that he wrote the play Lady Larkspur to suit a London actress Violet Dewing who then vanished. Singleton visits Harton-on-the-Sound Connecticut with the manuscript, finds a fractured household in tension over pro German suspicions, a mysterious foreign visitor, and a returning aviator uncle’s death leaves Bashford heirship, while Mrs Bashford is believed abroad.
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Bynopals
Richard Searles
Bob Singleton
London
Lady Larkspur
Violet Dewing
Aingleton
France
Raymond Bashford
Japan
Singleton
Harton-on-the-Sound
Connecticut
Rashford
Orient
Burton
New York
Bashford
Barton
Larkapur
Antoine
Mra. Bashford
Terrence
Hinds
Virginia
Staried Valley
Searles
Diana
Atalanta
Cinderella
Rosalind
Bearles
Ohio
Mrs. Bashford
New London
Gates
Ge Lodge
The Amazing Widow Arrives at Bashford Estate
Terrence departs leaving Mrs Bashford to occupy the Bashford residence. The vivacious widow, not elderly but youthful and spirited, arrives amid a tense welcome, escapes a dangerous reception, and instantly charms the narrator as she and her terrier play on the beach. She plans to stay, ordering a new car, suggesting a protracted stay through the autumn.
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Flynn
Flynns
Sorr
Elsie
Antoine
Hans
Indy
New York
Barker
Mrs. Bushford
Lfe
Bob Singleton
Mrs. Bashford
Alice
Hex
Itex
Merchants Eat Their Own Stock in Peking Social Project
A YWCA and YMCA led social service project in Peking trained street vendors to sell edible goods. Vendors sometimes ate inventory or fled with earnings, prompting safeguards including guarantors of good character. One trader vanished after entering a house, prompting police involvement and continuing surveillance.
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China
Peking
American Church Board
Forman
Alice Holmes
Y. W
Alla
Alttough
Pohcn
Likeness of Italian and American Women Impresses Miss Raber
Miss Trene Raber recently returned from a year of recreation work with Italian girls. She notes there is no great poverty in Italy and suggests Italian workers dress similarly to New York’s employed women. She remarks poverty is not destitution and living is simpler there with enough to eat even during strikes.
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Italy
Trene Raber
WCLA
Miss Rober
New York
The Squire’s Dilemma A Fishing Camp Accident
The Squire Siguire L. M. Collis, a miller from Orangeburg, suffered a comic mishap while fishing on the Kinney. He sneezed midboat throwing his teeth into the stream, ending his trip abruptly. Nearby friends teased him as he rushed to replace a broken pair, noting spring chicken time and butterbeans near.
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Squire
Siguire L. M. Collis
Orangeburg
Kinney
Maysville
Muaysville Ledger
Fine Aquarium Display At American Museum Of Natural History
A new window display at New York's American Museum of Natural History depicts a two inch square shallow sea bottom scene magnified 24 times. It features bryozoa moss animals, hydroids with jellyfish buds, single celled organisms, a sea spider, and ascidians in metamorphosis. A 40 inch diameter magnifier highlights the exact natural size seafloor section.
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American Museum of Natural History
New York
Repentant Thief Returns Lost Treasury Wires Money
Dawsmere farmer H. Thompson received back through the post £115 in treasury notes that vanished after a foreman kept the cash in his waistcoat pocket. The notes reappeared with a local postmark and are under police investigation.
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H. Thompson
Dawsmere
South Lincolnshire
Treasury
London Times
Mrs Elizabeth Toms Leaves 60-Year Service as School Janitor
Elizabeth Toms, aged eighty five, has severed her long association with Tyndale public schools in Philadelphia where she served as janitor for fifty years.
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Elizabeth Toms
Tyndale Public Schools
Philadelphia
England's War Gain Expands British Reach Worldwide
The report claims Britain gained 22,000,000 additional inhabitants and 1,278,000 square miles of territory as a result of the war.
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England
Cities and Gods Out of Doors by Jens Jensen
Landscape figure Jens Jensen laments city visitors trampling roadside waste and argues for teaching children about God's out of doors. He urges semiannual pilgrimages, school surroundings with country elements, and preservation of remnants of great forests to maintain beauty and civilization.
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Jens Jensen
West Chicago
Lincoln Highway
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Cenator
Illinois State Parks
Friends of Our Native Landscape
Chicago
Fair Play for the Foreign Born Arthur Woods on Americanism
Former New York City police commissioner Arthur Woods argues that migrants should be treated with friendliness and respect. He contends immigrants come with friendly feelings, eager to learn, and proud of their heritage, requiring mutual understanding rather than coercive Americanization.
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Arthur Woods
New York City
Aly
Sir Percy Cox Battling In British Mesopotamia Mission
Sir Percy Cox has been appointed high commissioner to Mesopotamia under British mandate. The British press calls the situation critical as insurgent bands threaten railways and officers are killed or captured. Cox, a veteran diplomat, previously helped lead the Mesopotamian campaign and negotiated key Anglo-Persian ties.
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Percy Cox
Mesopotamia
Baedad
London Mall
Sir Percy
Times
Persian Gulf
Teheran
Porras visits Washington as new Panama president departs
New Panama President Don Belisario Porras left Washington after a brief visit where he was hosted by the State Department and honored at a garden party set by Secretary and Mrs. Baker. He also was a guest of Secretary Daniels aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower, reflecting unusually cordial relations as the canal and zone blend in central Panama.
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Don Belisario Porras
Panama
State Department
Giyep
Baker
Daniels
Panama City
Canal Zone
Panama Canal
Central American Republic
United States of
Colombia
United States
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Madame
Cleopatra
Sheba
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