Pollyop Hopkins and the Silent City Hero
A passage recounts Polly Hopkins, a squatters’ girl in the Storm Country, appealing to Robert Percival for help against Marcus MacKenzie. Polly declares he can drive the bully away, and Robert agrees to act, as the tale praises Grace Miller White’s Storm Country saga and its stars. The article notes White’s success and the Storm Country setting Cayuga Lake New York.
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Pollyop
Polly Hopkins
Jeremiah Hopkins
Robert
Marc
Marcus MacKenzie
Mr. MacKenzie
Polly
Robert Percival
Grace Miller White
Tess of the
Friend H. Miller
Oscar Bennetts Farm and the Silent City Squatters
Four miles from Ithaca New York Oscar Bennett governs his spread near West Hill facing Lake Cayuga. Polly Hopkins visits seeking milk for Granny Flope and Jerry while he vents sickness and contempt for his wife. Polly contemplates Evelyn Robertson and the Robertson power, signaling danger if Oscar acts on his threats.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Oscar Bennett
West Hill
Lake Cayuga
Oscar
Marcus
MacKenzie
Bennett
Silent
Polly Hopkins
Pollyop
Ton
Tall Ud
A. Ponchér
Polly Hopkins Seeks Milk Amid Silent City Struggle
Polly Hopkins faces coercive demand from Oscar Bennett over milk money while fearing for her family in Ithaca’s Silent City. She hides abuse, contemplates telling others, and endures poverty with Granny Hope and five year old Wee Jerry as she plans to protect her kin and keep milk flowing. Oscar’s threats compound the danger as Polly clings to hope amid a harsh, lawless shoreline community.
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Polly
Bennett
Evelyn
Oscar
Polly Hopkins
M Robertsons
Hopkins
Jerry
Granny Hope
Jim
Oscar Ala
Oserr
Evelyn Robertson
Daddy Bropkins
Granny
Jeremiah Hopkins
Silent City
Lehigh Valley
Jeremiah
Ithaca
Cayuga
Pollyop
Daddy Hopking
Wee Jerry
Daddy Hopkins
Lakeside
Hopkins Ne
Old Marc Had a Beautiful Angel with Him
A concise note recalls Marc in old days accompanied by a striking angelic figure. The fragment hints at companionship and a memorable companion. No further details are provided about time or place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marc
Fourth Estate term traced to Burke in Carlyle lecture
The excerpt discusses the origin of the phrase the fourth estate as applied to newspaper workers. It references Edmund Burke and Thomas Carlyle in a fifth lecture on Heroes and Hero Worship, noting a quotation about three estates and reporters.
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Edmund Burke
Thomas Carlyle
Texas prison system reports 1921 operating loss
Austin Texas the state penitentiary system records a 1921 operating loss of 1 293 580 with profits only in the cabinet shop drug store store and shoe shop while cotton oil mill sugar mill and most other units ran at a loss. The March monthly tally shows 8 333 convicts on hand and a gain of 53 in population.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Penitentiary System
C. H. Arnold
Neff
Kansas
Ee Ae Tae Se
Bassett Blakely
Blue Ridge Farm
Wynne
State Railroad
Ready to Improve Roads in Rusk Texas
Road machinery including twelve junior graders twelve road plows and twenty four slip graders is being assembled under Commissioner Finley. The equipment will be put in service immediately to repair highways that suffered from recent heavy rains.
Flatonia Farmnotes Report Healthy Cotton and Corn Output
Flatonia reports cotton is up and doing fine with corn at a good stand. A large amount of small grain is planted for feed and much feed remains from last year.
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Flatonia, Tex
War Board Approves Loans for Agriculture and Livestock
The War Finance Corporation announced on Monday 50 advances totaling 1 354 000 dollars for agricultural and livestock purposes. Loans by state include Idaho 50000 Illinois 15000 Town 34000 Kansas 36000 Minnesota 51000 Missouri 30000 Montana 113000 Nebraska 6000 North Dakota 76000 Oklahoma 45000 Oregon 228000 South Dakota 84000 Texas 274000 Utah 211000 Wyoming 32000.
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Washington
War Finance Corporation
Idaho
Illinois
Town
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
South
Dakota
Texas
Utah
Wyoming
Pecan Growers to Meet In Brownwood May 23
Professor J H Burkett of the Texas Department of Agriculture and secretary of the Pecan Growers Association prepares for the annual meeting in Brownwood May 23 24. The tentative program lists talks on topworking native trees pecan marketing and industry plans by state and regional experts and officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
J. H. Burkett
State Department of Agriculture
Pecan Growers’ Association
Brownwood
B. Guinn
Rusk
F. T. Ramsey
T. H. Ridgeway
San Antonio
T. F. Burkett
Clyde
California
San.Antonio
Texas
E. W. Cole
Markets
Inseé. Ng
A. T. Sabis
Ufed States Bureau of Entomolygy
Texas ruling bars intrastate ship inspection on interstate moves
Austin Texas Friday opinion holds that laws creating standard containers grades and inspections for fruits and vegetables cannot be invoked on shipments leaving Texas. Produce becomes interstate commerce and cannot be regulated by Texas laws or regulations, as reported by First Assistant Attorney General BE F Smith to George B Terrell commissioner of agriculture.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
United States
BE. F. Smith
B. Terrell
Shift Famine Victims To Anatolia Provinces
News agency report says twenty five thousand Russian Moslems from famine districts of Russia will be moved to unpopulated Hassern Anatolia provinces. Negotiations with the Soviet government to implement the transfer are completed.
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Constantinople
Russia
Hassern
Anatolia
Gonzales Census Reports School Age Children
In Gonzales Texas the latest scholastic census shows 1 478 children of school age in the Gonzales Independent School District, with 980 Whites and 498 Negroes. The previous year’s total was 1 483, down by five.
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Gonzales, Tex
Gonzales Independent School District
Supreme Court rules labels must describe ingredients
The Supreme Court held on Wednesday that labels for Washington brands must clearly and definitively describe the component ingredients of materials used in the manufacture of the articles as they are open to the purchasing public.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hempstead Farmers Rush Upland Work Amid Wet Bottoms
Hempstead area farmers push upland fieldwork while bottom lands stay too wet. Some farmers rent land in Austin County to grow watermelons due to two years of melon wilt affecting Waller County plots.
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Hempstead
Tex
Austin County
Waller County
Wortham Gas Officials Highlight Tex City Efforts
Tex City officials in Wortham discuss gas utility improvements and cooperative measures. Local leaders emphasize safety, reliability, and coordinated funding to upgrade lines and service reach for residents and businesses.
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R.H Livingstone
Littig
Brown and Company
Chapter
Osear
Atswas
Ike
Robertson
Mal
M Robertson
the Wireless Age
Flatonia
War Board
Gonzales
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