The Motor Lady romance in a repaired car tale
Thompson, a garage salesman, fails to move a stubborn car while a clever woman named Beth, the Motor Lady, guides him with car know how. Later he joins I B Sterns Garage, wooed by Beth who hires him on the basis of skill and respect, then marries a fellow traveler whose wedding day nearly derails over a dirty timer.
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Thompson
Beth
I. B. Sterns
I. B. Sterna
Sterns
Mr. Thompson
E. B. Sterns
Svork
Adam
Wren
Ruth
Night Hunger Confessions Stir Patriotism Debate
A Kansas City man puzzled by nightly fits of insatiable hunger says he wakes to eat, fearing a Teutonic tainted stomach. Friends joke of a tapeworm while he recalls family patterns and strict Hoover-era rules. Queue of comments ends with praise for his wife's cooking.
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Kansas City
Morpheus
Mr. Hoover
Pomeroy
Poland's Long Lost Crown and Milner's Oxford Quip
A Hall of Fame humor and a tale of a Polish crown. Lord Milner jokes about Oxford by misquoting a student response, while an earlier storm in January 1794 revealed the long lost crown of Poland hidden at Cracow. A St. Louis soldier writes of voyage seasickness and racial contrasts aboard ship across the Atlantic.
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Poland
Cracow
Prussia
France
St. Louis
Marseilles Peanut Center Trade Hub For Year
Marseilles France serves as the central market for peanuts with over 120000 metric tons in the shell and 240000 tons shelled, crushed domestically in a single year.
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Marseilles
France
Your Victory Liberty Loan dollars grow as invested notes
Your dollars in notes of the Victory Liberty Loan are always available for immediate use because any bank will lend you money on the notes or help you sell them. They are invested dollars drawing interest day and night, a growing golden hoard that you can accumulate now before bonds become less attractive.
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Victory Liberty Loan
United States Treasury
United States
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the Motor Lady
Rosalie Favier
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
John Treadwell Nichols
Department of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Nichola
Nichols
Buffalo Enquirer
Lord Milner
Oxford
Varsity
Pearson
Tery
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First National Bank
Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania
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