Summer Departure and Hidden Motherhood Secrets
Anne Vincent and her daughter Rachel leave Rockboro for winter in France with Anne’s great-aunt. Rachel, endlessly spirited, learns her biological mother Elinor Malloy was an eighteen-year-old beauty who gave her up for adoption to Anne. The chapters trace Anne’s grief, Rachel’s growing independence, and hints of a complicating family past as Rachel searches for her roots and a future.
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France
Anne Vincent
Rachel
Anne
Elinor
Achel
Peter Cayne
New York
Bob Eddis
Rockboro
Rew
York
The
Keys
Mr. Kreed
Henord
Bob
Ada
Harry Vincent
Harry
Hobart Grable
Columbia
Helen de Besard
Helen Williams
Albany
Pink
Madame Helene
Pink’s
Grable
Philharmonic
Brahms
Baltimore
Raichel
Hobart
Lily’ Pons
Norway
Lotte Lehmann
Helene
Dalong
Cannon—Carstairs
Cayne
Still Deep in the Rett by Raymond Pitcairn
National readers hear a critique of Congress six months into its session. The columnist argues spending keeps the nation deeply in the red with a June 30 deficit around 2.9 million and postponed taxes totaling 36 million. Vows to curb extravagance are questioned as food prices rise and accountability looms for lawmakers.
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Raymond Pitcairn
Congress
Washington
Tower of Light Edison monument rises in Menlo Park
A thirteen foot incandescent bulb crowns the Tower of Light monument to Thomas A Edison at Menlo Park New Jersey. The piece notes wartime costs for Amelia Earhart search and echoes social issues of price and diet.
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Thomas A. Edison i
Menlo Park
N. J
Notable Health Rankings and Hearst Media Empire
The text ranks diseases by mortality with the leading killer and lists William Randolph Hearst as owning 27 newspapers nine magazines copper and gold mines and numerous other interests including real estate holdings larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
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William Randolph Hearst
Delaware
Rhodesland
World’s Best Dressed Woman to Duchess of Windsor
A note on fashion crowns the Duchess of Windsor as the world’s best dressed, succeeding Mrs. Harrison Williams of New York. The piece also cites a Chicago suit over a missed date due to a daylight saving time error at a restaurant.
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Harrison Williams
New York City
Duchess of Windsor
Edward
Chicago
Gus Terzake
Marion Milner
Prospects for Western crop gloomed by grasshoppers and rust
Forecasters had predicted a banner Midwest crop but reports tell of grasshoppers crickets chinch bugs and stem rust. The verse notes folly as a driver against nature and reflects on improbable efforts to overcome natural obstacles.
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Midwest
SPIKETO by Miss Lucille Barrett
Mr and Mrs George Hearng visited with the Barrett and Milbourn families and others with Lorene and Elizabeth Norton and Rev Elza Loomis from Indiana joining Sunday dinner at the Nortons. Funeral of Dan Neff in Marshall drew attendees from here. Orchard notes urge timing in oats and wheat harvest and advise good pastures to cut livestock feeding costs amid high feed prices after droughts.
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George Hearng
Douglas Barrett
Robert Barrett
Robert Milbourn
Lorene Norton
Elizabeth Norton
Marshall
Elza Loomis
Indianapolis
Indiana
Melvin Norton
Dan Neff
Douglas ‘Barrett
Donnie Lee
Lucille
Clyde Barrett
Dan MilBourn
Ralph Reedy
Armstrong Vicinity
Margaret Heatherly
Lucille Barrett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sophie Kerr
Sophie Hert Underwood
WNU Service
Alice In Wonderland
Amelia Earhart
United States
Harold Honeycutt
Wartburg
Tennessee
Sarah Delano_Roosevelt
President
Europe
John Roosevelt
U.S. House of Representatives
Hocking Valley
Ohio
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Bright
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Louisana
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Mississippi
Nevada
Oklahoma
Texas
Utah
Lublin
Poland
England
A. L. Peck
Talihini
Peck
Ernest—Pananks
Boston—Symphony
Spiketo
Miss Lucille Barrett
Marshall Maid
Elite Bakery
Illinois
Keifer
the Herald
Elgin-Photo Service
Elgin
Marshall. Herald
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