Elmer Clarke’s Los Angeles Escapade Sparks Pilarcitos Intrigue
Elmer Clarke returns to Pilarcitos after a lavish Los Angeles trip with Doris Gatewood, a New York American Weekly correspondent. Nellie Cathcart schemes to pry open his wealth and future, while Doris’s letters spark a campaign and a mayoral bid that upends the town’s gossip mill. Colorado Charley watches, Elmer rises, and a web of flirtation and deceit tightens around the rising local millionaire.
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Elmer
Pilarcitos
Santa Monteca Boulevard
Doris Gatewood
Rand
Pilarcitos Belle
Los Angeles
Alice Roundfellow
Tiner Clarke
Hollywood
Alice
Nellie Cathcart
Doris
Filmer
Iner
Bray
Iady
Elmer Clarke
Nellie Outhcart
Nellie
Eimer
The
Woodmen of the World
Gouch
Millonaire
American Weekly of
New York
Ohl
Jnet
Pilarcitos Clarion
Colorado
Charley
Miss Gatewood
Los Angeles County
Coronado
Colorado Desert
Grand Canyon
Old Thing
Old Dear
Silly Boy
Donia Gatewood
Nellie Cathcartt
Lfe
Tobh
Boston Transcript Wildly Frames Pay Cut Request
The Boston Transcript likens pushing Congress to reduce its pay to calmly coaxing a hungry dog to release a bone. The cartoonish comparison reflects skepticism about legislative self restraint.
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Boston Transcript
Congress
Outdoor Iowa Notes and River Fish Tales From Iowa
Spirit Lake Beacon reports a fifteen pound muskellunge caught at West Okoboji by O W Brownlee of Mallard with a Delavan spoon bait. Clear Lake pike nursery grows fish from four to seven inches in 97 days while water fills the pond at 500 gallons a minute. Manchester Democrat Radio cites heavy fish deaths from Illinois Central lime and sewage pollution near Manchester. Clayton county pheasants multiply and Decorah may host a fish nursery in Twin Springs park per fish and game officials. A Belle Plaine fisherman reels a 22-pound catfish after releasing a water moccasin caught earlier. Fall duck flights are expected to be low.
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Tifa
Iowa
Spirit Lake
O. W. Brownlee
Mallard
West Okoboji
Smith
O. BE. Hoel
Clear Lake Pike
Manchester Democrat Radio
Illinois Central Railway
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Walter McGregor
State Fish and Game Commission
Twin Springs Park
W. E. Albert
Lansing
Frank Martin
Belle Plaine
Benton County
Migratory Waterfowl Season Dates and Local Hunts
The notice outlines opening and closing dates for game seasons. The migratory waterfowl season runs from October 20 to November 19, 1931, with harvest allowed for wild duck goose coot rail plover sandpiper marsh or beach birds Wilson and Jacksnipe in Town. A farmer reports red fox damage to poultry and is advised he may destroy foxes year round if no fur or carcass is taken. A local fisherman lands a thirty pound carp after a dramatic attempt to land it at White pier. Tomatoes are noted as high in vitamin content.
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Elmer
Nellie Cathcart
Nellie
Eimer
John Krohmer
Lenox
Taylor County
State Fish and Game Commission
Selling Short in Market Manipulation Tendency
Hopkinton Leader explains short selling as betting on buying later at a lower price to profit and labels the bear as vicious manipulation. The bear lowers prices then becomes a bull, pushing prices up to profit on holdings.
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Hopkinton
What a Power Woman's Tears Move Hearts Across Walls
A quip from a classroom exchange about power and emotion. Teacher asks what water powers are known to every man. pupil replies that a woman's tears move hearts, reflecting a witty consequence in the period dialogue.
Fatal and mortalities in Spanish bull fights
Report notes that in each Spanish bull fight six bulls and twenty five horses are wounded mortally or killed in the ring.
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Peter B, Kyne
WIU Service
Liie
Joe Angeltotti
Algu
Elmer Purke
Chapter
the American
Mies Doria Gatewood
Denar
Bunco
J. Fitzgerald
Detectives
Moody
Elmeri
the Sun
Mr. Ford
Watertown
Henry Ford
Clayton County
Strawberry Point Press
Fish and Game Department
M. G. Turner
Clear Lake
White Pier
Henry A. Martin
Dubuque Ring
Monticello
Miss Sharpe
U. S
Alice Sharpe
Monticello Express
Express
Detroit Times’ Home Institute
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