Mary Loring Starts New York Chapter as Author Hope
Mary Loring leaves Hawkinsville with ninety seven dollars and a dream to become a writer. In New York she stays with Aunt Linnie, meets Lelia, attends parties and shops, while fearing Chris Cragg’s forthcoming marriage and planning to mail her story At Sea to a magazine.
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Mary
Christopher Cragg
Hormel
Sabatini
Doctor Cragg
Miss Loring
Vale of Tears
Chris
Dearest
Darling
Aunt Linnie
Linnie
New York
Jim
Janet Loring
Janet
First National Bank
Witch of
Endor
Cotswells
Lelia
Linnie Cotswell
Mary Loring
Hawkinsville
Pierre’s
Knoedler’s
Harlow’s
Petey
Dad
Ellen
the National Weekly
Christmas Visit Sparks Family Upheaval In Railside Town
Mary Loring and her father meet a train carrying Linnie Cotswell and Lelia Ormsby for a holiday visit. At home, Aunt Mamie and others await. Dr. Cragg helps with luggage as Mary contemplates life changes after her father is dismissed as railroad attorney. She begins writing to fund the family.
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Mary Loring
Jim
Linnie Cotswell
Lelia Ormsby
Mary
Ellen
Mamie
Peter
Christopher Cragg
Early American silversmiths served their country or communities
Stephen Decatur notes that figures like Ephraim Brasher aided the new nation after the Revolutionary War. Brasher, a New York silversmith, used a distinctive EB mark to certify coin authenticity amid a flood of bogus currency, boosting trust in circulating gold and silver coins.
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Stephen Decatur
Col
Paul Revere
Boston
New York
Ephraim Brasher
United States
Ep Brasher
Brasher
Harpers Ferry Ohio Named After Potomac River Ferry
The town of Harpers Ferry in Ohio was originally Shenandoah Falls and renamed sometime between 1840 and 1850. A ferry across the Potomac existed there for years, lending its name to the town.
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Harpers Ferry
Ohio
Shenandoah Falls
Potomac
Dream Book Came Through As Advertised
A portrait of writers and magnates at the New York World building where dreams of fame spurred several authors and publishers. Ben Burman wins the Southern Authors award for Blow for a Landing, with his river tales and bestselling Steamboat Round the Bend linked to Will Rogers. Louis Shattuck Cates, mining leader and MIT alumnus, receives the William Lawrence Saunders gold medal for advancing copper recovery and tax advocacy benefiting small Western miners.
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BW York
New York World
Maxwell Anderson
Louis Weitzenkorn
Phil Stong
Stong
James Cain
Young
Dudley Nichols
Paul Sifton
Ben Burman
Sifton
Federal Wage Board
Burman
Will Rogers
Mississippi
Ouis Shattuck Cates
Wall Street
House of
Cates
West
Connecticut
Utah
Arizona
Boston
Ips Corp
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Grand Central Station
Robert Taylor
Chicago
Mary’s
Saint Thomas
Smart Park Avenue
Addie
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Who’s News
By Lemuel F. Parton
Damascus
Sahara Desert
Bagdad
Lydia
Pinkham
Xceron
Frisby
Auiris
Tete
Doan
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