Love and war pull Jill toward Spang in a quiet town
Julia McFarlane grieves her missing husband as daughter Jill rediscovers love with Lieut. Spang Gordon. The pair share dreams of a future amid war’s pull while family worries about romance and duty, ending with a quiet Sunday on the hillside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia McFarlane
Richard
Inlaw
John I. McFarlane
Ric
Jill
Spang Gordon
Julia
Spang
Dave Patterson
Jill McFarlane
Grandfather
Dooley
Foster
Buzzard’s Hill
ShisKeuts Team Reporter in Washington Bureau
ShisKeuts Team Reporter in Washington Bureau based at 4616 Eye St NW reports from the Washington area. The brief notes the reporter's Washington posting and office address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ShisKeuts
Washington
WNU
Eye St
N. W
Rising Divorce Alarms American Leaders Across States
A national alarm over rising divorces cites economists, government and religious leaders. The discussion links high income and consumer debt to weaker family bonds, urges moral renewal, and warns that the family foundation underpins American democracy and national unity.
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America
Republic
Pearl Harbor
Time Saver Dress Streamlines Daywear Choice
A softly tailored daytime dress speeds dressing and laundering. Features include buttons to the hem and narrow self or contrasting binding on the bodice for a neat, practical look.
Handy Household Tips From Old Magazine Columns
A compact set of practical tricks for everyday life includes waxing caster sockets to ease turning in damp weather, cutting a square from an old envelope to mail coins, storing card tables and chairs under stairs, packing fish in a scented bag to prevent odors, choosing high necklines to cover thin throats, and paraffin coating jar lids to prevent green staining.
You Can Work Hard and Save for Prosperity
A reflective musing contrasts prosperity with struggle and aging. The piece warns against fake experts and notes a peculiar tip about keeping a wedding ring bright by soaking it in hot dishwater. It closes with an older man’s advice to younger men arriving too late.
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Jill
Spang
Air Corps
France
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Chapter
Army
Manhattan
Walter Shead
Eoth
Dutton
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Anoen
Ater
Kellogg’s
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