Love and Engagement Derailed by Town Gossip
Megan and Larry Megan end engagement after Megan admits insufficient love. Jim MacTavish opposes. Mrs Stuart reveals Megan’s father chases Maicia. Town whispers about Miss Jim and Miz Stevenson as Old Annie reports rumors. Megan finds lipstick on her father’s shirt.
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Larry
Meg
Megan
Jim MacTavish
Annie
Jim
Miss Meggie
A Daughter Faces Family Plans and Hidden Struggles
Megan confronts her father Jim about plans to marry Alicia Stevenson and move into her place. She resists selling the farm while Tom Fallon consoles her and reveals Martha’s frail condition as they share a quiet, hopeful moment under the moonlit pines.
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Megan
Alicia Stevenson
Alicia
Jim
Annie
Amos
Mrs. Stevenson
Pleasant Grove
Matthews
Tom Fallon
Tom
Martha
Mrs. Fallon
Advertising Managers Show Local Merchants How to Sell
A Chicago store Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. executive, the advertising manager, demonstrates what, when and how to advertise to boost sales. The piece argues that small town merchants and local publishers could imitate these proven methods to increase home trade and profits.
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Big City
Carson, Pirie, Scott & CO
Chicago
State Street
Illinois
Uncle Sam and the European pressure over peace payments
A wartime era critique argues European nations threaten to demand payments for peace and support with threats to start shooting. The piece urges showing strength with battleships and atom bombs, notes the two cent social security tax has funded costs and produced a surplus, and warns against raising federal revenue beyond current levels.
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Sam
Pacific
England
Palestine
Russia
Italy
Greece
Austria
Hungary
France
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