Prudence's Daughter Part One in New York Studio
At a party in Carter Blake's studio Jerry Harmer meets Duane Allerton, who admires her. She resents his familiarity and leaves. The tale shifts to Jerry's Des Moines childhood and her move to New York to study art. In New York she befriends Theresa, an eccentric painter, and poses for Theresa's The Ocean Rider. Allerton reappears. Jerry refuses him and doubts her artistic talent, then donates her painting supplies to Greta Val.
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Carter Blake
New York
Jerry
Geraldine) Harmer
Prudence
Duane Allerton
Allerton
Des Moines
Delaney
Minti
Theresa
Duane
Greta Val
Jealousy, Fatigue and flirtations in a New York circle
Jerry, weary of marriage lore and filtered advice, drifts through a restless New York social set with Leonid Koraev and Duane Allerton. A studio dinner, a game of bridge, and an awkward reunion at a highboy shadow Duane’s presence as Jerry debates returning home or chasing a personal purpose. Theresa urges rest and a mysterious gift awaits Jerry at home.
Theresa and Mimi Share a Dark Truth of Art and Loss
In a dim room at Reilly's alley, Jerry confronts Mimi after Theresa's suicide. Mimi reveals Theresa was her daughter and a brilliant artist who chose freedom over family, confessing the cost of their shared life and the tragedy that now haunts them both. Jerry processes the revelation as the room thickens with guilt, memory, and sorrow.
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Mimi
Jerry
Theresa
Aimee
Mim
Mmi
Ike Theresa
Jerry Adrift as She Faces Return Home Question
The piece centers on Jerry who feels lost and torn between staying adrift and returning home. It questions whether she will choose to go back to familiar shores or remain unsettled in her uncertain path.
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Jerry T
Theresa
Jerry
Fragmented wedding notice in same profession
Incomplete OCR piece notes a wedding involving both bride and groom in the same profession. It mentions a best man, two bridesmaids and an uncle, but essential names and locations are missing. The fragment hints at a formal ceremony with family attendees.
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Eideamsmi
Color It New With Diamond Dyes In Every Pack
Diamond Dyes offers a 15 cent pack with simple directions for tinting soft delicate shades or dyeing rich permanent colors on wool silk linen cotton or mixed fabrics. Instructions advise telling your druggist the fabric type to color correctly.
Ezra’s trip ends with windshield joke about taking off flesh
Ezra visits a doctor who prescribes losing weight by getting out more. He buys a car and goes out six times in one block, shedding flesh in four places, with the final exit through the windshield marking the most dramatic loss. The quip appears in the Birmingham News Bulletin.
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Ezra
Lear
Birmingham News-Bulletin
Cole a Carbolisalve Heals Burns and Skin Ailments
An old advertisement touts Cole a Carbolisalve as quick relief for burning itching and painful skin diseases. It claims immediate pain relief of burns and scarless healing and offers 60c or 0c sizes with a 30c sample offer to The Jd W Cole Co Rockford IL.
Tuberculosis Death Rate Drops in Irish Free State
Statistics show tuberculosis prevalence falling from about one in seventy in 1919 to one in ninety in 1923. Over five years deaths from all forms decreased by 1,371, with the 1928 tuberculosis death rate at 1.41 per 1,000.
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Irish Free State
Demand Bayer Aspirin Warning and Safety Cue
A warning message urges buyers to ensure the Bayer name appears on aspirin packaging or tablets to confirm genuine Bayer Aspirin approved for sale by physicians for 25 years. It cautions that imitations may be dangerous and tells readers to say Bayer when purchasing.
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Bayer
Radio Big Copper User Radio Opens Industrial Copper Use
Radio Big Copper User Radio ranks among the world’s largest copper users with an estimated production of 2,000,000 sets this year and a copper usage of 7,775,000 pounds.
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Radio Big Copper
Radio
Cornmeal Buns Using Bread Flour and Cornmeal
A vintage recipe instructs measuring and sifting bread flour cornmeal baking powder and sugar then beating eggs with milk. Combine dry and wet ingredients, blend, stir in melted butter, fill hot gem pans, and bake at 400 degrees for twenty five minutes.
All for Science Teacher Pin Incident in Class
In National News a science class moment turns into a reprimand as a teacher questions a student about a pin placed in a chair. The exchange centers on a lesson about nerve impulses and the classroom scene.
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Ethel Hueston
Aimee Glorian
Leonid Koraev
Leonid
Ferry
Reilly
Therese
Chapter
Mietta
Rome
Biillant
Wrigley
Burgess Batteries
Burgess
U. S. Army
Navy
Air Service and Shipping Board
North Pole
MacMillan
Burgess Battery Company
Chicago
Niagara Falls
Winnipeg
Yeas
Northwestern Yeast Co
North
Ashland Ave
Chicago, I
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