Mary Loring’s Publishing Break and New York Soiree
Mary receives a $100 check from The National Weekly for her story At Sea. Aunt Linnie introduces Count Umberto Ballanci at a lively tea, while Mary faces a mounting social whirl and pressure from family to choose marriage over a writing career. She plans to resume work on a new short story as tensions mix with romance and ambition.
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New York
Mary Loring
Lelia
Mary
National Weekly
Linnie Cotswell
Linnie
Buchanan
Phillip Buchanan
Phil Buchanan
The
Harvard
Ellen
Jerome Taylor
Jerome
Jerry
Balianci
Sears
Count Umberto Ballanci
Ballanci
Loring
Judge Byford
Balland
Umberto
Il Duce
Chris
Miss Catswell
Christmas Visit Sparks a Writer’s Decision
Mary Loring and her father Jim meet guests including Linnie Cotswell and Lelia, while Mary quietly loves Dr. Cragg. Cragg plans to marry another, sending Mary toward New York to pursue writing at her aunt’s urging, as she faces career and love crossroads.
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Mary Loring
Jim
Linnie Cotswell
Lelia Ao
Mary
Ellen
Mamie
Peter
Christon Cragg
Doctor Cragg
New York
Railroad Atto
National Weekly
Linnie
National
Morning wake in New York apartment with Ellen
Mary awakens in Aunt Linnie's New York apartment beside Lelia Ormsby. She reads the Herald Tribune over coffee and toast as Addie brings in the mail, pondering if she is in Hawkinsville or New York. The scene ends with a teaser to continue.
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Mary
Hawkinsville
Ellen
New York
Aunt Linnie
Lelia Ormsby
The
Herald Tribune
Addie
Grandmother’s rag rug surprise inspires home craft revival
A grandmother crafts five oval rag rugs in blue black and rust for her grandson’s fiancée wedding, revealing a broader trend of women reviving old time handcrafts. The feature promotes Mrs. Spears books Sewing for the Home Decorator and Gifts Novelties and Embroidery, with leaflets on rag rugs available for 25 cents each from Mrs. Spears in Chicago.
Taft on curing unemployment through private growth
U S Senator Robert A Taft argues unemployment can be fixed by speeding private agriculture commerce and industry to employ more people. He urges expanding existing industry and encouraging individuals to invest time and money in new enterprises and products.
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United States
U. S
Robert A. Taft
Questions for Ask Me Another Trivia Set
A list of nine trivia prompts covering topics from science history and geography to language and wildlife. Includes speed of light, European kings, origins of Wall Street, U S river access, quotation sources, Job's tears plant, pour parler, etiquette, and archer fish.
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Wall Street
New York
Colorado River
Job
Speed of lightning and royal brotherhoods cited in varied trivia
The list presents statements about a lightning speed claim at the Empire State Building, a Denmark Norway royal brothers link, a 1652 palisade line at Manhattan, port reports to Guaymas, a Boswell Johnson source, tearlike seeds used in jewelry, a preliminary conference meaning, Fontainebleau etiquette origin, and archer fish feeding by water pellets in Siam and East Indies.
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Empire State Building
New York
Christian X
Denmark
Haakon VII
Norway
Manhattan Island
Guaymas
Sonora
Boswell
Johnson
Louis XIV
Fontainebleau
Siam
East Indies
Household tips from 19th century practical care
Practical household hints cover sock reinforcement to double wear, filling nail holes in wood with sawdust glue paste, letting yeast dough rest before kneading for softer bread, vinegar in dishwater to remove fish odor, cotton or gauze plus talcum powder to treat pump bumps, and knitting cotton with wool to strengthen socks during heels and toes.
Safety Talks on Vehicle Defects in Fatal Accidents
The National Safety Council reports nine percent of fatal motor vehicle accidents involved defective vehicles while four percent of non fatal accidents involved defects. The council notes mass statistics likely understate the problem and a prior study showed defects contributed to about 15 percent of accidents.
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National Safety Council
Anticosti Island changing hands through centuries of ownership
Anticosti Island in Quebec, famed for its whale shape, has changed owners repeatedly since Cartier first noted it in 1534. The island, about 140 miles long and 35 miles wide, has been a pulpwood empire a social experiment a pirate stronghold and an explorer reward.
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Anticosti
Quebec
National Geographic Society
St. Lawrence
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Anticosti Island
Jacques Cartier
Alpaca Garments From South American Wool
A camel family member the alpaca yields wool used to make garments. The alpaca is a partly domesticated South American mammal related to camels.
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Elinor Maxwell
Corn Exchange Bank of New York
Dad
Mother
Nation
Sullivan and Ourwerda’s
Pattie Carson
Phrony
Christopher Cragg
Ilsa Graceland
Chicago
Darling
Taylor
Louella
Count Balland
Chapter
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Georgia
Blue Ribbon Hatchery
Forsyth St
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Atlanta, Ga
W. E. (Buck) Hancock
Madison
Florida
Ile de l
France
Louis Joliet
Father Marquette
Mississippi
Del
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