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Darning combines hope and romance in a college town
Jessie Power and her mother in a Quixotic plan to earn for survival by a sock darning business. Jessie, a society young woman, persuades her ailing mother to run a home operation, with student patrons, a pony express of socks, and a budding romance with M. W. Chamberlain as they turn hardship into enterprise.
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Reims Morton
Elwithi
Idessie
Thera
Dessie
Jessie
Emma Morton
New York
Dr. Power
Day
Jesse
Mrs. Power
Tessie
Momsey
Ferris Power
Paps
Darling
Solilo
Cresas
Ag Chamberlain
Jacob Chamberlain
Sarah
Mrs. Lower
Express
M. W. Chamberlain
Mac
Betty
Grafion
The
Royal