Ambitious Antoinette Taft Seeks Break Into Newsroom
In a drab San Francisco flat, Antoinette Taft twenty three struggles to find work as a writer. Editor Bellamy rejects women but she pursues a journalism career, joins the Journal of Commerce staff, earns Bess Cutter’s trust, and clashes with suitor Barney Kerr while covering a mid winter carnival.
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Antoinette Taft
San Francisco
Brenda
Cliff
Bruce
Meg
Lawrence Bellamy
The
Journal of Commerce
Barney Kerr
Barney
Tony
Mr. Greenwood
Call
Joe Burke
Bellamy
Bess Cutter
Fitch
Bess
Twitch
Cutter
Piedmont
Patterson
Ruth
Larry Bellamy
The Bellamys Arrive At Tony’s Glamorous Evening
Tony meets Lawrence Bellamy and Ruth Bellamy at a club fundraiser in period costume. The encounter reveals old links with Benedict Arnold and a bustling social scene as Tony settles into her hosting duties and contemplates life beyond the Bellamys.
Bellamys Visit Tony at the Fairmont and Tea With Ruth
Tony enjoys friendly visits with Ruth and Mrs Patterson at the Fairmont. The Bellamys, including Lawrence, join Tony for tea sessions, discuss Call office matters, and Ruth reflects on past fortune and her long life without a steady partner.
Ruth Bellamy and family shadows in San Francisco tale
Ruth Bellamy’s elegant life frays after son Peter’s death and a San Francisco move. Tony notes Ruth’s melancholia as Lawrence Bellamy rises in journalism and a Piedmont house era begins, while Ruth clings to memory and status amid shifting fortunes.
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Lawrence
Ruth
Merrivale
Tony
Merrivale Hills
San Francisco
Piedmont
Journal
Little Peter
House of Cards
Spuds Boil Delayed on Mauna Kea Expedition
Troublesome spuds for a Hawaiian Academy of Science party on Mauna Kea caused a one hour twenty minute boil at the 6,000 foot level. Mauna Kea rises to 13,825 feet on Hawaii's Big Island.
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Hawaiian Academy of Science
Mauna Kea
America
Big Island
Hawaii
Old Age Pensions to Begin This Month in Nebraska
Governor’s weekly address notes expected start of first old age pensions this month for Nebraska’s needy aged aided by federal social security funds. County officials told applicants to bring property data and required documentation as state and county administration is streamlined. Insurance sector highlights include 46.9 million in premiums and 18.8 million in claims across life fire and casualty lines.
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Lincoln
R. L. Cochran
State Assistance Committee
Nebraska
State Insurance Department
National Defense Week Plans Outlined by Reserve Officers
Colonel Leo J. Crosby leads Nebraska Reserve Officers association in announcing National Defense week across the state from February 12 to 22. Talks, radio programs, and civic events will press for Congress to maintain 14 000 regular army officers and 165 000 enlisted men, raise officer totals to 14 000, and lift National Guard strength to 210 000 with yearly 5 000 increments.
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National Defense
Omaha
National Defense Week
Leo J. Crosby
Field Artillery Reserve
Nebraska Department, Reserve Officers Association
Nebraska
Lincoln
Washington
Regular Army
Officers Reserve Corps
Reserve Officers Association
Congress
National Guard
One Hundred Thousand Nebraskans Still on Relief Aid
Lincoln reports about 100,000 Nebraskans still receive aid. E F Witte, Nebraska FERA director, notes 22,598 former relief recipients now hold federal or private jobs. Cold weather and dwindling family reserves raised relief caseload about 500. Employable relief cases Feb 1 stood at 19,089 and unemployables at 8,000.
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Lincoln
Rural teachers swap chic for overalls after snow storm
Richardson county teachers abandoned pretty outfits for overalls to battle through drifts to schools. Officials at Kearney announced WPA approval for a $16,000 library addition and discussed a bond election at the April 7 city election to fund the city’s share.
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Richardson County
Kearney
WPA
Midland piano instructor to study at Fontainebleau in Paris
Norman Goodbrod, Midland college piano instructor and University of Nebraska graduate, will study at Fontainebleau school of fine arts in Paris next summer. He previously studied there as a scholarship student in 1929 and earned a master of music with honors from Northwestern University last fall.
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Norman Goodbrod
Midland College
Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts
Paris
France
University of Nebraska
Goodbrod
Midland
Northwestern University
County Attorney Drops Plan For Grand Jury Probe
County Attorney Robert G. Fuir of Pender announced the end of plans for a grand jury investigation into alleged abuses of Thurston county credit by a county official. The action followed the resignation of County Commissioner Gail Sailors of Walthill and the petition to rescind the court order for a grand jury.
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Robert G. Fuirman
Pender
Thurston County
District Court
Gail Sailors
Walthill
McCook to vote on pool bond despite possible PWA shortfall
McCook residents will vote February 27 on a swimming pool bond issue. The council, by seven to one, decided to proceed though PWA funds of about ten thousand dollars may not be available. Officials said PWA funds were withdrawn because the city did not provide required plans and specifications.
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McCook
PWA
Omaha Chamber Index Shows Big Increases Across Sectors
The January business indicator from Omaha's chamber of commerce reports a 479 percent surge in grain receipts and a 14.2 percent rise in livestock receipts from the year-ago month. Other gains include bank clearings 16.5 percent, bank debits 17.6 percent, Omaha livestock consumption 28.7 percent, and postal receipts up 4.7 percent.
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Omaha
Chamber of Commerce Industrial Department
West Point seeks bids for Main Lincoln street lighting project
The West Point city council invites bids for a new street lighting system on Main and Lincoln streets with traffic lights on Highways 8 and 9. The plan replaces a 16 year old center drop system with side electroliers eight lights per block, plus six blocks of water mains and sanitary work in the park at an estimated 33500 dollars, with 45 percent funded by the federal government.
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West Point
Main Street
Lincoln Street
Nebraska teachers improvement guild movement begun
University of Nebraska authorities announced a movement in Nebraska to organize a professional teachers improvement guild. A number of school superintendents have been informed of the plan which aims at the selection and promotion of outstanding instructors in the teaching profession.
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University of Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska to receive $1.27 million for social security work
President Roosevelt's signature on an appropriation bill is expected to bring Nebraska $1,273,400 for social security programs. The Federal Social Security Board approved allotments totaling $992,000 for old age assistance, $44,400 for Elina assistance, and $237,000 for children's aid.
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Roosevelt
Nebraska
Federal
Social Security Board
Final dividends paid for nine banks in receivership
January payments announced by judicial receiver E. H. Luikart show final dividends for nine banks in receivership. Three other banks under receivership and three administrative banks under state supervision also paid, totaling 45,152.69 dollars to judicial banks and 43,799 dollars to administrative banks.
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E. H. Luikart
State Banking Department
Nebraska shelterbelts planted on farms in demo project
Twelve field shelterbelts on Nebraska farms will be planted this year through cooperative projects between farmers and the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture. The belts will range from a quarter to a half mile, mostly on an east west line to deflect hot southern winds and reduce crop damage, per Earl G. Maxwell.
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Nebraska
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Earl G. Maxwell
State Extension Forester
Women More Vicious Than Men Says J Edgar Hoover
Pathfinder Magazine cites J Edgar Hoover noting women criminals show greater tendency toward violence and murder than men, despite women accounting for 6.9 percent of U S arrests in October.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bureau of Investigation
United States
Pathfinder Magazine
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