True Love Curdles for Ysobel Serial Excerpt
The sample serial about Ysobel Van Puyten features love, duels, and intrigue with characters like Jack Hackenschmidt Sam Plunk Geraldine Gramercy Tony Stoat and Harlow Sprocket. The text previews chapters 11 to 13 with cliffhangers and reveals, ending with a declared marriage plan and the End Bell Syndicate.
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Ysobel
Ysobel van Puyten
Jack Hackenschmidt
Sam Plunk
Geraldine Gramercy
Kingsley
Justice of the Peace
Tony Stoat
Geraldine
Alex Sweeney
Jack
Will Screwball
Harry McGary
Singapore
Stoat
Harlow Sprocket
Helen
Ysabel
Carmichael
Ger
Aldine Gramercy
Geraldine’s
Peter DE Peyster
Embryo Longfellows
7 DE Peyster
McGary
Sweeney’s
Will
Plunk
Gertrude Stein A E F Ambulance Ride And Life Summary
The passage recalls Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas in a French ambulance during wartime. It traces Stein born in Allegheny Pennsylvania in 1872 and her move to California then Johns Hopkins medical studies. It notes her Paris move in 1903 and her shift from surgeon to author with The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas and The Making of Americans.
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France
Gertrude Stein
Alice B. Toklas
Allegheny
Europe
California
San Francisco
Oakland
Radcliffe College
Johns Hopkins
Paris
Fannie Hurst the Shopgirl to Novelist of Note
A concise look at Fannie Hurst born 1889 in Hamilton Ohio raised in St Louis. She worked as a waitress nursemaid and sweatshop worker before becoming a celebrated novelist in New York City. Her first book appeared in 1914 after initial rejections and she later received a $50 000 prize for Mannequin in 1926.
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Back Street
Fannie Hurst
America
Hamilton
Ohio
St. Louis
Saturday Evening Post
Washington University
New York
Columbia Universty
R. H. Davis
Munsey’s
New York City
Judicial power safeguards equal access in US courts
The article explains that the US judicial system offers one universal court system where any citizen can sue government officials. It contrasts this with Europe’s dual paths of ordinary and administrative courts and cites cases where courts protected citizens against government rulings, underscoring the court’s role as guardian of liberties. It closes with a religious lesson tying Independence Day to prayer and deliverance.
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United States
Europe
Supreme Court of the
Court of Final Appeal
Need For Fair
Government
Government Department
Board of Tax Appeals
People’s Liberties
Union
Christ
Birds Netted in Italy Provokes Animal Protection Alarm
A Rome based animal protection society reports that nearly ten million migratory song birds have been trapped in nets across Italy in recent months. Birds are blinded with red hot needles before confinement in small cages for months in damp cellars. Upon release the birds allegedly mistake dawn for sun and fly into nets, suffering.
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Italy
Hacksley Society For the Protection of Animals and Birds
Rome
Society
State Books Go in the Red Slightly
Nebraska state departments have long been in the black but the state treasurer's office reported a red balance of more than 21 million dollars total, with a $921 overdrawn salary account and possible similar overdrawals for other officials. Governor Cochran and Tax Commissioner Smith say the general fund can cover overruns, noting the issue stems from the 1935 salary reduction act being struck down and officers drawing full compensation from the general fund.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
State Treasurer's Office
W. H. Smith
Andovernor R. L. Cochran
Smith
Supreme Court
Congress
Lincoln State Tax Commissioner Sees Stable 1936 Valuation
Lincoln state tax commissioner William Smith stated the 1936 valuation of 2 030 000 is unlikely to change drastically once county assessments are submitted by August 1 for the 1937 levy. He noted rural personal property may drop as stocks shrink and few improvements occur while urban property could rise with new housing adding to Grand Island’s tax rolls, potentially offsetting rural declines.
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Lincoln
William Smith
Grand Island
Chance of Federal Funds Is Slim for Nebraska Taxes
Lincoln Nebraska unemployment insurance director Malone said little chance exists for Nebraska to reclaim employer taxes paid before a participating law unless Congress acts. Nebraska employers pay one per cent for 1936 and cannot credit it to the 1.8 per cent rate for the first half of 1937 due July 1 without a ruling change.
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Lincoln
Robert T. Malone
State Social Security Program
Nebraska
Act of Congress
State Capital Tower Lighting Plans in Lincoln
Nebraska lawmakers set aside 10000 to light the state capital tower but land commissioner Leo Swanson says it may never be lit except for a red airplane lantern. NY architect O H Murray notes lighting work cannot be free and additional costs would reach 1100, with a possible cooperative agreement to proceed after Lincoln city talks.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Leo N. Swanson
Swanson
O. H. Murray
New York City
Murray
City of
Keep Up the Fire Vision in Religious Life
Quote from Bishop O P Fitzgerald warns a small coal fire of life risks dying out and analogizes it to a religious life reduced to near extinction. The message urges sustaining effort to maintain spiritual vitality.
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O. P. Fitzgerald
Social Security Numbers Issued Near 28 Million
The Social Security Board announced near completion of plans to take over numbering. Applications for old age benefit accounts rose to about 41 thousand daily in May, and by June 1 the total assigned numbers reached 27,787,837 with 13 days left before postmasters finish nationwide.
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Lincoln
Social Security Board
Grandmother’s Flower Quilt Patch Pattern Now Available
A beginner friendly quilt pattern titled Grandmother’s Flower Garden offers a single patch design with a chart showing finished block size color schemes and complete yardage. Pattern 5802 is obtainable for 15 cents by mail to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Better Improve the Other Foot in Hardboiled Times
The passage argues that self improvement must confront flaws, noting emergencies harden resolve. It satirizes postwar rhetoric about travel broadening the mind and asserts civilization may face recurring dark ages with stifled brains.
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John Lardner
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End Bell Syndicate
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Robert Merrill
Jesus Christ
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Egypt
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Harold L. Lundquist
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
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Washington
Papir
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