Lone Mesa Rescue and Navajo Healer in Risky Escape
Sonya Savarin, a self appointed physician to Navajo Indians on an Arizona sheep ranch, seeks death to avoid dishonor from a drunken foe but is rescued by him. She evades marriage to Rodney Blake, remains close to Navajos, and helps Little Moon through illness. Blake returns to New York promising six more months before a marriage demand.
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Lone Mesa
Sonya Savarin
Arizona
Serge
Lila
Babs
Rodney Blake
Sonya
Little Moon
Two Fingers
Blake
New York
Miss Savarin
Hell
Hogan
Rod
Scout
Rod Blake
Sonya Darling
Cheewash
Yellow Buck
Corral
Darkness
Desert lover Sonya faces past and looming marriage
Sonya Savarin returns to the border desert to aid Little Moon and confront a Lone Mesa stranger who confesses his past misdeed. She plans a visit with Myra Little at the Black Sheep ranch as she weighs engagement to Rodney Blake and a life back east.
Fall of Silesia Reported As German Advance
A brief item notes German forces capture Silesia, region held for more than six centuries, intensifying wartime shifts. It cites ongoing campaigns and strategic gains affecting Polish and Allied fronts.
Fourth of July Reflections on Freedom and Vigilance
New York Herald Tribune urges renewed vigilance to preserve freedom. It links Independence Day to the ongoing battles for liberty, noting dangers from domestic restrictions and foreign threats, and calls for constant community effort to sustain peace and civil rights.
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America
Great Britain
France
Germany
Spain
New York Herald Tribune
Land of the Loyal Free Anthem in the New York Times
Poem tribute by Eva Dean praising the Land of Might and Mercy. It reflects loyalty to the United States, honoring those who died for liberty, and vows service to defend the nation against tyrants. The verse invokes vales mountains seas and stars in a cadence of patriotic homage.
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Eva Dean
New York Times
Standard proportions for the US flag by Taft order
President Taft issued an executive order on October 29, 1912 setting flag proportions. The hoist to fly ratio is 1.0 to 1.9, union width to flag width 7.13 to 13, union length 0.76 to flag length, stripe width 1.13, and star diameter 0.0616.
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Taft
Giant stratosphere balloon built for National Geographic and Army
A massive balloon designed for a high altitude flight by the National Geographic Society and the U S Army Air Corps is assembled in Akron Ohio for a launch near Rapid City South Dakota. The bag holds three million cubic feet of hydrogen and weighs about 4700 pounds with gondola and fittings bringing total near eight tons.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
United States Army Air Corps
Black Hills
Rapid City
South Dakota
Akron
Ohio
Army
Navy
William E. Kepner
Albert W. Stevens
Kepner
Wright Field
Dayton
Stevens
Captain Stevens
Baraca and Philathea Sunday School Meaning
The article explains Baraca and Philathea as a pam meaning blessing and a union of two Greek words hinting at seekers of truth. It notes Beracah as the Sunday school for girls and defines related terms as a designation used by women groups within the church.
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Nam Sunday School
Beracah
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Vingie E. Roe
Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc
Parks
Savarin
Moon
Myra Little
Black Sheep
Myra
Dawn
Desert
Sam Savina
Rio Grande
Silesia
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Land OF the Loyal Free
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