Homeward Bound on Cape Town to Portland Farm
Nora Mason stages a quiet literary ruse to save her husband Don from hard times. She edits his Cape Town manuscript, writes the editor, and secures a timely check while shielding him from worry. The couple returns to a humble shack with a dream of owning a barn by the Atlantic.
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Nora
Don
James Lambert
London
South Africa
Cape Town
Table Mountain
Shade
Leonora
Leonora Lambert
Carl Venable
Connie
Capril
Italy
U.S. A
Jimsy
Donald
Lake
Como
Mussolini
Antarctic
Portland
Atlantic
Soapy
Yale
Winter Sleepers Among Forest Animals
A Detroit Free Press writer notes Michigan black bears hibernate deeply in sheltered dens and require prodding to awaken. Woodchucks rival bears for winter sleep, entering underground in September and reemerging in spring. Chipmunks depart with the frost while bats hibernate by hanging head down in barns. Ernest Thompson Seton lists seven sleepers including skunk and raccoon.
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Vetther
Deetroit
Michigan
Woodchuck
Ernest Thompson Seton
Fragonard the Court Painter of Louis XV
The renowned painter Fragonard, famed as Louis XV s court artist, created voluptuous love scenes for Ma dame du Barry and studied under Boucher in Paris. As France’s monarchy fell he returned to Grasse and endured obscurity before dying in Paris.
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Fragonard
Louis XV
Madame du Barry
Boudoir
Francois Boucher
Paris
France
Grasse
Cap And Anthem Tale In A Soapy Winter Tale
Henry Fells sketches Soapy a cold season antihero choosing between philanthropy and the law. Soapy contemplates prison on Alcatraz like Island and commits petty crime to cope with winter. A restaurant scene ends with a bold brick window strike and a streetcar chase as he schemes further.
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Soapy
Jack Frost
Cool Fashions for Mosher Daughter
Simple summer dresses with slim skirts puff sleeves and vy necklines you can sew at home. Features two patterns 1481 and 1529 for sizes 14 to 46 with yardage and ricrac trim details plus order info from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept San Francisco.
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Ricrac
Ricrae Braid
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New Montgomery Ave
San Francisco
Calif
O H enry Life and Crimes in Brief
William Sydney Porter later known as O Henry was born in 1862 in Greensboro North Carolina. He worked at a bank in Austin Texas where a $1150 embezzlement case arose and he served five years in an Ohio prison. After release he wrote for the New York World earning 100 dollars per story. He died in 1910 and was buried in Asheville North Carolina. The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes his life bred a chivalrous tenderness for the unlucky.
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William Sidney Porter
Greensboro
N. Co
Asheville
N. C
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Soapy Gets Three Months On Island For Vagrancy
In a dramatic turn on the city streets a man named Soapy is nabbed by a nearby officer after a tense chase. He faces the magistrate and receives a three month sentence on the Island for vagrancy.
Interlaced Stitches In Tones of Pink
Ruth Wyeth Spears presents pink decor ideas with a paler pink linen runner and darker pink embroidery. Instructions describe cutting sizing hems, hand sewing, catch stitching, interlacing stitches with rose threads, and marking corner squares. Book details offer 90 more stitches and fabric repair projects for 25 cents postpaid.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
S. Desplaines St
Chicago, Ill
Emperor Defies Advice in Youth Boat Incident
The former German emperor William II ignored his teacher's warning and climbed into a light boat, capsizing it and tossing himself and his instructor into the water. The episode reflects his stubborn habit of refusing counsel and his desire to strengthen a withered arm through risky actions.
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Germany
William of
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Christ
Black Bear
Henry Fells
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Elizabeth C. James
Elizabeth James
Mosher
Madison Square Garden
Boapy
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Blkbart
Indiana
Photography
Hay Steents
Nrthwest
Fargo
Dept
North Dakota
Sam's
Oregon
W W. J. Bryan
Lydia E. Pin M
Nature
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkhams
Salt Lake
Temple Square
Ernest C. Rossiter
Mer
Neal
Mia
Doan
WNU
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