What a mess love triangle in Sisters by Kathleen Norris
Alix discovers Cherry and Peter share love while Peter is her husband and Cherry is married to Martin. Alix contemplates drastic choices as secrets threaten family reputation and happiness. The excerpt previews complex entwined relationships and moral tension.
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Cherry
Peter
Aliz
Dad
Martin
Alix Ia Cherry
Peter Ia
Alix
Ded
Kathleen Norris
California
Cherry Strickland Faces Midnight Moonlit Promise
Cherry Strickland arrives home, newly engaged to Martin Lloyd, amid a household of sisters and a devoted father. Anne, Alix, and the doctor weigh romance and propriety as Cherry grapples with love, fear, and growing independence in a fog of May nights and mountain air.
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Anne
Cherry
Alix
Dr. Strickland
Lioxd
Peter
Reson
Martin Lisyd
Fio
Messige
Stuay
Dad
Mr. Lloyd
Martin Lloyd
Liord
Peter Joyce
Martin
Alex
Heng
Hong
lIitebo
John Martin Lloyd
Mt. Tamalpais
Lloyd
Mir
Liloyd
Aliz
Tade Lee
Maiden of Forty Or So Was Upset By Friend’s Toast
The speaker recounts a din of gossip with a younger friend about Kate calling a woman an old maid. The exchange highlights blunt remarks and social snubs in a household dialogue.
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Kate
Policewoman as Marital Peacemaker in Minneapolis
A Minneapolis policewoman Mrs. Etta Tollefson explains why she is seen as a multi role arbiter of domestic matters. She describes being sought for missing daughters, family quarrels, and marital disputes.
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Inneapolis
Etta Todefson
Minneapolis Police Department
Crilla
Runaway Tracked by Wheel Chair through New York
Baltimore girls aged fourteen and fifteen ran away to the city with a plan to stay, guided by a wheel chair. Police traced them from Baltimore via tracks, leading to a Travelers Aid reception in New York. Sergt Weisner notes the moral avoid running away with a wheelchair.
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NW York
New York
Bureau of Missing Persons
Baltimore
William Elliott
Calvert County
Evelyn
Misa
Ednn Townset al
Elliott
ExiIna
Pennsylvania
Exma
Travelers’ Aid Society
Sergt
Edward Weisner
Missing Persons Bureau
Atlantic City Runaway Bride Ends in Jail Release
Charles Cope an eighteen year old from Chelsea and Peggy Ketchum also eighteen wed secretly in New York after eloping with a Ventnor Beach patrolman. Cope was jailed by his banker father on a runaway charge for three days before a police conference released him, with undisclosed terms. The couple reportedly planned to continue their honeymoon in Philadelphia after reunion with Cope’s family.
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Tlanticg City
City
Charles Cope
G. Frank Lope
Chelsea
Peggy Ketchum
Atlantic Avenue
Cope
Miss Ketchum
Ventnor Beach
New York
Elopers
Mr. Cope
Young Cope
Wave
Uake
Flo
Philadelphia
Husband confronts bride's homebound marriage in Oakland
In Oakland a husband recounts his wife leaving each night for her mother's home after a July wedding. He describes her denying love after the ceremony and returning to Fruitvale each night, with a note reading Super Grooms found on his pillow.
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Akland
Cal
Matthew Strauss
Strauss
Martha Porkshet
Fruitvale
Strausa
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Napa
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Brown House
Redwoods
Etlil
Kathleen
Yatia
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