A Christmas Surprise 2 Recalls Club Service and Family Joy
A tale shows AXINE hosting a Christmas party where the bridge club elects officers and reflects on a year of charitable acts from paying a boy’s suit to delivering Thanksgiving turkeys. Separate scene follows the Jameson family as a plane delivers their long lost son Richard, bridging distance with a gift of travel.
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Axine
Bridge Club
Maxine
Stone Boy
Perkins
Community Chest
Western Newspaper Union
Richard
Chicago
Prison escape chaos at Criminal Courts building scene
In a crowded courthouse escape, Hymie Fradke is killed by police as Joe Barry evades captors. A guard helps a prisoner with an Oregon boot during the melee. Joe leaves with the crowd and later hears his own police description broadcast on WNYC.
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Joe
Sam
Hymie Fradke
Dannemora
Joe Barry
Town
WNYC
Freedom Today
Criminal Courts Building
New York
Fradke
Tobh
The French Santa Claus in Harlequin Pantaloons
The French Santa Claus is described dressed like a Harlequin in an old pantomime, with colorful motley attire and theatrical flair.
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Santa Claus
Joe Barry Faces Murder Charge Then Chooses Quiet Defiance
In New York Joe Barry a country youth and caretaker at a poor rooming house balks at an offer to imitate a liquor runner to avoid prison. He rejects the plan but is later arrested and charged with the murder and robbery of two prohibition agents near Newburgh. A detective’s testimony and a loyal roommate figure in the tense case as Barry contemplates his fate.
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Joe Barry
New York
Louie Bertolini
Newburgh
Bertolini
Martin
Joe
Joseph Bradley
Sue Dayton
Prohibition
Fullhouse
Dayton
Pete Maxwell
Hymle Fradke
New Bride Tale Ends In Doughy Dilemma
A husband and his bride lament a bread that refuses to bake. The groom jokes that the dough remains raw despite heavy baking powder. The brick character sighs at the mystery of the unbaked loaf and lingering gloom.
Two Days of Freedom for Husband and Wife
A couple describes a marriage arrangement in which each partner spends two days weekly apart to pursue personal interests. They report mutual freedom reduces dullness, preserves individual friendships, and enhances time together. The plan yields renewed conversation and satisfaction for both partners.
Plan Praised as Suitable by Many Readers
A quotation from Anita Loos appears in the London Saturday Review praising a plan as suitable for many people. The remark notes that others will be surprised by the results.
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Anita Loos
The
London Saturday Review
Long-Buried Watch Found Restoring Family Heirloom
A watch bought in 1878 from a Stockton California jeweler was buried in a plowed field and found last spring after 43 years. Delmar Von Gahn, Yosemite council Boy Scout executive, retrieved it and returned it to the original jeweler, who repaired it and now it keeps good time.
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B. H. von Glahn
Stockton
Calif
Delmar von Gahn
Yosemite
Quotations on Civil War recollections and human cheer
A judge notes that Civil War history should be learned by listening to East and West in a taxi. A proverb says a man can write many volumes yet fail to fill a pocketbook. The piece ends with a nod to people who naturally bring cheer to others.
Lebanon's Christians hold majority led by Maronites
Census shows Lebanon's 826,618 population divided into seven confessions with Christians ahead, Maronites numbering 214,318 and 20,448 Maronites living abroad in the United States still paying homeland taxes. Sunnis total 186,040 and Shiites 113,536. other groups include 5,421 Protestants and 11,000 minority churchgoers.
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Lebanon
Asia
United States
Place for the Amateur
A writer criticizes the scoffing of the amateur and the dilettante, expressing sympathy and urging respect for informal scholars and creative pursuits. The piece argues against snobbery toward nonprofessionals in arts and letters.
Forest Fires of 1931 Destroy Over Fifty Million Acres
The 1931 U S forest fires burned more than 52,000,000 acres, an area larger than Ohio and Indiana combined. Careless smoking caused more fires and losses than any other cause. Total damage estimated at 968,350 dollars not counting unmeasured losses to young growth wildlife and watersheds.
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United States
Ohio
Indiana
Colonial “Game Law” Origins in Plymouth Colony
The 1623 Plymouth colony law declared hunting and fishing free except on private property. The remark that every man believes others view him as important hints at social perception in early colonial times.
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Plymouth Colony
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Per Coope
Harold L.cook
Jennie
Mr. Jameson
Mrs. Jameson
Christus
Chapter
Oregon
Oregon Boot
Wilder
Scott
Ott & Bowne
Bloomfield
N. J
Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Inc
Columbia Basic
Scott’s
Ay. Iim
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Malden
Mass
Harold Bauer
Albatum
Gaienaas McKessonerobbins
Otue
Latvia
New International
California
Easy Money
A. Gordon
Pacific Coast Products CO
Hollywood
Callf
Kowalski CO
Brenham
Tex
N. Y
St. Louis
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