The Light of Western Stars Synopsis
Madeline Hammond arrives in El Valle on a train to meet no one. A drunken cowboy forces a coerced vow then a priest, a killing outside, and a girl flees with a horse. She later meets Florence Kingsley and learns Stewart’s mix of violence and bravery. Madeline buys Stillwell's ranch, makes Stewart boss, and intends peace with Don Carlos' guerrillas in a West charged with danger.
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el Vajon
New Mexico
Madeline Hammund
New York
Bonita
Madeline
Florence Kingsley
Florence
Gene Stewart
Alfred Jammond
Stewart
Alfred
Stillwell
Danny Mains
Mfe
Majesty
Her Majesty
Chiricahua
Jim Ness
Nick Steele
Monty” Rice
Don Carlos’ Vaqueros
Ridge
Maceline
Gene
Don Carlos
Vegueros
Con Stillwell
The Ranch Confrontation Ends in Standstill
In a tense courtyard scene Don Carlos accuses Senor Stewart of a killing while Stewart and his men confront the Don and his vaqueros. After a scuffle a dagger gleams as a vaquero falls, Stewart asserts lawful authority and orders the Cuban Don to leave the ranch with his goods and guns.
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Senor Stewart
Don Carlos
Pwawe
el Cajon
Hawe
Stewart
Stewet
Howe
Ren Carlos
Bete Stewarts
Nels
Monty
Nick Stevie
Madeline
A Romance By Zane Grey Showdown On The Spanish Range
Don Carlos vows to strike back as Howe and deputies threaten Stewart's men. Madeline and Florence flee toward home with Alfred and Stillwell. Florence devises a risky disguise to evade pursuing vaqueros while Madeline rides a fast black toward the ranch. Florence darts ahead, pursued by mounted vaqueros, as Madeline nears safety.
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Gene Stewart
Florence
Madeline
Stillwell
Alfred
Don Carlos
Miss Majesty
Flo
Stilwell
Henri
Lill
Bill
Atl
Don Carlos’ Ranch
Majesty
Raiders at the Mexican border raid Madeline’s house
Badeline bars shutters as a band of cerrillos raiders burst into the driveway. She gathers money and securities then hides, fearing abduction, theft, and violence amid revolution era chaos along the Rio Grande.
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Badeline
Meedine
Madeline
Sdliwell
Rio Grande
Nadeline
Ironing boards define the boarding house woman
A humorous look at the ironing board as a versatile staple for New York Sun style boarders. The article notes how landladies taboo its use creates demand and describes multiple uses from writing desk to breakfast tray. It highlights the ironing board as essential to any boarding life.
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New York Sun
Milady
Didn't Want Deputy Role in Sheriff’s Trick
In a southern town a boastful man longs to be deputy, while the sheriff teases him with a dangerous assignment. A notorious bad man arrives and the deputy-to-be feigns bravado but declines when asked to pursue the killer, fearing the risk and public talk.
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Mason and Dixon
Nesto
Sam
Mose Allemeece
Mose
Lyverybody
Behind Cloth Screen in Buenos Aires Construction
Frances S. Harris notes in World Traveler Magazine that Buenos Aires builders hide ongoing work behind a high cloth screen on a three-fourth sidewalk barrier. The front of the structure rises unseen until completion, revealing ornate lions and cupids in cement once the barrier drops.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Frances S. Harris
World Traveler Magazine
Nature Provides Fireless Camp Cooking At Hawaii Park
The Department of Interior explains that free public campgrounds in national parks include natural fireless cookers. In Hawaii National Park a fireplace is built about one hundred feet from the edge of the Halemaumau firepot to channel hot air for cooking with no gas smoke or ashes. A party of 35 recently used these fireplaces to bake potatoes and boil coffee.
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Department of Interior
National Parks
Hawaii National Park
Halemaunat
Woman Leads Civil War Vets Group in New York
Miss Jessie Benedict of Warwick New York is believed to be the only woman head of a Civil War veterans organization in the United States She has been elected president of the Orange Blossoms survivors of the One Hundred twenty fourth regiment New York volunteers, whose members included her father.
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Jessie Benedict
Warwick
New York
United States
Orange Blossoms
One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment
New York Volunteers
Women Lawyers Gain Admission in Illinois
In 1869 Myra Bradwell of Chicago sought a license as attorney at law but was denied by the Superior Court of Illinois. The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed, and now many in the state are being admitted to practice by statute.
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Myra Bradwell
Chicago
Lcense
Superior Court of
Memorial to Campus Love on Bloomington Tree
A former Indiana University coed and a bachelor graduate once entwined two maple saplings during a walk. Decades later their son, now a professor, found the entwined saplings grown into a single trunk on the Bloomington campus and photographed the scene for the record.
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Indiana University
Loomington
Bloomington
Ohio State Journal
Peers Enter Pig Ventures Stirring British Bacon Talk
Noblemen including the marquis of Granby and Lord Bledis discuss bacon ventures on Arran and at Lynsey Park and Blythe Hall. Central runs a bacon factory, while Lord Barnby contemplates one, signaling a large push into pork for Britain with spirited commentary.
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Marquis of Granby
Arran’s Isle
Lord Bledisloe
Central
Lydney Park
Lord Barnby
Blythe Hall
London
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