Maiden Effort in a Stormy Lake Mystery Tale
Samuel Hopkins Adams story features Kelsey Hare a recovering architect who meets Martin Holmes at Holmesholm estate near Moldavia New York. Kelsey learns Holmes had a rejected Park Avenue debutante story in a Purity Pictures contest and buys the manuscript while forcing Holmes to use his pen name Templeton Sayles. Marion Van Stratten enters the contest and allies with Gloria Glamour as a press agent maneuvers the plot.
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Kelsey Hare
Martin Holmes
Moldavia
N. Y
Holmes
Holmesholm
Kelsey
Park Avenue
Purity Pictures
Leon Snydacker
Templeton Sayles
Sayles
Park Avenue van
A. Leon Snydacker
Peckett
Marion
Gloria Glamour
Filp
Moby Dickstein
Snydacker
Dazrling
Moby
Gloria
Hare
Unseen visitors spark a chaotic writing crisis
In Moldavia a mysterious note to Templeton Sayles pulls writer Kelsey into a wild caper. Purity Pictures declares ownership of his manuscript Love Beyond Sin as Moby Dickstein Gloria and Marne confront a tree-dwelling, fanged henchman Glunk guarding a photo of Adelina Ashcan.
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Gloria
Templeton Sayles
Marne
Moby Dickstein
Kelsey
Purity
Moby
Leon
Glunk
Marie
Adelina Ashcan
Park Avenue
Cultivation of Quaintness Becomes Box Office in Ozark
Ozark residents discuss how being called hillbilly has become good box office. Lucile Movies notes locals welcome the label after years of conforming to civilization. They embrace rural garb and songs while visitors admire the quaint persona.
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Ozark
Lucile Movies
The
University Review
Lord Thomas
Culinary Herbs: Shallots Leeks and Chives Compared
Shallots grow like garlic in cloves with a pear shaped bulb and are used in salads for a delicate flavor. Leeks are larger with flat leaves and minimal bulb, usable raw or cooked in salads. Chives use only hollow leaves, chopped into salads or cottage cheese and popular for continuous window-sill growth.
Second Hand Toy Revival Spreads Across America
Thousands join a yearly second hand toy industry that reshapes discarded playthings. In schools and service clubs, volunteers repair repaint and dress dolls and horses while Boy and Girl Scouts assist in larger towns. Communities also assemble Christmas baskets with candy fruit and festive items for the needy.
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America
Santa Claus
Roosevelt Third Term Question Dominates Post Election Talk
Washington lawmakers return to Capitol Hill as Roosevelt’s potential third term looms large in debates over his power to shape party nominations. Analysts note public sentiment slowly shifts against him, while observers discuss taxes on utilities and the extent of executive orders. In Europe Hitler’s actions after Munich spark worldwide indignation and fear of renewed colonial transfers, with immigration policy likely to feel pressure next session.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
White House
Supreme Court
Harry L. Hopkins
Congress
Democratic Party
Democratic
Cordell Hull
John Nance Garner
Bennett Champ Clark
Vic Donahey
TVA
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Reich
Great Britain
France
Chamberlain
London
Paris
South Africa
Munich
Germany
Sudetenland
Britain
Austria
United States
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Christmas Carols Cross Battle Lines in 1914 Front
NORFOLK VIRGINIA Rev J Sutherland-Watt recalls a Christmas Eve moment between Armentieres and Arras when Jim Sutherland-Watt of the Gordon Highlanders led in Silent Night in two languages. Trench voices responded across no-man’s land as dawn neared with flags, flares, and a quiet stand down.
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Norfolk
J. Sutherland-Watt
Armentiers
Arras
Gordon Highlanders
Jim
Sutherland-Watt
Anti Communist Flags Replace Santa in Japan Christmas
Tokyo bans Santa Claus as a home ministry ordinance forbids the traditional festival display. Stores replace festive Santa figures with national flags from Japan Germany and Italy to symbolize anti communist nations during the Christmas season.
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Japan
Tokyo
Christmas All Year Town Builds Yuletide Atmosphere
Christmas Florida sustains a year round Christmas atmosphere with mail from around the world stamped by Mrs. Santa Claus postmistress Juanita S Tucker. The Christmas post office began operation June 27 1892 and other Christmas offices in Kentucky and Arizona have been abandoned.
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Fla
America
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New York
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Carter Field
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Francis Biddle
Tennessee Electric Power Company
Charles A. Wolverton
Biddle
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Ohio
Adolf Hitler
Harry Hopkins
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