Purity Pictures Contest Sparks a Small Town Writer
In a tale drawn from a fiction magazine, Holmes mocks a contest offering $15,000 for a novel to be turned into a Purity Pictures production. Templeton Sayles, writing as Love Beyond Sin, faces rejection yet gains a chance to rewrite and rent a house while a quirky publisher buys the work and becomes his on-site backer, launching Kelsey Hare into literary life. The sequence blends farce, ambition, and local intrigue in the Finger Lakes setting.
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Holmés
Purity Pictures, Inc
Purity Picture
A. Leon Snydacker
Kelsey
Maggie
Flossie
Featherston
Matt
Kelso
Holmes
Finger Lakes District
Templeton Sayles
Kelsey Hare
Old Bean
Deep Blue Sea
Holmesholm
Templeton
Sayles
Malden Featherston
O. K
Mr. Templeton Sayles
Martin Holmes
Glunk
Patagonian
Urgeek
Moldavia
N. Y
New York
Debutante's Fame Sparks Family Tension in Candid Tale
In a Victorian styled household the Van Strattens clash as Adelina Ashcan's debut triggers public scrutiny. Holmes plans to live through a manipulated persona Templeton Sayles while a web of disguises and manuscripts entangles all, leaving secrets and character bluffs at stake.
Shelter and Storm Bring Two Strangers Together at Holmesholm
Kelsey Hare a recovering young architect meets Martin Holmes a troubled author during a lake storm near Moldavia North Carolina. They seek shelter at Holmesholm estate whose decay hints at financial trouble. Kelsey agrees to rent a room and stays on.
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Kelsey Hare
Martin Holmes
Moldavia
Holmes
Holmesholm
Kelsey
Pigeon Expert Lines Up Pigeons for Army War Use
Rob ert Milne, pigeon expert at Fort Monmouth, plans thousands of trained homing pigeons for the U S Army. He would coordinate 200 eastern fanciers, breed 500 birds at government lofts, and scale to 5 000 then 50 000 homers. The goal is night flight capability to improve wartime communications.
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Robert Milne
Kermit Kahn
Coronet Magazine
United States
Mr. Milne
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Milne
Signal Corps
United States Army
War Department
Are Your Children Eating Clean Food
A mother asks about nutrition and cleanliness for children. The narrator meets Johnny a muddy schoolchild with dirty hands and germs on a lollipop and stresses daily hygiene, hand washing, and school facilities. Mothers should enforce baths, clean clothing, hand washing before meals, teeth brushing, regular meals, outdoor play, and sleep to curb illness.
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C. Houston Goudiss
Mother's diet and hygiene for healthy growth
A mother should base a child's diet on current nutritional science to build strong bodies and nerves. She must ensure hands and food are clean, as germs enter the body through the mouth or nose and can cause grave illness.
Health Tied to Cleanliness Urges School Hygiene
The article argues cleanliness and hygiene protect children from infections. It touts soap and water as essential to health, noting mothers and school boards should enforce daily habits. It links proper personal care to reducing illness among students.
Child’s health needs rise with school start
The piece argues that once a child reaches school age, the mother’s role as teacher and guardian expands. It stresses heightened responsibilities and the ongoing importance of vigilant health habits as children interact daily with many others.
Daytime Fashions Highlight New Comforting Dresses
The Fall and Winter Fashion Book features dresses and jumpers in dirndl and home dress styles. Details include high necklines, puff sleeves, and slenderizing lines with practical sew charts. Patterns No 1621 and No 1624 fit sizes 8 to 52 with yardage listed. order details and price given.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Ask Me an Answered Quiz on History and Language
Ten trivia prompts cover geology the origin of flaming youth global hemisphere boundaries Washingtons children the Appian Way fortnights perfect numbers bridge costs and a poem line about a child with priceless pearls
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George Washington
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
The Answers Quiz Facts Excerpt
The list covers the Holocene period Shakespeare a standard meridian west of Greenwich a note on an ancient Roman highway a two week period a definition of a perfect number with examples six and seven perfect numbers up to 40 million two by two numbers the cost of a structure at 77.6 million dollars and the poem To My Child by Anne Campbell.
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Shakespeare
Greenwich
Anne Campbell
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Urgek
Cuylerville
van Strattens
Rob
Mr. van Stratten
By C. Houston Goudiss
Johnny
Loa
Joseph Fort Newton
Eona Riggs
Los Angeles
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