Purity Pictures scheme stirs Cuylerville
Marie Van Stratten becomes entangled in a sensational photo contest scandal when Liggett Morse hatches a plan to turn her image into a national beauty contest prize. He bets on her winning to secure a life changing payoff, while Aunt Van Stratten frets over the public exposure and a looming European retreat.
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Marcia
van Stratten
Cuylerville
Liggett Morse
Marion Norman van Stratten
Keeler Smith
Riding Club
Cuyierville Country Club
Night Watchman
Harvard
Mr. Morse
Hollywood
Marion
Liggy
Liggett
Marie
Mr. van Stratten
Purity Pictures
England
Europe
Marne
Mansion Storm Sparks Unlikely Pact in Templeton Sayles Mystery
Architect Kelsey Hare recovering from a breakdown meets author Martin Holmes during a rainstorm near Moldavia New York. Holmes’ decaying estate reveals financial trouble as Kelsey rents the house, buys Holmes manuscript, and adopts the pen name Templeton Sayles to pursue a film contest tied to a Park Avenue debutante. Glunk, the servant, and the Van Strattens with niece Marion enter the unfolding plot.
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Kelsey Hare
Martin Holmes
Moldavia
N. Y
Holmes
Holmesholm
Kelsey
Park Avenue
Purity Pictures
A. Leon Snydacker
Templeton Sayles
Sayles
Glunk
Park Avenue van
Chapter II in the Hollywood talent chase
On July 9 A Leon Snydacker sits in a New York office amid nine hopeful actresses awaiting a meeting with the film industry magnate. A tenth entrant arrives after fifty minutes of waiting as the scene of a potential star test unfolds.
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Leon Snydacker
New York
Cowboys of the Swamplands Ride Range In Slim Pirogues
A Lockport correspondent describes Louisiana swampland cowhands who round up cattle from Bayou Lafourche using slim pirogues in muddy water. Cowboys wade through reeds and cypress, dogs and vultures aid tracking, and floods turn swamps into vast lakes allowing roundups.
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Lockport
United Press
Chicago Daily News
Bayou Lafourche
Octave LeBlanc
Why Louisiana was Parishes
After the Louisiana purchase the territory was divided into 12 settlements called counties. In 1807 Orleans divided the area into 19 districts named parishes, a term from ecclesiastical districts. Upon statehood the name parish applied to more civil districts created later.
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Louisiana
France
Orleans
Vitamin C in Daily Diet Highlights and Sources
The article stresses vitamin C as essential daily, not stored by the body and easily destroyed by cooking. It discusses citrus fruits cabbage tomatoes and especially cranberries as rich sources, noting cooking retention and health links to gums teeth and scurvy prevention. It also cites historical uses in preventing scurvy among sailors and emphasizes raw or quickly cooked sources.
Vitamin C and the defeat of scurvy in history
The article traces how scurvy was once curable in both children and adults before scientists identified vitamin C as the preventive factor. It notes a century of European and American research uncovering foods with preventive and curative powers, culminating in the understanding that vitamin C stops scurvy.
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Europe
America
Vitamin C Deficiency Linked to Growth Delays in Children
The article notes latent scurvy in children and adults from all backgrounds, linking growth retardation and irritability to vitamin C deficiency. It describes symptoms such as swollen joints, bleeding gums, loose teeth, and possible hemorrhages in kidneys and other organs, with guinea pig studies highlighting adrenal gland vitamin C richness.
Stop Paying Rent Farm Offers in Iowa and Beyond
A classified notice promotes purchasing a farm or ranch to own. It offers terms with down payment and a 10 to 25 year balance, often with payments lower than rent. Markets include Iowa Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming through the Federal Land Bank of Omaha.
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Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wyoming
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Omaha
Tax on Food Consumes Family Food Budget
A family with annual income of 2600 dollars spends about 827.19 on food and faces a 57.87 dollar portion of that bill taken by the tax collector per the National Consumers Tax commission.
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National Consumers Tax Commission
Around the House: Practical Housekeeping Tips
Practical guidance on safe clothing choices and home care. Advice covers stocking length and fit, curtain hemming, cleaning suede shoes, washing chamois, treating stained tea towels, common household accident hazards, and cleaning hair brushes with hot water and soda or ammonia.
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Banner Serial Fiction
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Tom
Harry
Glory
Jim Thurber
New Yorker
Tiggett Morse
Peckett
Snydacker
Ned
C. Houston Goudiss
By C. Houston Goudiss
WNU
Houston Goudiss
BAYER
Araancye
Arthur Bartels
Luden
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