Coming Out West A Family Faces Sudden Change
Nancy Nelson, a nineteen year old seen as a stylish but frivolous girl, must adapt after a market crash drains her family finances. An eccentric cousin invites them to move to Colorado, prompting a tense debate about hardship and independence. Nancy chooses to go, feeling the need to prove herself beyond parlor ornament status.
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Colorado
Baton
Nance
Nancy
Dad
Jack
Columbine
Nancy Wakes Aboard Train Headed For Colorado
Nancy wakes on a jolting train bound for Colorado and wonders if she should wake Jack. She notes a bright restaurant car and a fresh waitress as the train slows after a stop, hearing hushed voices from the waiting room. The car seems detached and recouples, and she reads the station name Dodge City with a shiver.
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Colorado
Jack
Nance
Dodge City
Prairie Awakening on a Long Train Ride West
Nancy and Jack travel from Worcester to Colorado, leaving home behind with mixed emotions. They witness vast plains and bright sun as they cross into Kansas and Nebraska, feeling homesick fade into awe at the expansive landscape and early morning scenes along the way.
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North Pole
Thompson’s Spa
Washington Street
Boston
Nancy
Jack
Sis
New England
Syracuse
Colorado
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Nance
Sudd
A Western Train Stop and an Indian Child Encounter
From a luggage pile the travelers reach the station and admire Pike's Peak. Nance notes a civilized town while Jack jokes about Indians. An Indian squaw with a papoose passes, sparking a remark on old times. (To Be Continued)
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Nance
Pike's Peak
Jack
Mike
The Rhyming Optimist Circling Through Life and Love
Aline Michaelis presents a reflective poem on circles as life’s pattern. The speaker views birth, growth, and death as a continuous caravan spinning between day and night. Despite the cycles, hope endures, with love seen as a guiding circle.
Flu danger overstated if diagnosed early says doctor
Dr J W McIntosh of Vancouver told the Ontario Public Health Association that isolating influenza cases at once could cut the disease death rate to about one percent. He disputed that influenza is fatal, noting many so called flu deaths stemmed from pneumonia or streptococcus worsened by overcrowded hospitals and lowered resistance.
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J. W. McIntosh
Vancouver
Ontario Public Health Association
Hungary opens first Custom House in Italian port
Hungary gains a foothold on the Adriatic with the opening of its first Custom House in the seaport city of Fiume, Italy. The facility in Fiume marks Hungary's maritime stake in the Adriatic trade network and signals broader economic ties between Budapest and Italian ports.
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Fiume
Adriatic
Famous Doctors Exiled for Science in Distant Lands
The article recalls Dr. Koch isolating sleeping sickness on Victoria Nyanga for months and discovering the fly persists on crocodile blood, suggesting crocodile destruction stops the disease. It also notes Dr. An dres Verhagen's perilous trek in Sumatra to study beri-beri, surviving a swamp attack by poisonous leeches and losing an eye but later advancing knowledge of a potential cure.
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Dr. Koch
Great
African Lake
Victoria Nyanga
Airlneas
Andries Verhagen
Sumatra
Beri-Beri
Verhagen
Largest Music Library Grows to World Leading Size
A London library started thirteen years ago in a Strand top floor room has become the world’s largest music library. Housed by the British Broadcasting Corporation the collection includes 20 000 musical titles and 100 000 vocal scores. It provides access to rare works and has earned world recognition with ten million British homes relying on its offerings.
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London
British Broadcasting Corporation
B.B.C
Pageant Bans Gordon Riot Episode for Tower of London Show
The Home Office bans an episode depicting Lord George Gordon’s 1780 riot for the Tower of London Pageant in London. The event aims to raise funds for Tower Hill Improvement Organization, patronized by the Prince of Wales. Gordon led a mob to Parliament to present a petition against Catholic Relief Act. riots lasted days.
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Gordon
Tower of London
London
Home Office
Tower Hill
Prince of Wales
George Gordon
Street closed to standlords rent message for Jubilee
Ardwick street festooned with flags for the King’s Jubilee bears a whitewashed warning reading This street is closed to standlords Rent spent By order. Dutch planes carried about 15 million dollars in gold from Amsterdam to Croydon without a special guard in the latest wartime air movement.
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Ardwick
Manchester Guardian
Amsterdam
Croydon
Little Helps For This Week
A reflective piece on neighborly love from Matthew 19 19 urging patience and charity. It emphasizes loving those near at hand first, including family and local neighbors, then extending kindness to strangers and anyone met in life’s path.
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Ontario health department to investigate tourist camps
Hon. J. A. Faulkner, minister of health, told the Canadian Public Health Association in Toronto that Ontario tourist camps will be inspected this summer to ensure proper sanitary conditions are observed.
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Ontario
Health Départment
J. A. Faulkner
Canadian Public Health Association
Toronto
Dust Storm Dumps 2300 Tons Over Baghdad District
A severe storm in Iraq brought a dust fall described as the worst in memory, with about 2300 tons of dust settling on the Bagdad district across the area measured per square mile.
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Irak
Bagdad
File of 10,000 Sounds Stored at Paramount Studios
In the sound library at Paramount Studios Hollywood a file storing more than ten thousand distinct sounds used for films is kept for production use.
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Paramount Studios
Hollywood
Russia trains over 30000 air pilots and mechanics annually
Russia channels more than thirty thousand air pilots and mechanics into training each year through its military organization, reflecting a sustained effort to bolster aviation and support forces across service branches.
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Russia
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