Mary Loring Sails Toward Novel Breakthrough on Cruise
In a mid March mood she finalizes a plot as she boards a ship with Aunt Linnie for the West Indies. Mary mails a money order home, meets editor Phil Buchanan at the Brevoort, and gains encouragement to expand her outline into a full novel while awaiting Jamaica departure.
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Lelia
Mary
Hawkinsville
Judge
Linnie
Miss Hickenloo
Tia Power
Mary Loring
National
Chanan
Gret
Hollywood
National Weekly
Buchanan
Lelia Ormsby
Jamaica
Phil
New York
West Indies
Tam
Mary Starts Novel With Help From Phillip Buchanan
Mary writes through the night and into morning feeling freed from marriage pressure and bolstered by writing ambition. Phillip Buchanan calls, offers to read her four chapters of Storm on the Mountain and suggests dinner to review the work at seven. She weighs the social hurdle of reading to him in public, then agrees to meet in New York.
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Mary
Phil
Alba
Phil Buchanan
Phillip Buchanan
Buchanan
Spike
Dogs Learn Fast at Rent-A-Dog Kennels in Chicago
Jerry Greene reports from Chicago on a unique dog leasing business run from St Clair street. Dogs are rented for strolls hunting posing in ads and even guarding drinks. Clients pay from twenty five to one hundred ninety dollars for posing and months for a St Bernard trained to guard a tavern.
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St. Clair Street
Jerry Greene
Chicago Daily News
Chicago
United States
St. Bernard
Horseshoe Temples Spread Across the Orient
The horseshoe shape, once used to ward off misfortune, appears in Hindu temples across the Orient. In Rajputana India several Hindu temples are built in the horseshoe form, reflecting religious symbolism long before naval and architectural adaptations.
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Orient
Rajputana
India
Storm That Shaped a Nation’s Founding Leader
A hurricane as a teenager sparked Alexander Hamilton’s education and path to greatness. Sent from Nevis to New York, his vivid hurricane account impressed Nevisians and led Hugh Knox to fund his schooling. He studied in Elizabeth town and New York, eventually entering Kings College before shaping early American democracy.
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Alexander Samilton
America
Nevis
Leeward Islands
Boston Herald
Caribbean
Hugh Knox
Gertrude Atherton
Knox
Alexander
St. Croix
Hamilton
New York
Boston
Francis Barber
Elizabethtown
N. J
Princeton
Witherspoon
Kings
Columbia) University
Ancient English Wayside Churches Exhibit Curious Oddities
Ancient English churches hide curios from barrel organs at Meldreth to tree belfries at Ewes. Memorials include a highwayman honored at Avening and a 100 year old notice at Battle. The Redcliffe church catapulted a cat into legend, while border fortifications hide prison dungeons under Great Salkeld.
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Meldreth Church
Cambridge
Pearson
London Weekly
Piddinghom Church
Sussex
Ewes
Dumfries
Britain
Bradford-on-Avon
St. Mary's
Ross-on-Wye
Sma
Rdleberg
Avening
Gros
St. Mary's Church
Redcliffe
Bristol
Carbrook
Norfolk
Ampney Crucis
Glos
Brecoin
Great Salkeld
Cumberland
Producing Artificial Pearls
A writer in Pearson's London Weekly explains how introducing an alien particle into an oyster triggers a calcium rich shell layer. The grain of sand or other particle becomes the nucleus and the oyster coats it with many calcium layers to form a pearl.
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Pearson
London Weekly
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