The Lawrence Family Struggles in Clippersville Mill Town
The Bef wrences once thriving in California during the gold rush now suffer a sharp decline from a 4000 ranch to a small farm. The elderly father’s death forces the three eldest children to work as Ariel, Phil, Gail, and Edith face hardship. Lily Cass’s husband deserts her as Murchison returns from Yale. Gail and Dick King play pivotal roles amid mounting family strain.
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California
Clippersville
Sam Little
Ariel
Phil
Gail
Edith
Lily Cass
Young Murchison
Yale
Hege
Lawrence Luck
Dick King
Lawrences
Patterson Lawrence
Washington
Dobbins
Roses and Riches Await Gail on Her Twenty-Third Birthday
Gail receives two dozen roses from Van Murchison and envisions a new life with wealth and status. The scene shifts to family dreams, economic hardship, and Gail’s longing for recognition as she confronts the faded promise of the Lawrence clan. Ariel slips out with Buddy Raisch for a secret late-night ride.
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Gall
Gail
Edith
Van
van Murchison
Phil
Ariel
Murchison’s
Murchison
Kinney
Grandfather
Chipps
Kinneys
Muller's
Miss Lawrence
Lawrence
Hunter
Barci
Iron Works
Lawrence House
Lawrences
Sam
Lily
Cass Shanty
Thomas Street
Anna
Buddy Raisch
Stanford University
Buddy
Sardine Rule Clarified by U S Fisheries Bureau
The Bureau of Fisheries of the United States Department of Commerce defines any properly prepared small fish of the herring family as a sardine. European labels vary with Prichard sprat and bristling canned as sardines, while U S Maine uses sardines for young herring and California markets label Pacific pilchard as sardine.
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Bureau of Fisheries
United States Department of Commerce
Europe
United States
Maine
California
Origin of Sweet Bye and Bye Hymn Revealed
Hezekiah Butterworth notes in Story of the Hymns and Tunes that Joseph Philbrick Webster created Sweet Bye and Bye after a gloom episode aided by Dr Sanford Filmore Bennett in Elk Horn Wisconsin in 1867. Webster and Bennett collaborated on sheet music and published The Signet Ring with Webster's music. Bennett born 1836 died 1898. Webster born 1819 died 1875. Sankey popularized it in 1873.
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Hezekiah Butterworth
Joseph Philbrick Webster
Sanford Filmore Bennett
Elkhorn
Wis
Webster
Bennett
Ira D. Sankey
Hubert P. Main
Doctor Bennett
Manchester
N. H
Handel and Haydn Society
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Failures to Aid Nature Show Perils of Interference
A Pearson's Weekly piece surveys how human attempts to control pests backfire. Rabbits in Australia, gray squirrels in Britain, and goldfish in Madagascar have caused ecological harm and new problems.
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Australia
Pearson's Weekly
London
Canada
Madagascar
Dresden Plate and Basket Quilt Patch Diagrams
Instructions emphasize precise patch cutting and uniform seam widths for neat patch quilts. The article offers Dresden Plate and Basket cut-out diagrams with seam allowances, and invites sending 10 cents to Home Craft Co. for fiber cut-outs set No. 83a and 10a, with a stamped addressed envelope for replies.
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Dresden
Home Craft Co
Dept. D
Nineteenth and
St. Louis Avenue
St. Louis
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Kathleen Norris
Papa
Bay Bridge
Abigail Lawrence
San Francisco Call
Ede
Lucky Lawrence
Lucky
Firestone
Pia
Tkok
Voice of
Richard Crooks
Seareeee Cone Eddy
Weaf Network
Firestone Tire
Fireston
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Clark
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