The Boston Lawrences at Clippersville in the California gold rush
The Lawrence family fortunes shrink from a once great Boston line to a small California farm. Ariel, at seventeen, becomes a mounting problem as Gail falls for Dick Stebbins and a fatal road accident ties their fates. Lily Cass fascination unsettles the home.
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California
Clippersville
Phil
Iron Works
Gall
Edith
Thea Book Department
Sam
Ariel
Frail
Lily Cass
van Murchison
Yale
Gail
Lawrence Juck
Dick Stebbins
Van
Chipps
Love and looming change in Clippersville life continues
Gail wrestles with growing feelings as Ariel frets about Hollywood dreams and Van, while Dick returns to the scene. A autumn picnic with the Chipps and Lawrence family deepens Gail’s realization that love makes life serious, not mere jeu d esprit, as Ariel faces a turning point.
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Edith
Ariel
van Murchison
Gall
Chipps
Van
Abigail Lawrence
Gail
Phil
Clippersville
Multer’s
Dobbins
Oddfellows’ Hall
Hollywood
Enlith
Atl
Sin
Butterfly
Gail Lawrence
Dormant Bank Counts List Published in Albany Papers
New York law requires banks to publish in Albany newspapers a list of bank accounts over $50 that have remained dormant for 60 years or more. The designation aims to inform holders and satisfy regulatory disclosure.
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New York State
Albany
Firestone
Wool Drives Expand As Sheep Cross Desert Trails In Arizona
The article notes 300000 sheep, called Woolies, trek from southern pastures in and around the Salt River valley to northern Arizona for summer grazing. Government sanctioned trails run 400 mile round trips. locals warn of mountain lions wild dogs and coyotes as herders face dangers and the rise of sheep driving as a major industry.
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Salt River Valley
Arizona
Salt River
Pension rolls slow to show much diminution
Pathfinder Magazine notes that pensions and compensation payments drag on long after wars end. It cites lingering Civil War pensions into 1955 for veterans and into 1980 for widows, with decades more for later wars's survivors and dependents.
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Uncle Sam
Veterans’ Administration
Penson
Pathfinder Magazine
Amateur in Chicago builds a long distance telescope
A printer and amateur astronomer in Chicago completed a powerful homemade telescope. He claims it can time a pocket watch within two miles using a ConCavy reflecting mirror. The device weighs 500 pounds, folds for storage, and wheels ease transport.
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Chicago
Popular Science Weekly
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Lawrences
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Kathleen Norris
WNU
Chipps’heaikht
Ek Stebbins
Lawrence Jouse
Murchisons
Barth
Dick Stebbing
Lawrence
Felicity
Dly
Sami
Black Widow
ios Coleman Lamp / Stove Company
T. Michita, Ins
Los Angeles
Calif
Philadelphia
Creator
Ontario
Parker
Hiscox Chem
Wis
Patchogue
N.Y
Drug
Gista
Hiscox Chemical Works
Indianapolis
al Jenkins
Utah
Olgfield
Richard Crooks
Gladys Swarthout
Margaret
N. B.C
WEA Network
iLow As
Aes
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