Pine Ridge Home Change for Nancy Nelson in Market Crash Tale
Nancy Nelson a nineteen year old sub debutante and her partner Jack face poverty after a market crash. An eccentric aunt Columbine sends them to Pine Ridge where dilapidation and hope collide. They meet Mark and Matthew Adams and learn of past Indian hostilities and fires as they settle into austere quarters.
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Nancy Nelson
Colorado
Condle
Columbine
Nancy
Jack
Pine Ridge
Columbine Nelson
Mark
Matthew
Boston
Aurora Tubbs
Matthew Adams
Mark Adam
Luke
Jack Nelson
Ater Stark Agam Nan
Aurora
Nelson
Adam Ranch
Eve
John Adam
Family reminiscences illuminate Creede and Leadville mining days
Nancy and Cousin Columbine share memories of mock mills and clapboard towns from Leadville to Creede. They recall forested streets, shanties, gambling dens, and early theatres as the aging matriarch describes boom town life and the Adam family. Nancy learns Luke plans a year off before college and asks about Jack’s progress.
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Columbine
Enils
Nancy
Columbine Nelson
San Juan County
Creede
Leadville
Bedlam
Jack
Mark Adam
Luke
Ing
Aol
Pine Ridge Family Letters Reveal Small Town Life
In Pine Ridge, Nancy writes to Aunt Louise from a small frontier town where reading is scarce and ambition prompts youths to leave. The Adams family and postmaster Theodore Taylor stand out as educated locals while John, Mark, and Matt pursue schooling and futures. The household gathers for supper as Nancy receives a letter about Colorado and an Aladdin lamp sparks cousins’ imaginations.
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Aurora
Adam
Luke
Matthew
John
the Springs
Mark
Eve
Matt
Nancy
Nance
The
Atlantic Monthly
Pine Ridge
Columbine
Adams
Theodore Taylor
Juanita
Aladdin
Cousin Columbine
Louise
Nancy Letters Read Aloud In Quiet Country Weekend
Nancy's letter to Aunt Louise arrives on a Saturday as Edgemere readers gather. The absence of the young people stretches out, Phil vows never to return to the city, while Margaret seeks calm amid financial worries. Louise's visits bring tension and a sense of homecoming.
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Nancy
Louise
Edgemere
Phil
Margaret Nelson
Margaret
Lost Great Seal Of England Sparks Uneasy Moments In History
The Great Seal, passed to Lord Hailsham as the new lord high chancellor, has produced uneasy moments for past chancellors. It was once stolen and not recovered. James II threw it into the Thames during flight and a fisherman retrieved it weeks later. Lord Brougham’s seal was hid by playful ladies in a hot and cold game. In 1812 Eldon rushed out with the seal during a fire and buried it, later found after a family digging in flower beds.
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England
Lord Sankey
Lord Hailsham
James II
Thames
Lord Brougham
Scotland
Lord Eldon
Eldon
New Material For Bombs Explorer Claims Discovery
A Polish count believes he has found a method using Ophir sugar treated with liquid to create explosive material. In London discussions, Professor W B Tuck and explorer Werks Warka described confounding discoveries related to biblical Ophir and ancient gold artifacts. Sweden ranks fifth in global shipbuilding, overtaking Germany.
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Sohomen
Solomon
Temple of Jerusalem
Byron de Prorok
London
Renton
W. B. Tuck
Oeeee University
Tombs
Egypt
Lord Tyrrell
Paris
Abyssinia
Werks Warka
Sweden
Germany
Prince Visits Guernsey Strengthens Anglo British Ties
The Prince of Wales arrived aboard the destroyer Faulknor in St. Peter Port Guernsey where Lieut Gov E N Broadbent welcomed him. He called Guernsey a beautiful and fertile island with historic ties to the British Crown and as a link to the friendly nation beyond the English Channel.
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Guernsey
Prince of Wales
St. Peter Port
Faulknor
Gov. E. N. Broadbent
English Channel
Funeral rite in Burma births paper white elephant pyre
A cremation scene in Burma features an enormous paper and bamboo white elephant carrying the coffin to a canopied seat for burning. The ceremony emphasizes solemn respect and ritual tradition without ridicule toward participants.
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Burma
Little Things and Quiet Faith Shape Daily Holiness
A devotional meditation cites Zechariah 4 10 urging small daily acts of selfless faith. It stresses constant discipline in minor details and hidden love as the path to saintly beauty and great sacrifice, with love shown by doing things for God regardless of their small scale.
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God
Old Colonial Bank Notes Found in Cincinnati Library
Two paper currencies issued by Maryland in 1770 and New Jersey in 1776 were uncovered in the Cincinnati Board of Education Library. The Maryland note promises payment in London gold or silver at four shillings and sixpence per dollar, while the New Jersey bill is for twelve shillings. Both carry the warning that counterfeiters face death. The discovery raises questions how such items reached Cincinnati, a then undeveloped area.
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America
Cincinnati
Ohio
Maryland
London
New Jersey
Cincinnati Board of Education
Tower Soars in Moscow for Parachute Training
A steel tower about 850 feet high rises in Moscow to train parachute jumpers for military and sport uses. It will be pentagonal with five platforms shaped like airplane cabins, an elevator central to the structure, and it will also serve as a beacon for aircraft and a mooring mast for dirigibles. Lights are visible for 18 miles.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Ite
Government scientists compare earth vegetation to human skin
Government scientists warn that removing large areas of vegetation damages land like stripping skin, leading to dreadful sores and erosion.
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James Martin
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Ontario
Coen
Kent
Firestone
CSAC
Explorer
Discovery
Zechariah
Heaven
Calgary
Edmonton
Regina
Winnipeg
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