Journey to Salt Lake and Lake City Adventures
A narrator recalls travels with Polly Evans and Jacky visiting East Lake City and South Temple Street. They tour the Mormon temple and tabernacle, learn about tithing and architecture, then swim at a salty lake where the water is 23 percent salt and the pavilion sits on drying sand. The group forms a long floating line in the buoyant lake water.
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Jacky
East Lake City
South Temple Street
Ormon Temple
Polly Evans
Bine
Acky
Salt Lake
Traveling to Honolulu Aboard A Steamer with Jacky
Polly Evans recalls a San Francisco visit and a sea voyage to Honolulu aboard a busy ship. The trip features streetcar sights, a long bootblack sign, Chinese stewards, and a festive deck life with mission children, a fire drill, and a splashy swim aboard a tarpaulin tank as the voyage proceeds toward the Hawaiian Islands.
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Jacky
Polly Evans
Hawaiian Islands
Deacon’s vow to raise Burt and Eunice ends with a fall
In Plum County a wealthy Deacon Adams seeks to steer Burt toward college and a wealthier life, proposing Eunice as unsuitable. After confiding his plan to Widow Taylor, he climbs a fence and is left hanging until she helps him down. He then offers Burt and Eunice a $3000 marriage gift, and she severs the moment with a sudden axe chop.
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Ali
Burt Adams
Deacon Adams
Eunice Taylor
Taylor
Wisconsin
Earth
Burt
Ezunice
Eunice
Widow Taylor
Wieder
Plum County
Deacon
Widder
Franice
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San Francisco
Aoc
Golden Gate Park
Oli House
Seal Rock
Ney
Honolulu
Theerbor
Japan
Korea
China
Philippines
Saloor
John Ghinaman
John Chinaman
Ormon Tabernacle
Laos
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