Lady Blanche Farm Ordeal in Hamstead Nights in Vermont
Philip Starr, a young Boston architect, meets Blanche Blanc he falls in love. To avoid a long Burlington detour he stays with Mary Manning in Hamstead. Paul Manning, Mary's cousin and fiancé, shows dissipated tendencies. Gale Hamlin, also courting Mary, visits without progress.
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Vermont
Philip
Starr
Boston
Blanche
Manning
Burlington
Hamstead
Mary Manning
Mary
Paul
Gale Hamlin
Philips
Blanches
Paul Manning
Alliance
Seth Manning
Moses
Lady Blanche Farm
Violet
Chapter VI continued ends with wedding fallout and a violent scene
In the Hamstead circle Blanche and Philip wed amid celebrations while Mary faces Paul’s neglect and growing tension. A confrontation erupts at the wedding after Mary rebukes Paul for his behavior, revealing deeper rifts and ending with Paul declaring his freedom amid anger and scandal.
Christmas Time on the Bowery and a Man Named Tom Mason
In rich, somber prose Fannie Hurst portrays Bowery Christmas as Tom Mason, a once prosperous man now fallen into apathy and poverty. Fourteen grim years of decline culminate in mused recollections, a cold wife, and whispered memories of brighter days, as Mason confronts the blurred line between despair and a faint thread of hope.
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Bowery
Tom Mason
Toni
Tout
Magan
Tom Masop
Orhines
Briarcliff ‘Manor
Tom
Sweer
Bowery Dives
Briarcliff Manor
Brooklyn Bridge
Avas
Pauline
Good Taste Today by Emily Post
A compact note introducing Emily Post, renowned author of Etiquette and The Blue Book of Social Usage, and highlighting her influence on social conduct and household style.
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Emily Post
Best Man and Maid of Honor Roles in Weddings
Emily Post notes from 1932 on the division of duties and seating of the best man and maid of honor. The best man stands with the groom at the ceremony and takes steps apart from the maid of honor, who walks with the bridesmaids. The couple’s center remains the bride and groom with the bridal party arranged around them.
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Maid of Honor
Erin
Sen Ton
Emily Post
WN Service
Primitive Man First Idea of Architecture
Historians say man’s first building efforts aimed to shelter from weather. Early huts formed from twigs and turf evolved from arbor-like frames to mud coverings. Agrarian builders likely created these shelters while hunters favored caves and shepherds used tents for nomadic life in Central Asia.
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Central Asia
Yeast Used In Bread Since Seventeenth Century
Readable fragment notes that yeast was first used in bread making in the seventeenth century, marking an early shift in baking methods and leavening practices.
Birds curb pest moths aiding California farmers
A colony of birds at Lake Ear, California, aided by gas last summer, checked a caterpillar invasion of the white-lined Sphinx moth on about 800 acres of Tye land. The birds were found transporting worms to a nearby colony to feed their young and consumed so many caterpillars that by month’s end only five acres of Tye were destroyed, per the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Ear Lake
Calif
United States Department of Agriculture
Harvard Receives Thayer Bird Collection of 30 Thousand Specimens
The Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology receives John Eliot Thayer's vast private bird repository. About 50,000 skins plus nests and eggs illuminate extinct species such as the Labrador duck and passenger pigeon. Notable items include ten great auk eggs and several California condor eggs.
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Harvard Museum
Museum of A Comparative Zoology
Harvard
John. Eliot Thayer
Thayer
Old Friend in a New Garth Chocolate Cascarets
Two years of experiments led to Chocolate Cascarets a modern trade partner for the original candy laxative once popular since Cleveland days. The Chocolate Cascarets join the line scoring with flavor action and packaging while the old Cascarets continue. Both ride on the old slogan They work while you sleep.
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Cleveland
George Ade
Russian scientists find weed as nicotine substitute
Government experts seek cheaper nicotine supply amid pest plant issue. Two Russian scientists discover a weed rich in the desirable qualities of nicotine. The weed, a common farm pest, promises abundant usable material with potentially lower costs.
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Lady Blanche
Hastings
Seth
the Brook
of the
Frances ‘Parkinson Keyes
WIN Service
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Rosalie King
New York
Congregational
Wallacetown
Gale
Hamlin
Mr. Davis
White Water
Westons
Jane
By Fannie Hurst
MfeCture Newspaper Syndicate
CWNU
Cowart
Birds Farmers’ Friends
Charlotte
Ngan
Sheloa
Crea
Parker
Draggiste
Hiscor ¢ Chem
Patehoone
Floreston
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
N.Y
Amber-Ita
North Rose
St. Kautamazso
Michigan
Boyd Willams
Hudson, Wie
California
Croc & Chaffey
Sprims
W. N. U. Detroit
Potter
Drug & Chemical Corp
Malden, Mass
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