Return to the Ranch as Nancy Leaves Colorado
Nancy and Jack bid farewell to Cousin Columbine and the Adams in Colorado as Nancy’s journey home begins. Matthew Adam hints that Nancy will return, and Columbine receives a hopeful promise that she will come to stay next time.
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Nancy
General Grant
Colorado
Jack
Kansas
Columbine
Nance
Edgemere
Sis
the Adams
Matt
Matthew Adam
Judy
Mr. Adam
Mark
California
Waney
Aurora
Victor
Luke
John
Mary Taylor
Juanita
Felier
Eve
Victor Tubbs
Adam
Juanita ‘Tubbi
Matthew
Miss Columbine
Mother Tin
Columbine Nelson
Coconut Palm Provides Wide Range of Uses Across Islands
National Geographic notes the coconut palm yields food and drink including coconut milk and copra, produces toddy and treacle like products, and offers husks, shells, leaves, spathes, and trunk uses. It supplies fuel, rope, vessels, mats, torches, brooms, light, and ritual decorations.
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National Geographic Magazine
South Seas
Polygamy Flourishes in Belgian Congo Despite Tax
In certain regions of the Belgian Congo polygamy grows despite imposed taxes on extra wives. Tax rates range from 90 cents to 2.55 dollars, reflecting local enforcement and cultural practice.
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Africa
Belgian Congo
Sapphire Moonlight Murder Tale Ends in Bonded Vows
Mary Lascelles of Middlesex loves George Manners who clashes with her brother Edmund. Edmund is killed and Manners is convicted, then reprieved by Mary. detective James Shropshire links a missing hand with a sapphire ring to farmer James Parker who confesses. Parker is executed and Manners and Mary wed.
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Borge Manners
Mary Lascelles
Middlesex
England
Edmund
George Manners
Manners
Edmund Lascelles
Lascelles
Mary
James Shropshire
Shropshire
James Parker
Parker
WNU
Christina Queen of Sweden’s Reign and Legacy
Christina of Sweden was born December 8, 1626 and ascended the throne in 1632 after Gustavus Adolphus’s death. She reigned under Regent Oxenstierna until 1644 and was crowned in October 1650. She gained notoriety for her amours yet ruled benevolently.
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Christina
Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus
Oxenstierna
Railroad Power Struggle Looms In New Deal Push
Washington analysts report the Roosevelt administration plans sweeping railroad reforms with possible federal ownership and cabinet level oversight. Eastman and aides hint at a top priority program, with talks of government purchase and lease back, plus regulatory reach over buses and carriers.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Joseph B. Eastman
Mr. Eastman
Eastman
White House
Hyde Park
New York
Secretary of Transportation
Hastman
American Railway Institute
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Railroad Corporation
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Phi- Aaa
Adjustment Administration
Nostalgia for Victorian Serenity Inspires Modern Yearning
A New York Herald Tribune tally notes a wave of nostalgia for Victorian times. Writers like Galsworthy Strachey Guedalla and Noel Coward frame a shift toward security and established decencies. The era’s leisure domestic sanity and formal fashions contrast with contemporary upheaval and jazz.
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Dexter
Galsworthy
Strachey
Guedalla
Noel Coward
George
New York Herald Tribune
Men's vanity and mirrors spark playful social critique
The New York Sun comments on men eyeing their reflections in mirrors and behaving differently when observed. It jokes that men straighten their cravats or touch their faces as if examining a shave, implying women are more honest than men.
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Vocates
Problem of
Transportation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Students of Transportation
Secretary of Transportation
Congress
New York Sun
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WNG Service
Cousin Columbine
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William Bruckart
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United States
Western Newspaper Union
Man
Creomulsion
Paderewski
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