The Tort That Was Thirteen in Rilla Story
A muddled tale centers on Rilla and her affection for Shane Tennant while favorite suitor Patrick and Vovish town life swirl. Enter Leslie Durant the famed illustrator who stirs social tension and challenges Rilla’s expected path toward Pat and the grocery heiress role.
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Molcy
Terrile
Hiingen
Rilla
Patrick
Louis
Faiks
Asia
Pat
Shane Tennant
Shane
Leslie Durant
Morriville
Son
Durant
Tennant
Best Looking Girl in Town Winslow Story
Durant recalls Rilla Mabry as the town beauty after a dance, and years later a chance lunch rekindles memory. Rilla, once shy, becomes confident through Durant and Shane Tennant, leading to marriage, divorce, and a rebuilt life with Patrick Redding’s growing family and business success.
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Thyra Samter Winslow
Rilla
Anvyone
Rilla Mabry
Risla
Billa
Shane
Morning Meals to Kickstart the Day with Cheerful Biscuits and Eggs
A guide to waking families for breakfast with variety and pleasant routines. It emphasizes arousing aroma, quick fruit juice, and cheerful dishes to boost vitamins, then suggests recipes for Health Bread and Orange Coffee Cake with clear ingredients and baking directions.
Expert Lynn Chambers gives quick sauces and homey dishes
The column offers simple kitchen tips from lemon mayo sauce for greens to mace and thyme in recipes. It provides baked eggs in toast cups, oat griddle cakes, scrapple and frizzled eggs, plus ideas for using leftovers and easy desserts with notes on timing and temperatures.
Meat in Baby Diets Cuts Anemia at Six Weeks Old
University of Nebraska researchers feeding meat to six week old babies found eight weeks of meat supplementation raised hemoglobin levels. In trials at Child Saving Institute Omaha and St Thomas Lincoln, meat fed infants gained in red blood cell content and showed steadier growth and better sleep.
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Bables
University of Nebraska Food and Nutrition Laboratory
Patsy
A. K. Myrabo
University Hospital
Ruva Leverton
University of Nebraska
Food and Nutrition Laboratory
Ruth M. Leverton
American Medical Association.Journal
Leverton
University
Child Saving Institute
Omaha
St. Thomas
Lincoln
St. Thomas Orphanage
First Maine Skunk Hunt Draws Lively Crowd
Rangeley Lake Maine hosts a mass skunk hunt with W. Scott Peirsol inviting Boston debutantes and escorts to join. Participants use wicker baskets flash lights and pitchforks. The three day event ends with a Skunk Hunters ball.
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Rangeley Lake
Maine
Pine Tree
W. Scott Peirsol
Rangeley Sheraton Hotel
Boston
Emily Post
Crossword Puzzle Clues from Historical Page Fragment
A dense list of crossword hints spans categories from signs of no future events to celestial notes. Clues include person and place oriented terms such as Persian poet and Shoshonean Indian alongside general words like maxim and meadow.
Zinc Oxide Pigment: Alchemists’ Nix Alba and Modern Processing
Zinc oxide, once called Nix Alba and philosophers wool by alchemists, was first proposed for paint by Guidon de Morveau in the late 18th century. Early 19th century saw commercial pigment production and a French naval vessel coated with it. Today two processes yield zinc oxide: the American method producing oxide directly from ore, and the French method via vaporization and oxidation of zinc. The American process remains the principal pigment producer.
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Guidon-de-Morveau
Three C s Now for Wives at University of Oklahoma
In Norman Oklahoma wives of war veteran students take classes in cannin crochet and clothin through the university school of home economics shifting focus from reading writing and arithmetic to practical domestic skills.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
School of Home Economics
Novel Clock in Spartanburg Tells Moon Sun and Time
In Spartanburg South Carolina about 1880 Daniel Davis built a four faced clock with a master wheel turning once every 13 years. One face tracks the sun in 24 hour progress another maps moon phases a third shows day and month including leap day and the fourth keeps ordinary time. The clock is now owned by R O Davis grandson of the maker and sits in his home.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Daniel Davis
Carolina
R. O. Davis
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Roa
Lynn Chambers
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WNU
China
U.S
Chaldea
Beverage
Mire
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