Captain Mark Wallace meets Eleanor at Westchester school
Captain Mark Wallace visits Eleanor, now a young woman, at Miss Harper’s School for Select Young Ladies. He recalls their wartime bond, Eleanor hints at a hidden father mystery, and she coyly asks to be his wife when she is grown. A watchful stranger lingers outside the campus.
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Mark Wallace
Santiago
Howard
Hampton
Washington
Kellerman
Eleanor
West
Mark
Texas
Captain Mark
Uncle Mark
Major Howard
Misses Harpers
Mark Wallace Faces Reckoning After War and Distance
Years pass as Mark Wallace ages and disperses across Texas Arizona and distant border posts. He questions his army life and the future guardianship of a young girl after Eleanor's letters wane and a lingering doubt about his fitness grows. Then a sudden chance arrives and changes his course.
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Mark Wallace
Plains
Texas
Arizona
Washington
Eleanor
Colonel Howard
Mark
Howard
Chance
Captains meet Eleanor and Kellerman in shifting tensions
Captain Wallace encounters Eleanor a central figure of interest and renews his ties with Kellerman whom he suspects as a rival antagonist.
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Capt
Wallace
Eleanor
Kellerman
Old English Furniture Survives in Britain Through Changes
The Indianapolis News notes that much old furniture remains in Britain, saved by the stir caused by the 1851 London Great Exhibition and the later allway system. Squires and wives bought new pieces, selling older items to second-hand shops for poorer households, leaving many provincial homes with relics today.
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Britain
London
England
Indianapolis News
A Morning Breeze The Jokesmiths Wife Scene
A brief vignette shows a couple in a sweltering night exchange playful barbs about the weather. The man urges sleep while the woman resists, the scene hinting at domestic tension in scorching heat.
Dream of a County Agent War Garden in Arizona
County Agent J. R. Sandige drives a massive copper company project in Gila county. Seven thousand fifty plots supplied vegetables valued at thirty thousand dollars in 1917 with expectations to double in 1918. Gardens irrigated from deep wells with a double crop system supported by the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company.
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America
Arizona
J. R. Sandige
Gila County
Ariz
Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company
Miami
Mimi
Sandige
Copper Company
Tnsent
Okra Good in Gardens
Okra or gumbo is a desirable addition to home gardens and is growing in popularity from the South to the North. It thrives on good soil and can be started in a hot bed or greenhouse in short seasons, with pods harvested young for soups, vegetables, or stored by canning or drying.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Co operative Stores in the United States
A U S Department of Agriculture survey of 60 co operative stores finds failure due to mismanagement and weak methods rather than the cooperative idea. Proper leadership, capable management, large scale purchasing, accurate accounting, and farmer education emerge as keys to success and potential for lower prices and larger member dividends.
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United States
America
Office of Markets and Rural Organization
United States Department of Agriculture
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Capt. Wallace
Chapter
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New York
Miss Howard
Eivil
Chicago
Major
Murray
Crawford
Alaska
National Guard
Cuba
Seventieth
Qur
Special Information Service
Arizona Mountains
Co-operative
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