The Second Hand Purse Echoes a Summer Meeting
Sheila Carscadden, a 21 year old in New York, reveals a newly bought second hand purse to cousin Cecilia Moore. In the purse she finds a remembered memory of a boy named Peter and fifty dollars in a secret pocket. The family, including unemployed Joe and crippled Angela, face tension as Sheila plans to return the money to the purse owner whose initials and street number are noted, viewing the expedition as a lark.
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Sheila Carscadden
New York
Cecilia Moore
Peter
Joe
Angela
Sheila
Long Chapter Portrait Unfolds A Family and a Stranger
In a quiet room a stout man Paul McCann hosts a visitor Sheila, a poor Bronx girl who found a purse with fifty dollars. He shows mercy offering rent relief and help for her widowed mother while his daughter Gertrude’s wedding looms. Sheila confronts Peter, a man she once kissed, and moral choices collide as family ties and secrets emerge.
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Sheila
Annyone
Veronica
Gertrude
Gertie
Mamie
Angela
Von
Paul McCann
Lovey
Cothers
Peter
Paul
Norah Gaynor
Ellie
Judge McCann
Shim
St. Leo’s
Mrs. McCann
St. Leo's
Bronx
Gert
Holdrege Well Gave State Real Deep Test
The eighteenth in a series on Nebraska oil drillings describes a Holdrege well providing a significant test. Compiled by Nebraska Writers' Project WPA researchers from old papers and data, it outlines findings and methods used in assessing deep formations and state prospects.
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Holdrege
Nebraska
Nebraska Writers
Project Wpa
Holdrege Oil Drill Abandoned After Depths Reach 4500 Feet
The Trees Development Company from Pennsylvania drilled a deep well near Holdrege Nebraska starting in August 1930. Officials claimed electric power drilling and bright oil indications but abandoned the Bergman farm site after reaching over 4500 feet, sparking local town talk.
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Holdrege
Cass Petroleum
Lincoln
State Geological” Survey
Old Shrine ‘Club
Drift Hills
Honey Creek
Albin Farm
Dawson
Honey Creek Oil ‘Company
Dawsonson, -Herald
Watchman’s Shack
Beaver City
Holmes Farm
Holmes
D.B. Cogswell
Houston
Texas
Ohio Oil Company
Platte River
Platte
Homer Star
John Ashford
Winnebago
Star
Roy Armour
McFarland
Homer
the Star
Citie “Zens
Peter Shriver
Hyannis
Nebraska
Trees Development Company of Pennsylvania
Trees Company
Bergman Farm
University consolidates Romance and Germanic languages
The Board of Regents and Chancellor S. Boucher at the University of New Sareen merge the Romance and Germanic language departments. Dr J. E. A. Alexis, head of Germanics, is named chairman of the new combined department of modern languages.
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University of New Sareen
Board of Regents
S. Boucher
J. E. A. Alexis
Ideal Beauty Shop Closed April 15 and 16
The Ideal Beauty Shop will close Monday and Tuesday April 15 and 16 while Mrs. Furer and Leona Gemeinhardt attend a Denver trade show.
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NLU
RVICE
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Ernie
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