Alan Baker Survives with Browning Firefight in North
After a fierce battle in the Land of Many Waters, Alan Baker defends a swan nest position against the Savage and bandits. Using a Browning gun, he eliminates the leaders and guards, secures loot, and is finally brought in for medical care as Joyce, Haskell, and Father Claverly await his return.
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Alan
Buzzard
Joyce
Jimmy Montgomery
Fort Endurance
Mackenzie
Father Claverly
Haskell
Williamson
Elizabeth Spaulding
Alan Baker
Pedneault
Bill Hardsock
Endurance
Hizaying
Elizabeth
Swan Nest
Hardsock
Bill
Thal-Azzah
Baker
Ottawa
Good Reason Found for Giving Youth a Chance
A Richmond Palladium note argues parents rarely recognize youth maturity and the need to step back. It cites Thackeray on respecting youth and letting young people handle decisions without constant adult interference.
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Thackeray
Richmond Palladium
Hard Earned Mary Debuts Self Made Hat
Mary returns home proudly showing a new hat and tells her mother she earned it herself. She explains she talked dad out of five dousia, prompting her mother’s surprised curiosity about how she did it.
Calamity Jane and other frontier names traced
A retrospective survey profiles Calamity Jane born Martha Jane Canary in Missouri 1852 and buried as Mrs. Jane Burke in Deadwood South Dakota 1903. It traces legends of Lightnin and Captain Dollar, detailing actors who inspired roles and the rise of William Wallace Kennedy known as Wall, linking to Frank Bacon and modern merchants who shaped transpacific trade from the 80s to 1900s.
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Martha Jane Canary
Missouri
Jane Burke
Deadwood
S. D
Jane
Cheyenne
Wyo
Lightnin
Bil Jones
Frank Bacon
New York
Will Rogers
Nebraska State Department of Publicity
William Wallace Kennedy
Wall
Brownsville
Neb
Kennedy
Nebraska
Napa
Calif
Winchell Smith
Cappy Ricks
Peter B. Kyne
Robert Dollar
Pacific
Captain Dollar
Western Plains
Shipboard
Dollar
Orient
San Rafael
Western Newspaper Union
First Thanksgiving to America painting by Jerris in Philadelphia
The painting The first Thanksgiving to America by Jean Leon Gerome Jerris of Philadelphia is one of his American history series of over 70 subjects. It is housed in Congress Hall Philadelphia in a gallery built for that purpose in 1917 by the city of Philadelphia.
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America
Jean Leon Gerome Jerris
Philadelphia
Congress Hall
Novelty Cotton Fashions Sweep the Season
Cherie Nicholas surveys fashion trends as new cotton weaves dominate the season with durene crepes eyelet durene mesh and faggeted fabrics. She notes uptime of berets open mesh gloves and diagonal seam lines shaping modern frocks for day and evening wear.
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Paris
Western Newspaper Union
Wool pique debut in chic spring suit for 1930s style
Wool pique adds a new spring chic to a suit featuring a white wool pique jacket with a straight yoke and a fitted waist, a straight front-pleated skirt, and a knitted blouse with a red and green ascot. Accessories include a white straw sailor with a tri color band.
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West Point
Simplicity Dominates Fashion Eyewear Lines This Season
The article notes a move toward simple, wearable frocks with clean lines and diagonal woolen patterns. It emphasizes lack of novelties and freak styles, favoring smart suits and dresses that look tailor made yet modest for daytime wear.
Rakish Little Hats
A compact description of young fashion hats in visca straw. The style features a low rounded crown, brim shading the left eye, and two contrasting quills standing upright on the left side. It notes the quills slip through the crown for a jaunty look.
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Heart OF the
William Byron Mowery
WNN
William Byron Mowny
Chapter
Louise M. Comstock
Bill Jones
By Cherie Nicholas
Cherie Nicholas
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