Lawrence Family in California Ore toils of a gold rush era
The Boston Lawrences lose a 4000 acre ranch in the California gold rush era and shrink to a Clippersville farm. Phil, Gail, Edith and Ariel work to support the family after their poet father dies. Ariel causes trouble while Van Murchison returns as Gail recalls better days with him. Dick Stebbins remains Phil’s close ally.
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California
Clippersville
Sam
Little Ariel
Phil
Gail
Fic
Edith
Roses and Riches Dream Across the Lawrence Household
Gail Lawrence, adored by her family, receives a birthday bouquet from Van Murchison and fantasizes about marriage to a wealthy partner. As years pass the Lawrence siblings face poverty and fading social life while Gail clings to a spark of hope for a literary career and a social comeback aided by Van’s money. Ariel sneaks out with Buddy for a late ride as secrets swirl in Clippersville.
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Ede
Grandfather
Muller’s
Edith
Phil
Sam
Ariel
Papa
Abigail Lawrence
San Francisco Call
Gail
Lucky Lawrence
Buddy
Stanford University
Lawrence House
Early Rhinoceroses in North American Prehistoric Times
The earliest North American rhinoceroses appeared on the Wyoming and Utah plains in Eocene times about forty to fifty million years ago. In the Oligocene they thrived in the Great Plains near the Black Hills as plains and woodland animals. In Miocene and Pliocene times they wandered along eastern rivers toward the plains of Kansas.
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Wyoming
Utah
Great Plains
Black Hills
Plains of
Kansas
Upper Amazon Indians and their unusual homebrew
A fragment notes that Amazonian tribes dine on caterpillars and grind ancestral bones for an ingredient in a popular homebrew drink. The passage reflects ethnographic observation of ritual cuisine and beverage preparation among the upper Amazon peoples.
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Upper
Amazon
State News Grants and CCC Enrollment Plans
State divisions announced works fund applications totaling 3 112 125 with Veterans Administration filing the majority. Nebraska Lincoln 27 000 is cited, while May gasoline tax receipts allocate 171 390 to the state relief fund and 257 085 to counties for roads. 428 475 funds go to state highways. About 1700 youths will join the Civilian Conservation Corps in late June, with new relief roll eligibility. July relief funds total 975 217 across general, transient, and rural rehabilitation programs. No extra flood relief requests are planned for the Repub lican River valley amid $434 000 grant emergency aid and Red Cross contributions.
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Division of
Veterans’ Administration
Nebraska
Lincoln
Rowland Haynes
Washington
Haynes
Republican ‘River Valley
Red Cross
Nebraska Ready for New Fiscal Year in Strong Condition
State Treasurer George E. Hall said Nebraska will begin the new fiscal year next month in outstanding financial health. He declared June 30, 1936, will show the state with all debts paid and solid balances in all funds, noting improved conditions compared with two years ago and hopeful prospects for a better crop and higher land prices.
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Nebraska
George. E. Hall
Commonwealth of the
Nebraska May finances show gains despite higher state expenditures
The Nebraska legislature's busy May led to higher monthly spending but a stronger cash balance in the general fund. By May 31 the general fund stood at 1,479,417, up from 1,442,090 a month earlier, and the gasoline tax fund totaled 1,661,342, surpassing last year's figure by 353,000. Total cash across funds reached 6,265,824.
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Nebraska
Thistles Used for Dams to Combat Erosion in Nebraska
CCC drought relief crews near Fullerton and Albion in the Plum Creek drainage area report using Russian thistles as straw substitutes for brush and wire dams to check gully erosion. During January and February they gathered 650 loads and stacked them for dam construction while planting 150 000 trees and shrubs as part of an ongoing erosion control program protecting farm land.
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Nebraska
CCC
Fullerton
Albion
Plum Creek
Robert Fechner
H. H. Bennett
Soil Erosion Service
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Lucky Lawrences
Kathleen Norris
Gall
Van
Rosey
van Murchison
Murchisons
Ste
Ashington
Ville
Dobbins
Galil
Lawrences
Lily Cass
Miss Lawrence
Lbrary
Lawrence
Hunter
Barchi
Iron Works
Murchison
Lily
Cass Shanty
Thomas Street
State News
Civilian Conservation Corps
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