Obsession The Tragedy Of The Cause
Etta Rooke, daughter of a fanatic union organizer in a New York tenement, endures decades of hardship and blind faith in a labor cause. After a night of emotional collapse, her father dies, and Etta continues his work while the neighborhood mocks her zeal.
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Clancey Street
Etta
New York
Etta Rooke
Rouke
Htta
Rooke
Clancy Street
Nurse Marries Rich Woman Hater in Atlanta Ward
A hospital romance ends in a secret engagement and wedding as Miss Lana Lane, a nursing graduate, marries F. M. Barberi, a wealthy Georgia railway official known as a woman hater. Barberi, once cynical about marriage, proposed after recovering from appendicitis and patience from Lane. He is forty, she twenty two. Gold mines in Colombia have yielded $700,000,000 since Spanish conquest.
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Atlanta
Barberi
George Baptist Hospital
Miss Lane
Purse
Patience
Colombia
Hard to Explain Moods and Inner Forces
The piece reflects on moods being influenced by unseen currents within us and around us. It suggests spiritual company can lift or lower us and that future outlook varies with daily obstacles and temptations to quit the journey.
Atmosphere Defined as Part of Earth by Early Text
The passage describes the atmosphere as an integral envelope of the earth, essential to life and surface processes. It explains a balloon suspended in air moves with earth's rotation and its orbit around the sun, in addition to other wind movements.
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Earth
Space
Monarch Archer Henry VII As Great Sportsman Patron of the Chase
W W Greener cites Henry VII as a notable archer and patron in The Gun and Its Development. The king favored the long bow but used a crossbow for wagers, notably at the Field of the Cloth of Gold where his arrows repeatedly hit center at twelve score yards while French crossbowmen failed to strike.
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Henry VII
W. W. Greener
Detroit News
Financing the Civil War Costs and Methods
The government funded the Civil War with an 8 percent income tax on incomes above $800, tariff duties and internal revenue. It also issued bonds totaling $1,199,000,000, both interest and noninterest bearing.
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United States
Internal Revenue
Smile reveals a simple test to distinguish good people
A brief line proposes an easy criterion to tell good people from bad, framing a moral test as a standard of character.
Britain Faces Alarm Over Persistently Low Birth Rate
Britain records the lowest birth rate aside from Sweden, sparking economist concerns. Census data show a decade of decline to 16.3 per thousand, far below prewar levels, with projections suggesting population will shrink without a rise in births. Despite steady marriage rates, total births from 1920 to 1931 fell by more than a million compared with the 1901–1911 era.
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London
Great Britain
Sweden
S. P. Vivian
Vivian
Majestic Swans Again Nesting in Yellowstone Park
Eight pairs of trumpeter swans were observed nesting in Yellowstone National Park during May, the species nesting period. Conservationists note ongoing threats and the need for safe nesting to prevent extinction alongside the dodo and passenger pigeon.
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Yellowstone
Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone National Park
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