Alice Duer Miller Interview Reflects Prolific Career
Mary Stewart Cutting reports a wide biography of Alice Duer Miller. She is a New Yorker by birth with long residency in Central America and a string of successful works including Calderon’s Prisoner and Manslaughter. Miller's plays and writings saturate magazines and stage, and she shows strong interest in the Star Baron of Matrimonial Adventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central America
Calderon
Mary Stewart Cutting
Marriage Bore and Breakdown in a Suburban Home
Eliot, a bored husband, confronts his wife Mary as she leaves after a Sunday apart. He recalls a frank talk with his friend Sam and faces the truth that boredom stems from a lack of shared effort. Mary returns a warning that true partnership needs mutual investment or separation.
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Nile
Mary
Sam Rand
Sam
Eliot
Thuis
Middlemarch
Ebridges
Zill
Verne
Foetten
Allent
Finito
Marietta
Hdllot
Doris
Nora
Brantonyewrever
Hilot
Virginia
Caroline
Guiler
Keaven
Eliet
Fragmented OCR Tale of Ice Experiments and Escape
An unclear OCR passage references various ice experiments and atmospheric pressures at unusual temperatures. It describes experimenters, a frantic wife in bed, a man unseen who promises to return money in three years, and a jump into darkness from a window.
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Giasy
United States Tops World as Manufacturing Power
The United States leads global manufacturing due to rich resources and high output. Four factors drive dominance: abundant resources, full labor use, invention spurred by efficiency, and rising per capita production and capital accumulation.
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New York
United States
B. M. Miller
National Bank of Commerce
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Belgium
Miller
Europe
England
Continent
War Department seeks female drafters for first time
For the first time in its history the War Department is engaging women. It is asking for applications from girls aged fifteen to twenty five to learn draughtsmanship.
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Jap War Bureau
War Department
Two Dogs Each to Be Indians' Allowance
Washington Indians at Fort Berthold agency North Dakota vote to provide two dogs per person for the tribe to address a long standing canine surplus. The council also abolishes surplus dogs and imposes a $1 tax on each dog.
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Washington
Fort Berthold
North Dakota
Indian Bureau
Indiana
Country in Need of Welfare Work
Washington. A speaker urged rural communities to aid child welfare and eradicate causes of misfortune among youth. The Children's Bureau noted informal aid fails without organized county welfare boards and professional training for rural workers.
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Washington
Children's Bureau
Department of Labor
State University of
Minnesota
Bureau
Red Cross
Indy T
Missionary Refuses Rescue By Narrow Escape On Island
A lone missionary on an isolated Pacific island refused to be evacuated as natives prepared for conflict. The crew fired warning shots to scatter danger, while the missionary stayed in his house awaiting possible rescue. After years with little progress, the voyage continued and the world’s radium output is noted.
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Ahorn
Tialde
Heswas
Palon
Ifoe
Stolvera
Jacey
Smivers
New York Sun
Boy Defines Man of Letters In Classroom Debate
An Indianapolis history teacher asks what a man of letters means. Billy raises his hand and explains that Petrarch was educated, graduated, and earned many letters after his name.
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Billy
Petrarch
Indianapolis
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United Peaturs Syndicate
Alice Duer Miller
Thackeray
Hogginarme
Edi
Pneas of
Potato County
Ethel “Thompson
Houston
Aroostook
Aroostook County
Maine
Montenegro
Jovan Plamenitz
Michael the First
Daniel I
Cassity E. Meson
Castle School
Milong
Sydney
Beirnear
Siway
Chosen Station
Davey Treeert Company
City Bank
Kent
Ohio
Northe
America
Plerini Park
Springfeld Gardens
International Mill & Timber CO
Wenona Avenue
Bay City
Mich
Etowah Monument Coro
Allanta, Ga
Shivers
Erates
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