Hidden Affection Meets Social Gatekeeper in Brentwood
Lola, a candy-store heiress and law student, plans a dinner with Blake Walden at a Fletcher home in Brentwood. Doris Fletcher returns from Florida with her party, exposes Lola’s cover, and Blake departs silently, leaving Lola to face the humiliation and the night’s fallout.
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Blake
Lola
Brentwood
Roy Fletcher
Martha
Agnes
John Carter
Fletcher
Blake Walden
Doris Fletcher
Doris
Florida
Secret plan to win a husband faces family opposition
Lola pleads with Aunt Martha to let her borrow a dress and a room to create a pleasant memory for her fiancé. Aunt Martha resists then finally yields, moved by Lola's claim that happiness justifies the ruse. Lola believes the deception will help her rise above past shame.
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Lola
Martha
Eala
Why Wonder If God Hears Prayer in Music Verse
Quote from Ethel Romin Fuller in the New Outlook muses on the reach of music and prayer. It reflects on radio, violin, and song traveling afar and questions whether human wonder is echoed in divine listening.
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Ethel Romin Fuller
No male witches have ever been convicted in America
The line argues that male witches have not faced conviction in the United States and notes the rarity of such cases in Hugland. It presents a provocative claim about gender and witchcraft prosecutions.
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America
Hugland
Child Resists Stranger's Poison Powder Ruse
Doris, a school age girl, faced a man at the door who claimed to sell a good ant powder. She replied with prim manners that they only have uncles at the house and do not use powder.
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Doris
Guide me O Lord in all changes and varieties of the world
A pious prayer asking for divine guidance through life’s shifts to maintain inner peace. It asserts calmness, resignation to God’s will, and acceptance of tribulation as purification and beautification of the soul.
Apple Strudel Layered Buttered Filling Bake Dish
Directions describe lining a pudding dish with corn flakes then layering with thin apple slices sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon and dotted with butter. Alternate layers repeat, bake at 375 degrees until the apples soften and serve with hard sauce lemon sauce or cream.
Treatment for tapeworms with Tanex advertised cure
An early 20th century advertisement claims tapeworms cause diverse symptoms from loss of appetite to insomnia and hysteria. It asserts Tanex safely paralyzes the worm so it can be expelled, with a note on dosing and avoiding head reentry if directions are not followed.
Perfect posture through relaxed walking and exercises
The text extols graceful walking inspired by South Seas natives, advocating leg swings, high kicks, tiptoe squats, hip rolls, and pillowless sleeping. It promises a slim figure and disciplined posture with vigilance, head up, shoulders back, and daily correcting habits. It ends with a mail request for beauty advice from Woran's Interest Syndicate in Toronto.
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South Seas
Nec
Beatty Graben
Woran’s Interest Syndicate
Bloor St. W
Toronto
Ontario
I Had A Map At My Feet
A timid old maid reveals she plans to see a chiropodist to boast of having a map at her feet. Her friend is stunned by the confession as the lady explains the playful motive behind the visit.
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Lola
Blake
Doris
Martha
Bayon yarn from Southern wood at Georgia Tech study
Prof. M. Harry Vaughan reports successful Bayon yarn made from Southern wood at the State Experiment Station of the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta. Research workers explore commercial production using pine pulp similar to that used by Dr. Charles H. Herty in pioneering papers.
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State Experiment Station
Georgia School of ‘Technology
Atlanta
Georgia
Harry Vaughan
Charles H. Herty
Magistrate Questions Accused In Fragmentary Exchange
A magistrate questions the accused as the dialogue reveals confusion about timing and prior visits. The fragmentary court scene hints at uncertainty and procedural questions during the hearing.
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