Ellen Latimer Finds New Life in Port Washington
Orphan Ellen Latimer stays with Aunt Elsie in Port Washington New York as she recovers from a grave accident. She grows hopeful through spring and summer, enjoys youth events, and meets Gibbs Josselyn again while navigating love, illness, and social barriers. The story follows Ellen’s renewed vitality and longing for belonging amid a close community.
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Ellen
Gibbe Joselyn
Ancome Lathrop
Port Washington
Jo ®Selyn
Main Street
Elete
Joe
Willa
Robby
Ellen Latimer
Mrs. Rose
Bermuda
Latimer House
Gibbs Josselyn
Riverside Picnic and Boat Races on the Pier
Onlookers at the pier watch a sail and swim race as a girl from the float claims a prior title. A boy notes his sister on the float while gossiping about a past accident. Conversation shifts to lunch duties, yacht visitors, and a boy named Joe seeking chores and cigarettes. Continued tomorrow.
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George
Junior
George, Junior
Gibbs
Hilen
Hershaw Boys
Elsie
Joe
Latimer
Pippin
Harriet
Savinkoff Sentenced to Death in Moscow Victory Era
Moscow General Boris Savinkoff once an anti Bolshevik figure and former Kerensky war official has been condemned to death. The verdict comes amid post revolution turmoil and international interest in Soviet trials.
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Moscow
Boris Savinkoff
Kerensky
Dayton
Ohio
McCook Field
Germany
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Lynchburg
Carter Grase
Widow of Russian noblewoman marries Los Angeles grocer
Mme Anna Jouromska said to be the widow of Count Leo Jouromska who fled Petrograd during the Bolshevik Revolution has wed J. George Ramsey a neighborhood grocer of Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Mme
Anna Jouromska
Leo Jouromska
Petrograd
Russia
J. George Ramsey
Baltic fish shrinking signals concern for Baltic traders
A Baltic Sea fisherman reports smaller fish sizes this summer, especially herring for German and Baltic markets. Scientists have begun investigations to find the cause of the shrinkage.
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Danzig
Baltic Sea
Baltic States
Local District News Brief from Young America Area
Residents attend gatherings and visits across Des Moines Ottumwa Washington and Keota. Farm work includes threshing rounds in Dublin and Crawfordsville with crews moving equipment and hogs shipped. Miscellaneous social calls house parties and relatives gather for reunions as neighbors share travel and home activities.
Local notes from Titus area August activity
Jean Reddoee visited Martha Godfrey then left for Beardstown Illinois. Cecil Triplett of Tremont Iowa stays with grandparents Mr and Mrs George Hayes. Mr and Mrs Jim Marsh of Washington helped Dale Atkinson's threshing last Monday. Harry Davidson family drove to Galesburg Illinois to visit relatives. Boyd Dill shipped cattle to Chicago. Threshing finished. hail damaged most grain. Melvin Booth visiting relatives in Sibley Iowa. Franklin Centre school opens Monday with Mildred Davidson as teacher. Martha Godfrey leaves for Galva to teach. Lemley family to hold 12th annual reunion in Sunset Park Friday Aug 29. Esther Booth to teach in Sibley Iowa again. Mrs J E Lemley visiting.
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Titus
Jean Reddoee
Martha Godfrey
Beardstown
Ill
Cecil Triplett
Tremont
Iowa
George Hayes
Jim Marsh
Washington
Dale Atkinson
Harry Davidson
Galesburg
Boyd Dill
Chicago
Melvin Booth
Sibley
Franklin Centre School
Mildred Davidson
Galva
Lemley
Sunset Park
Grace Hill social notices and threshing season activity
Grace Hill Aug 28 report notes Benj Romig family and Bell Engel visiting, then returning to Hethany Missouri. Local residents including Pickard, Lemley, Sherlock, Engel and Buxbaum join church, school prep, and home repairs. Several families from Muscatine and Washington assist with threshing and farm work while Moe Jones’s sister-in-law recovers after hospital operation.
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Grace Hill
Benj. Romig
Helen
John Richard
Hethany
HL. A
Engel
Pickard
J. EB. Sherlock
J. BK. Lemley
James
Lemley
Benz Romig
Katharine Buxbaum
Eugene Engel
J. B
Carl Miller
Ed Libe
Paul Harvey
Hays
Harry Kleese
Edith
Frances
Clement Griffith
Ira Mikech
Maurice Jones
Cone
Muscatine
Jones
Grave robbery targets Clinton midget Ruby Rickoff
Ghouls broke into Springdale cemetery after gates closed at 6, exhumed Ruby Rickoff who had lay buried since 1912, exposing the casket and stealing jewelry valued near $1,000 at her 1912 burial. She died from an accidental circus parade fall in Kankakee Illinois twelve years earlier.
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Clinton
Springdale
Ruby
Rickoff
Kankakee
Illinois
Secretary Wilbur visits birthplace in Boone Iowa
Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur toured Boone Iowa birthplace sites and shared his deep interest in genealogy. He recalled childhood memories, identified old landmarks, and spoke of his Langley and Wilbur ancestral roots spanning Ohio Iowa Vermont and the Pacific states.
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Boone
Iowa
the Navy
Curtis D. Wilbur
United States
Des Moines
Wilbur
Supreme Court of California
Washington
Congressional Library
Langley
Ohio
South Dakota
Montana
Pacific States
Boonesboro
Woman Is Exonerated in Husband Stabbing Case
DES MOINES Aug 29 A coroner's jury found Mrs Josephine Bishila acted in self defense after confessing to stabbing her husband Sunday night police said the jury returned exoneration and charges are expected to be dropped the incident followed threats by the husband
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Des Moines
Josephine Bishila
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