Joyce Packard Awakens to California Mystery
Joyce wakes in a lavish California home with no memory of her past life. She identifies as Mrs. Neil Packard while discovering a stylish wardrobe and a mysterious desk with scattered letters and notes, hinting at a hidden identity and the larger puzzle to solve.
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Joyce
Chicago
California
Roxie
Mrs. Packard
Paul Packard
Arthur Milford Maitland
Los Angeles
Compton
Long Beach
Money and politics and China in a 1930s column
The writer argues money is merely a symbol of wealth and substitutes like scrip can function as money. He notes Rudolph Forster’s long White House tenure, then discusses Roosevelt’s place as president. A China update describes stronger national unity and possible resistance to Japan after Manchuria.
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Joyce
Batiste
West
Philadelphia
Pex
Paul Helfferich
United States
Hopfrog Corners
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Autocaster Service
China
New York
Manchuria
Japan
Manchu
Bayer Aspirin
Medias
Frances Perkins and Herbert Hoover in Private and Public Life
The text contrasts Frances Perkins private life as Mrs. Paul Wilson with her public role as Secretary of Labor. It praises Hoover as a capable, generous public servant, noting his past roles and belief he will remain active in public affairs after stepping back from politics.
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Belgium
Hoover
Mather predicts rapid price rise prompts furniture buying spree
Cotton Mather, famed colonial namesake and furniture retailer, arrives with twenty thousand dollars in cash to buy furniture in the southeast. He leaves calling cards at local plants and moves three trucks southward as he plans to load fifteen to twenty full carloads before midweek. He says prices are headed skyward and intends to stock his stores to beat the rise.
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Cotton Mather
America
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Mather
Robbers Enjoy Ice Cream After Cash Grab
Robbers took money from a cream company cash register then covered an attendant with revolvers and paused to eat two dishes of ice cream. Local police investigated the incident and sought surveillance footage and witness statements.
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Chicago
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Marcia
Saturday Evening Post
Neil Packard
Manzanita
Calif
Packard
Aldous Huxley
Robert Ainsworth
Leary’s
Navy Department
Atlantic Grayhound
Boone
Statesville
Charlotte
Winston- Salem
Greensboro
Durham
Raleigh
All Points
Elizabethton
Johnson City
Knoxville
Bristol
Abingdon
Bluefield
Points North
Doan
Bass
Grover Cleveland
Roosevelt
Ria
Cote
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