Ruth Warren Takes Charge Of Arizona Ranch After Widowhood
Ruth Warren travels to Arizona with her ailing husband to assume a three quarters share in the Dead Lantern ranch. After her husband Kenneth dies of pneumonia she debates how to run the ranch with Snavely while confronting isolation, danger, and the search for funds to expand cattle. The tale follows her struggle to balance grief, responsibility, and blunt frontier practicality amid desert hardship.
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Ruth Warren
Arizona
Mexico
Charley Thane
Snavely
Indian Ann
Ann
Ruth
Warren
Kenneeth
Sanchez
Kenneth
Charles
Thane
Charley
David
Stone
Ruth and Snavely clash over ranch share and money
Ruth presses for fair value and a loan to boost the ranch while Snavely rejects partnership arguing the land is no place for a woman. He offers all he has for her interest and demands she leave tonight, declaring he wants peace and distance from people. The scene ends with Ruth stunned and the conflict unresolved.
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Ruth
Mexico
David
Hearst Slogan Contest Offers $1,000 a Year For Life
The American Weekly in Hearst papers offers a life time prize of $1,000 annually and other cash awards for slogan ideas. No subscription or entry chores required. The contest aims to reach over 5 million homes and promises substantial prizes for simple ideas. Wilson County tobacco growers report top leaf quality since 1911.
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Life
American Weekly
Atlanta Sunday American
Hearst
United States
Atlanta American
Wilson County Tobacco Growers
Agriculture program pays $110 million to cotton growers
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration plans to disburse about $110 million to cotton growers before month’s end as compensation for plowed under crops. Wheat growers may receive over $125 million this year, funded by a mill tax. hogs, corn, and dairy programs expand circulation and stabilize prices through processing taxes and marketing agreements.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Unemployment Relief Administration
Chicago
Georgia-Florida
California
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippines
United States
Wallace
Lower Hospital Rates for Educators at Duke
North Carolina teachers receive reduced Duke Hospital rates matching Duke University employees. Middle group daily rate drops to 3.00 to 4.00 and private rate falls to 5.00 to 8.00, saving about 15 percent overall. Also note Wilkes County farmers building trench silos and remodeling barns under a new dairy program.
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DUKE
Duke University
F. W. Altwater
Duke Hospital Middle Group
North Carolina
Wilkes County
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Daddy
Hearst Paper
Catawba
Grandfather Orphans Home
Banner Elk, North Carolina
Banner Elk, N. C
Foster Chemical Company
Boone Drug Company
Boone, North Carolina
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