Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are the main facts of my mother's personal history. She was born of Scotch parents recently arrived at Burlington, Vt., in 1821. Her early life was spent at Troy, N. Y., and New York City. Married to William Shields in 1846, she was mother of a large and active family in the Middle West in a time deeply affected by the Civil War. She died after a brief illness of pneumonia in 1883. A devout member of the Presbyterian Church of which her brother, Alexander Duncan, was the minister, her activities outside her home were largely given...
Their bodies were found next morning- near the main highway, the one to Jack-sonville-five miles out. "THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL NEGROES WHO HARM WHITE PEOPLE," was one epitaph inscribed on a piece of cardboard beside the bullet-ridden Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...
Last week Rightist air fighters shot down the Leftist plane of Pilot Dahl who descended by parachute unhurt, was conducted to Rightist headquarters at Salamanca and readily told the above story. Its main lines were soon confirmed to Cannes reporters by Mrs. Dahl who begged U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt to intercede for her husband's release...
...Austria's music festival in Salzburg (see p. 37), the main performance is not the whole show at Central City. There are saloons and gambling halls with oldtime atmosphere and Sheila Barrett doing impersonations in a nightclub. On the schedule this year are trips through the gold mines, a hose-cart race by the volunteer fire department, a rock-drilling contest for Colorado miners...
...closing, Madame Ichikawa sharply rebukes Japanese diplomats who spend their main energies intriguing instead of learning, like her, the language and ways close at hand...