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Depression I put an end to the halcyon days. Turpentine prices slumped from better than 50? a gallon to 31? in 1931, rosin from $8.50 a barrel to $2.95. By 1933 the housing collapse and a shrunken export market reduced the naval stores industry to a pauperish $13,792,000. In March 1936 producers met at Jacksonville, formed the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative to cut excess production, get rid of surplus stocks, undertake conservation...
Died. Princess Clara, 66, relict of German Prince Franz von Hatzfeldt und von Wildenburg-Schonstein; from a heart attack; in London. Princess Clara's father, a pauperish grocer of Sacramento, Calif., was drowned when she was one year old. She was then adopted by her uncle-by-marriage, famed California railroad pioneer Collis P. Huntington. He left her $75,000,000. In 1889, a famed California beauty, she met and married Prince Franz, went to live on the Rhine. The Prince's extravagant gambling career made it necessary for him to expatriate himself and his wife. They moved...
Thus Author Hamsun begins his examination of a mad, melancholy Dane, Johan Nagel, and the heap of odd things he did. He fell in love with Dagny Kielland, who was engaged to marry a naval officer. He made friends with pauperish Minutten. He mystified the townspeople by never explaining his visit...
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