Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Perry Sanford Heath, 69, "Father of the Rural Free Delivery," onetime (1897-1900) Assistant Postmaster General; in Washington, D.C.; after a long illness...
This system did not prove as successful as had been hoped however, and has been withdrawn in large eastern centers and schools which offer definite preparation for the College Board Examinations. It will still be available in rural and distant sections of the country, for it is particularly useful in the West and South, where certification is general, and schoolmasters look upon examinations with a good deal of resentment...
DOOMSDAY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England...
Jack Publisher likes this idea. His friends the booksellers do not object to it. It stimulates book sales generally. Only the laziest book customers rely upon the Club entirely. And many of the Club members, being either lazy or rural, never went to bookstores anyway...
Fiction DOOMSDAY - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England. TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parish - Harper ($2). A mother's sacrifice; tears, smiles, aspiration. TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD - Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano...