Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Fletcher Dole, 82, father of Pacific air race sponsor, James Drummond Dole (TIME, Aug. 22, et seq.); at Boston, Mass. While his son grew rich farming good Hawaiian pineapples, the Rev. Dr. Dole penned improving tracts: Early Hebrew Stories, Noble Womanhood, Jesus and the Men about Him, The Religion of a Gentleman, My 80 Years...
Dundee was happy. He dwelt with his native sweetheart in the little house he'd made for her and contemplated the future with satisfaction. His sweetheart bore him a "tricksy" son and Dundee's cup ran over. He loved his sweetheart; he loved his son; soon the trees could be tapped; soon they would be rich...
Then the "tricksy" son died...
...Boni ($2.50). "On Friday noon, July the 20th, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below." The five people were: The Marquesa de Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction? Was it an accident or an intention? Author Wilder explores...
...arrival of that far-famed native son, Mr. Thompson of Chicago, yelept "Big Bill", has been the signal for none of the customary fanfare accorded to the casual Greater Boston boy who makes good in the West. Even the elements assisted in a noticeable congealing process as the first citizen of that boisterous, windy, middle western metropolis blew into town. For there persists a feeling that Mr. Thompson has vulgarized bigotry and ignorance,--a thing wholly abominable to the Bostonian tradition of suppression. "More and taller flag poles", is "Big Bill's" opening contribution to Americana. "All the better...