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...marries by mail and arrives at the vineyard farm in California to find that her prospective husband, an old Italian, has tricked her by sending in place of his own, the photograph of his youthful, wayward, farm hand. The deception discovered, she concludes that even old Tony is preferable to the spaghettied dreariness of her 'Frisco job. Tony breaks both his legs just before the wedding and three months pass. The girl is with child by the farm hand Joe. In a severe and somewhat artificial climax Tony, whom she has mean while come to love, retains...
Thomas Jefferson once experimented with a vineyard in Albemarle County. importing skilled husbandmen from Italy. With the workmen came. Charles Bellini, citizen of Florence. Try as they would, however, Bellini and his men could grow no grapes for Jefferson. The vines sickened, withered, were abandoned. Whereupon Jefferson, in a gesture at once courteous and resourceful, had Bellini installed as a professor at William and Mary, then a sprightly institution only 86 years old. There Bellini stayed from 1779 to 1803, teaching Italian and Spanish, "first professor of modern languages...
...meeting of the Circulo Espanol held last night, Eliot Gilbert Fay '23 of Chelsea was elected president, and Asa White Kenney Billings Jr. '26 of Vineyard Haven, was elected secretary...
...United States Civil Service Commission will hold open competitive examinations to fill the positions of assistants in bacteriology and roentgenology in the Public Health Service and in the veterans' bureaus at Boston. Chelsea, Rutland, Vineyard Haven, Portland, Me.; Providence, R. I.; and New Haven, Conn. . The salaries range from $70 to $200 a month. Applications for examination will close on July...
...been repaired by the scenario writer, who carries the love story of David and sailor and Annabel through many adventures and vicissitudes for the background provides delightful pictures of villagers and nature on the stormy Massachusetts coast. Beyond doubt a romance between a fisherman and a Martha's Vineyard maiden was just what Poe had in mind. We hope that the field thus opened up will be fruitful. Longfellow's "Excelsior," for example, could be made into a stunning movie of a poor girl working in an excelsior factory and tyrannized over by the brutal factory manager. A rattling picture...