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The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
"Revnoldstown" Winner Grand National Steeplechase
Pink Slip Income
 Tax Reports Are
 Junked By Senate
(By The Assoclated Press)

(By The Assoclated Press)
 WASHINGTON, March 29 Thou sands of little pink slips which in come tax payers filled out are now slated for the treasury ash can in stead of public inspection, as the senate voted fifty-three to sixteen not to open and file the pink slips, showing the incomes of thousands of persons to the public gaze. The house previously voted for the pink slips to permit state and local tax officials to inspect the returns. The senate sent the measure back to the house for further action.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Princess Barbara Hutton MDiyani
 Is Reno-Bound
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 NEW YORK, March 29 Her lips sealed by the advice of her counsel, Princess Barbara Hutton M'Divani was Reno-bound to divorce the Prince, last night, after eluding a curious crowd waiting on the dock, upon her arrival from Europe. She was set ashore secretly when the liner docked. It is reported she is now speeding west in a private rail road car.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Will Represent
 Sports Magazine

Geo. B. McAllister who arrived by plane last Sunday from Ketchi- kan via Fairbanks, is authorized to the Alaska Sportsman which is published at the first city. He is also authorized to sell subscriptions and receive mon ies, as well as solicit and accept lit erary contributions and pictures for 
 MT. McAllster is not a newcomer to Nome, having been in the Nome section last year, The magazine which he represents is an all-Alaska and is worthy of your
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Mccoy Named War
 Service Director
 For The Red Cross

Bowen Mccoy, of San Francisco, has been appointed Director of War Service for the American Red Cross in the Pacific Area, A. L. Schafer, manager of the Pacific Branch an- nounceS.
 MT Mccoy succeeds Runo E.. Arne, who resigned recently to be- come assistant administrator of the California Emergency Relief Admin istration.
 The new director of War Service entered the Red Cross ranks at the U. s. Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois, in 1924. Four years later he became liaison representative with the regional office of the Veter ans Administration in San Francis co, post he held until promoted to the executive position.
 As director of War Service, MT Mccoy will supervise all claims and welfare work done for veterans and their families by Red Cross units; will have direction of the Red Cross program as it affects the welfare of men in the Army, Navy and Coast Guard and will supervise the activi ties of Field Directors in hospitals at Army and Navy posts in the Pa cific Area.
 Mr. Mccoy also is known on the Coast as a disaster relief worker He served in Southern California earthquake relief project in March, 1883; in the Pacific Northwest floods in 1884 and more recently as direc- tor of the Red Cross relief work in the Nome, Alaska, fire.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Noted Improvement
 Relations Between
 Ct. Britain Russia
(By The Associated Press)

MOSCOW, March 29 - Soviet circles said that after the hour and a half conference between Litvinof, Soviet Comissar, and Captain Eden, British Lord Privy Seal; there was a noted improvement" in both polit- ical and economic relations between Russia and Great Britain. The Soviet sources did not indicate on what grounds further improvement of Anglo Saxon relations with Rus sia would be based.
 The question of Soviet propagan- da was not raised. The Russian spokesman said that Captain Eden had received an audience with Stal- in, also.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Gold Stampede
 To Athabasca
(By The Associated Press)


 EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada Reports of a gold strike near St. Joseph's Point on Lake Athabasca, caused a wild midnight stampede to new diggings recently from Beaver Lodge, which place is now deserted, according to a radio dispatch from Fort Chipewyan to the Edmonton Journal.
 A St. Joseph Point trapper made the discovery, finding samples of free gold After his discovery he made brief visit to Beaver Lodge. On returning to his gold find, he learned l7 men were stealthily fol- lowing his trail through the dark ness to stake claims near his. He attempted, by circling, to throw them off his path, but in vain.
 Then word got back to Beaver Lodge of the discovery and the stam pede started in full force.
 Lake Athabasca is in Alberta Pro- vince, about 90 miles directly north of Edmonton.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Cabinet
 Resigns; Result
 Clemency Rebels
(By The Associated Press)

MADRID, March 29 - Premier Lerroux, unofficially announced that the cabinet had resigned and that he would request another appointment by President Zamora
 The present official resignation is the crisis precipitated by the resig- nation of Agrarian, liberal and dem- ocratic ministers, after the approval of clemency to Ramon Pima social ist deputy and all others condemned to death after the revolt last Oct ober. The clemency decree was ap- proved by a majority vote in which the radicals overcame the reignist opposition.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
ECONOMIC AND
 MONETARY REFORMS
 NEW DEAL BELGIUM
(By The Associated Press)

BRUSSELS March 29 - Premier Van Zealand, pro- claimed deal for Belgium. The value of the gold bega cut "a maximum of thirty percent
 Sweeping economic and monetary reforms will be rush ed into effect Political observers expected parliament to give the government vote of confidence It announc ed this had cracked the European gold boc because the gram according what the Premier announced involves the suspension of gold payments by Belgium. This is previous to the pending international agreement currency policy.
 The Premier announced he undertaking great public works avorng industrial production by all possible reduction of taxes guarantee of bank depos it's the desire to diplomatic and commercial relations with Russia.
 The program will result in heavy blows being dealt Belgium industries by countries with depreciated currency
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Thinks Franklin D. Roosevelt Will
 Be Renominated
(By The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, March 29 - Sen- ator Norris, discussed the political situation from the vantage point "of an in-betWeen.'
 He said he thinks Franklin Roose- welt will be renominated. He also stated he believed there would be no third party.
 Norris said the President doesn't have "cinch' but he will be re- elected If he doesn't swing to the right He said he saw no one now in the republican ranks he's support.
 If Hoover is nominated, I'm sure that Roosevelt will be reelected" he stated
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Arrives San DiegoForPac
 fife Hop April 10
(By The Associated Press)

(By The ASSOclated PTeSS1
 SAN DIEGO, March 29 The Pan American clipper plane arrived here at five pm. Thursday from Acapul- co, Mexico, completing the thirty three hundred mile flight from Mia mi. It is to fly to Los Angeles to- day. The trans-Pacific flight is ex- pected to be made about April 10th from San Francisco
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29

NEW YORK, March 29 - When Reynoldstown won the Grand National victory it meant that four American owned tickets the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes won to- tai of five hundred and seventy thousand dollars
 The tickets made out to Ray Gold and Ann Gold berg of New York and Mabel Letzeman Olney Illinois, and Five Glasses of Philadelphia Each ticket pays about hundred and forty thousand five hundred dollars
 Three American tickets were held Thormond for second each paying foy-seven thousand five hundred dol lars The holders of those tickets Thomas Roszki of New York; Clear Sailing of New York; and Erin go bragh of Buffalo, N. Y.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
Roust Always Brings Passengers
 From Fairbanks s

Pilot Frank Whaley of the Roust Airways stopped over at Golovin last night due to adverse weather conditions, and came on thru to Nome early this morning. As pass engers from Fairbanks, were Pat Sthay, Curtis Jacobs and a Mir. Nolen Hamm.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29
AMERICANS WIN HUGE SUMS MONEY
 GRAND NAT RACE
(By The Associated Press)

AlNTREE, England, March 29 - ReynoldstoWn a twenty-five to shot owned Redden by Major Noel Fur long won the 97th Running of the Grand National Steepe chase.
 John Whitneys American owned Thormond was sec ond third Golden Miller who the heavy choice for win her last year He fell the first time around the course after being up with the leaders in the early stages the race.
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-03-29

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Even So

EVtn 50 Young beef has become so cheap it is understood pigs won't even associate with ordinary COWS any more.
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

Was this all there was? Was
everything over? Where. if any.
where, did I go from here?
Theoretically, I should go
where all Nice Girls went-into
marriage. Society, in the last
years Of the Nineteenth century,
was still very explicit on that
point. And the West-wildly un-
conventional as it might be in
tho conduct Of its men-was
ultraconservative in it's attitude
toward women. It recognized
but two types: Good Women;
Bad Women.
A Good Woman was a Wife, a
Mother, or q Dear Old Maid with
. Secret Sorrow. Lady mission
aries and school teachers were re-
spectacle but evidently unsuccess-
full souls. Commercial work for
women hardly existed and was
strictly taboo, save under gravest
urgency: professional careers
were Silly.
Future WGs
Strictly Defined
The Washington times., 1935-03-23
NOW READ ON

That 1irs incandescen That first voice speaking out of
emptness Go and boast about your Mechanical Age If
you WISH We who it start know how God must have
felt when He thundered: "Let there be light"
Causes and Wonders. Beauty and Melodrama. What did
want out of it alY Still didn't know. Presently had
to know II and out of high school There was no
money for further educaon nothing to do-nothng
to
For, with respecablity, Bencia growing dull. The
Wild laughing days Quietly the white dust settled
the pretty gardens the orderly furniture most
r1or11y
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Goodness-though it promised
halos in heaven-certainly didn't
offer q lively gal many breaks on
earth. Bad Women, on the con-
tr&ry, had practically unlimited
freedom and fun. But there were
still impossible barriers between
Goodness and Badness.
SO. even though she might
have no personal yen for right.
eouSneSs, q Nice Girls future
was strictly defined. If she
couldn't achieve matrimony, she
would just have to settle. down
and be Sweet Character. Other.
wise, she was supposed to marry
. Fine Man and live in a Darling
Little House, and entertain the
Ladies' Aid and have a lot Of
babies.
This was jake to me. didn't
mind getting married. On the
contrary, it was definitely part
Of my expectation. But marriage
was only part Of Life.
Life was endlessly diverting,
end1eSSly challenging. Men could
enjoy those diversions, accept
those challenges. Why couldn't t
women? Why, at II, should I
settle down and wait to get mar.
ried?
I wanted more than that.
I wanted out!
Where would "out" lead?
7 didn't know that, either.
had never been trained to do any
Of the things prescribed for
Nice Young Women. I couldn' t
cook, sew, clean a room, tend a
baby. do fancy work or play the
piano. although my poor mother
had made sporadic efforts to
equip me with such information
and culture. Ambition? I hadn't t
q spark Of 1t. In short, I was
$50 pounds Of pretty, lazy, ig.
norant. affect1onate, bad-tem-
pered young blond Uselessness.
Yet I wanted outI
How could I help it, with all
that wildnesS Surging around me,
challenging,O calling, crashing
against the tight, tidy walls OF
my Nice Young Lady life? And
with the unfeminine courage
and curiosity which my father
had bred into me calling back,
answering that challenge?
Yet, even as I wanted out,
dreQde. it. loved nv home.
clung to 1t. The timidity in me,
which ran deeper than any &C
quired courage, was terrified al
the thought Of change. The
lazineSs in me loathed the idea
Of action. And the love in me
But let's not talk much about
that. Love has always been the
most beautiful and the most
agoni1ing thing in my life. II
has always existed in hunger
ended in parting. Perhaps thai
is the best way for love to be
if life is to go on. But it hurts
horribly. So, even while the
clamor rose within me until Il
deafened my ears to everything
else. something in me knew what
it l.ould cost to leave my father
and mother. the big brother Pau
whom I worShipped, the big sis
ter Winnie whose sweetness
charmed me, my brother Phi
who was my chum, the bab!
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And There
She Remained

Ihated everyone-and told them
so. I cried. I Swore. I hurled
books through windows.
But there I was. And there I
stayed. Do something about it?
What could I do? Run away?
Where could I run? I had five
dollars month spending money"
which had to cover school supplies.
And I didn't know a soul, save my
fiance and his family, within three
thousand miles. Life was a one
way street for Nice Girls in 1901.
But somehow the year wore
away, and I came home and tried
to break my engagement. But my
mother wouldn't let me. Besides,
what else could I do? So I thought
maybe wouldn't be so unhappy,
after all-and back went to be
married.
remember that last hour at
home, standing on the dock wait
ing for my train, with my brother
Paul beside me.
Evening. The fishing fleet was
in. Little brown boats with lateen
sails that turned rust-red as they
came tacking home against the
sunset. Then all the sky went
dusky violet. The anchors ratified
and the sails came down. Upon
each deck a small flame spurted-
the charcoal braziers warming for
the meal. There came the smell
Of garlic, fish scales, oil and sour
wine. Then, an accordion's squeal:
the beat Of bare dancing feet and
clapping hands. A woman's laugh;
a baby's sleepy squau
Slowly, one by one, the braziers
dimmed; the songs were stilled; a
last voice called. heard the NUT
tering Of the turning tide.
MY brother touched my arm.
T saw his dear face waver through
a mist Of tears. For me the tide
vas turning, too; the home lights
were going dim. Frightened, I
clutched him. But it was too late.
The train had come. 7 had to
go. Where? To marry q New
Englander. Then-what?
Well, I married a New Eng
lander.
No, I take that back. I mar
ried New England. One didn't
merely marry q man in 1908.
One married that mans town and
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SSAS@SSSe
party, foes and friends, with all
their hobbies and grudges, family
skeletons, traditions and taboos.
So, at 10, I left the newest
America and went back into the
oldest; left a land that flung
itself with eager delight into the
future and stepped back into a
land that clung, with desperate,
angry timidity, to the past. And
for 10 years-I walked with
ghosts,
She Walks
With Ghosts
Ten years: 1903 to 1918.
Throughout America, tremendous
things were occurring during that
period. The Machine Age struck
its full swing: automobiles changed
the tempo of the world forever;
wireless and telephones became
common accessories, abolished
time and space for the man IN
the street. And the battle for
suffrage swept on to victory.
Scores of biographers have told
of the impact Of these happenings
on brilliant minds, given pictures
of famous people, remarkable
events. But who has written the
story of the people to whom moth
ing happened during that time
the story of lives so monotonouS
in their drudgery, so limited in
their outlook, that the years
passed through their dulled brains
like ticker tape without ever a
figure?
Nobody has told that story, yet
it is perhaps the most important
one in our American annals. For
during those 10 tremendous years
the majority of American women
lived such lives. What did they
think? How did they feel about
it all? What did it do to America
when at last the walls went
down? Stick around and maybe
you'll find out. For I am Ex-
hibit A.
But then I was only Alex Rob-
inson's girl Elsie, going East to
marry that Yankee" Did I want
to go? Did I want to stay? I
didn't know. Yet on I went.
Why?
CHAPTER VI
We never do things for any one
reason. Innumerable unconscious
impulses forgotten lifetime Of
seemingly trivial decisions and
evasions-lie behind our every
act. That "impulsive, unpremedi.
tated" thing you will do tomor.
row morning, you actually started
to do when you were four years
old. And the most important fac
tor in all our decisions is some
thing quite outside our own de-
sire and experlence-life itself.
Tears, tantrums, loneliness,
heartbreak, terror and despair
what does life care if such trivial
inconvenience occur as we swing
to her swoop? Why should life
care? Growth-that is what mat
terS to life. And in the long run,
that was what mattered to me If
I really wanted to live!
So, at 10, I left California and
married Vermont for 93,E en-
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And now, at last, we can begin
to get dressed!
Over the undershirt and the cor
set and the ruffled corset cover
went q starched shirt waist-bal.
loon sleeves - neckband like a
mans. Attached to the neck
band, q three-inch Starched linen
collar. Round n round this col.
Lar went one and one.haH yards
Of heavy satin ribbon. Holdine
the ribbon in front, "a breaStpln."
Skewered doves or wreaths or
hearts of enameled forget-me-nots
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Seeking Way Out; Elsie
Marries and Finds
DisillusiOnn7ent
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

In this simple story of her life Elsie Robinson paints
vivd picture of her early days IN Benicia Cahf The
street she ved frequented by all types of hu
4eGity from high to LoO-a end stood comvent; at
the other, a dive.
Her father of old pioneer stock and to endure the
hardshps of the West in those frontier days-avh its
monotomy drudgery and lomelimess-required courage
By all outer social reckonngs Elsie Nice Little
Girl However, by eveYy secret and selfish young
impulse, she anything but.
Her teachers efforts to educate her rtGted Elsie for
she could relationship betoOeen the life around her
and their cwt-and-dr1ed formulas
But Elsie loved the natural beauty of her surroundings
and her mothers gadem She aOated to knoW everything
about life feel all there aOGs to be felt.
At seventeen all nice girls sought marriage but Elsie
1vGnted more than thGt
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

What we lacked in chin, how
ever, we usually made up in hair.
Gobs and garlandS of it-frizzed,
looped, curled, puffed, braided;
piled into blowzy mountains over
wadded horrors called rats"
Starting thus, and proceeding in
the order Of their donning' I
wore:
A ribbed cotton undershirt
that rolled around the hips like
a life perserver. Then, 1t being
winter, underdrawers. And I
mean underdrawers. No frivo-
lous "scanties." 1nvincible gar
ments that, at a pinch, could
have served nicely for roofing.
To be worn until the thermome-
ter melted them off.
Black cotton stockings, like
wise resembling corrugated iron
in weight and texture. They
came three pairs for a dollar.
Three pairs lasted you six
months. Then they had shrunk
to fit your little sister. After
that, I cannot remember their
destiny. But they were never
known to wear out.
But getting back to the
boudoir- the undershirt,
underdrawers, stockings (already
weighing at least five pounds)
came q VIII boned corset,
armored like a war tank, reach
ing from armpit nearly to knee,
to be laced until your tonsils
cracked. had a 1e.inch waist.
Then, quickly, lest you be seen
running around like q naked
savage, more drawers. Cambria
ones this time-big, balcony af-
fairs with Gus frilly
flounceS.
Shoes next-hlgh, buttoned,
scalloped tops. Corseted, you
couldn't possibly bend to reach
the buttons. You've wondered
why Mother had a button hook
with such yards Of handle? That
was why.
Now, over the corset went a
nice high corset cover with, if
necessary, many Starched ruffles
to conceal natures deficiency.
Anything less than a thirty-eight
bust was considered a deficiency.
(Anything more? My gracious,
we've hardly started! Now we
come to the petticoats. And you
nights well settle down and
make yourself comfortable, for
we're in for a good long SESSION.
First, the flannel or crocheted-
wool petticoat, knee.length, with
a gathering string and tassel at
the end of the gathering string.
Next, the plain white-cotton pet
ticoat, shin-length. Over this, an.
other fancier ruffled white petit
coat, ankle-length. Then, if you
were Terribly Rich, swishy taf'
feta. Or a Best Petticoat Of white
cambria, incredibly ruffled, with
miles n miles Of eyelet embroid-
cry, lace insertion and edging, and
baby ribbon run through beading.
When Directing
WGs An Ordeal
The Washington times., 1935-03-23

O1I W NOE i WC41G Ill LILY
first tourist" car-with a great
hamper of lunch to last me
through the week, and a Chinese
highlander as a section mate. At
last I felt I was seeing life.
Northfield Seminary was, and
is, a religious institution in North.
field, Mass, few miles from the
Vermont line. It was founded by
the evangelist, Dwight L. Moody.
Directly across the Connecticut
River was the companion institu-
ton for boys-Mount Hermon.
Northfield girls were not permitted
to have much to do with Mount
Hermon boys.
Both institutions were kindly
places, filled with friendly folk,
founded on honest intent and
rated progressive. They aimed
to give a practical Christian edu-
cation to young men and women,
which was what my anxious
mother and already confused
fiance insisted I needed. And I,
being willing to try everything
once, offered no objection.
Northfield, in common with
similar institutions of that day
and many Of this-believed in an
Actual Devil and a Personal but
Peevish God. It's orthodoxy may
have melloWed with the years,
but in 1901 it was Biblically
literal, to the last whiff of brim-
stone. Practically every human
function or desire was held to be
evil.
A Practical
Education
We couldn't dance. We couldn't
go to shows. We couldn't go to
parties with young men. The
students did all the work. My
first terms assignment was to
prepare all the vegetables which
were eaten by the "a inmates Of
our cottage, and to spend Satur-
day cleaning the teachers rooms.
MY only consolation was that
this was tougher on the teachers
than it was on me.
I am grateful for what North
field tried to do for me, but
thank heaven it didn't succeed.
And yet, in spite Of all the misery
that long-ago child endured dur.
ing those dismal months, I do
not regret the experience. It has
been Of the greatest service to
meas writer. But I did not
foresee that then: I realized moth
ing except the fact that I was
miserable.
It wasn't the religious atmos-
phere that made the place seem
to frightful. I had known re-
ugious folk all my life. My
church had been my other home,
as it was for every small-town
girl Of that time. AS for God,
we were on the friendliest foot
ing. I admitted that He held
all the cards. But no God could
have seemed very grim who
reigned within our sunny Cali
fornia sky; no religion very
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dreary with roses piling in
through the windows and man.
dolin tinkling outside the door.
But this dour Puritan Jehovah!
This dour and all-pervading Sense
of Sin! These people who SEEM
ing1y lived but to suffer; whose
thoughts were bent on Sacrifice
and Hard Labor; who shuffled
through life like a chain gang,
never rebelling, never rejoicing,
never adventuring! All the vital
ity in me rose in revolt against
such a God and such a people. If
this were the way to enter heaven,
I wanted to raise hell, and I pro-
ceeded to do so.
And There