From the viewpoint of many of the locals, the entertainment highlight of each week was the sight of drunken "squaws," as they were commonly called, fighting each other in the middle of Main Street. [...] By the end of 1932, with the support of a majority on the town council (which by this time rep- resented interests beyond the congregations of the local United and Anglican Churches), he was able to open his own government-approved hospital at the corner of Second Street and Fifth Avenue, rather grandly naming it the King Edward (not to be confused with the King George, which was the local hotel a [...] As a young woman, she dressed in the latest flapper fashion, knew how to dance the Charleston and the Black Bottom, and played the piano well enough to be in demand as an accompanist for the silent movies which were shown at the Pelly town hall to packed audiences. [...] THE FINN FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH 11 When Nicholas I resolved to compel the Jews to assimilate, his first step was to enforce a quota of boys and young men from the ages of twelve to eighteen to serve in the army for twenty-five years. [...] Survivors of these attacks told of pregnant women sliced open, of young girls raped and butch- ered, of babies torn to pieces and tossed into the streets in front of their par- ents, of children being thrown into wells and drowned in rivers, of homes and shops stripped of their every valuable possession, of whole villages put to the torch and of men being tossed alive into the flames.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 175
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.24/2004924
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-sn
- ISBN
- 9781552384022 1895176859
- LCCN
- F1074.5.K36
- LCCN Item number
- S656 1997eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBVAU
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- 1 electronic text (175 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)rjv00101383 (OCoLC)45730587 (CaOOCEL)402888
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 10
- NEWCOMER 18
- THE FINN FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH 28
- THE SCHLEMIEL AND THE SCHLEMAZEL 40
- LADY BALTIMORE CAKE 44
- THE GREAT FINNIGAN 54
- MELTING MOMENTS 58
- GREAT-UNCLE MORRIS'S EVER-DIMINISHING THUMB 64
- THIS STORE IS NOT FOR BURNING 70
- BIG BESSIE AND ME 76
- MENDEL'S CHILDREN 88
- THE BOY WHO LOVED JAMES FENIMORE COOPER 108
- THE GENTLE EXILE 126
- COUNTRY DOCTOR 138
- FLYING HIGH 162
- THE LAST OF OUR MOHICANS 178
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 192