"Cruise of the Training Ship" by Ensign Clarke Fitch, 1903 - this publishing b. 1908.
The first 20 pages are missing from this book, so it is difficult to find who published this book and when. But Upton Sinclair wrote a few books under the pseudonym "Ensign Clarke Fitch" and "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison." Pseudonyms seem to be in this week, although I still think Sylvanus Cobb had the more creative names, by far.
My great-grandmother wrote her name inside the front cover, along with Des Moines, Iowa, and the Greek letters Delta, Kappa, Phi, solidifying my guesses at her sorority from book #35.
She dated it 1908.
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"In His Name" by Lillian De Waters, 1926.
With identical publishing design as book #42, this other book by De Waters was written two years later.
"This book will be true to its mission and IN HIS NAME will deliver insight, inspiration, illumination, health, power and glory to its readers."
Inside the book is a portion of a card that has a photo of a woman on it. To me, she looks like Nancy Reagan and, based on the minimal clues on what is left of the card, I wonder if this was an invite for a luncheon fundraiser for her up-and-coming politician husband.
My sister thinks it looks more like Betty Ford.
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"The Man Without Nerves" by E. Phillips Oppenheim, 1934.
This novel was published in the UK as "The Bank Manager."
I finally started digging through all the old photos that came in the huge red crate we pulled out of my parents' storage unit months ago. Phenomenal.
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"The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation" by Annie Fellows Johnston, 1906.
Johnston is best known for her "Little Colonel" series and Shirley Temple would later play the part in a 1935 film. The role itself was derived from the mannerisms of a five year old child she had met who acted in a similar fashion to her grandfather, an old confederate colonel.
I believe this is the 11th in the series.
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"The Upanishads - Breath of the Eternal" translated by Swami Prabhavananda, 1947.
Another translation of ancient Hindu texts by the founder of the Vedanta Society of Southern California, my grandfather has his name in here three times again. Once written inside the front cover, once written in the back, and an address label inside the front.
Between pages 138 and 139 is a card from the Department of Healing at the Institute of Religious Science in Los Angeles. On one side is single phrase reading: "I am led and directed by the spirit of wisdom."
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"Pioneer Law-Makers of Iowa" compiled by George G. Wright, 1894.
As the cover page says, this is "a brief history of the organization" with proceedings of the reunions of 1886, 1890, 1892 and 1894 for the Pioneer Law-Makers Association of Iowa, which was officially formed on February 28th, 1890.
My great-great-great-grandfather George Garver's brother, John Allender Garver, Sr, had a daughter named Laura. Laura married George G. Wright's son.
There are 2 slips of paper inside this book, with mostly legible notes written on them. The first one, tucked into a page that has a photo of Wright a page before a speech he gave at the 1894 reunion of the Association, explains Wright's connection to our family. He was an incredible speaker.The other slip is commentary on another speech, describing how cold the temperature was in Iowa.
I wonder if these are Bayne's notes, as they are clearly someone's who is connecting family dots. I will attempt to match handwritings later.
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"Potrzeba Poswiecenia - The Need of Consecration" published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1948.
This booklet is in Polish and English (mostly Polish) and appears to be a selection taken from The Christian Science Journal, from October of 1944.
My grandfather's parents were both born in Poland and it's possible that this was his, or his parents...but everything else from this church seems to be from either my grandmother or great-grandmother. Perhaps this was one of them trying to interest him in their views?
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