Centenarian embraces hard word puzzles in DC birthday
Am brose Hines of Washington DC turned one hundred, delighting in hard crosswords. He declares, Bring on the hard ones, and says he has dictionaries time and pencils ready. He solves them too.
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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1925
Page
2
Am brose Hines of Washington DC turned one hundred, delighting in hard crosswords. He declares, Bring on the hard ones, and says he has dictionaries time and pencils ready. He solves them too.
Miss Ethel Comstock of Chicago, described as a quiet woman with her own office and business, reportedly cleaned up between 20000 and 50000 in Wheat's rise. She says she began by borrowing 150 dollars in August, waited for 15 cents profit, and bought and sold, reinvesting profits to grow her fortune.
Joseph Kragshow an Omaha upholsterer in the Union Pacific railroad shops has the longest service record among US railroad workers at 56 years and 5 months. He was among 13 veteran employees treated to a dinner by Union Pacific President Carl R Gray in Omaha with prominent railroad figures from across the nation.
John Joseph Hahn is a distinguished first-class cook in the United States Navy and serves aboard the airship Los Angeles. He is noted as the only flying ship's cook in the Navy, combining culinary duties with aviation responsibilities on board the dirigible.
Mlle Lilette Jarasse a Parisian who recently graduated from Vassar and won a French scholarship, appears at Miami Beach in a bathing suit she brought from Deauville.
Doris Jean Metzler, only twenty months old, daughter of W. B. Metzler, coach and associate physical director of the Central Y M C A, performs daring stunts with remarkable calm, earning the caption world’s youngest equilibrist.
Julius Huxley, British scientist, demonstrates tests in an Oxford museum laboratory aimed at proving sex predetermination. He, a grandson of Prof Thomas H. Huxley, predicts a method could be perfected within 50 years, but notes the dilemma of what to do with such a method.
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