Quaker dress rules loosened and Britannia ship planned
The piece notes changes in the Quakers discipline easing dress and speech restrictions while preserving simplicity. It mentions President Hoover as a famed Quaker in plain dress and highlights a proposed giant ship, number 534 later named Britannia, costing thirty million dollars and poised to be the world’s largest fast vessel, with cargo use beyond passenger service.
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Religious Society of Friends
Hoover
Society of Friends
Solar Power to Run World Machines
Scientists note the sun delivers vast energy far beyond all plants. Dr Bruno Lang of Berlin has created a photoelectric cell system that converts sunlight into electric power to run a motor. The challenge remains to reduce costs from about two hundred fifty times the unit price of conventional plants to achieve cheap solar power.
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Bruno Lang
Berlin
Henry Ford seeks social reform through summer plant shutdowns
Henry Ford funds and tests a plan to suspend plant operations for the annual inventory in summer and reassign laid off workers to farms to boost agricultural production and preserve incomes. He argues sixty days of work suffices for most crops and aims to test this on a full scale. The article also notes New York City's dredging of Manhattan shores to create dock space for the Cunard Liner, the first ship over 1,000 feet long.
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Henry Ford
Mr. Ford
Ford
New York
Manhattan Island
Cunard
A Recipe for Riches: Write an Interesting Book
English novelist Arnold Bennett recently died leaving an estate of 500000. Mary Roberts Rhinehart has earned over two million dollars from writing, while Sinclair Lewis can expect at least 100000 profit per novel. A newspaper man sold 13000 copies of a recently published book at a quarter each, after six weeks of work.
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Arnold Bennett
Mary Roberts Rhinehart
Sinclair Lewes
America
Ray Long Predicts Wheat Prices Fall From Past Peak
Cosmopolitan editor Ray Long, just back from Russia, warned in a speech that we will not see wheat at or above one dollar a bushel again. He cited wheat’s storage and shipping advantages and noted U S demand shifting toward dairy and meat. Minnesota’s 1929 wheat value contrasted with higher butter sales.
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Ray Long
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Russia
United States
South America
Australia
Minnesota
Protests Against Crime Movies Fail to Deter Youth
The text notes protests against crime and vice in films had little effect. It cites Two Gun Crowley, a 20 year old New Yorker labeled a cop killer, who says he adopted a criminal image from the movies. It argues gangster films shape impressionable youths more than newspapers crime stories.
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Two Gun
Crowley
New York
Major Hugh Smiley Tests Full Range of Farm Electricity
Former Berkshire Hills neighbor Major Hugh Smiley of Great Barrington experiments with electricity on the farm. He wires hen houses to power lights to keep hens in nests and to aid cattle care as part of an broad test of electrical possibilities.
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Berkshire Hills
Massachusetts
Major Hugh Smiley
Great Barington
Major Smiley
Electric sun lamps for farm use and public graft concerns
A discussion of using electric sun lamps in barns to boost cattle and poultry production, noting potential long term value and efficiency of electrification. It cites a trade article on lawful graft, urging newspapers to probe contractor payments to officials, and comments on indoor sun exposure for children and iron intake methods.
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United States
Spring tonic tradition proved by iron in molasses
In rural New England families a spring tonic of sulfur and molasses was common. Medical experts now say the belief has truth. grandparents were right about the tonic effect, while sulfur was not essential. Iron in molasses is credited for the benefit per Dr. Walter T. Eddy.
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New England
Walter T. Eddy
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