Lights of New York by Walter Trumbull
Column notes that air travel is growing for short hops with routine routes. The writer observes women adapting to flying more readily than men as travel becomes a modern convenience.
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08 Jan 1931
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Akron Register Tribune in Akron, Iowa
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1931
Page
1
Pets and a Lion in a Cooperative Home Tale
A column notes women fly with pets on commercial air lines and tells a tale of National Zoo director William Mann keeping a pet lion in a cooperative capital apartment. It also recalls an elephant hide ornament, a jewel warning from a dancer with a stealing gang, and Burt Standish's creation of Frank Merriwell who attended Yale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ally
William M. Mann
National Zoological Park
Washington
Mann
Mr. Mann
Complication in Heirship Suit in Lincoln Neb
Mrs Pauline Stuertz seeks a $25,000 estate from Harry J Stuertz to resolve who inherits after his death before the birth of a child. Lincoln court hears that the child born in May may claim or negate the share for the survivor couple Casper Stuertz argues they are entitled to one half as parents of the accident victim while Pauline’s claim hinges on whether a living child existed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Pauline
Stuertz
Lincoln
Harry J. Stuertz
Casper Stuertz
J. J. Loomis
W. C. Beckerm
P. H. Bartholomew
State Board of Health
Loomis
Reid
Country Life Reflections On Rural Roots And Memory
Thomas Arkle Clark recounts a journey through England Holland and Germany contrasting urban readers with country upbringing. He recalls sensory memories of fields hay and harvests and laments city life lacking such ties to nature and work. The piece emphasizes the value of rural roots in forming identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Norris
England
Holland
Germany
Undersea Photographer Recalls Massive Shark Attack
New York pro J E Williamson, after months studying Nassau sharks, described a vast school of mackerel sharks attacking his diving laboratory with ferocity. He was with his wife and 19 month old daughter Sylvia aboard, as he explored life on the ocean bed through his three ton diving ball. Williamson had left in May to pursue marine studies and photography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
J. E. Williamson
Promeer
Nassau
Williamson
Walts
Crimson diver risks sharks in Tongue of the Ocean tale
A photographer recalls spending two months in a steel diving ball in The Tongue of the Ocean between Andrus and New Providence, where June and July bring few sharks. An August baiting incident triggered a shark attack that tore a man apart before a rope broke. Williamson offered divers $140 dress suits for a one minute fight, while one onlooker quipped about life everlasting, and he claims evidence that sharks eat men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bahamas
Andrus
New Providence
Williamson
War nurse dubbed Angel of France weds muralist in Los Angeles
Mrs. John Reginald McLean, famed war nurse with many decorations, married Girard Van Barkaloo Hale, a mural painter, in Los Angeles. The couple departed for a wedding trip to northern Africa after the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Reginald McLean
Angel of
France
Los Angeles
Girard van Barkaloo Hale
Africa
Murder of Guilelma Sands in 1799 New York trial
The 1799 New York case of Guilelma Sands ends with Levi Weeks jailed then acquitted in a famous trial before Chief Justice Lansing. Defense by Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the affair linked to future duels and the era’s legal and social elite. A fragment from Wheeler Syndicate also notes Santa Barbara’s exclusive beach and a local child’s remark about a newspaper man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilelma Sands
Chosd
New York
Dorothy Arnold
Elwell
Franklin Street
Ninth Avenue
Weeks
Miss Sands
Lispenard Meadows
Levi Weeks
Lansing
Agron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Burr
Ring
Lispenard Meadow
Wheeler Syndicate
Santa Barbara
Los Angeles Times
Crab and Egg Omelet and Other Dishes Highlights
A kitchen note describes crab and egg omelet preparation with shrimp or crab, pork, mushrooms, onion, bamboo shoots, soy sauce, and eggs. It also outlines Lobster Club Sandwich assembly with lobster, bacon, mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato. Pimiento Cup with Egg and Celery details chopped celery and eggs with mayonnaise in red pepper cups served cold on crisp lettuce.
Niuafou Island and the restless plate world of Tonga
The article describes the volcanic islands of Niuafou or Ninafou in the Tonga group midway between Samoa and Fiji. It notes a vast Pacific fissure, volcanic vents along a long crack, and Falcon’s island-like rises that vanish with sea and wind. It mentions tropical scenery and perilous landings near lava cliffs as ships approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niuafou
Tonga
Samoa
Fiji
South Pacific
North Island
New Zealand
Ninafou
Jack-In-The
Falcon
Tropic Isle
National Geographic Society Bulletin
Nightly theatergoer seeks final act twist in love plot
Joseph Van Ranke recounts a New Yorker who attends the same theater show each night for two weeks. A ticket seller jokes that the man is fixated on a late second act moment where the husband leaves and the lover slips in by the fire escape. The man vows to witness the scene when the husband returns for something and catches the lover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph van Ranke
Foot Work by Mnacon Telegraph
The South American President may not stay in office long, but he gets a lot of dandy exercise when he's leaving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mnacon Telegraph
Tecumseh Becomes Brigadier General in War of 1812
Indian British Army Officer Tecumseh, an American Indian chief, was made a brigadier general in the British army during the War of 1812. He led a force of 2,000 Indians at Fort Meigs and commanded the right wing at the battle of the Thames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecumseh
Fort Meigs
the Thames
Economic Propositions Challenged and Shifting Authorial Reputations
The text notes that foundational economic propositions face challenge and that reputations of contemporary authors are shifting under attack, citing Wall Street and American Magazine as context for these critiques.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
American Magazine
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Lights OF
Walter ‘Trumbull
Philadelphia
Rasche Brothers
William Gilbert Patton
Burt L. Standish
Frank Merriswell
Yale
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Arundel
Bay
Census Bureau
United States
John Wells
Country Life
Thomas Arkle Clark
University of Illinois
Western Newspaper Union
HEADS
Harry Wood
Harvard
Uga
Mom
WAR Workers United
Randolph
Bourne
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