Transcontinental caravan seeks peace via petition drive
Miss Mabel Vernon leads the Transcontinental Caravan of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from Los Angeles to Washington. The motorcade gathers signatures for a peace petition aimed at urging President Hoover to push the United States into the Geneva disarmament conference next year. The trip across mountains deserts and plains will take more than three months.
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Mabel Vernon
Women's International League For Peace and Freedom
Los Angeles
Washington
Hoover
United States
Geneva
Peter the Smart Hankering for Kind Words in the Green Forest
Peter the hare challenges the forest rumor about Glutton the Wolverine. Buster Bear and Honker the Goose recount Gluttons traps and thefts, yet Peter notes a possible good deed in warning about hidden traps. The tale explores whether one can be both feared and useful.
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Peter
Paddy
Beaver
Hanker
Goose
Glutton
Wolverine
Buster Bear
Prickly
Porky
Honker
Buster
Honker the Goose
Monker
Great Woods
Feter
Reddy Fox
J. G. Lloyd
Superstitious Sue and the Gypsy Curse Tale
The fragment presents two quotes about superstition and luck from unspecified syndication. One references a gambler fearing an initial win inviting a lasting curse, attributed to a Gypsy curse. The other features Reno Rizzi remarking that the honeymoon ends when a husband forgets his partner’s ankles and notices a thick head.
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Reno Rizzi
Hubby
WNU Service
Robin’s Flight Longing Across a Worn Desert
A fragmentary meditation notes a robin drawn to distant lands and unseen horizons. The terse lines imply a drive toward remote places and lofty aims, framed as an inner quest rather than a literal journey.
Snow Pudding From Old-Time Gelatin Recipe
An old-time dessert shows a Snow Pudding made with plain gelatin soaked in water, lemon juice, and sugar, dissolved in boiling water, then beaten egg whites folded in as the mixture lightens. The method yields a refreshing, attractive dessert suitable for hot days after a hearty meal.
Vintage Dessert Recipe Fragment Surfaces In 1941 Western News Page
Fragmentary instructions describe making a molded cold water ringed pudding with hot milk eggs and Hugif, plus a grape ice cream and whipped fruit jelly. Directions cover granulated sugar orange strawberries and a boiled custard to mold and serve with jelly sauce amid a 1941 Western newspaper union notice.
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Western Newspoor Union
Bamboo rakes from Japan offer cheap, easy garden use
A gardener promotes bamboo rakes from Japan as lighter and cheaper than metal rakes. They function like a broom and ease cleaning leaves and grass clippings. Though they look delicate, they endure hard use, with metal rakes being slightly more durable.
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WNU
Longest American Tunnel Opens Cascade Line
The Cascade railroad tunnel, the longest on the American continent, extends 7.79 miles through solid granite and is reinforced with concrete lining. Its eastern portal sits 684 feet above the western, creating a steady air flow. Construction began December 28, 1925, and it was completed ready for track laying December 25, 1928.
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Cascade Railroad
Germany Faces Financial Crisis Amid Bank Closures and Moratorium
The article reports Germany's capital flight and bank closures as the Reichsbank imposes a two day bank halt and a two day moratorium to stem outflows while international talks occur. It notes Dr. Luther lobbying in Basel for BIS support, and US France and Britain coordinating through Paris and London for a broader European response.
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Germany
George W. France
Darmstnedter and
Hang Luther
Reichsbank
Berlin
London
Paris
iGustoms Union
Danzig
von. Hindenburg
Luther
Basel
Bank For International Settlements
Gates W. McGarroh
Federal Reserve Bank of the United States
Bank of France
Bank of England
World Bank
America
Europe
von Hindenburg
Bruening
Curtins
Henderson
England
Stimson
United States
Hoover
Mellon
Federal Reserve
Woaver
Washington
Europa
France
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APTS
Georg Endres
Alexander Magyar
Harbor Grace
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Budapest
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People's Commssiariat
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Warne
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Willlam L. Nunn
New York University
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the Nation
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Santiago
Proom
White House
Tariff Commission
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Wickersham Commission
Mooney-Billings
San Francisco
Monte M. Lemann
New Orleans
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Army Air Service
Benjamin D. Foulois
War Department
James J. Fechet
Army Air Corps
Fechet
Foulois
Wright Brothers
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Atantic East Iast
A Beer B. Fall
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