Nobility Brewed Beer In Ancient Estates Revealed
A London Mail report notes that upper class estates brewed their own beer in medieval and Tudor times. Excavations at Hay Hill reveal vaults from the Berkley estate with brickwork dating before 1600 and two mash tubs marked D D likely moved from the original brewery.
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Hay Hill
Berkley
Devonshire House
Berkley Street
London Mail
Performer Who Barked Like a Dog Recall Conflicting Tale
A Georgia congressman recalls a vaudeville dog imitation during a Cara van club address. The performer notes a youth asked if he was the Palace theater act, and the boy quips the imitator outdid him in noise, while the performer says he had to learn it.
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Caravan Club
William D. Upshaw
Georgia
Palace Theater
What to Eat and Why A Natural Supply of Vitamin
An old age claim that Vitamin is found in right foods. Highlights Grape-Nuts as a natural Vitamin source with phosphorus and bran. Promotes easy digestion, quick assimilation, and nourishment. Emphasizes health benefits and economy of regular use. Made by Postum Cereal, Battle Creek MI.
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Postum Cereal
Battle Creek
Michigan
Reorganization plan eyes Education and Welfare department
President Harding backs a plan to create a new Department of Education and Welfare as part of a broad government reorganization. The proposal, debated since it would shift nonmilitary duties, faces constitutional questions and Senate scrutiny.
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States Department of Education and Welfare
Congress
Walker F. Brown
Ohio
Harding
Brown
Mr. Brown
Joint Committee On Reorganization
Warren G. Harding
Department of Education and Welfare
Department of National Defense
War and Navy Departments
Interior and Commerce
Treasury Department
Post Office Department
Department of Communications
Social Service
Veteran Relief
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Education
Indian Schools
Howard University
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Freedmen’s Hospital
Bureau of Pensions
Sterling-Tower
Caleb R. Layton
Delaware
Congressional Record
Layton
United States
Norbeck
South Dakota
Department of Education
Rare volumes show size outgrowing substance in book history
A writer on rare books notes pre-eminence often stems from odd sizes. Escorial volumes stood six by four feet, the Thumb Bible fit a postage stamp, the Midget New Testament measured three quarters by one half inch, and Gray's Elegy appeared in four by three inches. A 1897 Padua release by Lilliputian printer Salmin is among the smallest.
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Spain
Scotland
Gray
Salmin
Padua
New York
Indianapolis Star
Origin of Ball Word in Dancing Language
The term ball enters dance vocabulary as a refined label tied to formal events and social gatherings. It reflects aristocratic customs and evolving social ceremonies surrounding music, movement, and courtly etiquette in historical contexts.
Etymology of Ball and Its Dance Roots
A brief note explains how the words bal and ballet come from French, themselves derived from Latin and Greek. The Greek root meaning to throw suggests dancing began as throwing the limbs about. Today ball denotes formal social dance gatherings in contrast to earlier broad meanings.
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