Lights of New Yorke a City Sketch in Verse and People
A descriptive sketch of lower Broadway and Manhattan sights blending poetry with real figures. It notes bootblacks in Battery Park, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, traffic scenes, and encounters with writers, editors, actors, and reporters reflecting urban life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Broadway
Battery Part
Ellis Island
Governor’s Island
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
City Hall
Bob Davis
Barney Mullady
Lewis J. Valentine
Philippine Island
Times Square
Burgess Meredith
H. T. Webster
H.1
Phillips
Museum Has Rare Chinese Animals in Philadelphia
The Free Natural History Museum displays the only habitat group in the world for the Sichuan Takin of West China. Takins, related to the Rocky Mountain goat, roam thick bamboo forests from the Himalayas to western China and resemble a cross between a goat and a cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Free Natural History Museum
China
Himalayas
Earthquake Forms Chile Coast Expansion in 1822
A Collier's Weekly writer notes that earthquakes can alter national borders and land size. He cites the 1822 Chile quake which permanently raised the coast and added more than 100000 square miles to Chile’s territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier’s Weekly
Chile
Washington Letter From Congressman Harrington on Jeferson Island Picnic
Congressman Harrington reports the Jeferson Island picnic as a wholesome public event with no political intrigue. He recounts baseball play featuring Roosevelt and Farley, a dog calling contest, farm bill prospects, river surveys for flood control, and the ongoing farm loan rate debate. The 1937 Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington draws attention for its scale and moral aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Jeferson Island
Iowa
Dizzy Dean
James Roosevelt
Jim Farley
Harrington
Roosevelt
Farley
Jim
Jimmy
Wearin
Mouton
Lowan
Congress
White House
Senate
House
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Iiona
Farm Credit Administration
Washington
Potomac
Washington’s
Monument
America
Iowa Public Service Co bonds report and payments
Certification of accuracy under Iowa law for a report filed July 1 1937 summarizing bond retirements and cash balances with receipts and miscellaneous revenue items. Includes a list of numerous individuals and companies connected to public records with balances and payments noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Code of
Iowa
Polo Rules Adopted from India Reach England in 1877
English officers brought polo from India and formalized the first definite rules in 1877 after introducing the game to England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
England
Doctor Esperanto Adopted a Planned Language in 1887
An invented account notes a Russian physician named Zamenhot adopting Esperanto. His first publication appeared in 1887 under the signature Dr. Esperanto Hopeful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zamenhot
Budget Estimate and Record of Filing for Afton School District
The Board of Directors of Afton Consolidated School District in Afton and Spring township Cherokee county Iowa will meet July 22 1907 at p m at school house District No 5 Taxpayers will be heard for or against the estimate of expenditures at that time Chas L Menefee District Secretary
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Afton Consolidated
Afton
Spring Township
Cherokee County
Iowa
Chas. L. Menefee
Also Mentioned on This Page
New Yorke
L. L. Stevenson
Toineeticut
Flasiea
Rilk Warton
Massistrate
Louis Brodsky
Kay Deparge
Gracie Allen
Optimists’ Club
St. Louis
Gracie
Morton Downey
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Roddy Kilowatt
Wility
Iowa Public Service CO
W.C. Harrington
Floyd
Little Sioux
Flood Control Committee
War Department
Department of Agriculture
Scouts Conclave
Boy Scout Movement
Henry Uggink
Sioux Center
New Aurelia
Cherokee
Buena Vista
M. C. Paulson
General Fund
Aylesworth
Victoria
Americana Corp
Alta Lbr, Co
I Beam
Chas. L
Bryant
Eva
Bailey
Gladys
Burshiem
Business Men’s Ass
Bischel & Deyloff
Bachman & Fogleman Baumann
John
Brady Transfer Co
Bro
Holderness
John Hillyard Chemical Co
Howard Clock Co
Harper, Lloyd Co
Hansen
Geo. A. Huntington Labs
Haul
Dwight
Sptg
Goods
Hopkins
Goods Co
Holley
M. L. Hunter
Bertha Hale
Frank
Heimsoth
Ces Hayden, van B. Music Co
Ideal Mfg
Iowa News Co
Johnson Service Co
Johnson
L. C Kahuda
Merle
Kelsey
Josephine Kaskey
Geo
Karlsons & Betsworth Kurtz
L. H. Co
Kittenball Ass’n _ Kroll Funeral Home
Klipto Loose Leaf Co
Lewis
Celia M. Lewis
Olive Larson
E. C. Leach
Alonzo
Larson
Carl A. Lohr
Mary
Lockin
H. H
Matzdorff
Roy
Mann
Ira
Mummert Home Co
Mongan, Elliott Metropolitan Supply Co
MacClellan Paper Co
Matt Parrott & Sons
McNeil, I. C
San Morse
A. FE
Ethel Nielsen
Bert
Nicewander
J. Lyon
Omaha School Supply Co
Olsen's
Paulson
Lyle Plautz
Otto G. Paulson
M. C. Prichard Co
Paulson-Finkbine Shr
Peoples Telephone Co
Panama Carbon Co
Pentane Natural Gas Co
Parawax Co
Pratt
Beee Public School Publishing Co
Peerless Chemical Co
Peterson
Herbert Paxton
Lbr
Rupe
Laura Rapp
A. A. Shay
Gladys Shank
Josh Shank
J. Est Shank
Orlo Scott
James
Schmitt
Paul A Sherman
Mable Scott-Foresman Co
Storm Lake Home
Swanson Auto Co
Schmoller & Mueller Smith-Corona Sales Co
Troup
B. L. Trossem
Mabel Town
Aurelia Walker
Dorothy Waddell
Chas, Wright
Edith C. Waddell
O. C. Waffle
Petrevasneons
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