Johnny Farrel Recalls Golf Thrills and Hopes
Guest columnist Johnny Farrel reflects on his greatest golf moments from Inverness to La Gorce, citing a 63 final round win and a career of smiles under pressure. He notes other sports notes and a rich array of athletes and events from 1920s to 1930s, including boxing, horse racing, and sailing.
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High Bradley
Baltusrol Herg Telly
Hugh Bradley
Hugh
Westchester
Tye
la Gorce
Florida
Snan
Tve
Dark Day at Fort Greble Ended in Rescue by Buddy
Ray Hopper of Roslindale recalls a near fatal Christmas Eve accident at Fort Greble Rhode Island when his horse pulled a two wheeled cart over a wharf toppling into icy water. He survived after a third submersion and a timely boat rescue by a fellow soldier. The captain remained oddly focused on the horse’s safety.
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Roslindale
Ray
United States Coast Artillery
Fort Greble
Rhode Island
Cook Shack
Ray Hopper
Quartermaster’s Department
Fip
WNU Service
Pearl divers of Japan women earners of sea wealth
A Kansas City Times correspondent describes Japanese pearl divers, chiefly young women from sixteen to twenty five, who harvest pearls around Pearl Island Miye prefecture. Men are excluded, and divers wear white waist tops with skirts. They support families, rarely marry early, and face social pressure to continue diving even after marriage.
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Japan
United States
Kansas City Times
Pearl Island
Miye Prefecture
Kokichi Mikimoto
Minos
Crete
Fatal Duels Mark End of Scottish Combat Era
In Auchertool near Bar Barton the last fatal duel in Scotland occurred. Sir Alexander Boswell, son of a noted biographer, fought Mr. Stewart of Duncarn and Boswell died after being carried to Balmute, sparking protests and ending duel fighting in Scotland. The area also links to the Palace of Halyards and historic plots including Jacobite raids.
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Scotland
Barbarton
Alexander Boswell
Stewart
Duncarn
Boswell
Balmute
Halyards
James
William
Cardinal Beaton
James V
Edinburgh
Farouk and Tibbett Lead Mixed News From Egypt and Broadway
Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett, head of the American Guild of Musical Artists, joins a campaign to form a radio broadcasters union under the AFL, potentially beating the CIO. Egypt’s King Farouk, crowned at eighteen, strengthens Britain’s influence as political ties tighten amid regional tensions. Pennsylvania politics see Governor Earle and Philadelphia Mayor Wilson switching party lines in a high-stakes battle.
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New York
Opera Singers
Genoa
Lawrence Tibbett
Tibbett
American Guild of Musical Artists
American Federation of Labor
Farouk
Royal Military Academy
Britain
Egypt
Haly
Ethiopia
Blue Nile
Sudan
Peter II
Jugoslavia
Ananda
Siam
Pennsylvania
Earle
S. Davis Wilson
Philadelphia
Wilson
Roosevelt
Consolidated News
WNU Service
Linen output would cover Washington area in massive cloth
If all the linen produced in Bel fast Ireland in a year were made into one piece, it would more than cover Washington or an area about seventy square miles. This striking comparison highlights Ireland's huge linen industry and its reach into American geography.
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Washington
Belfast
Ireland
Dish-Drying Is a Picnic With These Cross-Stitched Towels
A vintage sewing pattern advertisement promotes cross-stitched towels for drying dishes, calling the set the gayest and gladdest. Pattern 5859 includes six motifs about 5 by 7 inches, with materials, color ideas, and stitch illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Dept. 259 W. Fourteenth St. New York for the pattern.
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Fourteenth St
New York
N.Y
Noted Advice on Income and Expenditure in Dickens Text
In Dickens' Micawber advising David Copperfield the line states annual income twenty pounds and annual expenditure nineteen pounds six, yielding happiness. when both equal twenty pounds and twenty pounds six the result is misery. The dialogue highlights financial reasoning with a moral twist.
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Cop
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