Quiz Summary From General Knowledge Series
Answers cover gun costs, constitutional delegates ages, Gandhi marriage status, British baronetcy rank, Hughes round the world time, attack vs pursuit planes, college attendance gaps, and Senate clock history. Notable facts include 16 inch gun cost about 3000 dollars per shot, Franklin and Dayton as oldest and youngest delegates, Gandhi unmarried, baronet as lowest hereditary title, three days nineteen hours for Hughes flight, and the Senate clock presented in 1803 with Ohio’s joining as the seventeenth star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Mahatma Gandhi
Howard Hughes
Senate
U.S. Capitol
Baronet
Ohio
Uncle Phil Says on Life, Voting, and Morality
A reflective meditation on personal responsibility, democracy, and parental influence. The piece argues against idleness, promotes voting as civic duty, and notes the tension between aspiration and practical soundness in modern life. It contrasts two views of misbehavior and laments silent money overexpressed power.
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America
Europe
Europe Faces New Crisis After Loyalist Spain Defeat
In a analysis by Joseph W. La Bine Europe braces for fresh tensions as Fascist aided Loyalists crush the Loyalist government in Barcelona. The piece argues non intervention favors dictators and that Italo German moves threaten Britain and France, with Madrid fears and looming Munich style talks.
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Europe
Spain
Barcelona
Italy
Germany
Britain
France
London
Paris
Mediterranean
Mussolini
Russia
Rome
Berlin
Baltic
Adriatic
Hitler
Tumlsia
Suez Canal
Djibouti-Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
India
East
Mary
Reichstag
Great Britain
Chamberlain
Daladier
Munich
Sailors Survive Wild Anchor Chain Haul On Hatteras
Jim Evrard of Brooklyn and two crewmates faced a deadly chain loop when the Hatteras storm and a winch mishap sent a heavy anchor chain thrashing through their chain locker. The trio crouched in fear as the steel loops cracked the air, narrowly escaping serious injury as officers restored control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ello
Jim Evrard
Brooklyn
Jim
Hatteras
Navy
Atlantic Ocean
Hampton Roads
Piercy
White
Andor Chain
Old Lady Adventure
Geek
Jeaning
Neptune
WIN Service
From Saxon Wassail to Punch Bowl Customs
The piece traces the evolution from the wassail bowl as a night ritual of Saxon warriors to its later role at major feasts during Yuletide. It then shifts to Jamaica, noting hat production requires sixty six days to craft a native hat from the island’s abundant palm trees along the north shore, using green leaves dried to a white linen-like finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Jamaica
British West Indies
Household Questions and Simple How Tos From Dated Notes
Short tips cover washing glass with starch for shine baby safety stairs baking apples with slits to prevent wrinkles seamstress tips to cut crepe and chiffon between newsprint pan care with potato parings to prevent sticking silk stocking darning guidance using fine needle single strand and two ply wool for laddering
Chap Found Swankin It Required Some Effort
Sir Cecil Fitch narrates a tale of a suddenly rich man who receives a piano at his cottage. A skeptic neighbor mocks the “swank” status as the piano is wheeled away on a hand cart the next day. The rich man declares hes intent to take his first lesson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Perkins
Dies
Communist Party
New Jersey
J. Parnell Thomas
James L. Houghteling
Labor Department
Gerard D. Reilly
Bridges
Sacramento
Calif
Assemiymian C. Don Field
Swankin
Cecil Fitch
Hollywood
Mark
Beware Coughs from Common Colds That Hang On
An advertisement touts Creomulsion as a potent remedy for persistent coughs and bronchial irritation. It claims the product soothes inflamed mucous membranes and loosens phlegm, promising refund if not satisfied and urging consumers to insist on the Creomulsion label.
Good or Evil Reflected in Our Shared Lives Quote
A concise reflection notes that what we send into others lives returns to us, attributed to poet Edwin Markham. The line frames moral reciprocity as a universal moral principle in everyday conduct.
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Edwin Markham
Kruschen Weight Loss Plan Promoted By Physician And Writer
A New York physician and a nationally known newspaperwoman tout a 40 day fat loss plan tested by 25 women who shed 286 pounds in total. The ad urges lightening fatty meats, embracing lean proteins, fruits and vegetables, plus daily Kruschen mineral drink to help remove wastes.
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New York
N. Y
S. AL
Pather
Senate
Iitneys
Doan
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Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania
Jonathan Dayton
Uncle Phil
S. A
Washington Irving
Wnu-W
Anly
Joseph W. la Bine
Chile
South Ameria
Pedro Aguirre Cerdo
Congress
Martin Dies
Committee On
Harry Bridges
John Lewis
S. O
Frances Perkins
Buffalo
Lloyd Child
Child
CZE
Poland
ICHO
Slovakia
Unga
Jugoslavia
Rumania
Gern Pala
Thore
Aay Yemayakia
o.Iap
Andi
Arumist
Parnell Thomas Californias
Hoyd Gibbons
Adventurers’ Club
The
Tron
Treth Aeget
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