Viking Courage on a Fog Bound Sea Tow
Pete Gear of Sunnyside New York joined a coal barge crew bound for a rendezvous 195 miles offshore southeast of Block Island. As fog stranded them in a shipping lane the seasick crew faced danger while Pete rang the fox bell for 36 hours straight to warn passing liners. A New London tug and a spotting plane finally located them and freed the barge.
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Pete Gear
Sunnyside
L. I
Pete
Atlantic
Block Island
Long Island Sound
Montauk Point
Gunry
Bargeman
Peter
Pele
New London
WNU Servier
Spontaneous Walk Advice Urges No Fixed Objective
A Peripatetic Expert extols unplanned strolls, arguing that exact goals spoil the experience. Do not premeditate or justify a walk. When the notion arises you should act immediately, open the door, and go outside without reasons or objectives.
Windsors Mark 2nd Anniversary
Two years after the June 3 1937 marriage in Monts France the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson live in exile in France. He hopes one day to return to England with the woman he loves while the Windsors endure their notoriety as an unimportant royal couple.
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Monts
France
England
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Windsors
Lejtz Grace Moore
Franks in America First Postal Privileges Expanded
Franking of the mail came to the American colonies from England and early Continental congresses ensured its continuance. During the Revolution soldiers gained the privilege and subsequent congresses extended it to heads of departments and bureaus as they formed.
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England
Mutiny Trial Ends With Executions On Somers
Midshipman Spencer, son of the secretary of war, and boatswain Samuel Cromigel along with Seaman Elishe Small were implicated in a mutiny aboard the brig Somers in 1842. Commanded by Aleader Sli dell Mackenzie, they were executed after a court of inquiry and court martial.
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Spencer
Samuel Cromigel
Elishe Small
Somers
Aleader Slidell Mackenzie
Midshipman
Baroda State geography and size noted
Baroda is described as an Indian state located about 24 miles north of Bombay. The region covers more than 8,100 square miles in area.
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Baroda
Bombay
Speech Improvement at Barnard College
Women at Barnard College study speech as freshmen using a phonograph record made of their speech. They then attend conferences and make recordings over the next two years to hear themselves as others hear them.
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Barnard College
United States Tops Global Beer Production Figures
The United States leads world beer output with about 1.402 billion gallons annually, followed by Germany at 1.050 billion and Great Britain at 949.9 million. Global production exceeds five billion gallons.
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United States
Germany
Great Britain
Just to Be Looked At of Chinatown Noted
A fragment describes Chinatown as a place where handsome buildings may be only for looking at. It mentions Hi Ho the sage like figures and remarks on appearances versus value. A misread line references Tigris Euphrates spreads across four countries and a city named for Marie Antoinette.
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Chinatown
Galileo Demonstrates Equally Accelerated Free Fall
The text explains that ignoring air resistance, heavy and light objects fall at the same rate. It notes the historic belief that velocity depended on weight and cites Galileo dropping bodies from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show light and heavy objects reach the earth simultaneously.
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Galileo
Pisa
Department of Justice Investigation Chief Oversees Federal Records
The director of investigation of the Department of Justice heads the acquisition collection classification preservation and exchange of criminal identification records and oversees official matters within DOJ and State Department jurisdiction as directed by the attorney general.
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Department of Justice
United States
Centrol
Department of State
Attorney General
Best Food in Salt Lake Feature at The Blay Flower Cafe
A Salt Lake City listing highlights The Blay Flower Cafe at 154 South POPULAR PRICED Luncheon. It showcases sandwiches and inners as top lunch choices, praising menu variety and value in a compact local food guide.
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Salt Lake City
Belvedere
Salt Lake
Blay Flower Cafe
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Ella
Tekken
Maxime Real del Sarte
Queen Victoria
Biarritz
Teho
Tigris
Euphrates River
Turkey
Iran
Syria
Iag
Marie Antoinetie
Marietta
Ohio
Marie Antoinetic
State St
Calvin O
Jack
Mer
Fox
Utth
U. 8
Ramshaw Hatcheries
South State Street
Utah
Augustus Toplady
Ges Boscone
Chauncey W
Hotels
Tiotel
Plandome
Th So
Slate St
Reno
Nevada
Golden
Packard “Automobiles
Dtth
Jackson Moteur Cn. Motor
Tire and Ilycmateen
SU Templeton Bite
Uhyswians Supply Company
WW and
South St . Salt Lake
Cnty
Broadway
SOCAL
Fisures
Stuuls
Carbusiers
Ala Recordston Encilpment
Twernin Moser-Hartman CQ
Piice
Teepont
el A
Lake Moler
Enunollion
Vanek Cuefully
Mil. Meyers Y Baestie
Photography
Kraft Economy Film Service
Schramm-Johnson Drugs
KRAFT
Salt Lakey City
Gia
L. D
Business College
North Main
Salt Lane City
Pat Bela
Acousticon Institute
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