Hiram House Celebrates Golden Jubilee of Founding
Cleveland's Hiram House marks 50 years since its 1896 founding by George A. Bellamy. The settlement, backed by the Community Chest, pioneered child welfare programs and educational once in Progress City, influencing public baths, safety services, and civic institutions in Cleveland and abroad.
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Settlement House
Cleveland
Ohio
Hiram House
George A. Bellamy
Community Chest
Bellamy
Michigan
Hiram College
Boston
South End
George Bellamy
Orange Street
Litte Setlement House
Grange Street
Orange Avenue
Teain
Cleveland Settlement
Progress City
Czechoslovakia
Cairo
Egypt
Japan
Hirai House
Legal Aid Society
Citizens’ Bureau
Cleveland Community Chest
Chagrin Palls
Hiram
Hiram Trouse
Oldest Man In United States Aged Neanderthal Finds
Cambridge report describes a 100000 year old Neanderthal skeleton found in a Palestine cave. Dr. Theodore McCown cites the specimen as the oldest in the United States, noting it lived in the Stone Age and hunted wild ox and deer. The bones were tied to a wartime London study. no injuries occurred to the hunter.
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Cambridge
Mass
United States
Harvard
Peabody Museum
London
Mt. Carrel
Palestine
Theodore McCown
University of California
McCown
Arthur Keith
Royal College of Surgeons
Sleuth Nabs 2 000 Deserting Dads
George Henry Lamb, 60, heads the Queens County Abandonment Bureau and has tracked down more than 2,000 fathers who deserted their children across 48 states and abroad. He favors settlements where fathers provide support, insisting a jailed father is worse than none.
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New York
Hollywood
George Henry Lamb
Lamb
Queens County Abandonment Bureau
Cuba
Canada
Mexico
California
Gold Medal Driver Husband Found Safe Women Club
Chicago man James J. Ingels earned a gold medal for 300000 miles without incidents. The National Safety Council forms a national club of safe women drivers called Winter Wives with Ingels as charter member.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
James J. Ingels
National Club of Safe Women Drivers
Winter Wives
Ingels
Nevada recalls map omits Boulder City in tourist guide
The state prepared tourists map failed to include Boulder City Nevada the state capitol of Clark County. Gov Vail Pittman ordered a corrected reprint after Boulder Citys 5200 residents condemned the original guide and demanded destruction of all copies.
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Boulder City
Nev
Vail Pittman
Nevada
Life in Soviet Russia Lacks Utopian Promise
A reflective column contrasts postwar housing and labor in the Soviet Union with American conditions. It cites a Library of Congress study and Harper's Magazine observations on Ukraine and Kiev living space, five year plans, and union oversight, noting restricted consumer goods growth and wages around 300 to 350 rubles monthly.
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Soviet
Russia
WNU
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D.C
Washington, D. C
Europe
Baltic
Balkans
America
Stalin
Tovarish
Samovar
Joe
Library of Congress
Moscow
National Capital Housing Authority
Ukraine
Harper's
John Fischer
Rysso
Fischer
Industri
Kentucky doctor honored for delivering 5492 babies over 47 years
A Kentucky physician received praise from townspeople for delivering 5,492 babies in 47 years without misdelivering. An 84 year old mountaineer seeks higher pension, wife eight decades younger. A telegraph outage in Lombard Mont traced to a large fish on a pole, likely dropped by a fish hawk unaware of currents.
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Kentucky
Lombard
Mont
A Closet That Fits Into Waste Space
A nine inch deep linen closet uses a shade-roller door to avoid conflicts with other doors. The article describes a scalloped wooden frame, a matching laundry bag, and step by step directions for making the compact closet pattern 256. The pattern can be ordered by sending name and address.
Fragmentary comic captions and jokes from a newspaper page
A collage of brief gags and bits from a 20th century page includes dialogue fragments about punishment, age in dating, blondes seen with a wallet, driving advice, and a cinema scene where a heroine is slapped. It ends with a pun about nuts and car parts.
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Chagrin Falls
Mag
Baukhage
Communism In Action
U. S
Trotsky
Nazi Germany
U.S.S.R
Clarence Brown
Republican National Committee
Russell
Georgia
New York State
Dewey
National Citizens Political Action Committee
Cio-Pac
8Lth Congress
Bankhage
M&s
WYETH
Bedford Hills
Thal
Miss Green
Miss Brown
Mummy
Kid O Sullivan
O'Sullivan
Lee
Lydia
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