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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
9
Peking plans electric tramways as the Peking Electric Tramways Company and the Chamber of Commerce debate the fate of rickshaw coolies. The company hopes to employ and train them as conductors, foreseeing 5,000 workers displaced when the tramway begins operation.
A vintage ad claims olive oil shampoo gives lustrous, pliant hair and boosts beauty. It suggests buying Palm Olive Shampoo at any store, promising gentle cleansing and visible shine after one use. It touts professional prices as unnecessary and appeals to homespun savings.
A long feature traces Dorothy Canfield Fisher's New England ancestry and Kansas upbringing. It recounts her Lawrence birth, academic training at Kansas, Ohio State, Columbia, Vermont, and Sorbonne studies, and early works that shaped American educational literature. It notes her leadership in pedagogy, Montessori influence, and her rise as a prominent novelist and educator.
Los Angeles May 3 The lure of the North seas and Arctic furs draws ten prospectors from the United States. They will depart June 1 to chase Siberian gold fields under McCork and Marsh, aiming for rich Okhotsk coast riches once opened by the Soviet government.
Dorothy Canfeld Fisher, widow of John Redwood Wisher, recounts her early married life in New York society and their move to Arlington Vermont. She describes building a self-sufficient home on Grenwald Mountain, aiding war welfare efforts, and raising a family in a rugged mountaintop retreat later returning to Idaho to settle near the Gren Mountain region.
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