Women of Los Angeles Build New Hotel for Employed Women
A group of Los Angeles women funded a twelve story class A hotel on Figueroa street with bonds of three quarters of a million dollars. The facility serves women and their families, offering a plunge, gymnasium, and golf courtesy cards. Profits fund a future building fund for a new hotel for employed women.
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Los Angeles
Figueroa Street
Chester C. Ashley
Maude N Bouldin
Figueroa
Soldiers Need Brain Not Brawn In College Life
A college authority laments lack of character and discipline among students from 18 to 23, contrasting cadet drill and agile minds. The piece notes missionary good works, debates about discipline at West Point, and varied views on religion, education, and aging.
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Brown
Union College Alumni Association
Man's True Character and the Face Reading Art
The article argues that facial expressions reveal character beyond conscious control and that reading faces reflects a link between mind and body. It notes rogues and liars rely on deception, while true character emerges from bone structure and brain-driven muscle movements shaping the face.
Village That Floats Suok Frou Worries Sailors on Mekong
Sailors near the Mekong report a floating village named Suok Frou that drifts with river currents. The town, built on raft huts and connected to partly submerged trees, shifts position, leaving steamers unsure of where to find it on subsequent trips. Its exact location remains elusive and its future uncertain.
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Mekong
Set Up for Reliable Radio Messages
A reflection compares daily broadcasting to a radio station that sends out messages with uncertain reach. It urges maintaining a consistently excellent program to ensure messages are well received by listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science Monitor
Ventilation in Winter A Key To Health In Living Rooms
The piece warns that poor ventilation in winter harms health and that warm air is not inherently impure. It advises circulating air, proper outlet and inlet placement, frequent airing of rooms, open doors, daily air changes in public spaces, and airing bedrooms after use with formaldehyde sparingly to prevent respiratory infections.
Sacred White Horse of Peten legend in Peten Itza lore
Adventure Magazine recounts Cortes as the first white man to reach Lake Peten Itza in Guatemala. He left a lame white horse after moving toward Honduras, inspiring a myth that the Itza fed the animal and worshiped it. The statue later reputedly hid in water near Flores and is called the Sacred White Horse of Peten.
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Herbaindo
Cortes
Neyer
Peten
Hérmmont
Department of Guatemala
Fta
Mexico
Honduras
Eugene Cunningham
Adventure Magazine
Peten- Itza
Afayan
Haltunna
Yucatan
Guatemala
Canek
Cortez
Itzne
Flores
Peten-Itza
Santa Barbara
Veracity of Witness Put to Severe Test
In an article from Liberty In Arabia Miss Forbes describes Far East methods to test testimony. She cites a ritual where a holy man heats a metal strip and places it on a witness mouth to judge truthfulness by a short scorching feel.
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Far East
Rostta Korbes
East
Inoun
Liberty
Arabia
Miss Forbes
Practical Jokers Thrive on Mockery and Tricks
A quirky, misspelled text describes practical jokers and a bald guest as the focal point of humorous tricks. The speaker laments their ubiquity and contemplates reducing their influence to gain respect for the craft.
Unscrambled Musings on Shakespeare Goethe and Style
The text contrasts Shakespeare and Goethe, noting Shakespeare’s towering English impact and Goethe’s foundational German role. It argues Shakespeare set a tradition that Goethe followed loosely, with Shakespeare as the “ninth wave” of Elizabethan influence.
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Roethe
Shakespeare
Goethe
Literawre
Ana Shakespeare
One of Nature's Wonders Elephant Trunk as Helper and Shield
The elephant uses its trunk to breathe and smell and to grasp food and drink. It can throw dirt on its back to guard against fires and pull down trees. The trunk acts as a hand, lifting burdens and handling delicate objects, untangling knots and opening doors, even aiding in showers.
Making It for Him
A playful domestic exchange about Helen making a shrimp salad for a guest arriving that evening. The dialogue hints at improvised kitchen plans and an absent supply of shrimp.
Sam Houston hailed for San Jacinto triumph and genius
The article defends Sam Houston against modern critics, praising his strategic retreat across Texas, bold Brazos River turn, and decisive San Jacinto victory. It lauds his leadership, predicting enduring fame and likening him to one of America's greatest military minds. It contrasts Mexican invasion with Houston's tactical genius and boldness.
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Dodane
Houston
Houston Post-Dispatch
Lousiana
Texas
Brazos River
Santa Ana
San Jacinto River
West
San Jacinto
Sam Houston
Unexplored Canada Reveals Hidden Lands And Biases
Ottawa official I H Knight cites Popular Mechanics figures that most of Canada remains unseen by white settlers. Surveys show Ontario exceeds prior area estimates and Quebec regions appear geologically unstable. A separate note reports a Chinese foot binding tax proposal and the persistence of deformed feet in China.
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Canada
I H Knight
Ottawa
Association of Dominion Land Surveyors
Seea Popular Mechanics
Keight
Ontario
Caanada
Quebec
Seek Lost Malay Kingdom In the Philippines
The lost Malay Kingdom is thought to have existed on Jolo island in the Philippines. Leading Filipinos plan an expedition to uncover records of the old kingdom, believed to date from about 1760, though some accounts doubt its existence and place.
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Jolo
Philippino
Dust Explosions Linked to Fires Cite ACS Findings
A report by the American Chemical Society states no record of a spontaneous dust explosion exists and emphasizes that a spark flame or other fire source is needed to ignite dust. In the past year dust related fires destroyed 3 million dollars of property, killed 45 people and injured 28 others.
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American Chemical Society
Riverside kindergarten dolls house project fascinates pupils
Five year old completes a doll house and asks for a measles sign for his creation. The class at Riverside kindergarten follows a daily program for a week focusing on doll house making with keen interest and detail.
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Riverside
Ilfe
Indianapolis News
Fragmentary OCR Note with Unclear Text
A partial OCR line shows garbled words and missing context making meaning uncertain. No identifiable people places or events are clearly readable in the excerpt.
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Egypt
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North Dakota
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Christ
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Martha Graham
Charles F. Easterbrooks
Burton Street
G. H. Spencer Roofing Co
F. M. Gifford
Usher Place
Bristol Neck
Edward E. Witherell
Noyes Avenue
Charles M.,connery
Calla
Burton St
Lanzire’s Express
Frank Lanzire
Telephone
Bristol
Wm. W. Franklin & Co
Wood Street
William A. Doran
Bay View Ave
Robert J. McKay
G. W. Simmons
William Street
Tel
Thomas F. Brelsford & Son
Hope Street
Freeborn
R. Cole
Isaac B. Munro
Garfield Avenue
E. W. Weaver
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Boston
I Watson & CO
Westthoaset Street
Providence
G. M. Wilbur
Constitution ST. Bristol
Archie H. Rounds
Tel. Con
Union Street
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