Central New England Sanatorium opens first unit Rutland
The Rutland unit inaugurates a colonial plan for tuberculosis aftercare and work integration in Massachusetts. The 400 acre site houses orchards, poultry, and workshops for rug weaving, fabrics, pottery, and basketry guided by Dr Bayard T Crane with income linked to patient recovery and supervised by nurses and doctors. The project aims to provide care for the middle economic group and relies on gifts from New England communities.
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Tattooists in Cairo Use Feet to Steady Iron Tools
In Cairo a group of native tattoo workers rest a solid block of wood atop their thigh and place a foot on it to steady the iron tools as they work. A guiding hand helps control the blade during the process.
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Cairo
Strange Fish Caught Off Northwest Ireland Coast
A trawler reports catching a remarkable fish off the northwest coast of Ireland. The creature measures about 12 feet in length with a 40 foot head circumference, has a bottle shaped toothless mouth, and a body resembling a shark.
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Ireland
Peace Award selects plan to curb war materials trade
The American Peace Award jurors praise Plan Number 469 as the best practicable framework for U S cooperation with other nations to secure world peace. They urge a general prohibition on manufacturing and selling all materials of war and call for mutual counsel and legal norms to guide disarmament and international cooperation.
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Lfelong
United States
Elihu Root
James Guthrie Harbord
Edward M. Housh
Ellen Fitz Pendleton
Roscoe Pound
William Allen White Brand Whitlock
League of Nations
Notable Names List in Political Circle
A roster of prominent figures appears with individuals including William H Johnston Esther Everett Lape in charge Nathan L Miller Mrs Gifford Pinchot Mrs Ogden Reid Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt Henry L Stimson Melville E Stone Mrs Frank A Vanderlip Cornelius N Bliss Jr. The note ends with the word Treai.
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William H Johnston Esther Everett Lape
Nathan L. Miller
Gifford Pinchot
Ogden Reid
Guido’s Monastic Craft Pioneers Early Music Notation
The article recounts in 1028 Guido the monk devised a music notation method using four rings and spaces before the modern five line staff. It describes manuscript pages colored and decorated for aesthetic and instructional purposes with red ink for the first space and occasional miniature pictures.
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Guido
Germany
Honror
Boston Herald
West-Pocket Jazz Gramophone Made by Hungarian Engineer
Stephen Vadesz of Hungary invents a gramophone the size of a watch, named the miltiphone, winding like a watch and holding ten records for about twenty selections. It fits a wall street pocket and boasts true portability, a claim echoed by a tiny English unit six inches tall with a collapsible horn.
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Stephen Vadesz
England
Logs Forecast Rainy Weather in Northern Michigan
For fifteen years northern Michigan residents have followed a lodge of cedar logs in a small lake as a weather predictor. Observers note the logs break into singles about fourteen hours before rain and drift to the lake center on calm or windy days prior to a storm, then return to shore after fair weather.
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Michigan
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Healing lake in Bengal village draws miracle day crowds
In a Bengal village a long standing lake is claimed to heal incurable illnesses when bathed on a specific day each week. Thousands of locals gather in the town for the so called miracle day, while the other six days the curative powers disappear. The report is attributed to Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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Bengal
India
Mecchanics
Simplified Weight in Ireland Pig Weighing Tale
In Ireland O Hara claims a simple weighing trick using a plank balanced on a stool with a stone on the opposite end. He says the pig’s weight is the stone’s weight once balanced, a clever homegrown method.
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Ireland
O'Hara
Pampered Egotism Reflected In Social Chat
A dialog quotes Miss Cayenne musing on why men believe themselves more intellectual than women. She suggests men are flattered by smart women who encourage them to talk while they gaze admiringly. The line cites the Washington Star.
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Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
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