Millionaire Bucannan and Letty Plan Escape to Train
In a tale of power and passion, industrialist Thomas Bucannan confronts a moral test when Letty reveals he is already married to his business. She secretly speeds his clock ahead and convinces him to abandon Canada for love, racing toward the train together.
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Letty
Dartlett
Bucannan
Spottswood
Canada
New York
She
Thomas Bucannon
Cunningham
Tom
Buccannan
Mr. Spottswood
Homas Bucannan
Tim
Phry
Tommy
Bucannon
Ancient inscription found near Rome markets during restoration
In subsoil near Trajan market and Augustus forum, workers uncovered an inscription under Virgil's portrait. It quotes Dante and references Aeneas, marking Virgil's birth bi millenary era and dating the find to about 400 years ago.
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Rome
Knights of Ithodes
Trajan
Augustus
Virgil
Dante
Anchises
Troy
Notables in Obscurity in Early America and England
Alexander Irvine arrived in New York and took a milk wagon job. John Masefield reportedly worked in a New York restaurant during that period. The anecdote contrasts Gorki and Jack London with Irvine’s humble start and a milk cart in view of a famous author.
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Alexander Irvine
England
America
New York
John Masefield
Doctor Irvine
Eighth Avenue
Gorki
Moscow
Jack London
San Francisco
Bay
Kangas City Star
Deaf hearing neck device aids pilots and passengers
George Barton French, once a railroad executive in New York, invents a hearing aid that transmits sounds through the neck to circumvent airplane noise. The device includes a neck receiver band and compact variants like a camera case pocket model and a discreet eyeglass case for the hard of hearing.
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George Barton French
New York City
Poplar Science Monthly
Cost breakdown of U S road funding sources and uses
The United States funds road building from general taxes 27.4 percent motor vehicle fees 20 percent gasoline tax 18 percent bonds 17.4 percent appropriations 8 percent and federal aid 5.2 percent with 4 percent from miscellaneous sources. Expenditures allocate 57.5 percent to construction 29.8 percent to maintenance 8.2 percent to bond interest and 4.9 percent to machinery and other equipment.
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United States
Mud Ball and People in a Vast Cosmic View
A poetic reflection contrasts distant star clusters millions of light years away with a tiny ball of mud containing people. It ponders human foolishness and asks how one might avoid folly within such a vast cosmos.
Death Rate Cuts Highlight Medical Victory Over Disease
The joint committee on health problems reports major declines in deaths from diphtheria typhoid and paratyphoid since 1900 with diphtheria deaths down 95 percent due to vaccines and antitoxins. Typhoid deaths fall from 34 to 4.9 per 100 000, aided by water filtration pasteurization and carrier control. The general death rate drops from 20–30 per 1000 to 12 per 1000 by 1928 and life expectancy increases. infant mortality falls from 16 to seven per 1000 birth. The report credits education prevention early diagnosis and better care with saving billions and notes uneven gains among youths.
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New York
Joint Committee
American Medical Association
National Educational Association
Asia
United States
Thomas D. Wood
Teachers College
Columbia
United States Army
Massachusetts
Wood
George T.zailmer
American Child Health Association
Hoover
High Hat Skipper Receives Top Hat in Quebec Port Honor
Captain James Jack of the Salacia received a shiny top hat and a gold headed cane as the fleet’s first vessel to enter Quebec this season. Officials of the Quebec harbor commission presented the land honors, and the skipper is pleased though the trappings clash with his seagoing uniform.
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James Jack
Donaldson ‘Hine
Salacia
Quebec
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New South Barracks
West Point Academy
West Point
Congress
A. K. Aldinger
Isaac Abt
Chicago
A. J. Chesley
St. Paul
R. W. Corwin
Pueblo
Edward Jackson
Denver
Frederick G. Bonser
L. W. Childs
Cleveland
Percival M. Symmonda
Percy R. Howe
Boston
Mary 8. Hose
Columbia Universality
Ethel Perrin
George T. Palmer
High Hat
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