Windsors Watch Races at Auteuil in France
The duke and duchess of Windsor are seen at Auteuil races in France with the duke scanning the track and the duchess noting her entry. Plans to visit the United States are revived with a January tour for several weeks. They were to holiday on the Riviera as guests of Herman Rogers.
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Auteuil
France
Duke
Duchess of Windsor
United States
Windsors
French Riviera
Herman Rogers
Edward VIII
Birth of the XIT Brand and Cowboys of Texas
Dalhart Texas recounts the birth of the XIT cattle brand by Barbecue Campbell and Ab Blocker. A Chicago syndicate bought West Texas range to fund the Texas Capitol and built a vast cattle operation. The XIT roamed millions, then vanished as ranges were sold. Old tim ers reunite yearly to swap tales of Barbecue Campbell.
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Dalhart
Tex
XIT Ranch
Chicago
West Texas
Texas Capitol
Austin
Campbell
First Xit
Ab Blocker
Blocker
XIT
Squirrels Turn Nutty Spur Carmel Council Meeting
Carmel council grapples with a squirrel problem as rodents gnaw bark from pine branches causing dropped limbs. One faction argues it creates cleanup work, the other says it saves city pruning costs.
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Carmel
Calif
Allergic Children Seen As Very Intelligent
Dr. J Harvey Black of Baylor University says allergic children including hay fever and asthma often rank high in class work. He notes they attend school less but perform well academically and tend to avoid other childhood ailments.
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St. Louis
J. Harvey Black
Baylor University
Dallas
Texas
Black
Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association
Ramblings on city life and theater scenes mixed with curiosities
A narrator strolls through New York City landmarks from Fifty-second Street to Fifth Avenue noting a beef dragging scene, a Rockefeller residence cat, fashion displays, a window of silver fox coats, and newsboys playing cards. The piece tosses in theater mentions Gertrude Lawrence, Plymouth stage doors, and jokes about Charles Miller and a cannibal nickname. It ends with a quip about leather stores staging going out of business sales.
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Fifty-second
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Fifth Avenue
Forty-fourth Street
Radio Playhouse
Gertrude Lawrence
Plymouth
Susan and
God
Gilbert Miller
Europe
Charles C. Miller
New Guinea
Furniture Making Defies Age Limits for Workers
Grand Rapids reports a furniture industry trend where age does not bar employment. In a plant with 164 workers, 27 percent are 60 to 76 and 45 percent are 50 to 59, while another plant of 199 employees shows 17 percent aged 61 to 65. Most older workers are wood carvers or turning lathe men, with many at benches 50 years or more and owning tools valued at 250 to 500 dollars.
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Grand Rapids
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Nanking
General Billotte
Paris
Henri Billotte
Giraud
Willard P. Funk
Los Angeles
Jack Davenport
Funk
North America
Aleutian Islands
St. Nicholas
New York
L. L. Stevenson
Galveston
Chas. Schlotter
Rose Buiccaneer
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