Inventor Barlow Promises German Bomb Revelations
Lester P. Barlow, noted inventor of war devices, says he will not urge Congress with troubling news about a new German air bomb. Senator Bennett Clark passes the tale to Maj. Gen. Arnold, who cites army reports of Barcelona blast fatalities. Barlow, once backed by Frazier, offered risky devices to Russia and Germany. Creatore returns to mass opera in New York. He arrives from Italy in 1902 and once led a famed band. Carlota Oppenheimer, British hostess and author, tours U S with a recipe diplomacy angle and social salons in London.
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EW York
Lester P. Barlow
Congress
House Naval Affairs Committee
Bennett C. Clark
H. H. Arnold
Barcelona
Senate
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Hoover
Frazier
North Dakota
Russia
Germany
Pegleg Smith and other frontier feats in early American West
A condensed chronicle from the Western Newspaper Union recounts frontier figures. Thom L. Smith called Pegleg endured a gruesome leg injury and became a famed horse thief after sewing and staving off infection. Capt Randolph B. Marcy’s 1857 winter expedition suffers extreme privation, cannibalism, and a near-miss before relief. Detroit reformer Gabriel Richard advances education, libraries, a newspaper, and public funds despite harsh frontier odds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph B. Marcy
Gunnison
Fort Union
N. M
San Juan Mountains
Marcy
Albert Sidney Johnston
Salt Lake City
Captain Marcy
Cochetopa Pass
Fort Massachusetts
Fort Garland
Slim waists in new Barbara Bell dress patterns
The Barbara Bell Spring Pattern Book offers No 1691 and No 1686 designs aimed at slenderizing lines for girls and party wear. Sizes, fabric needs, and trimming details are listed, with orders to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago Illinois.
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Ricrac
Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Heir of a Patient Tries to Claim Doctor’s Help
A cheerful visitor enters a doctor's surgery claiming to benefit from treatment he never received. The doctor questions the man and learns he is not a patient, but the heir of the late uncle who was. The scene ends with an awkward reveal about lineage and access.
Wire contraption placed to curb a nervous bird
A reader suggests a wire enclosure was used to keep a bird from biting, noting the device likely aims to prevent a bite and protect both animal and handlers.
Kings of Northern Queensland Wear Brass Name Plates
Aboriginal coastal tribesmen in Northern Queensland wear brass plates engraved with their kingly title and the tribe name. Each plate marks the ruler of a small group, usually 20 to 100 people, though some claims to kingship are questionable.
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Queensland
Australia
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OUR Comic
Snoopie
By C. M. Payne
Willyam
J. Millar Watt
Bell Syndicate
WN Service
Who’s News
By Lemuel F. Parton
Creatore
Bucko Giuseppe Creatore
The
Bronx
Signor Creatore
Aida
Signor Creature
New York Emergency Relief Bureau
Italy
Hammerstein
Sousa
Britain
United States
Carlota
U. S
Louis Oppenheimer
Diamond Syndicate
London
England
Consolidated Eee
Adventurous Americans
Pegleg’ Smith
Thomas L. Smith
Jim Cockrell
Green River
Wyoming
Smith
Jim
Tom Smith
Cockrell
West
California
Jim Beckwourth
San Francisco
Gabriel Richard
Detroit
Pete Richard
France
Washington
Michigan
Michigan Territory
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Ohio
Western Newspaper Union
Jim Nohead
NATO
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