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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1924
Page
6
A Vermont town plans a new kind of women’s college aimed at preparing students to be mothers and home builders. The curriculum emphasizes languages literature history art music social sciences child psychology biology physiology eugenics sociology economics and home chemistry physics while omitting advanced math Latin Greek and pure science.
A Vancouver led expedition to Cocos Island off Costa Rica plans a renewed search for famed caches including Morgan and Bonito treasure sums. Captain C. O. Polkinghorne commands the Gunner with inventor W. S. Clayton guiding an electric metal detector amid tunnels and relics from fifty years of prior expeditions.
Plans filed by Vincent Astor and Hamilton Fish Jr to build twelve story apartments on the corner mansions at Sixty fifth and Sixty second streets signal the end of Millionaires Row. Other estates along Fifth Avenue and nearby blocks are to be replaced as high taxes and lifestyle shifts push affluent owners to city perimeters and country estates.
Twelve drifters labeled vagrants were jailed then escaped into a fire at La Grange. They rescued bedridden Miss Martha Samuels from a blaze, earning praise as they carried her to safety before escaping again. Each man reportedly kept $2 silver gifts from the chief.
Featured fashions show children's knitwear from sweaters and frocks to capes and scarves. Designs include two piece frocks, monogram motifs, lightweight bright knits, and matching accessories like scarfs, jewelry, bags, and swank parasols for summer wear.
Jane Freeman schemes to unite five single women in a shared New York City apartment by tracing old sweethearts and arranging marriages. George, her legal adviser, plans the emotional finale as Portia weds and the others find homes, leaving Jane to consider a future with George in the suburbs.
The Geffrye museum in east London preserves seventeenth and eighteenth century almshouse fragments including a doorway fireplace and a staircase. Daily about 60 visitors view the carvings while Americans surge in June and July.
The Pathfinder describes cylindrical snow masses called snow rollers formed by strong winds on light fluffy fresh snow. They travel in same direction, vary little in size, and are muff shaped with a central hole and spiral wrapping.
The article recalls rings as symbols of union from papal and episcopal rings to Venice doge casting a ring into the Adriatic. It cites the Nibelungen ring as a legendary, magical achievement forged by earth dwarfs granting power over the world.
A venerable elm growth in Ross Herefordshire churchyard continues to surprise visitors. Two saplings beneath Kyrle's elm avenue rise through the floorboards, reviving each time after seeming death, their vigor and blossoms now notable. John Kyrle, born 1633 and died 1724, greatly benefited the town as “Man of Ross.”
An English officer brings home a literate Kaffir to assist with city work. One day the officer reads and Pete peeps over his shoulder asking, What do you want, sah. The Kaffir replies, I want ter ask yer a question. I ha seen folks reading books and de Ilke an L jess wants ter know which it yer reads de white of de black.
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