Lost grave of Hopkinson found in Christ Church plot
Philadelphia dispatch reports service has located the long missing grave of Francis Hopkinson signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War poet. The recovered bones were studied by anatomist Dr Oscar Nifer and linked to Hopkinson through portraits height and life. The find aligns with his Philadelphia birth 1737 and later roles as lawyer judge and signer.
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Elmo Scott Watson
WAENT
Philadelpha
Service
Francis Hopkinson
Inst
Hopkinson
Christ Church
Charles Penrose Keith
Sity
Lizaveth Conde
Hop
Oscar Nifessor
Universiitylvania
Wallugie
England
John Paul
David Bushnell
New York Harbor
Connecticut
University of Pennsylvania
College of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Lord North
Benjamin West
John Penn
American Philosophical Society
New Castle
Bordentown
N. J
Continental Congress
New Jersey
America
Sory
Betsy Ross
Joseph Bookinson
Francis Scott Key
New Republic
East Columbia
Menovaner Unies
The Battle of the Kegs Folly in Philadelphia Retold
A Philadelphia scene unfolds as a soldier spots kegs rolling downstream. A blue jerkined tailor warns of mischief while townsfolk panic. Sir William and Sir Erskine rally as rebels menaced by floating kegs. British forces prepare to strike, praising courage and dramatic misadventure.
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Philadelphia
Alshies
Delaware
Aikinson
MomUnts
Washington
Anda Hopkingon
Shin
Sir William
Ingenious Solution of Daytime Nap Problem
Roberta Earle Windsor shares a strategy from New York via an association story on how attractive daytime sleepwear helped her three and a half year old Molly nap. She notes the role of a pink rayon nightie and other pretty garments in fostering rest without prompting self admiration, linking clothing to calmer afternoons and better behavior.
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Roberta Earle Windsor
Natonal Kindergarten Association
New York
Molly
Film’s value in record of life beyond price
A Manchester Guardian London report notes how lost races fade from memory and how film research may preserve their daily life. An anthropological committee would centralize existing footage and dispatch expeditions to record vanishing peoples and customs before they disappear.
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Fim
Congress of Anthropologists
London
Ufe
Manchester
Eng
Guardian
Cosmopolitan College Draws Students From Many Institutions
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences hosted students from 200 American colleges and 69 foreign institutions last year. Attendance represented 46 states and 22 foreign countries. Loneliness advocates urge persistence as a personal remedy.
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Cosmopolitan College
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Chew for Beauty Promoted to Models at New York Event
A New York event revealed a beauty system for 2000 models from the Models Guild. It combines rhythmic chewing with head and neck exercises to tone facial muscles, with a dozen routines including gum chewing, head tossing, wide mouth opening, and controlled closing to shape the chin jawline cheeks and neck.
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New York
Models’ Guild
Shell Hole Superstition in World War Trenches
Soldiers in the trenches believed a shell never fell twice in the same spot so they rushed to old shell holes or to ones recently shelled seeking safety during bombardments.
Local Dollars Build Schools and Churches, Strengthen Community
It is the dollars that circulate among ourselves in our own community that in the end build our schools and churches, pave our streets, lay our sidewalks, increase our farm values, attract more people to this section. Buying our merchandise in our local stores means keeping our dollars at home to work for all of us.
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Cftoman
the New York Times Magazine
Joseph Hopkina
Charles Wilson Peale
Hist Sea States
Sir Erskine
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Geraldine Farrar
NBC
Sean Grays Poe
Batnone Chen
Whee
L. Bidg
Des Moines
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