Uniform for labor praised by workers at Cambridge
A Boston based New England Overall Co praised by the Knights of Labor for the durable Biltwell overalls and pants. The piece notes Cambridge's large manual workforce and calls Biltwell the sensible choice for workers with limited budgets. The firm is union made and lists address at 144 Kingston Street Boston and telephone Han 2742.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Carlyle
Adam
Shakespeare
Carlyle
New England Overall Co
Biltwell
Knights of Labor
Boston
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Kingston Street
Tel
Han
Bill Nevins the Practical Man for Trucks Gas and Dogs
Bill Nevins at 3.71 Sherman Street offers trucking service gas and oil needs with blunt directness. Known as a straight shooter in North Cambridge he is a practical partner for hauls fuel and canine guidance. Tel Tro 0107 for trucks dogs or gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Nevine
Sherman Street
Cambridge
Nevins
Alewife Boulevard
Mass. Avenue
Bill Nevins
Bill Neving
Argentina the Spanish Dancer Set for Dec 10 Concert
The celebrated dancer Argentina will perform at Symphony hall on Tuesday evening December 10. The article praises her fire and dash, noting she brings old Spain’s romance to life with castanets and dramatic vitality. Cambridge dance lovers are reminded she may not return to Boston this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
Symphony Hall
Spain
Goya
Cambridge
Boston
Palm oil source from African Guinea oil tree fruit
Palm oil is extracted from the fresh outer covering of the fruit of several African palm tree species, with the Guinea oil tree being among the best known.
Metropolitan Theatre Preserves Stella Parish Week
Kay Francis stars in Stella Parish sharing honors with Major Bowes all star amateurs. A story of a brilliant but mysterious actress and a young journalist unfolds with cast members Jan Hunter Paul Lukas Sybil Jason Jessie Ralph Barton MacLane. On stage appear Skeets Simmons Kobo Youman Brothers Red Bank Hillbillies and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stella Parish
Kay Francis
Major Bowes
Jan Hunter
Paul Lukas
Sybil Jason
Jessie Ralph
Barton MacLane
Skeets” Simmons
The
Kobo
Youman Brothers
Red Bank Hillbillies
Alphonso Tomaino
Joe Stephen Lang
Henri Burke
Celesti Alvi
McCormick and Hering
Michael O'Bryne
Accent on Youth and The Black Troom At Durrell Hall
Monday and Tuesday feature Accent on Youth with Sylvia Sidney and Herbert Marshall, and The Black Troom with Boris Karloff. Wednesday and Thursday present Page Miss Glory with Marion Davies and She Gets Her Man with Pitts. Friday and Saturday offer Steam Boat Round the Bend with Will Rogers and Silk Hat Kid with Mae Clarke and Lew Ayres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia Sidney
Herbert Marshall
Boris Karloff
Miss Glory
Marion Davies
Pitts
Executive Ability Key to Great Enterprises and Notions
A concise statement notes that executive ability is essential to carry out a grand enterprise as much as the power to conceive it. It emphasizes leadership skill as a core determinant of successful outcomes and organizational vigor.
H E Clark Coal Co Promotes Winter Coal Orders
H E Clark Coal Co urges advance coal orders to lock in fall prices and ensure timely delivery. The ad highlights clean economical coal for stove furnace and steam heating, notes their long experience and testing of mines, and provides contact at 26 Cottage Park avenue Tro 1550 No Cambridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Clark Coal Co
Tro
Ress
Cottage Park Avenue
No. Cambridge
Chinese autonomy movement sparks war fears in north China
A revived autonomy push in eastern Hopei and Chahar provinces gathers Japanese troops including 3000 soldiers arriving at Tientsin and a doubled Peiping garrison. Chiang Kai-shek mobilizes forces and seeks support from Han Fu-chu while Wang Ching-wei resigns amid failed coup attempts. In Africa, Addis Ababa says Italian forces are retreating from Gorahal with gains and losses rising on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chiang Kai-shek
China
Hopei
Chahar
Yin Ju-keng
Japan
Tientsin
Peiping
Fengtai
Shantung
Han Fo-chu
Henan
Han Fu-chu
Wang Ching-wei
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Gorahal
Gerlogubi
Makale
Adigrat
Brazil Faces Revolt and Civil Unrest Across Regions
Rebels reportedly control Natal as forces clash over Pernambuco with Luis Carlos Prestes said to lead a spread across Brazil and neighboring South American nations. Gen Manuel Rabelo commands federal troops including navy ships while a second revolt erupts in Rio de Janeiro. Government reports say the northern uprising and Rio clash were crushed with 138 killed in four days. In Germany Hitler’s purge triggers mass arrests and camp detentions, while the Association of Nationalistic Jews is suppressed and its leader jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Razil
Natal
Pernambuco
Luis Carlos Prestes
South America
Brazil
Argentina
Paraguay
Chile
Manuel Rabelo
Germany
Hitler
Nazi Party
Berlin
Oil embargo talk postponed by League sanctions committee
November 28 deadline for a League of Nations sanctions committee meeting to consider an oil embargo on Italy was postponed after a Paris conference between Premier Laval and British Ambassador George Russell Clerk. France and Britain feared sanctions would worsen the situation as Mussolini warned war if oil was embargoed. Officials questioned the U S ability to block oil shipments to Italian ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Nations Sanctions Committee
Italy
Laval
George Russell Clerk
Paris
Benito Mussolini
Biuefly
Europe
France
Vittorio Cerruti
London
United States
Washington
Augusto Rosso
Hull
Hallie Selassie
Ickes Threatens Action Over Steel Bid Collusion
Secretary Ickes revived a clash between New Dealers and big steel interests over steel prices, citing prima facie evidence of collusion in identical bids on a Florida public works project. Four firms who bid $185,000 each on 3,000 tons of steel for a Miami dock were the same as those in Morehead City and Triborough bridge cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ickes
Air. Ickes
Florida
PWA
Miami
Carpecie, Jones & Laughlin
Kalman
Bethlehem
Ocean
Morehead City
N. C
Triborough
New York City
Isbor
Americans Name Delegation for London Naval Conference
Seven diplomats and naval officers named by Secretary Hull to represent the United States at the London naval conference. Norman H. Davis chairs the group with Undersecretary William Phillips and Admiral William B. Standley. Technical aides include Capt. Royal E. Ingersol and Cmdr. Joscoe Schulmann along with other specialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
London
Norman H. Davis
Europe
William Phillips
William B. Standley
Ray Atherton
E. A. Deeman
State Department
Noel H. Field
Samuel Reber
Bern
Switzerland
Navy
Royal E. Ingersol
Joscoe E. Schulrmann
Arthur D. Ayrault
J. R. Fulton
Water Carriers Oppose Rate Cuts at St Louis Meeting
The Mississippi Valley association adopted resolutions opposing limits on port to port water carrier rates and criticized coordination of transportation agencies under the Interstate Commerce Commission. Delegates from 25 states urged against LC rulings allowing railroads to cut rates harming waterway transport. Col. Robert Isham Randolph of Chicago was elected president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
LC. C
Robert Isham Randolph
Chicago
Views on government relief and free institutions in election
Raymond Moley warns relief is a temporary, dangerous expedient and narcotic in effect. Harry W Nice argues the constitution needs no change, while election hinges on free institutions versus dictatorship. Gen Hough Johnson says the New Deal leans left, most businessmen oppose it, and wealth should be created by more work and new wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Moley
Brain Trust
Association of Buying Offters
New York
Harry W. Nice
Maryland
Chicago
America
Hough
Johnson
NRA
Milwaukee
Rexford Tugwell
Aubrey Williams
Harry Hopkins
China Clipper Opens Transpacific Mail Route
Capt Edwin Co Musick commands the China Clipper as it carries the first air mail from Alameda California to Manila with stops at Honolulu Midway Wake Island and Guam Fourteen passengers started the flight with twelve dropped at Midway and Wake to relieve staffs The Philippine Clipper arrives in Alameda preparing for a Manila flight beginning December 6 and Pan American Airways continues its transPacific schedule
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ican-American Airways
Alameda
Calif
Manila
Honolulu
Midway Islands
Wake Island
Guam
Edwin C. Alnsick
Midway
Wake
China
Pan-American Airways
Trans-Iscific Air Fleet
Atlantic
Lindbergh Case Attorneys Claim Ransom Money Found
Runo Righand Hauptmann's lawyers say portions of the Lindbergh ransom are found in Massachusetts and that investigators have uncovered crucial defense evidence. Hauptmann also released a statement urging Dr. John Condon to confess fully on the kidnapping and murder of Colonel Lindbergh's son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Runo Righand Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Massachusetts
Himeself
John F. Condon
Jassie
Colonel Lindbergh
United States Econ Recovery Seen by Reserve Bank Governors
Governors of the Federal Reserve Bulletin report a cheerful view of business conditions with sustained activity for ten months near early-year highs. A labor split surfaces between mass production advocates led by John L. Lewis and craft unionists led by William Green, amid Lewis’s resignation as AFL vice president and new headquarters in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reserve Banks
Bulletin
The
Reserve Board
United States
American Federation of Labor
Organized
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Tnlt
William Green
Lewis
Washington
International Union Jeaders
Tebels
United Mine Workers
Green
Carnegie Birthday Celebrated in Dunfermline and Pittsburgh
One hundred years after Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline Scotland celebrations spread to Pittsburgh and other cities aided by his library gifts. In Dunfermline residents joined the festivities as Carnegie’s memory remains honored. John Finley of the New York Times spoke at a banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
Dunfermline
Scotland
Pittsburgh
Forarnegie
John Finley
New York Times
Springs keep cars riding smooth at George Lawrence Inc
Cambridge based George Lawrence Inc at 13 Lansdowne Street Tro 2080 advertises spring axle and chassis work for cars trucks and buses. They offer free inspections and quick installations with acetylene and electric welding plus emergency service and honest assessment on whether a new spring is needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Greater
Boston
George Lawrence, Inc
Lansdowne Street
Central Square
Lawrence Company
Beets Foreshadow Sugar Industry Shift Under Napoleon
The article traces beets as a sugar source from Margraff’s 18th century discovery to Napoleon’s strategic push around 1810 to reduce tropical imports. It notes Europe’s beet sugar growth near consumption centers, with about a third of world sugar from beets and cane versus beet processing complexities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Margraff
Europe
Hiraze Tribune
Trina Font
Sugars Provide Quick Energy But Require Digestion
Dr. Thomas Mc Beck notes in the Ocean Tribune that body uses simple six carbon sugars directly for energy while complex carbohydrates need digestion. Cane and beet sugars break down easily, while starches require more digestion, making sugars the most convenient energy source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Mc Beck
Oieano Tribune
Liver Size and Efficiency Questioned in Medical Note
A medical observation states the liver’s silver content in the body is about seven times the amount needed for the organ’s task. The note discusses how excess silver relates to liver function and overall physiology.
Fresh Milk Service Shown By Cambridge Declares Value
The article extols the William A. McAdoo milk and cream service at 203 Rindge Avenue Cambridge praising its modern sanitary plant, Deacro sealed packaging, home delivery, and fair honest dealings while inviting public tours and emphasizing customer confidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Cambridge
William A. McAdoo
Rindge Avenue
No. Cambridge
Water Gasoline Interplay in Perforated Vessels and Strainers
Water will not flow through small perforations when pressure cannot overcome surface tension. In a gasoline automobile strainer water is held back until pressure breaks down globule formation on oily surfaces, after which flow rate matches other liquids of similar viscosity.
Tall men live longer study claims tall height affects lifespan
A historical statistic asserts tall men outlive short men and thin men outlive fat counterparts. It also notes married men and vegetarians tend to show longer lifespans than bachelors and carnivores, framing the claim as a broad health comparison.
Washington Ark Named For First President
Washington Arkansas claims status as the state’s oldest town and county seat. It is described as the cradle of Arkansas history and a birthplace for many notable figures. The town served as state capital during the Civil War and is noted as the only town to have produced a cabinet member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ark
Washington, Ark
Arkansas
Portraits and the Voodoo Fear of Pins
A historical note recounts the belief that having a portrait painted was dangerous since an envious or evil person might place pins in the image, risking harm to the subject depicted.
Hoffman’s Bakery earns trust with clean, hygienic production
A Cambridge visit to Hoffman’s Bakery at 91 Hampshire Street highlights spotless uniforms and scrubbed floors, with machinery kept pristine daily. The baker notes consistent nutrition, flavor, and color across Hoffman's Bread, Cake and Pastry, made with time tested recipes and popular with local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoffman
Hampshire Street
Cambridge
Addi
Tion
Hoffman's Bakery
Hampshire Streat
Ide
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