Cambridge Inaugural Address Addresses Tax Burden And Civic Duty
Cambridge Mayor John D. Lynch delivers the inaugural speech urging honest public service and explaining how rising government costs, high taxes, and the expansion of social legislation demand active municipal action. He notes the city’s non taxable property burden and calls for industry attraction and tax reform to sustain city services.
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City of
Cambridge
Thomas Jefferson
Boston
City Could Tackle Tax and Bureaucracy to Aid Cambridge
A Cambridge leader argues for surveying city land, selling nonessential parcels to cut taxes, and reducing municipal payrolls. He urges retirement reform, debt control, and efficiency to revive prosperity while safeguarding education, health services, and public safety.
Cambridge Leaders Call For Steady Effort To Aid Citizens
The speaker warns that dangerous propaganda threatens democracy and hunger and poverty strain the nation. Government officers at all levels face a great challenge to ease the common man’s burden while preserving liberty and forging a better future for posterity.
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Cambridge
Brunswick Casino Promotes Dining and Service Quality
The Brunswick Casino in Boston presents itself as a premier dining venue under the English Hotel Corp. led by President William Charles English, featuring prompt courteous service, a broad menu, fine wines, and exceptional cleanliness from kitchen to table. The facility emphasizes tasteful decor, continuous improvement, and strong guest satisfaction.
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New Brunswick Casino
Hughie Barrett
Hotel Brunswick
Brunswick Casino
Mary
Ihs
Brunswick Gaasino
William Charles English
English Hotel Corp
Brunswick Hotel
Boylston St
Boston
Elephant Bears Bones On Display In Smithsonian Museum
Fossils of Coryphodon from the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming are shown at the Smithsonian in Washington. The heavy-bodied, bear like creature with elephant like feet lived about sixty million years ago and likely shuffled rather than walked flat footed.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Science Service
Coryphodoen
Athens in the Great Cup of Mount Lykabettos
Athens sits within a mountain edged basin with Mt Lykabettos rising amid a busy city. The Acropolis overlooks the modern scene, and the outdoor city life centers around streets and siesta hours. Shops close at noon and reopen late, with dinner and nightlife flowing after midnight.
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Athens
Mt Lykabettos
Acropolis
What Punk Is Made Of German Tinder
What Punk Is Made Of describes a spongy combustible from a mushroomlike fungus on certain trees. It is manufactured mainly in Germany where the fungus is gathered peeled and the brown sponge is sifted beaten softened and boiled in water then dried. The ponk used in America is compressed into sticks.
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Germany
America
Origin of the Underground Railroad Traced to Ohio 1813
A Kentucky slave fled toward Ohio in 1813 as abolitionists aided his escape across the Ohio River. His disappearance after reaching the shore inspired a master’s remark about an underground road, a phrase soon adopted by abolitionists to describe their escape network.
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Underground Railroad
Ohio
Saya 2
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Degro
the Davids
Kentucky
Ohbio
Rick
Brown County
Saniusky
Ripley
Apparent Rain Under Trees Explained by Insect Exudate
The phenomenon of apparent rain under tree branches is caused by the exudation of liquid from numerous insects. Cicadas are commonly responsible, though other insects may also create this effect on rain trees.
Cod Liver Oil Sold As Bottled Sunshine Benefits Children
A fragment describes cod liver oil as a valuable product from the cod, boiled to yield oil used like spinach for babies and people with limited sun exposure. It is packaged in glass or capsules and marketed as bottled sunshine.
Milk the Builder for Health and Community Welfare
An appeal explains milk as essential for growth from infancy through adulthood. It urges fresh, pure bottled milk and promotes Prospect Valley Farm of 11 Appleton Terrace, Watertown MA, with home delivery via Tel Mid 3826. Melvin C. Andrews, proprietor, invites public inspection of a twentieth century plant.
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Nature
Sanit
Prospect Valley Farm
Appleton Terrace
Watertown
Mass
Cambridge
Mid
Melvin C. Andrews
Prunes and Plums in Drying Process
The article explains that all prunes are plums but not all plums become prunes. Prunes are varieties that dry with the pit intact and high solids content. Some plum types ferment around the pit during drying.
Hair Structure and Follicle Function Explained
A hair is a cylindrical shaft with its root in a follicle deep in the skin. The oil comes from a gland that pours its secretion into the follicle base. There is no hollow tube in the hair to seal by singeing.
Rubin Bros Caterers Shine At Cambridge Feasts
Roman style banquet praise marks Rubin Bros as exemplary caterers serving Cambridge societies and Hotel Bradford. The piece lauds restraint, variety, and a happy, eloquent dining atmosphere with Rubin Bros listed as kosher caterers in Roxbury and across New England.
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Macbeth
Cambridge
Rubin Bros
Rome
Bradford
New England
Seceadionts Avenue
Roxbury
Mass
Ground Sloths Immigrants From Tropical Americas
A paleontological overview recounts ground sloths as an immigrant fauna from southwestern tropical America via a prehistoric land bridge after sea barriers closed. It notes their four distinct genera, sizes from calf to elephant, and late survival in South America and Patagonia with preserved skin and skull finds alongside ancient human occupation evidence.
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Northwest
Asia
Tropical America
South America
North
North America
New Mexico
Yale Museum
Patagonia
Flower Capital Ghent Grows World Famous Orchids
Ghent, northwest of Brussels, claims the flower capital title. Its suburbs boast long hothons, the world’s first built there about 800 years ago, with orchids begonias lilies and carnations grown for the continent.
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World
Ghent
Brussels
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United States
Fire and Police
Emen
Ireland United
U. S. National Museum
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