Longtime hotel man finds home at last in love and renewal
Charles Brennan, longtime superintendent and manager of the Hotel Savoy, finally retires from hotel life through a second marriage to Serena Conecates. They buy the Savoy back, move to a private home, and dream of leaving the hotel world behind after seven years of ownership and a significant rise in patronage.
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Charles Brennan
Savoy
Brennan
Annex
Tooms
Lote
Brehnan
Smeade
Brennens
Brennon
Grand
McClure Newamper Syndicate
WN Bervice
All Comforts of Home for Washington Snakes
A new reptile house at the National Zoological Park in Washington opens with Spanish design and glass-fronted cages. Each habitat replicates climate, light, and humidity. independent thermostats control temperature for snakes, lizards, and constrictors. Ultraviolet exposure and a commissary for live prey aim to improve health and spectacle.
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National Zoological Park
Washington
William Mann
United Press
Tropics
Arizona Desert
Surprise Dress Sparks Confusion at Evening Dance
Slimpson recalls a canceled surprise as his girl arrived in a new gown. A clerk questions the scene and jokes that the outfit was not a surprise but a giddy miracle, highlighting the odd misunderstanding in a lighthearted exchange.
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Slimpson
Simpson
Leisure use and the pull of recreation in freedom
The piece discusses how people seek activity when freed from routine. It argues many choose physical leisure to avoid feeling lost or devoid of resource, and notes holidays can pall and leave a sense of loss.
Capital Rat Catcher Quits In Washington
A. Gentry, longtime rat catcher in the capital, resigns from his post citing no future in trapping. He recalls catching big rats and claims the work offers little reward or purpose beyond 40 cents an hour. He notes a shift from prairie dogs to rats as his new focus.
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Washington
Bourne
A. Gentry
Gentry
Old Center Market
Virginia
Enlarge Yellowstone Park Plan Backed by Commission
A 184 page report from the Yellowstone boundary commission appointed by President Hoover recommends adding 52 480 acres to the park and keeping 40 square miles of ridges and valleys along the Snake River. It also seeks to deny Idaho reclamation interests a 17 280 acre Bechler basin reservoir site and names the commission members. Commissioner Pearson stresses Bridger lake and Upper Yellowstone River as core Shiras moose country.
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New York
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone Park Boundary Commission
Hoover
Congress
Commission
Government Printing Office
Snake River
Idaho Reclamation
Bechler River
E. E B. Brownell
California
Arthur J. Morgan
Ohio
T. Gilbert Pearson
Charles H. Ramsdell
Minnesota
Arthur Mingland
Washington, D. C
Pearson
National Association of Audubon Societies
Bridger Lake
Yellowstone River
Shiras Moose Country
Lights of New York planetarium sparks awe and humor
The narrator recalls visiting a planetarium for the first time and confesses misnaming it a solarium. He contrasts outdoor sky study with the indoor sky, praising the machine's wonder and likening its ingenuity to Merlin while noting the puzzle of aligning film in a camera.
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Omar Khayyam
Mars
Merlin
Planetarium Show Reveals Moving Cosmos Across Time
Walter Trumbull extols Chicago's planetarium as an educational marvel that projects the entire solar system in motion, showing positions 10,000 years hence and past celestial views. He notes its influence on students and likens the experience to gazing at a true sky from an artificial dome.
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Anthony
Cleopatra
Nile
Cnesiopeia
Cnst
Venus
Mercury
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Betelgeuse
Chicago Planetarium
Doctor Foxx
Doctor Baker
University of Illnois
South America
Plaid Frock and White Accessories Featured in Latest Fashion
A crepe brown and white plaid dress is showcased with matching white shoes a white hat and a white pocketbook. The ensemble emphasizes plaid as a versatile everyday fashion edict highlighted by coordinated accessories.
She Can't Help It Three Things Happen To Most Women
A vintage magazine line notes that women face three common experiences regardless of cleverness: stockings, dieting, and matrimony.
Honor for heroine Annetta Brenneman saves drowning man
Annetta Brenneman nineteen of Factoryville Florida receives a bronze medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Committee for risking her life to save Frank P. Demeck, twenty, after he drowned near Luke Sheridan. She dove into the lake and brought him ashore after he struck his head on the canoe bottom and sank again.
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Annetta Brenneman
Factoryville
Carnegie Hero Fund Committee
Frank P. Demeck
Luke Sheridan
Demeck
Annetta
Quern That Grinds All Things From Norse Tale
A poor man trades for a magical quern that can grind meat drink and any requested items. His wealthy brother steals it, buys the device, and uses it at home. When dinner time arrives the quern wildly grinds herrings and broth, flooding the table and kitchen before the door is opened.
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Stiny
Evans ton doctor sets record in Albany to New York boat race
Wade Red Woodworth of Evans ton Dr wins the outboard motor boat race from Albany to New York and is towed to the dock after finishing. He establishes a new record time of 3 hours 10 minutes.
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Wade
Red
Woodworth
Evanston
Albany
New York
Quern Run Wild Threatens Town with Herring Flood
A man failed to stop a mill or machine causing a herring and broth flood to cover yards streets and fields. He hastily informed his brother who halted the runaway quern preventing disaster.
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Olen
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Joan of Arc
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John Hix
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Nurm
Jane Stone - Savoer
San Jeanesco
New Orm
Chicago
Texas
Yellowstone Park
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United States
Max Adler
Field Museum
Germany
Philadelphia
Bell Syndicate
WNU
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