A House That Came to Life at Villa Fiesole
Miss Eustacia de Lima transforms her Fiesole villa into a public gallery and garden retreat then opens the estate to visitors twice weekly. The project grows into Villa Fiesole housing one hundred poverty stricken children with tutors and staff, while the founder dwells in a top floor room amid simple keepsakes.
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Eustacia de Lima
Europe
Fiesole
Florence
Medicis
Fustacia
Villa Flesole
Miss de Lima
Fiesole Villa
Misa de Liria
Tori
Wlilse de Lima
Rubens
Misa de Lime
Tower of Chambers
Misa de Lima
Miss de Limi
Mise de Lima
Villa Fiesole
Smallest Split of Time Yet Recorded by Clock
The report states a crystal quartz clock can split time to fractions of a second in 20 centuries. Morrison notes one clock on mean solar time and another on sidereal time differ by about one second in 30 centuries, with clocks running at 200 and 300 cycles per second respectively.
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National Academy of Sciences
Mennson
Associated Press
Morrison
Sideren
Movement in France Drives Whisker Comeback
A French movement aims to revive whiskers after the rise of clean shaven faces. Historically in Gaul and Viking lore the beard signified power and authority, with slaves forbidden to grow one. The campaign promotes goatees, imperial styles, and side whiskers as steps toward broader acceptance.
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France
Gaul
Spider Etymology Traced To Old English Spidire Origins
The origin of the word spider traced to Old English spidire from spin threa and spinning. Earliest literary record appears in 1240 as spidhbra in a Philological Society collection. Modern observers note distortions from spy dorthe and unrelated insect lore.
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Johnson
Associated Gas and Electric System seeks funds for growth
The system proposes raising money to build and expand plants as demand for gas and electricity grows across homes stores farms and rural areas. In 1930 the system served homes increased electricity use by 109 percent and overall electricity and gas consumption rose 1.492 and 1.79 percent respectively, outpacing broader industry declines.
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Associated Gas and Electric System
Associated System New Business Department
Investment options offered by Associated System include debentures
Money to work in a growing industry with a top organization. The Gold Debenture Bonds, bought by institutions, come in $100 units with a first $10 payment and 31 monthly installments. The $6.50 Cumulative Preference Stock of Associated Company yields 6.4492 percent and is available on a monthly plan. Contact the nearest Associated System office to invest.
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Associated Gas and Electric Company
Associated Company
Associated System
Ingenious Spider Weaves Fresh Web Each Night
A Potter Homes and Gardens piece describes the orange tan orb spider arriving nightly to build a new web on a fixed frame. The structure uses three spokes, radial lines, and a center wheel. The spider anchors wires to leaves and grass, feeds on captured insects, then removes the old web to spin anew for future meals.
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Potter Homes
Ancient tree-ring study pushes New Mexico dwellings to 700 A D
Collier's Weekly reports a scientific study of tree rings in old timbers from New Mexico shows dwellings built around 700 A D, placing them nearly eight centuries before Columbus. The piece notes America's antiquity and references Uncle Sam as a symbol of the nation's age.
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America
New Mexico
Columbus
Collier's. Weekly
Population of Babylon Has Been Overestimated
The article argues Babylon’s ancient population ranges from one to two million, far below a modern European city estimate. It notes limited agricultural land around Babylon to support such numbers and cites Selucia at 600,000 as about half Babylon in its peak.
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Babylon
Turkey
Selucia
Strabo
Pliny
Ashburton Treaty settles U S Britain borders 1842
The Ashburton treaty between Great Britain and the United States in 1842 defined the international boundary between the United States and Canada. The US received about seven twelfths of the disputed territory, while Canada took five twelfths. The agreement also set the St Marys River boundary near Sault Ste Marie to Lake of the Woods, and addressed slave trade suppression and criminal extradition.
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Ashburton
Great Britain
United States
Malice
Canada
Lord Ashburton
Daniel Webster
St. Mary's River
Lake of the Woods
Spelling Champion Aston Butler Sets Kansas Record
Thirteen year old Aston Butler of Weir Kansas won the statewide Capper publications spelling bee. J M Parks director of the Kansas branch of the nations spelling dog bee congratulated Butler. The national contest will be in Washington on May 20.
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Aston Butler
Weir
Kan
Finch
Capper Publications
Kanaas
J. M. Parks
Kaneas
The
Nations
Kansas
Washington
Pen Portrait of an Eighteenth Century English Gentleman
Dion Clarion Calthrop comments in English Costume on an eighteenth century Englishman. He notes loose coat buttons, relaxed waistcoat tops, eas y breeches, satin skirts, lace, a silver gilt buttoned edge, and a clouded amber headed cane hung by a blue ribbon. The cane is used theatrically in social scenes.
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Dion Clarion Calthrop
Primitive Sleeping Car First Built in 1828 on Cumberland Valley Line
The first sleeping cars were used on the Cumberland Valley Railroad between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Built in 1828 they featured day seating on one end and 18 sleeping berths at night with three berths long and three berths per side, convertible to omnibus seats by day.
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Cumberland Valley
Grateful tribute to a wife's life in New Haven headstone
A Grove Street Cemetery inscription honors a physician husband Francis Eaton and his wife. The carved tribute notes she was his wife and he called her the crown of his felicity after forty years together, reflecting enduring joint happiness and devotion.
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Old Burying Grounds
New England
Old Grove Street
New Haven
Yale Medical School
Francis Eaton
Springfeld
Mass
Racial Mental Capacity Concept Discussed in Study
The article states no inherent difference in mental capacities among human races. It notes a distribution with a small above average group, a large average group, and a small below average group, including individuals labeled as imbecile or idiot. The text mentions races producing brilliance within this framework.
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MeCture Newspaper Syndicate
WA Service
New England Gas and Electric Ass
New England Gas and Electric Securities Company Incorporated
Cambridge
Cambridge Gas and Electric Light Companies
Massachusetts
Ancient Uncle Sam
Ashburton Treaty
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