Air Mail Roars Through Christmas Skies Across the Nation
A nostalgic piece recounts how air mail and express services carry Christmas gifts across the United States. It highlights pilots, planes, and routes from 1918 onward, noting new navigation tech and the festive customs at airports. It cites decades of expansion from the first Washington to New York flight to coast to coast operations and the shift to private contract services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Air Lines
Elmo Scott Watson
Santa Claus
Air Matt
Air Express
United States
Santa
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Donder
Biltzen
Pratt and Whitney
Curtiss
Fokker
Boeing
Corsair
Air Mail
Express
Los Angeles
Illinois
Harry S. New
United States Postmaster-General
War Department
Washington
New York
Air Mall
Waldorf
Philadelphia
Post Office Department
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Dessert Recipes Now in Season Feature
Winter harvest boosts use of walnuts pecans and other nuts in new desserts. Three recipes appear including Nut Brown Puff with crackers dates roll and pirate bars detailing ingredients steps and chilling or baking times for a home kitchen audience.
Buttered Pan Cookies Bake Time Reveals Delicacy
A compact recipe notes mixing thoroughly then baking in a moderate oven for twenty to twenty five minutes. It instructs to gut in boars while warm and yields sixteen bars one inch thick with eight minutes prep.
Stone Age Natives Found In Central Australia
Living Stone Age aborigines reported by Mackay aerial survey in Central Australia are described as primitive as European Stone Age peoples 6,000 years ago. The Pinto tribe holds two corroborees with a grass and feather headdress bound with human hair. Natives eat a grass seed porridge with their fingers, and fire is made by friction between a wooden shield and a woomera used for carrying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackay
Central
Australia
Europe
Moon Mapping by Welsh Designer Wilkins Stuns
Percy Wilkins of Llanelly Wales completes the largest lunar map ever made. The 0 inch diameter atlas displays thousands of craters ridges and mountains with remarkable detail and accuracy. He began the work 14 years ago while working as an interior decorator and pursuing astronomy in his spare time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Wilkins
Llanelly
Wales
Wilkins
Traffic Officer and Lady Driver Exchange in Fiery Scene
A traffic stop escalates as the officer asks about urgency while the woman driver retorts with a sharp compliment about his looks. The exchange captures a charged, flirtatious moment between law enforcement and a driver amid a roadside encounter.
Coal as a potential new protein source teased by chemists
The Sunday Magazine notes German chemists may have advanced coal chemistry to yield albuminous materials from coal. Experiments by Gesellschaft fur Kohlentechnik suggest possible technical processes to obtain substances used in animal and human bodies, though artificial subsistence remains impractical for now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gesellschaft Fur Kohlentechnik
Louisville Courier Journal
Free Wheeling Job Joke Turns Up In Family Tale
A mechanic father in a humorous tale recalls teaching his son about free wheeling while transporting his baby sister in a perambulator. A friend asks if the ride is paid, and the boy retorts that it is a free wheeling job.
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Little Jean
Jean
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Alaska
San Francisco
Western Newspaper Union
Price
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Malden, Mass
Eagle Brand
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Borden Company
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Borden Building
Madison Avenue
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