Music changes moods with expert insight at conference
In Los Angeles experts at the Music Educators conference say music can lift bad moods to good. Analysts cite works by Beethoven, Tschaikowsky, Scriabin and Stravinsky as mood shapers while noting research into music as therapy and its potential to ease melancholy and brooding.
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Los Angeles
Ins
Music Educators Conference
Helen M. Howe
Chicago Public Schools
Tschaikowsky
Beethoven
Ernest Toch
Perons
Scriabin
Stravinsky
Rita Hayworth
Columbia Pictures
Morris Stoloff
Florida
Osbourne McConathy
Glen Ridge
N. J
Waterfowl in Drought Threat Again, Survey Warns
The Biological Survey fears 60 million migratory waterfowl heading to northern breeding grounds face severe drought risks akin to 1934. Reports from the central continent show deficient spring precipitation, threatening nesting success and future waterfowl populations despite overall gains.
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Washington
The
Biological Survey
Alaska
Canada
Weather Bureau
Dominion Meteorological Service of Canada
Bureau
Doorstep Story Tied to Civil War Printing Press
In Manchester Tennessee a farm doorstep holds the bed of an old Civil War printing press from the True Patriot. Union soldiers shattered the press in town. its bed lay in the street for a year before becoming the fireplace rear in a refugee's cabin, later reused as a doorstep at J E Matthews' Summitville home.
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Manchester
Tenn
J. E. Matthews
Summitville
Fort Sumter
J. B. Harrison
Coffee County
Matthews
Tennessee
Magpie Trio Disrupts Australia's War Effort
In Canberra three magpies perched on a power line at a naval wireless station and short circuited the line, interrupting communications with the British admiralty for an hour. They were reportedly executed by electrocution immediately.
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Canberra
Australia
Admiralty
Honest man repays 25 year old theft
In Tampa, Pietro Cimino recalled paying for radishes with two nickels in 1914, only to learn one was a $5 gold piece. A stranger who turned out to be the farmer returned the $5 plus $5 interest on Christmas Eve 1939, earning Cimino the label of the first honest man he had met.
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Tampa
Fla
Diogenes
Pietro Cimino
Pietra
Pietro
Americans Add 19 Years To Life's Span In Last 100
CHICAGO (INS) Americans have added 19 years to the average length of life in the past hundred years with 11 of those years since 1900. The Hospital Research Institute reports rapid scientific progress in conquering disease and foresees greater life spans as communicable diseases may be nearly exterminated in 25 years.
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Chicago
INS
Hospital Research Institute
Institute
Steeplejack Clings On Top Of 80-Foot Chimney
London report details Edward Teagle 23 clinging to the chimney top for over half an hour after partner James Braham 45 fell to the ground dead. Teagle was rescued by firemen with extension ladders and returned to work two days later.
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London
Edward Teagle
Teagle
James Braham
Braham
Iron Ration Replaced by Vitamized Cocoa Bar
London reports Tommy has moved from standard iron rations to a new vitamized bar made of cocoa, dried protein from milk, icing sugar, and cocoa butter. The bar weighs about six ounces and includes sodium bicarbonate to aid protein solubility.
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London
Tommy
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