Privileged child violin gift from poor Brooklyn family
A speaker recalls being the eighth of eight in a White Russia immigrant family in New York. With a $9 violin found by his mother and frugal sacrifice by parents, he learned to play while enduring poverty. The memory illuminates parental love and the idea that poverty cannot erase encouragement.
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New York
Hyman
Rebecca Levenson
America
Russia
Papa
105Th Street
Kahlil Gibran
Gibran
Oddball Tidbits On Names Costs and Colds
HAL BOYLE surveys misc data from American life and world trends. He notes South African bride prices in cattle ranges, U S name frequencies with Smiths Johnsons and Williamses, old age pensions from 1717, DC gender ratios, charity giving and swindles, cold season patterns, savings gaps, college graduation odds, and a Twain quote on manners.
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Hal Boyle
New York
South Africa
America
Broadway
Today in History highlights Plymouth treaty with Indians
On this date in 1621 the Plymouth colony made its first treaty with Native Americans, a pact honored for more than fifty years. Also noted are UN Security Council calls for tension reduction between Israel and Arab neighbors, a Geneva nuclear test ban talks revival, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma to Montgomery march beginning.
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Plymouth
U.N. Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
Israel
Geneva
Martin Luther King
Selma
Montgomery
Ala
Recreation Calendar Tonight Through Tuesday Highlights
Archery at Launching Pad 7 00 p m. Bridge lessons Heritage Room 7 30 p m. Handicapped at Launching Pad 2 15 3 15 p m. Fencing Launching Pad 7 9 p m. Old Timers basketball Hutton gym 7 30 p m.
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Hutton
Heritage Room
Advertising Safe Buying Is Your Guide to Adv
A concise guide outlines safe advertising practices for buyers and sellers. It emphasizes checking sources, verifying claims, and avoiding overhyped promises to protect consumers in markets and auctions.
Primatene Offers Fast Relief For Asthma Sufferers
A modern medical formula marketed as Primatene claims rapid relief from shortness of breath and asthma attacks. The product comes as small tablets that open bronchial tubes, ease trapped air, loosen phlegm, and calm panic, with claims it can be sold without prescription in many states.
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New York, W.Y
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Swift
Campbell's Soups
PET Foods
Cain
Sunshine
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Supreme
U. S. No
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Gerber Baby Food
Quaker
Maxwell House
Folger's
Florida
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Sunkist
Kraft
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Park Lane
Swift’s
Olson
Cold Bug
United States
Presbyterian Church In
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District of Columbia
National Better Business Bureau
Mark Twain
Associated Press
Ao Ag
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Emerson
Pioneer
East Main
Chanute
Sonotone
Sonotones
OF Parsons
P.O. Box
Parsons, Kansas
House of Hearing
Tioga Hotel
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