French Crown Jewels Safe in Louvre Despite Night Threats
The Louvre galleries display the crown jewels including the Regent diamond and Mazarin diamond in glass cases by day. At night the jewels are hidden in vaults built under the floor, protected by unseen mechanisms, making a night raid nearly impossible.
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Chantilly
Louvre
Mazarin
Mme. de Pompadour
Napoleon
Charle Magne
Galerie d’Apollon
J. Pierpont Morgan
Guy Hickok
Brooklyn Eagle
Advertising guru on human nature and scientific management
The late Charles R. Erwin, a noted ad expert, argued that advertising succeeds by understanding human nature while scientific management fails by ignoring it. A banquet anecdote shows a young expert pressing a hod carrier to adopt new methods, who prefers the old way because it is easier to carry, despite promises of more bricks.
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Charles R. Erwin
New York
Sharp
State colleges and universities provide child care training
Teaching Child Care for home economics students is provided under expert supervision in a home management house with a preschool child. Facilities are run by state agricultural colleges in Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota. state universities in Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma. Cornell. Terre Haute and Buffalo normal schools. and Drexel Institute. Nursery schools exist at Cornell and Purdue, Indiana. state universities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio. and state colleges in Iowa, Kansas, Montana.
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Iowa
Montana
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Maine
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Cornell University
Terre Haute
Ind
Buffalo
Drexel Institute
Philadelphia
Purdue University
Indiana
Ohio
Kansas
Christ's Code Proposal Falls to Edinburgh Council
Andrew Gibson of Edinburgh proposed a resolution to base all council acts on Jesus precepts. The 9 member council rejected the motion after legal experts deemed it incompetent. Gibson cited Scripture and attracted many congratulatory messages and offers of support.
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Andrew Gibson
Edinburgh
Gibson
Argonaut
Golf rule in Tientsin allows lift and drop from grave site soil
A new Tientsin golf club rule states that gravesite soil is ground under repair and players may lift and drop a ball lying in freshly excavated areas, aligning with the entry point and not nearer the hole. The rule was issued for a match between Tientsin and Peking Japanese players.
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Golf
Tientsin
China
Peking
Tune Out Walter Anthony Sees Shifts in Music Taste
In a Los Angeles Times commentary Tune Out Walter Anthony laments public taste turning away from classical harmony toward current trends. He recalls a recent fashionable salon where a baton wielder urged a musician to stop “that harmony stuff” and embrace jazz.
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Walter Anthony
Los Angeles Times
Great Parks in the History of the World and National Museums
The piece argues national parks are education rich like museums, citing Yellowstone Glacier Grand Canyon and Yosemite as vast teachable sites. It notes millions visit parks, contrasts with small museums, and reflects on erosion sedimentation and the Creator’s handiwork, warning some travelers miss the sights as a western road trip ends near Winslow.
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Far West
Yellowstone
Glacier
Grand Canyon
Yosemite
Albert W. Atwood
Saturday Evening Post
Arizona
Wolf
Winslow
Mrs. Julia Pridgen remembers a nation’s long arc
Has Seen History Made by Mrs. Julia Anne Pridgen aged 103 a Pender County North Carolina resident near Moore's Creek Bridge scene. She is the mother of M. D. Pridgen who served with Lee and elder of twelve children six living. She recalls Mexican War days and the first buggy in the county.
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Julia Anne Pridgen
United States
Washington
Pender County
North Carolina
Moore’s Creek
John Fritz Medal Awarded for Sperry Aerial Torpedo
Elmer Sperry receives the John Fritz gold medal for inventing an aerial torpedo with a 100 mile range. William Saunders says the armistice halted its deployment in World War I, preventing use of 10,000 flying guns he claims.
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John Fritz
Elmer Sperry
William Saunders
Naval Consulting Board of
United States
New York
Saunders
Famous Clock Collection Gift to New York University
James Arthur of New Rochelle New York presented New York University with a historic clock collection valued at about 150000 dollars. The set includes more than 1000 objects showing timekeeping from sundials to multi dial clocks and a library on watch and clockmaking. Arthur, once a clock maker, spent 40 years building the collection and has previously donated many country clocks and models to the university.
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James Arthur
New Rochelle
N. Y
New York University
Arthur
Berlin to Tokyo Ticket Plan Signals New Rail Link
Rail service would link Berlin to Tokyo and to Peking and Shanghai by May 15 1927 if home governments ratify. A second class Berlin to Tokyo ticket priced at 650 marks excludes sleepers. Distance runs about 12000 kilometers with travel times of 11 days to Peking and 12 days to Tokyo. Travelers may go via Riga or Warsaw to Moscow where trains change and baggage checks through to destination.
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Berlin
Tokyo
Peking
Shanghai
Germany
Japan
Moscow
Riga
Warsaw
Spider Electrocuted, Sparks Avenger Ants in Bridgeport
A spider strayed between electric wires on a Bridgeport Connecticut street and was electrocuted. An industrious ant alarmed others who stepped on the cursed spot, and each new touch sparked further fatalities. Electricians investigated dimming lights as the bizarre chain reaction unfolded.
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Bridgeport
Conn
GAYETY AND COLOR IN EARLY ENGLAND
From English Life in the Middle Ages by L F Salzman, the piece discusses color and festivity in medieval England. It highlights vibrant church art, rich dress, and widespread song and dance, especially in London. It notes royal processions, pageantry, and yearly Midsummer watch celebrations with torches, morris dancers, and decorated streets.
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England
Fitzstephen
London
Westminster Abbey
Georgeous
L. F. Salzman
Infant Prodigy Josef Hofmann Turns Fifty Today
The infant prodigy who once impressed critics in Cracow is now celebrating his fiftieth birthday anniversary. Josef Hofmann, son of a notable musician, received early lessons from his father and drew attention from Yele Rubenstein at age seven. He first visited the United States at ten but halted a tour due to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Hofmann later returned to America and has since performed in cities across the country.
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Josef Hofmann
Pian{st
Hofmann
Cracow
Rubenstein
United States
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
America
Kansas City Times
Mauna Loa Height Study By Government Surveys
The United States coast and geodetic survey and the Geological Survey join to reassess Mauna Loa in Hawaii using precise methods. The goal is to confirm exact elevation and track whether the volcanic cone is rising or sinking through periodic surveys every five to ten years.
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United States Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Commerce Department
Geological Survey
Mauna Loa
Hawaii
Misprints Inspire Laughs From Publishing Veteran
George Doran recalls amusing misprints including a shipping editor caption misplaced over obituaries with the headline Passed Through Hell Gate. He cites a surgeon feeling the purse and saying no hope and a financial column where a gold mine company was quoted as offering 1,000,000 snares.
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George Doran
New York
Hell Gate
Nature Laughs At Mans Puny Mighty Force Of Avalanche
A Canadian Rockies tale compares avalanches to unstoppable forces. A small Trail British Columbia slide split two houses, then toppled them 50 feet to a road below without injuring occupants. The piece notes historic avalanches in Dent du Midi and warns man cannot curb earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, or volcanoes.
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Trail
Kootenays
Canadian Rockies
Dent du Midi
Rhone
Montreux
Simplon
Old Lady Gets Even With Highball Conductor
A little old lady rides a railway train and asks why the conductor waves at each stop. He explains the highball signals the engineer to hurry. After regretting his harsh remark, he apologizes, but she humorously returns the wave as the train runs late.
Snapping Cotton Harvest Lowers Grade, Study Finds
The Department of Agriculture reports that snapping cotton lowers its grade and can offset savings from faster harvest. Tests show 1925 snapped cotton cost growers about 7.20 dollars per bale versus picking, rising to 14 to 27 dollars per bale when discounts and seed sales are considered.
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Department of Agriculture
Department
Miss Jess Gray Davison Leads English Organ Firm
Miss Jess Gray Davison rose from early struggles with long skirts that hindered organ practice to become managing director of an English organ manufacturing business. The firm, a family concern since 1750, continues under her charge after stepping in during her brothers’ illnesses. Her grandmother once called organ playing unfeminine due to skirts near pedals.
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Jess Gray Davison
Miss Davison
England
Betty Blythe Finds A Blunt Answer In Rome
Betty Blythe meets a persistent suitor in Rome while visiting Vesuvius. An old Los Angeles friend appears and triggers jealousy. Betty coolly explains the interloper is simply a big butter and egg man watching the crater.
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Betty Blythe
Rome
Vesuvius
Betty
Los Angeles
Crater
Good Business Woman Revives Hand Made Irish Glass
Mrs. Graydon Stanus, a Peckham collector of Irish glass, started a factory on the outskirts of London and built a paying concern. She found delicately tinted glass scarce and revived hand made glass by obtaining an old bottle factory, hiring a chemist, and designing game artists who had not worked by hand for years.
Memory of Conqueror Osman Digma in a Prison Visit
Georges Clemenceau recounts Osman Digma, once a feared Mahdi lieutenant, now prisoner at Wadi Halfa. The aged rebel sleeps in a straw crib and recites the Koran while a meeting with Kitchener shows the conqueror did not awaken memory or vengeance. The tale underscores transient fame and cosmic rank.
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al F
Osman Digma
Sudan
Wadi Halfa
Kitchener
Georges Clemenceau
L’illustration
Kansas City Star
Spirit and the Flesh Ad Compels Public Speculation
The divorced wife of a deceased film star claims spirit communication with her late husband. Lillian Braithwaite Hill doubts the stunt, recalling a Florida anecdote about a bored widow who turned to spiritualism to pass time and claim conversations with a late spouse.
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Lillian Braithwaite Hill
Madison
Florida
George
Color perception expands beyond common estimates
The article notes people usually claim 50 to 100 colors, but tests show untrained observers can distinguish over 60 000 hues, factoring light and hue differences. Artists may discern 120 000 to 180 000 colors, while new gauges from the U S Bureau of Standards can distinguish up to one million color shades.
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United States Bureau of Standards
Doughnut Demand Stirs Kitchen Talk in Mrs V’s
John Marshall and Joe Crebs Johnson, burdened with freshly pressed clothes, view doughnuts lifted from hot fat in Mrs. V’s kitchen. They are paid but reluctant to leave, muttering a cheeky exchange as they beg for a doughnut knob from the pot.
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John Marshall
Joe Crebs Johnson
Jobo Marshall
Indianapolis News
Pianist M Leff Poulshnoff Misses Burton recital
In Burton on Trent England heavy fog prevents the Russian pianist M Leff Poulshnoff from reaching the town hall for his scheduled concert. He laments his contract prevents substitutions and explains the fog made his transport missing. The audience hears only his distressed explanation.
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Burton-on- Trent
Eng
M. Leff Poulshnoff
Town Hall
Hygienic Japan group targets Troy with Anti-Necktie drive
A Japanese hygienic society led by Dr. Doichi Okada plans to wage war on Troy New York as the world collar center. The Anti-Necktie society aims to change clothing to prevent colds by dressing minimally, avoiding neckties, and discarding overcoats except in rain, winter, or illness.
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Japan
Troy
N. Y
Doichi Okada
CONSTANT WAR THE CLOTHES MOTH
The article traces historical responses to clothes moths from ancient Greece and Rome to Beaumur in France around 1730s. It cites Aristotle on dusty wool and Cato’s amarca treatment, Varro’s disinfectant use, Pliny’s coffin method, medieval folk cures, and the 18th century habit of beating hangings and storing garments with pine cones.
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Harola & Colton
Scientific Monthlyg
Milati
Aristotle
Alexander the Great
Greece
Marcus Porcius Cato
Elder Cato
Varro
Pliny
France
Beaumur
Groundhog Candlemas Weather Superstitions
The piece recalls Candlemas groundhog lore, noting if the rodent sees its shadow winter continues and if not the worst of winter is over. It traces the superstition across Europe and cites German saying about preferring a wolf over sun on Candlemas day.
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Woodchuck
Europe
Russian Countess Melikov Traveled Germany With Paris House Models
Countess Olga Loris Melikov, granddaughter of Czar Alexander II, travels in Germany with models for a Paris fashion house run by Russian émigré aristocrats. She stops in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden, selling orders worth high figures, and could have become crown princess of a German planned kingdom of Flanders if different fortunes had ruled.
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Germany
Olga Loris-Melikov
Alexander II
Russia
Alexander Pushkin
Kingdom of Flanders
Countess Melikov
Merenberg
Paris
Berlin
Frankfort
Wiesbaden
Celulose casings to replace hog sausage casings
Capper's Weekly notes cellulose casings made from a cotton by product to replace animal hog casings. Chemists developed the process, enabling perfectly edible, versatile casings sourced from China Russia the Levant New Zealand Australia western Europe and South America with hog casings from local or imported hogs.
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China
Russia
Levant
New Zealand
Australia
Europe
South America
Record Vibrations Device Sees Broad Uses in Tests
A device called the Daiso records vibration characteristics with a mirror component barely visible to the eye. Its uses include testing singers voices, detecting machine vibrations, measuring projectile speed, locating aircraft and ships, and studying heart and breath in physical exams.
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