Torture Show Displayed At World’s Pair On Cotton Blossom
Visitors view a chained figure in iron boots as molten lead is poured into the boots, part of a medieval torture demonstration aboard the showboat Cotton Blossom in the lagoon near Chicago. The display satirizes historical devices and draws attention to the era of cruel devices and inventive torment.
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Chicago
England
al ‘Witheas
France
Germany
China
Sam Old Mancha
Houston Post
Grand Rapids
American Bar Association
Demonstration club explores home gardens and humane lessons
A Willow Springs 4-H girls club meeting reveals an ambitious renovation of a bedroom closet into a two compartment water sustaining plant display. Demonstration agents note measurable soil improvement and a practical, penny cost approach. The piece contrasts gardening ingenuity with a stark, distant account of historical torture depictions and crime discussion from the Houston Post.
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Chicago
Nan J. Mangold
Blooms
Jones
Mra. W. P. Sellers
Koppers
Fies
Willow Springs
Texas Sept 16 1953 and storage shelves in upper section
A clipped local item listing hardware notes and household storage ideas. Includes a cashier's remittance of $60,000 from cotton sales to the Texas prison system, with total crop value for the year about $950,000 and $140,000 already credited. Also mentions a sale ad for a cabinet Vietrola and a note on Frost damaging crops in Argentina. The Turkey Creek H D Club meets Sept 18 with program on storage space and invites visitors.
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Hunteville
Texas
Sennises
Chevrolet Opens Under Roosevelt Recovery Plan
President Roosevelt welcomes the WNRA Automobile Code while Chevrolet announces it has long pursued recovery goals. Since 1929, Chevrolet implemented a share-the-work plan, regulated hours, built up parts stocks, and kept 35,000 workers employed. On August 1 this year a blanket wage increase, a 74 hour week, and 12,000 more hires were added.
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Roosevelt
Chevrolet
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