Firemen Turn Cobblers in New York Boots Repair
In New York City the fire department shows thrift by cobbling rubber boots from discarded fire hose. At Hook and Ladder Co 40 on One Hundred Twenty Fourth Street and Hancock Place three firemen repair soles using roughened rubber and homemade cement. An alarm interrupts their work as engines race to the scene.
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York
New York Fire Department
Hook and Ladder Company No
One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Street
Hancock Place
Times Square as Triangle of Crime and Promoters
A columnist derides Times Square noting its notoriety for cabbies hustlers and a country club of actors. It cites Rosentchal shooting, hotel Astor and Times building fame, a sidewalk loan scene, and a district attorney cited “Gimmes” and “Lemmes” afflictions amid Tenderloin patrons and nightly bar court comedies.
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Times Square
Hotel Astor
Times
Rosentchal
Forty-Second Street Country Club
Rialto
Broadway
Detective Bureau
Gimmes
District Attorney's Office
Lemmes
Lemme
New York
Fishing for Daphnias Becomes Hoboken Hobby and Industry
Hoboken residents and visiting fishermen gather in the mile-square city each Sunday to net daphnias in pools at the western edge near Jersey City Heights. A New York department store supplies the demand, while aquarists breed tropical fishes at home, boosting the hobby into a national trend despite unfamiliar Latin names.
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Hoboken
Jersey Town
Jersey City Heights
New York
Daphnia Osherman
Bovtance
Girardinus Guppus
Platypecella
Xiphophorus Helleri
Phalloptycus
Kissing Bees at Grand Central Station Draw Crowds
The piece notes a yearly Grand Central kiss day when about 80 000 women gather and exchange greetings amid champagne poppers and romantic chatter. Yale visitors react with groans as Cupid bows shower kisses from all corners of the station.
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Grand Central Station
Holl Ny
Nesen
Yale
Unique Shell Decor Displays Floral Harmony in Garden Study
A guide shows how shells with flowers create striking table decorations with easy variation. The Missouri botanical garden notes two new varieties, including nymphaea castaliaflora with eight inch cup flowers and the nymphaea Mrs Edward Whitaker blue blooms, lasting four to six days and bleaching to white by day three.
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Missouri Botanical Garden
Edward Whitaker
Hybrid Water Lilies Traits In Day And Night Bloomers
An article by L. M. Bennington describes two divisions of water lilies the diurnal day bloomers and the nocturnal night bloomers. It notes opening times from seven in the morning to evening for day bloomers and sunset to the next day ten for night bloomers with weather effects and insect pollination experiments at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
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L. M. Bennington
Missouri Botanical Gardens
Passing Notes on Lawn Dressings Huckleberries and Farms
Thoroughly slaked lime may be tried as a top dressing on the lawn in fall and winter with several doses at one pound per thirty square feet. Huckleberries may yield 15 cents a pound. Maine yields 216 bushels of potatoes per acre while New York averages 88. Nine tenths of New York roadsides lack trees. A western New York nurseryman notes tulips blooming from the same bulbs for 82 years.
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Maine
New York
Pearl Trap Heals Old Rivalry On Bahama Key
Sam Jack and Nabob, once partners in pearl fishing, duel over Lily and a bottle of whiskey. Nabob traps Sam in a deadly mussel lure, but Sam outsmarts him, forces a truce, and offers Nabob a new partnership aboard the same sloop.
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Bahamas
Sam Jack
Nabob
Lily
Sam
Sam Janek
Fife
Noisy Street Car Crossing Sparks Protests and Patent Idea
Residents protest the pounding of street cars at a two track junction. The glare of the issue draws attention to a new patent by 8 B Meeker that eliminates horse and pounding by guiding wheels along the flange across a level crossing thus reducing shocks and wear on tracks and cars.
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8. B. Meeker
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Universal Gratitude Excerpt Echoes Shelter and Debt
The fragment shows a dialogue about gratitude for a home versus the urge to mortgage for an automobile. It contrasts sheltering loved ones with financial pressure and longing for material possession, reflecting anxieties about housing security and consumer debt.
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Daphnias
Rerin
W. G. Chapman
Tle
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