Mother Love Betrayed Her Anxious Greek Mother
A twenty year old Greek mother, Mra Anastor, left her six week old son George on the stoop of the New York Foundling Hospital to seek work. Poverty and hunger prompted the act but she stayed to watch the baby until police intervened. She was arrested on a charge of abandonment and sent with the child to the House of Detention after a bystander collection for food and milk.
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Mra
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New York Foundling Hospital
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Prisoner Innovation Spurs 15000 Mile Tire Casing
Theodore Murdock, inmate at Leavenworth, has created a motor tire casing that allegedly extends tire life to 15,000 miles of rough wear. In five months in isolation he developed features and sent the design to Washington where patent number 64209 was granted on February 22. He plans to market the patent after coordinating with major car manufacturers.
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Leavenworth
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Kansas City Star
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Patent Office
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Smoking Harms Heart Not Nicotine Source Tied to Combustion
Laboratory work at Paria Vedi cal college finds tobacco smoking injures the heart but not due to nicotine. Tests with varied nicotine levels show the same heart effect, and oak leaves produce similar results, implying combustion products in smoke cause the harm across different origins.
Pennell In the Trenches Vision of Night Life
A narrator seeks to render trench life vividly as seen in first week exposure. He recalls German flare bursts over No Man's Land and shadows rushing like the wind of darkness. He desires Pennell to capture the haunting beauty of that night life in art for a world that cannot share the scene.
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England
No-Man's- Land
Joseph Pennell
Te Norman Hall
Atlantic Monthly
Icelandic Dramatist Gudmundur Kamban’s English Debut
Gudmundur Kamban, Iceland’s fret dramatist born in Reykjavik twenty seven years ago, came to publish his works in English. He began writing his first fret play Hadda Padda at eighteen, studied at Copenhagen University, learned Danish, and had the drama translated and produced in 1912 at the Royal theater of Co It. It has since been staged in fifty theaters across the Scandinavian countries.
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Iceland
Gudmundur Kamban
Reykjavik
Copenhagen
Royal Theater of Co
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