The Girl Without a Man at the Birmingham Outing
Virginia, a shy Birmingham office worker at Struthers Chemical, defies pressure to appear with a man. She confesses loneliness to Richard Masters, the Chicago sales manager, and they share a moonlit moment by a brook, ending with a promise in her eyes.
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Virginia
Martha Carson
Struthers Chemical Company
Birmingham
Martha
Virginian
Fuller
Chemical Company
Apple Tree Country Club
Richard Masters
Chicago
What Is Your Pet Illness
A humorous satire argues that people cling to imagined illnesses and dietary taboos. A candid physician reveals the root cause is in the person, not the body, prompting a critique of self diagnosis and vested interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Hookum
Will Payne
Saturday Evening Post
Bird Migration Patterns in Spring and Fall
The text explains day and night bird migrations. Day migrants include ducks geese hawks swallows nighthawk and chimney swift while night migrants encompass warblers thrushes vireos orioles tanagers shorebirds and most sparrows. Day travelers cover only a few miles and avoid large water bodies, while night migrants fly mainly after dark and across longer distances.
Indian Sleight-of-Hand Performers of Old Tribes
The text describes how native medicine men across tribes used sleight of hand to simulate removing foreign bodies from patients. It notes common tricks like producing fake cherries from the mouth, with a Hidatsa in Dakota named Cherry-in-the-mouth in 1865 as an example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Navy TS Type Combat Plane Shows High Performance
The TS naval combat plane built at Philadelphia and tested at Anacostia proves capable for fleet operations. It can switch from land gear to pontoons for water landings, enabling both carrier and seaplane use. Government experts deem it on par with leading military aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Aeronautics
Sun Hatches Chicks on Ship Becalmed at Sea
A Tacoma ship Matzalan in doldrums hatched a small flock of chickens and ducks from Australian eggs in the cook’s eight cases. The ship’s heat measured around 102 degrees. A giant sea turtle’s flippers were cooked for food for the chick brood. Ducklings appeared and a tub of sea water was kept on deck for their baths.
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Tacoma
Wash
Matzalan
The TS Combat Plane Boosts Naval Air Supremacy
The article argues air superiority hinges on having enough combat planes with strong fighting qualities. It notes torpedo planes have shifted naval attack methods in two years and stresses aircraft scouting and spotting give a decisive edge. The TS combat plane is expected to meet these demanding conditions.
Verdun to Be Final Resting Place for Lafayette Heroes
Verdun will host 64 names on a monument while 62 bodies are expected to be interred in a memorial garden for the Lafayette Escadrille heroes. Some remains, including Sergt. Victor Chapman and Lieut. Carter Ovington, are missing. Maj. Raoul Lufbery will be represented by a small urn. The Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Association plans the burial garden two miles from Verdun with prominent patrons and a plan by Alexandre Marcel. Montreal plans a new hotel costing 9 million dollars.
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Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Association
E. G. Hamilton
France
Lafayette Flying Corps
Millerand
Poincare
Maginot
Marshal Foch
Herrick
Alexandre Marcel
Verdun
Crow Attack Leaves Golden Eagle Beaten Sent to Cincinnati Zoo
A golden eagle from Williamsburg was mobbed by hundreds of crows at a crow nest attack. Harry Hall rescued the bird, covering it with a horse blanket before transporting it to his home cage. Sol Stephan notes the eagle measures nine feet tip to tip with broken feathers but remains otherwise intact. The lighthouse service oversees 46,838 miles of coastline and river channels.
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Cincinnati Zoo
Cincinnati
Zoo
Williamsburg
Harry Hall
Mr. Hall
Sol Stephan
200
Stephan
United States Lighthouse Service
Divorced, They Rewed After Twenty Six Years
James Henry of Chicago and his former wife Mary Henry, aged fifty five, renewed their marriage plans after twenty six years since their 1886 wedding and a 1910 divorce for incompatibility. Henry, now sixty three, has taken a second marriage license to wed Mary.
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James Henry
Chicago
Mary Henry
Henry
Aerial stunt fatality shocks Homewood crowd
Louis James twenty years old and acting as a “boy aviator” was killed when a rope ladder he held in midair between two planes was struck by a propeller during an aerial celebration for the American Legion in Homewood. He fell into the crowd as spectators screamed and fainted. Miss Ruth Trissman, a seventeen year old fiancée, was overwhelmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Louis James
Ruth Trissman
James
Ruth Law
American Legion Post
Homewood
Immelman
Omer C. Locklear
Miss Trissman
Forest Ranger Rescued After Fraser River Slide
J Bedford Edwards of the British Columbia forestry department was swept from a rock slide on a 200 foot cliff at Red Pass Junction in Canada. He fought through the Fraser River and, aided by a rope, was hauled back to the cliff. Edwards, a World War veteran, was surveying fire-devastated land when the accident happened. His fiancée had arrived from England for their wedding this week.
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Red Pass Junction
B C
Canada
J. Bedford Edwards
Fraser River
Edwards
British Columbia Forestry Department
Joseph McColy
England
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Virginid
Mr. Masters
Richard Master
Navy
Air Heroes
Lafayette Escadrille
Montreal
War Memorial For
Nashville, Tenn
George Julian Zolnay
Washington
Centennial Park
Nashville
Tenn
Nashville Kiwanis Chib
Forester
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