Cuba Visit Recalled From Mrs Baker Schermerhorn Cruise
Old friends recounts Mrs Florence Baker Schermerhorn of Chicago visiting Cuba last winter aboard the Mascott from Port Tampa. The account covers Havana sights from Morro Castle to Vedada sugar estates, hotel woes, Cuban customs, cigars and markets, and a Morro storm, with vivid notes on people, places and island life.
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Florence Baker- Schermerhorn
Chicago
Cuba
Port Tampa
Key West
Havana
Mr. Paderewski
Black Dog
Ford
Lively
Kansas
Hotel Trachta
Foster
Inglaterra
Morro Castle
Florida
Vedada
Vento
Colon Cemetery
Voice of
Gonzalo Castanon
Castanon
Medical School
University of Havana
Castanen
Lot
Llavana
Morro
Puritan Ancestry Praised Amid Mockery in War Magazine
Roscoe Thayer argues in the June American Magazine that modern contempt for Puritans fades when tracing lineage to the founders of the Massachusetts commonwealth. He emphasizes the Mayflower passengers and the founders who carried fear of God but faced no man, as the initial glory of Massachusetts.
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War
Roscoe Thayer
Commonwealth
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Young Eagles Leave Nest to Seek Survival
Young eagles must fend for themselves as parents remove the nest and drive them away. They fly to survive with no training from elders, relying on hunger and instinct. it takes years to mature plumage and strength.
Meteorite Exhibit at National Museum Displays Massive Fragments
A new National Museum display in Washington features meteorites of various sizes from pebbles to boulder masses. It includes casts of giant forms such as Bacubirite, estimated at 25 tons, still resting where it fell in Mexico.
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National Museum At
Washington
Mexico
Hoover urges housewives to cut waste in food use
President Hoover, now food administrator, declares Americans eat more than needed and waste food nationwide. He blames women who control 90 percent of consumption and calls for voluntary sacrifice, dietetics education, and local committees to reduce waste and shift purchases to strengthen exports.
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America
Herbert Hoover
United States
Hig
What is New in Electricals and Inventions
A survey of new electrical devices and ideas ranging from street patrol lamps and electric self starters on motorcycles to electric wine sifting and portable lamps. Notable items include keyless fire alarm boxes in New York, electric fly traps in Texas, electric canons tried in Norristown, and Magda lamps achieving long runtimes. The report details wireless projectile speed measurement, electric banding irons, and electrical testing in auto factories.
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Packer
New York
Maine
Texas
Mazda
Norristown
France
Airships for the North Pole Dashes Into Arctic Regions
Admiral Peary and Roald Amundsen plan parallel polar expeditions set to launch next summer. Captain Bartlett will lead an American voyage from the Pacific coast with aeroplanes and private funding about 200000 dollars. Amundsen’s Norwegian venture mirrors the setup with similar costs and aims to drift across the polar ocean to study central polar conditions.
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Arctic
Pacific Coast
Norway
Robert A. Bartlett
Peary
North Pole
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
Washington
New York
Amundsen
Bartlett
Polar
North Polar Ocean
Pole
Pacific
National Geographic Society
Aero Club of America
Beringstrait
Kara Sea
Globe
Admiral Peary
Antarctic
Never Too Late to Start Treatment for Infantile Paralysis
Dr. Roger H. Dennett writes in the June Woman's Home Companion that outcomes in infantile paralysis vary, with some fully recovering even after severe initial paralysis. He urges starting any form of treatment at once, even after long spans of neglect, as science may still help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morro
President's Palace
Jyon
Roger H. Dennett
Doctor Dennett
Power of the President as wartime dictator
In wartime the president is the de facto dictator with control as commander in chief and cabinet members answerable to him. He may suspend habeas corpus and wield vast powers, with impeachment as the sole check, except money grants. The New York World notes this dangerous concentration of authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Army
Navy
Congress
New York World
Ancient Industry of Venice in World Glass Trade
The craft moved from Rome to Constantinople then to Venice in the seventh century, where glassmaking dominated for centuries. Venetian goblets and drinking cups were exported worldwide, making the city the global center of the industry.
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Rome
Constantinople
Venice
Waste of Flour Spurs Food Economy Campaign
The Department of Agriculture states that if 20 million homes waste one one-ounce slice of bread daily, the U S loses over 14 million ounces of flour daily, about 875000 pounds, enough for 1 million loaves. Annual waste exceeds 310 million pounds or 1 500 000 barrels, derived from over 7 million bushels of wheat.
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Department of Agriculture
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Little Island Republic
Young Eagles
Hs Deen
Ancient Industry of
Rick
Goodrich
New England Hills
Dixie
Yellowstone
Glacier Parks
Plains of
Minnesota Lakes
ALL America
B. F. Goodrich CO
Akron, Ohio
Silvertown
Bates
John C. Hexom & Son
M. J. Soukup
Decorah
Iowa
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