France Adopts American Cards for Telephone Expansion
M. Paul Laffont, Under-Secretary of State for Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, says France is copying American long distance methods. He notes the French system suffers from funding constraints and praises the planned financial reforms to modernize the postal telephone service, while France's telephone density remains far lower than the United States.
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Saya M. Paul Laffont
Paris
New York Herald
M. Laffont
France
Department of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Postal Administration
United States
English Editor Lauds America for Telephones
An English editor lauds the American telephone system for prompt installations and courteous treatment of arrears, contrasting it with Britain’s state operated service. The Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail cites the London Morning Post on long distance appointment calls and criticizes British rigidity and lack of imagination and public regard.
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America
Daily Mall
Hartlepool
England
London Morning Post
Atlantic
Bell Company
Morning Post
Night operator thwarted bandit raid in Hoopestown
Mrs Addie Farrell, night operator at the Hoopestown exchange, uncovered a planned raid by nine youths in two autos after midnight. They cut 1300 telephone lines and tried to blow safes at two banks and the post office. She triggered a general fire alarm, bringing crowds to the streets to pursue the criminals, who fled into the woods.
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Hoopestown
Addie Farrell
Uses Telephone To Beat Jump In Auto The Price
A Saginaw Michigan wholesale house proved the telephone is vital in modern business. After a Sunday telegram announcing a 15 percent tire price increase, the manager made quick calls to retailers across central Michigan. In minutes, $21,000 worth of tires were sold, the largest day in the Saginaw office’s history. A long distance selling campaign followed.
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Saginaw
Michigan
Telephone use in France and Bell system growth
The article notes France has limited telephone use with about three per hundred people and an average family using the phone once weekly. It also reports Bell System service phones totaling 10,021,983 on August 31, 1923, an increase of 815,581 in the past year.
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France
United States
Bell Owned
Bell System
Henry R. Lewis
Fred R. Owens
Circuit Court
Caroline County
New York City Leads in Telephone Growth
New York City held more than five times Russia's telephones and almost double France's, reflecting rapid urban communications expansion in the era.
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New York City
Russia
France
We Or
White Mouse Leaves Circus to Start a New Life
A white circus mouse with pink eyes escapes the clown and slips into the world. He finds a brown mouse family in a house, forms a new life, and may someday share the room with a child reader. The tale ends with a curious note about a potential child seeing the former circus mouse.
Corinne Origin and Fortune as a Name and Myth
The article traces Corinne from Kore the maiden to Corinna and Corinne through Greek, Breton, French, and Italian origins. It notes Mme. de Stael’s creation of the heroine Corinne and her enduring use in literature. It adds Carnelian as Corinne’s talismanic stone said to guard against danger and aid singers, with Wednesday as a lucky day and a lucky number.
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Orinne
America
Corinne
Persephone
Kore
Thebes
Corinna
Mme. de Stuel
Italy
Rowena
Henghist
Man Like This Proposes To You
Advice column outlines a man who has made his pile and seeks marriage. He is healthy restless and titled as an exemplary son while his sister and brother have benefited from his care. He claims weariness of sports and art and shows a need for poise and new pastimes. The prescription urges absorbing life and suggests marriage as a way to stabilize him.
Dickens and His Odd Clothes Through History
The article notes Dickens’s habit of over dressing, citing a Prentice anecdote from his US tour and a 1852 photograph. It recounts remarks by Percy Fitzgerald and other figures about Dickens and compares his attire to writers and scholars such as Archbishop Whately, Bishop Heber, Doctor Arnold, Charles Lamb, Southey, Porson, and Hazlitt, highlighting the era’s fashion quirks and the idea that authors preferred distinctive dress.
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Charles Dickens
Prentice
United States
Dickens
Percy Ltzgerald
Cemark
Archbishop Whately
Oriel College
Oxford
Bishop Heber
Doctor Arnold
Charles Lamb
Southey
Porson
Haz Mitt
London Institute
Permanent Warmth Rescuer Recalls Death by Hanging Incident
A rescuer describes pulling a would-be suicide victim from the water and witnessing the man hang himself from a tree after being turned over. The rescuer humorously recalls thinking he had hung himself up to dry, prompting questions about why he was not cut down immediately.
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Kaspar
Stockholm
Has Anyone Laughed You Avoid Jazz
An essay argues people avoid jazz for two main reasons: either they dislike it intensely or they like it too much. It contends reasons include unsettling rhythms, bore of melodies, time loss, or crowd influence, suggesting jazz rhythms can blend with concert and classical tunes.
Rich Man Finds Christmas Joy as Santa Claus
A lonely rich man at a fashionable club seeks Christmas meaning. He buys gifts, walks home, and, with the janitor, decorates a tree for the janitor’s children. On Christmas morning the children greet him as Santa, and his loneliness ends with a warm family-like celebration.
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Santa Claus
Santy Claus
Western Newspaper Union
Whittier's Unknown Romance and a Lost Love Letters
Detroit News reports on a new volume claiming poet John Greenleaf Whittier had a romance with Elizabeth Lloyd, his longtime sweetheart. The book reproduces Whittier's letters to her, though her replies are missing and the case remains incomplete.
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Whittier
Athens
Joan of Arc
Maud Muller
Elizabeth Lloyd
Elizabeth
Monadnock
Detroit News
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