Vail Medal Award for Jersey City Operator Heroine
Helen Rosalie Sullivan, a Jersey City telephone operator at the Plaza Hotel fire, posthumously receives the Theodore N. Vail gold medal from American Telephone and Telegraph for heroic public service. She stayed at her switchboard spreading alarms until she suffered fatal burns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Rosalie Sullivan
Plaza Hotel
Jersey City
N. J
Theodore N. Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Miss Sullivan
Vail
Global Telephone Growth Across Cities Cited
A roundup from Cairo to Baltimore notes rapid telephone expansion and usage. It cites Cairo's 1932 introduction and further spread to Alexandria and other cities, Buenos Aires subscribers reaching 302,000, and heavy call handling in Hollywood. It mentions Tel Aviv's 3,500 lines and Haifa extension orders, Delhi adding 400 lines in 1937, and a Baltimore plumber collecting 23 orders totaling 1,400 dollars via telephone responses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Alexandria
Port Said
Tanta
Guizeh
Buenos Aires
Argentina
United River Telephone Company
Bell
South America
Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Palestine
Haifa
Hot Buttered Rum Through the Colonial Brew
The drink rose in Colonial times as a mix of rum butter sugar spices and water heated with a poker. A modern version keeps rum sugar butter hot water and nutmeg for a warm spirit drink.
Banff Trail Riders retrace Simpson 1841 route in Rockies
Banff Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies plan a five day July 29 to August 2 trek from Banff retracing parts of Sir George Simpson's 1841 overland route. Led by artist-president R H Palenske the group will ride through Lake Minnewanka and Ghost River region before returning to Banff for the Pow Wow. The club, with about 1200 members, invites all visitors to join and preserve historic trails in the Banff Lake Louise area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banff
Sir George Simpson
Canadian Rockies
Trail Riders
Emperor
Hudson's Bay Company
Peechee
Edmonton
Simpson
Red Deer River
Ghost River
Chicago
R. H. Palenske
Carrot Creek
Mount Peechee
Lake Minnewanka
Devil's Gap
Black
Aylmer Pass
Trail Riders of
Banff- Lake Louise
Rockies
Siam
Mary Vaux Walcott
Washington, D. C
J. M. Gibbon
Montreal
Georgia Engelhard
New York
Lake Louisse
George Bertrand Mitchell
Rutherford
N. J
George Vaux
Bryp Mawr
Anne and
Helen D. Harbison
Philadelphia
Reginald Townsend
Carl Runglus
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Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc. Publishers
Hollywood
Delhi
India
Connaught Place
Lothian Road
New Delhi
Connaught Circus
Calcutta
Baltimore
Pyry
Max Schmeling
Chance
Jon Louis
AL Garr
Phil Baker
John Nesbitt
Pac Rade
CBS
Babs Beckwith
Dana Jenny
Celeste Gheen
Cascade Mountain
Featuring
Sam
The
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Ame
Maryland
Baltimore, MD
Legrande Food
Pegrande
LeGrande
MRS
the Economy Pac
Bot
Widmer
Legrande Tomatoes
Kellogg's
Mayfair Club
Macaroni
Campbell'o Tomato
N.B.C. Grah
White House
Cleanser
WCAU
KING
RIK
Boss Johnson
Red Cross
Willard L. Swann
Denton
G. C. Cohee
Harvey Fleetwood
T. L. Trice, Jr
Preston Arnie’s Cash Grocery
Preston
Milford Kline
Hillsboro
Harry Stedman
Ridgely
I. Calvin Butler
Greensboro
J. W. Sylvester
Goldsboro
J. F. Lane
H. A. Porter
Burrsville
R. H. Gibson
Queen Anne
Pas
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