Beach fashion clash across cities as rules tighten
A nationwide survey of beach dress codes shows cities tightening rules on modesty. New York forbids half naked swimwear with fines. Asbury Park and Atlantic Beach ban trunk only suits. Boston tolls decency rules. Chicago bans all white suits. Minnesota towns require skirts and tops. St Paul eases trunks for men while Minneapolis demands coverage.
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Asbury Park
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Atlantic Beach
Long Beach
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Galveston
Tex
Boston
William E. Whittaker
Boston Metropolitan District Commission
Beaton
Mism
Beach
Fla
Robert Teaney
Virginia
Chicago
Harry O'Hare
Twin Cities
Los Angeles
Miss Frances Crawford Gets Extension Job in Randolph County
Miss Frances Crawford of Dothan is named home demonstration agent for Randolph County announced by Miss Ruth Cobyne of Auburn. She began duties in Wedowee last week and previously served as assistant agent in Elmore County. An expert in home economics, she graduated from Woman's College and studied at Emory University and Columbia University.
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Dothan
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Auburn
Alabama Extension Service
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Elmore County
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Emory University
Atlanta
Columbia University
New York City
Alabama
Adam and Eve tale linked to gout in old manuscript
London June 27 AP ancient vellum pedigrees on display in the College of Arms claim Adam died of gout, not the apples. The exhibit marks the 450th anniversary of the Kings Heralds and Pursuivants of Arms, a group curating coats of arms and genealogy. A Saxon king tracing lineage to Adam notes the ancestor “dyed of gowte.”
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Kings, Heralds and Pursuivante of Arms Organization
Dr Ham to Preach in Revival at Columbia
Dr John W Ham an evangelist from Atlanta Ga will preach in a series of evangelistic meetings at the Baptist church of Columbia starting next Sunday morning. The revival will last about two weeks with his singer, a skilled pianist and soloist, accompanying. The invitation comes from Rev Paul Stewart and the church staff.
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Child Torture Case in Mitchell Home Continues
The Porter family sheltering a girl, Mary Virginia, faces new questions as Mrs. Mitchell recalls attempts to gain custody. The child reportedly endured beatings with a hickory stick kept by the bed. County Solicitor Monroe plans to prosecute Mrs. Porter before a magistrate, contingent on the girl’s welfare and potential grand jury action.
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Plow
Mitchell
Mrs. Mitchell
Mary Virginia
W. A. Monroe
Pound’s 1914 Poem Precedes Roosevelt’s New Deal Phrase
Ezra Pound, years before FDR’s ascent, wrote of the new deal in a 1914 poem inviting progress and an end to pandars and robbery. The line signals an early use of the term outside Roosevelt’s later campaign.
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Associated Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Ezra Pound
Pound
Creamed Peas and Potatoes and Sour Cream Pudding
Recipe fragment lists ingredients and steps for Creamed Peas and Potatoes with butter flour milk and seasonings, then a Sour Cream Jumble cake. Mentions hospital scene in Jasper with a patient receiving gifts from sympathizers.
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