Pictorial History Of The Old South Created By Woman
Frances Benjamin Johnston, age 84, has photographed the old South for 60 years and aims to finish a book on Louisiana architecture from the 1720s to 1850s with collaborator Samuel Wilson Jr. The project, due for UNC Press publication next spring, seeks to document fading historic buildings and curb their loss.
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Frances Benjamin Johnston
Old South
Miss Johnston
Washington
Louisiana
Samuel Wilson, Jr
University of North Carolina Press
Photographer Miss Johnston Builds Southern Image Archive
Miss Johnston, a pioneering Washington news photographer who filmed the White House signing ending the Spanish American War, has earned acclaim for architectural photography. She has received about 30,000 from Carnegie grants to photograph old Southern mansions and hovels across 200,000 miles, with 10,000 of her negatives in a Library of Congress collection.
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Miss Johnston
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
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South
Washington
White House
Carnegie Corporation
Library of Congress
American Institute of Architect
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee
No Dull Moments In Her Busy Life
Mrs. Emily Mayer leads a packed day starting at 6:45 a.m. with a split shift as an ostreet car operator and ends at 7:45 p.m. with duties as wife mother and grandmother. She volunteers as a Red Cross ambulance driver and helps her husband in hobbies like developing photos. Saturday is her off day for fishing.
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Marian Constance MacDonald
Los Angeles
Gordon MacDonald
Darling MacDonald
St, Louis
Emily Mayer
Mauer
Red Cross
Maters
Women Should Eat Better Breakfasts
Lincoln Nebraska based University of Nebraska nutritionists report findings from a study with 15 female students. Over 18 days subjects had protein free breakfasts of toast or roll fruit and coffee and later added complete protein foods to mornings to test distribution across three meals rather than concentrating protein in one or two meals.
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Lincoln, Neb
University of Nebraska Nutritionists
Ruth M. Leverton
Human Nutrition and Food Research
University
Harvard Accent Invasion Of Chinatown For Language Class
Harvard University will record speech as teaching aids for an English class serving Chinese brides of American veterans in Chinatown New York. A Chinatown sage praised Harvard's role, calling the institution the mandarin of America.
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Harvard
Chinatown
Harvard University
America
Franklin half dollar shelved three cent piece plan discarded
Washington report quotes Nellie Tayloe Ross saying wartime copper shortages sparked consideration of a three cent coin with Franklin’s likeness. The design was later repurposed for the half dollar after war, aligning Franklin with freedom and the Liberty Bell on the reverse. The first Franklin half dollars were released last April 30 with 7,035,414 struck. design slated for 25 years.
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Washington
Benjamin Franklin
U. S
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Franklin
Bureau
Ross
Reporter Gets Screen Test After Tulsa Film Stints
Ada Oklahoma 19 year old reporter for the Ada Evening News earned a shot at a movie career. He worked as an extra in the film Tulsa photographed at Gov. Roy J. Turner ranch. Director Stuart Heisler found him suitable for a screen test at Eagle Lion studios and he will travel to Hollywood for the test.
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Ada
Okla
Ada Evening News
Tulsa
John Clayton
Boss the cat inherits home and cash in Will
In Harrisburg a will from Abbie Shank leaves Boss the cat, named Twiddes and later called Boss, to receive daily pork liver and the best chair in Shepp’s house as a home and a bed. He also is left two frame homes and $4,000 cash to care for Boss for the cat’s remaining nine lives.
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Harrisburg
Twiddes
Boss
George Shear
Reilly
Abbie Shank
Shepp
Alligator Found In South Dakota Farm Pool
Carl Ahrens, a farmer in Geddes finds a two foot alligator in a water pool near his stock tank. He cannot explain how it arrived in South Dakota.
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Geddes
S. D
Carl Ahrens
South
South Dakota
Ahrens
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