Denver Music Week Festival Opens With Wide City Support
Colorado Governor, Denver Mayor and citizens unite for Denver Music Week May 15 to 20. John Clark Kendall will bring a fifty piece orchestra from Greeley State Teachers College for performances. Fifty four thousand school children take part in concerts in seventy four public schools. A chorus of three thousand voices leads the feature program at the city auditorium, joined by a 100-voice teachers chorus singing The Death of Joan of Arc. Ten city bands perform on streets, Federated Woman's Club directs campus concerts in hospitals and homes. Six hundred music teachers hold pupil recitals as business and civic groups join the celebration.
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Denver
Colorado
John Clark Kendall
Greeley
Colo
State Teachers College
City Auditorium
Joan of Arc
Federated Woman's Club
Fire Sweeps Block in Baltimore City
Nine alarms battled a blaze that swept John F. Thomas & Sons lumber yard mill work plant and offices, damaging surrounding properties including a public school and Martin Luther Evangelical church. One firefighter injured and losses described as heavy.
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Baltimore
John F. Thomas & Sons
Poperties
Martin Luther Evangelical Church
Popular Square Home Built of Concrete Blocks
An illustrated guide praises a spacious square style house built with concrete blocks showing its versatility for frame brick hollow tile or stucco construction. It highlights economical cost low frills, ample porch sun parlor, roomy living and dining areas, a bright kitchen, and four upper bedrooms with large closets, arguing concrete block walls provide insulation and ease of build for long term home demand.
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William A. Radford
Hadltor
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Ill
West Coast
Traces Origin of Hawaiians Question Answered
Scientists at a pan Pacific congress in Honolulu last August debated Polynesian origins. Louis R Sullivan of the American Museum of Natural History offered partial answers tracing the roots of ancient Hawaiians and related Polynesian peoples.
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Tory
New York
Sullivan
Asia
Mr. Sullivan
pan-Pacific Scientific Congress
Honolulu
Louis R. Sullivan
American Museum of Natura
Polecats Become Food In Paris Market Shift
London Daily Telegraph reports high Paris prices push residents to eat hunted animals once valued for skins. Foxes and polecats sold near central markets with sauces offered alongside squirrels and badgers. Paris police prefect warns of poisoning risks in a circular, dampening the fledgling trade.
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Paris
London Daily Telegraph
Congressman's Mourning Cadence Prompted by Question
A congressman famed for a funeral tone during ordinary talks is teased by a colleague. While the mourner spoke in his usual cadence another member quips to a friend asking if he knew the deceased, eliciting quiet, grave humor in the chamber.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Perfect Identification by X-ray Fingerprint Method
The French devise uses a fine bismuth powder on the finger and an X-ray image to capture both skin ridges and the fingertip bones. Since the terminal bones vary among individuals, identification becomes easier with this technique.
Davy’s Plate Stays Ready Each Christmas for 40 Years
In a whitewashed cottage on a Cla Morgan hillside, an elderly Welsh widow keeps a Christmas dinner ritual she began in 1880. She sets a plate for Davy, her absent husband who sailed to Cardiff and vanished. Now forty years later she repeats the gesture, awaiting his return as a steadfast memory.
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Cla- Morgan Hills
London
Nantes
New Orleans
Davy
Shipping Office
Spanking Machine Patent by Brainy Peter
A London Answers piece describes an imagined patent by Brainy Peter for a spanking device shaped as an iron hand and arm holding a rubber slipper. The machine enforces punishments by voltage levels from three to ten volts for various child misdeeds, with ten volts as a maximum.
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Peter
London
Discovered Man Sneaks to Bedroom at 3 a.m.
A startled couple wakes to an intruder crawling upstairs on all fours. Mrs. Jones repeats the name George as he hides under the bed and finally emerges, saying he dreamt he was motoring. The scene unfolds with light humor and domestic surprise.
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Jones
George
Maria
Drought Reveals Stone Age Lake Dwellings in Switzerland
Extraordinary drought across Switzerland has dropped lake waters, enabling archaeologists to study ancient lacustrine pile dwellings dating to the Stone Age. Volunteers assist excavations, with Dr Keller noting these sites were inhabited until about the first century AD.
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Switzerland
Keller
Mill In School Building Marks Industrial Art Move
A fully equipped textile mill operates within a New York City public school building, showcasing the industrial art movement developed by local museums and trade bodies working together.
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New York City
Central Interrupts First Stude over the Phone
Dialogue snippet shows Central interrupting about washing B V D s as she rings them, with Judge present. The brief exchange captures a domestic or courtroom tone in a fragmented exchange.
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Central
Stude
Judge
Boil ermaker’s daughter quips spark courtroom wit
In a sharp exchange, the judge notes the defendant’s remark about a boil ermaker’s daughter. Jim answers with a pun about riveted attention and a bolt for the door. The line showcases quick banter and courtroom wit amid the technical chatter.
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Bill
Jim
Judge
Emerald weighing 960 carats sent to this country
A syndicate of the United States of Colombia has sent a large emerald weighing 960 carats to this country. The gem measures two and two eighths inches in length.
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United States of Colombia
Symbols and duties spark national pride in state emblems
A Globe-Democrat editorial argues selecting a state flower or song would be a long process. It says posterity may find better symbols born from fortunate times, while today people crave ready made emblems to feed romance. It notes soldiers adopt the poppy as Decoration Day’s emblem and mentions a humorous joke about a mosquito in heaven from the Chicago American.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Peope
America
Junior
Daddy
Chicago
Out of sight out of mind quote in dialogue
A terse line contrasts memory and perception as a mysterious figure in a padded cell figures in a bleak exchange. The remark implies mental health themes and societal detachment.
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