Milford inventor to explore undersea salvage and mining
Simon Lake plans a winter expedition to salvage the sunken Lusitania using a long steel tube and observation chamber. The project aims to prove commercial profit in undersea work by recovering bullion and artifacts while also testing dredging for shellfish and potential undersea oil and ore mining.
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Milford
Conn
Simon Lake
Lake
Ireland
Great Britain
Th Lusitania
Lusitania
Bridgeport
Long Island Squad
Florida
Longer Work Day Makes Hens Pay
Kellogg Iowa reports B E Craven advocates a 12 hour day for hens to boost egg output. He lights the coop at 5 am to lengthen winter days, feeds alfalfa in winter, and sells hens laying fewer than 288 eggs yearly. He seeks uniform high production across all hens with good housing feed sun and water.
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Kellogg
Iowa
B. E. Craven
Craven
Three Hats Compete For Eugenie Style Favor In Hollywood
Hollywood women debate the Empress Eugenie hat revival with Dor othy Jordan backing the Robin Hood design Madge Evans urging the beret and Karen Morley favoring the tornado sailor style Each actress links a hat to modern girl independence and film glamour in fashion commentary.
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Hollywood
Empress Eugenie
Eugenie Sulcessots
Dorothy Jordan
Madge Evans
Miss Evans
Karen Morley
Italian Will Explains Long Life of Villagers
In Croveo Italy the will of Anna Lunghe who died at 100 urges her three sons over seventy to shun envy and ire and to eat vegetables. The death marks the first in years in Croveo a village famed for longevity where many mourners were in their nineties an advanced age.
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Croveo
Italy
Anna Lunghe
Dresses Combine Chic And Warmth In Paris 1931 32
Paris fashion highlights a coat dress combining warmth and chic for 1931 32. The piece features figure fitting lines brisk colors and various trims from military inspired designs to fur bordered capes and double breasted blue wool options.
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Diana Merwin Paris
Michic
Ge Brown
White tweed coats and sheet frocks described in print
A fashion note details a white tweed patterned with red and green figures topped by a small petering cape edged with a beaver band. Coats wrap snugly and frocks feature shorter skirls averaging about 14 inches from the ground.
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C. C. Taylor
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Evening In
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Houbigant
Whitman's
Candies
Gibson Christmas Cards
Kodaks
Sherman & Moe
Eugenies
Gieverman
Coats
Geyermnan’s
Fashions of the Hour
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