The Desert Song in Warner Bros Picturization
Warner Bros 1929 silent production The Desert Song adapts the Harbach Schwab Hammerstein and Mandel story as a film adaptation. The project details link Virginia Morris to the copyrighted Warner Bros picture.
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Red Shadow Intrudes on Margot at Desert Garrison
Margot Bonvalet confronts a masked Red Shadow who bursts into her balcony romance. She strikes him, he seduces then flees, and officers rush to guard the garrison as rifles blaze in a looming clash with the Riffs. Margot clutches a revolver, awaiting further danger.
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Paul Fontaine
General Birabeau
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The Red Shadow Reaches Ali Ben Ali’s Oasis Palace
The Red Shadow arrives at Ali Ben Ali’s palace with twenty followers and captures Bennie, Margot, and Susan. Margot challenges the situation while Ali Ben Ali negotiates. Bennie Kia arrives as a captive journalist. Susan enjoys the peril as the scene ends with a promise of more in a cliffhanger.
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Phillips Milk of Magnesia Aids Indigestion
Excess stomach acid causes indigestion with pain after meals. A safe quick remedy is Phillips Milk of Magnesia, a tasteless alkali that neutralizes acid and has been standard for 50 years. One spoonful offers rapid relief. get the genuine physician approved product with full bottle directions.
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The Red Shadow Seizes A Woman And Rides Away
The Red Shadow enters the room with a gun, forces Margot Bonvalet to surrender, and flees on a white horse across the desert. The garrison struggles against attacking Rifrs as the pair vanish into an unknown romance.
Lindbergh Light to Beam 500 Miles for Aviators
Elmer Sperry presents the Lindbergh Light to Chicago and the Midwest as a beacon for aviators. The generator will cast a light beam more powerful than the sun tenfold and reach 500 miles.
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Chicago
Midwest
Farming Near the Equator Girl In South Africa Turns Forest Into Farm Land
A Kenyan colony land girl Miss Peggy Billson clears and farms 6 acres of forest at Molo near the Equator with six boys help. She stumps fences and plants oats while tending employer's cows. War era notes highlight women’s growing success as trained milkers and stock workers.
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Peggy Billson
Women's Farm and Garden Association
Molo
Equator
Large Numbers Of Repatriates Return
About 1500 Canadians are returning from the United States in 1929 according to the Colonization Department of the Canadian National Railways. An additional estimate says 2000 French-Canadians will be repatriated from New England to settle on farms in Quebec Ontario and western Canada. In 1928, 1500 Canadians mostly from Quebec returned to the land via CN movements.
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Quebec
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Canada
Colonization Department
Canadian National Railways
Canadian National
The Royal Road To Success Paradox
A concise reflection on ambition noting many people fail seeking shortcuts to success and that the journey itself often holds the true lessons.
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Little Helps For This Week From Psalm And Verse
A devotional piece urges faithful daily work as tiny stones in God’s temple. It cites Francis Ridley Havergal and Jean Nicolas Grou praising fidelity in trifles and childlike dependence, urging readers to seek perfection in small duties and trust God’s master plan.
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Jean Nicolas Grou
River That Defies Gravity in Pomerania
A curious investigator reports a river in Pomerania that sometimes runs uphill. He notes the Oder drops not quite 20 inches over 34 miles, about six tenths of an inch per mile. A strong north wind can reverse its current.
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Radium used to curb factory fires in Leningrad
In a rubber plant at Leningrad radium is reported to prevent fires by improving air conductivity around it. The capsule reduces static sparks from rubber fabric passing over rollers, lowering fire risk in the inflammable drying room, Popular Science Monthly notes.
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A New Word Among the Brand New Scienc e Terms
The article explains decibel as a unit of telephone transmission efficiency, defined as a tenth of a bel. The bel honors Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone.
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Freshmen debate missing pins and direction of photos
Two freshmen discuss a photo setup with many pins misplaced. They note none are found and wonder where they went. The exchange suggests pins are scattered, oriented differently, creating confusion about the arrangement.
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