Bear Falls oddball Ernest Bingley stalls on stuffed horse shop
In Bear Falls Iowa Ernest Bingley runs Ivanhoe et Shop and Taxidermy with a life like horse on which he enacts jousts. Newspaper photographer Mr. Slocum argues about value and Ernest faces a big money offer and a dream of travel.
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Bear Falls
Iowa
Ernest Bingley
Bellows Falls
Vermont
Klamath Falls
Oregon
Caleb Slocum
Ivanhoe
Canaries
Ernest
Varnet
Brian duBois Gilbert
Bingley
Mr. Slocum
Ernie
Fred
Sen
Luther
New Talking Movie Demonstrated With Stereophonic Sound
A New York demonstration to the Society of Motion Picture Engineers showed a talking film where the actor’s voice tracks with his on screen position. Voices synchronized to screen left and right, with sound receding as the figure moves back. The film uses a double sound track, claimed as the first commercial stereophonic film, though cost limited earlier adoption.
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Society of Motion Picture Engineers
New York
Minard's Liniment Proven Helpful in Stables and Homes
A letter from Mr. Dowd of Glenborn Manitoba touts Minard's Liniment for barbed wire cuts on horses and general use around the stable. The producer notes that a family doctor prepared the liniment over 58 years ago and claims it remains invaluable in every stable and home.
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Dowd
Glenborn
Manitoba
Minard
Try Postum 30-Day Safety Test Instead of Tea
If you cannot safely drink tea or coffee, Postum offers a 30 day test. Buy a tin and drink Postum instead for a full month. If you don’t feel better after 30 days, return the container top to General Foods, Cobourg Ont., for a full refund plus postage. Postum is caffeine free and made from roasted whole wheat and bran.
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Postum
General Foods
Led
Cobourg
Ont
Prince of Wales Dreams of Health in Port Townsend Rest Home
The Prince of Wales lies convalescing in Port Townsend Washington after a week long illness in the palefaces hospital. He was born 76 years ago at the town’s busiest corner and is the last hereditary chief of the diminishing Clallams. Early settlers gave him the title since his tribal name Lahanim was hard to pronounce.
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Prince of Wales
Port Townsend
Washington
Palefaces
Clallams
Lahanim
Duke of York
Queen Victoria
King George
Prediction Undercuts Transatlantic Flight Hope
Frederick W. Whitehead, British aeroplane motor maker and designer of the Cambria and Caledonia flying boats, predicted that air travel would never replace the steamship and would remain too costly for the average traveler.
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Frederick W. Whitehead
Cambria
Caledonia
Whitehead
Louisburg unveils federal museum at historic fort site
Lord Tweedsmuir dedicated a federal museum in Louisburg Nova Scotia once key to North America. He stood over ruins of Dunker k fort, the strongest French defense before 1758, as rain rain soaked hundreds at the opening. The governor-general called for memorials that make history live for generations.
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England
France
America
Louisburg
Lord Tweedsmuir
Nova Scotia
North America
Dunkirk
Atlantic
Master Mind traffic control system for Piccadilly Circus
A Liverpool firm will install the worlds most important traffic control system in Piccadilly Circus London this month. It will regulate around 50000 vehicles along seven main arteries every twelve hours using a master timer and four on site controllers. Additional controllers will operate at key junctions while the master timer supervises the entire network.
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Liverpool
Piccadilly Circus
London
Circus
Lower Regent Street
Jermyn Street
Shaftesbury Avenue
Windmill Street
Britain
Gandhi receiving blessings sparks widespread crowd action
As Gandhi departs Phar town crowds throng the station, chanting and lining the platform. Acknowledging the gathering he appears at the third class compartment window and requests donations, prompting a shower of notes and coins at every stop along the train’s route.
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Gandhi
Palm tree leaves as protective covering in California
The palm stores old fronds year after year and drapes them over its trunk for protection. The text urges drivers to weigh life and death when deciding whether to pass another vehicle.
Cloud of witnesses through earthly trials and triumphs
The passage reflects on Hebrews 12 1 urging believers to cast off sin and run with patience, inspired by a cloud of witnesses. It envisions calm courage from past saints and comfort in their sympathy guiding faith through danger toward heavenly peace.
Mishaps Found in Ref Library Despite Wall Street Bombing Query
Neal O Hara of a New York morning daily searched the paper's reference files for clippings about the Wall Street bombing that killed 36 people fifteen years ago. He found nothing under Explosions Disasters Bombings and Wall Street. The file finally yielded a misfiled envelope labeled Mishaps.
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Neal O'Hara
New York Post
New York Morning Daily
Wall Street
Zoo Ostrich Polly Scorches Flames With Feathery Rescue
Polly the Cincinnati Zoo prize ostrich faced a burning cigarette tossed on her back. She flung tail feathers ablaze, then, amid pain, used her beak to pull the flames from her own tail before keepers reached her with a extinguisher.
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Polly
Cincinnati! Zoo
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Tartar
Otly Wyncoop
America House
Armina Dietz
Chicago
Kansas City
Mr. Slo‘cum
Booterie
ChaRce
Copr
King Features Syndicate
G. F
Glasgow
Museum At
Seaport
Mahatma Gandhi
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