Castaway camp life and mounting tensions at Sapphire Lake
Kay Joyce and her mother arrive with Bruce Kenning expected, while Hammond, Joe, and Timmy plot a future from the placer claims along Loon creek. Jealousies surface as Joe grows distant and Kay admires a rugged frontier cottage setting at Slumgullion with Jeanne Towers introduced for a potential collaborator.
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Jack
Mother
Bruce Kenning
Kay
Hammond
Timmy Moon
McKenzie Joe
Mrs. Joyce
Timmy
Quiet or peppy women sway men at parties says ad
An old advertisement extols women’s mood and behavior affecting male interest. It claims peppy, lively women attract men to dances and parties while cross or tired women deter them. The text references Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure to “tame” the system and ease symptoms of functional disorders.
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E. Pinkham
Betty Lydia E
Pinkham
Bernstein Renounces Italian Honor Over Racial Policy
French playwright Henry Bernstein returns the insignia of an officer of Saint Maurice and Lazare to Mussolini in protest of Italy's anti Semitic racial policy. In a telegram Bernstein states he no longer considers it an honor to wear the rosette while Italian citizens are persecuted.
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Henry Bernstein
Mussolini
Italy
Bernstein
New Grape Products From South African Grapes
The South African News Letter reports grape farmers facing wine overproduction seek new grape products. Latest items marketed include grape jelly grape grapes and grape slabs. Jelly resembles red currant jelly and serves similar uses. Grape grapes resemble jujubes and use a stiffer mixture. Slabs are a semi solid food containing juice skins and seeds.
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South Africa
Endowed Paris hospital to close amid patient shortage
One of Paris' famed institutions the Foch Foundation hospital endowed in part by Madame Jacques Balsan Consuelo Vanderbilt is going out of business for lack of patients. Balsan a former world richest woman contributed to modernize equipment and services at the hospital.
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Paris
Foch Foundation
Jacques Balsan
Consuelo Vanderbilt
France
Mme. Balsan
Leprosy Patients Seek Talking Books for Blindness Barrier
In Barbadoes blind lepers who lost fingers requested talking books from the National Institute. Phonograph records have been sent to reproduce several books for their use.
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Barbadoes
National Institute
Mercury Seaplane Aims for World Distance Mark
Seaplane Mercury rumored to target the world distance record, with a potential takeoff from north of the Firth of Forth to surpass 6306 miles held by Soviet flyers. Imperial Airways reports improvements on Albatross No 2 for long distance tests ahead of a trans Atlantic hop as Heracles marks its 1 250 000 mile birthday.
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Mercury
Cape Town
Russia
Montreal
New York
Scotland
United States
Pacific
Southampton
Firth of Forth
Imperial Airways
Heracles
Equator
Life On The Farm Drives Lower Death Rates
A public health study in ten American states finds agricultural workers aged 15 to 64 have a lower death rate than business and professional men. Mortality is 6.2 per 1000 for farmers versus 7.0 for professionals. unskilled workers face 13.1, with all groups at 8.7. Tuberculosis and pneumonia are leading causes, followed by accidents.
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Public Health Service
Crown of Haile Selassie for sale in London jewelers
The Italian paper Messagero says a London jeweler has the Ethiopian emperor’s golden crown listed for £500. It notes the 718 diamonds and warns the stones must be real, not glass, to be a true bargain. A swan at Eton College guards her nest, refusing intruders as eight cygnets die from a rare disease.
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Messagero
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
London
Eton College
England
Railways In India Handle Kumbh Mela Traffic Surge
East Indian Railway saw a massive pilgrim rush at Hardwar during the Kumbh mela. Daily inward and outward figures peaked with 68 050 and 80 000 passengers respectively on special and regular trains. From March 12 to April 13, 347 special trains served Hardwar and 543 755 passengers detrained.
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Richard Halliburton
India
Ganges
Kumbh Mela
Hardwar
Hardway
Happy Ending Father And Child Reunited After Thirty Seven Years
Marion Beeton Pull, a district nurse near Maidstone England, learns her father Edwin Pull a Toronto church organist went to Canada before her birth. Their correspondence spans decades and now he plans a visit to England possibly next month.
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Canada
Marion Beeton Pull
Maidstone
England
Dominion
Miss Pull
Edwin Pull
Toronto
Rich London eatery scene ends with loud exit
Two young men caused a scene at a top London restaurant by ignoring reserved signs and reading the menu aloud. They claimed a psycho-analyst forced the stunt to boost self confidence, then left after their disruptive display.
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London
Gold Ornaments Mark Walcheran Women On Market Days
Women of Walcheran in Holland wear gold head ornaments to signal their village origin during market days. The practice helps traders and buyers identify sellers from Walcheran among neighboring communities.
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Walcheran
Holland
Two MPs Decline Salary Due Them in Parliament
Two members of the English House of Commons refuse the 2000 pound annual salary due to them. They choose to forgo the compensation as a gesture or protest within the parliamentary session.
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House of Commons
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