World In The Air will record aviation history in two volumes
A review highlights Francis Trevelyan Miller and collaborators producing the first complete narrative and pictorial history of aeronautics. It covers 5,000 years of flight from early ideas to 20th century milestones, with 1200 prints and official documents and portraits of Wrights, Lindbergh, Earhart and others.
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Macedy
Kingsford- Smith
Paris
New York
Francis Trevelyan Miller
Joseph Olin Howe
Frederick A. Barber
Historical Foundations
Rembrandt
Annals of the Bamboo Books
China
Europe
Leonardi da Vinci
Roger Bacon
Lana
Louis XIV
Napoleon
Cavendish and
Black
Blanchard
Geissen
Cavallo
Priestley
America
Atlantic
the Wrights
Byrd
Lindbergh
Eckener
Amelia Earhart
Morand Has Impressions Of Manhattan
Paul Morand presents New York impressions with wit and accuracy. He divides the book into Downtown Midtown and Uptown and adds a preface on New York’s founding. The critique blends charm and sharp observations of walls, speakeasies, theaters, and Wall Street.
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M. Paul Morand
New York
M. Morand
Downtown
Midtown
Uptown
Manhattan
Wall Street
France
Joaquin Vaquero
A Trip Through Human Insides By Dr Chappell
A humorous review of George S. Chapell's book A Trip Through Human Insides detailing a tour of the alimentary canal with vivid personifications of organs and a hospital ending. The piece praises Chapell's knowledge and wit and urges readers to take the journey to learn their own innards.
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George S. Chappell
Alimentary Canal Zone
Alimentary Canal
New York
Frederick Stokes & Co
Dr. Chapell
Dr. Chappell
Molar
Adam’s Apple
South Gizzard
Red River
Enpidermis
Caroliac
Lumbar
Reconstructs Era George Fort Milton and His Civil War Era Burden
The Chattanooga News editor George Fort Milton recounts Andrew Johnsons era and the burden of Reconstruction in The Age of Hate. The piece portrays Johnsons courageous yet futile efforts amid postwar tensions and national political strife.
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George Fort Milton
Chattanooga News
Andrew Johnson
Backward Plea and Burglar Fear in Paris
In Paris, Pele Mele narrates a tense exchange as one character urges another to confront a burglar downstairs. The dialogue reveals fear of facing a stranger and a quirky reluctance to meet a perfect stranger amid the attempted confrontation.
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Herbert
Pele Mele
Paris
Panama Canal tolls exceed operating costs by large margin
The income from tolls taxes licenses fees fines and other receipts now annually exceeds the canal's operating costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars, showing a substantial surplus for the period reported.
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Panama Canal
American Fatally Injured In Street Fight At Havana
The American embassy reported the death of Arturo Taglor Soria 14 of Key West Florida who was fatally wounded November 13 in a street fight between demonstrators and police in Havana. He died this morning after hospital treatment including blood transfusions. The embassy confirmed American citizenship after a consul verified documents.
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Havana
Arturo Taglor
Soria
Key West
Fla
State Department
Sydney Gest
Razor Sharp Banter at the Barbershop
A customer asks a barber to sharpen the razor already shaving his chin, prompting a witty exchange about sharpening the tool in use. The brief dialogue plays on barber shop humor and quick retorts.
Metropolitan Opera Week Notes and Local Concerts
Virginia Frank surveys a busy Metropolitan Opera week with Ponselle Gigli Jeritza and Bodansky in Don Giovanni and Tristan and Isolde. He critiques Roland Hayes and praises Toscannini’s return, radio broadcasts, and upcoming school concert with performances by Mrs. Walter Kester and Miss Louise Salsbury.
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Metropolitan Opera of
New York
Ponselle
Gigli
Serafin
Jeritza
Laubenthal
Fliegende Hollander
Bodansky
Metropolitan
Bori
DeLuca
Hasselmans
Martinelli
O. Didur
Kappell
Branzell
Schorr
Teutonic Ilk
Edward Johnson
Johnson
Roland Hayes
Greensboro
Percival Parham
Arturo Toscannini
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Atwater Kent
Josef Pasternack
Stokowski-Philadelphia Symphony
Damrosch
Walter Kester
Louise Salsbury
The Rain-Pool by Earle Wilson Baker
A playful poem about a rain pool by a village street. The speaker notes a brown useful pool that children, dogs, and ducks disturb, contrasting daytime activity with a quiet evening scene as stars descend to the street.
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Earle Wilson Baker
Nobel prize winner among American novelists named
The page asks readers to provide answers elsewhere including the American novelist awarded the Nobel prize for literature and several other literary questions about authors, works, and themes.
Noted Authors and Theater News Across Publishers and Debuts
Edmund Lester Pearson and Thomas Fogarty publish The Voyage of the Hoppergrass with Macmillan. Dean Cross becomes Governor of Connecticut. Civic Repertory Theater to stage Gordon Bottomley plays Grauch and Ardvorlich's Wife. Horace Liveright releases works by Doughty Musil and Alois Musil. New books include Forty Years of Opera in Chicago and Stars Tonight. Zane Grey Sun Set Pass slated January 8. School of Wisdom marks tenth anniversary with Keyserling and Jung. Stella Benson escapes looters. China setting in The Far Away Bride. Rachel Moon by Lorna Rea postponed to January 7.
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Edmund Lester Pearson
Thomas Fogarty
Long Island
Gold Company
Macmillan Company
The
Civic Repertory Theater
Eva Lee Gallienne
Gordon Bottomley
Grauch
Ardvorlich
Macmillan
Stella Benson
Harper and Brothers
China
Hongkong
Wanderer of Liverpool and other works chosen by club
Sinclair Lewis and Gerald Johnson of Baltimore contribute to a list of books in the month’s Scientific Book club picks. Andree the Record of a Tragic Adventure and The Mysterious Universe are noted. Mississippi 4-H youth post warnings about forest fires across the state.
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Sinclair Lewis
Gerald Johnson
Baltimore, Md
the Wanderer of
Liverpool
Freudian
George Palmer Putnam
Andree
Scientific Book Club
4-H Club
Mississippi
Eyebrow Brushing Guide for Daily Care
Instructions emphasize brushing both eyebrows and eyelashes daily as with hair. Use a small brush from a vanity, press with a finger and lift with the thumb after each stroke, and oil them at night to arch. To straighten a curved line, reverse the pressing order on one eye.
Davidson Awaits Comic Magazine Release at Davidson College
Davidson College schedules its first entirely humorous magazine for release by week’s end as editor W C Ragin of Wilmington promises timely delivery despite avoidable delays. He jokes that earthquakes and train delays are unnecessary excuses and urges students to stay three miles behind him.
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Davidson
Davidson College
W. C Ragin
Wilmington
Magazin
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Aeronautics
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
John Brock
Kansas City
Brock
Paul Morand
Hamish Miles
Henry Holt & Co
W. Jd. McCrary
Carbon Hill
Ala
BUICK
Tven
F. O. B. Flint
Mich
General Motors
GEO. W. Lowe, Inc
High Point
Lenington Corner
Millowbrook and
Commerce Street
Virginia Frank
John Masefield
Conrad Aiken
Andrew
Sir James Jeans
the Literary Chronicle
the Civic Repertory
Opera
Dean Wilbur L. Cross
Yale
Connecticut
Hugh Walpole
Doughty
Arabia
Horace Liveright
Manuel Komroftf
New York Times
Musil
Alois Musil
Arabian Desert
Mary Garden
Salome
Campantini
Chi
Cago
Edward Moore
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Sara Teasdale
Zane Grey
School of Wisdom
Darmstadt
Germany
Hermann Keyserling
Count Keyserling
C. G. Jung
Rachel Moon
Lorna’ Rea
Harpers Announce
Lorna Rea
Mrs. Greens
Seta Od
Easy Washer
N. Main St
M. C. Burch
Mgr
North Main Street
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