Jerusalem's waiting restoration as city clothed in glory
The piece reflects on Jerusalem outside the walls between Turkish rule and British mandate. It recalls Babylonian desolation and Nebuchadnezzar’s conquest while envisioning a future when the city is redeemed as a bride awaiting the bridegroom with radiant glory.
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Jerusalem
Gethsemane
Bethlehem
William D. McCracken
Asia Magazine
Nebuchadnezzar
Jeruenionm
Not Really A Deformity Duck Tale
A wife recalls dining with friends on roast duck and plans to surprise her husband with another meal. She calls the butcher the next morning to claim the duck is deformed and must be removed. The butcher notes the duck’s windpipe growth resembles a shell. He realizes the duck still quacks.
Mysterious overnight changes hit New York Chinese laundries
The piece notes frequent abrupt staff shifts in Chinese restaurants and laundries in New York fueled by unclear causes. A patron recalling his long-time laundry found a sudden change when his check was demanded, revealing the enigmatic practice behind the disappearances.
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New York
How Children Help Through Albanian Vocational School
American school children via the Junior Red Cross fund and staff a Tirana vocational training school for Albanian youth. The effort provides machinery books maps globes and school supplies to public schools ruined by war. Colored drawings by American children entertain and instruct Albanian pupils.
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Junior Red Cross
Albania
Tirana
Junior Red Cross of America
Junior
Ted Cross
Diversity of Immigrants at Ellis Island
Immigrants passing Ellis Island last year hailed from 538 nations. Fifteen social workers assist the newcomers, each speaking multiple languages, under Col. Helen Bastedo of the Department of Labor in Washington. W. C. A. staffer, a Czech-Slovak, also aids the foreign born division.
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Eliis Island
Col
Helen Bastedo
Department of Labor
Washington
National Board
Europe
America
Supply and Demand at the Summer Resort
A reader recounts vacationing at a summer resort where prices ran high except for fishing worms. A local native offered abundant worms for half a garden spading price, illustrating the quirky economy of leisure spots.
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Houston Post
Loomis wireless telegraphy heralded before Marconi birth
Washington reports Mahlon Loomis as the creator of aerial telegraphy who demonstrated wireless signals in 1860s Virginia by tying insulated copper to kites on Blue Ridge peaks. He allegedly sent messages across 18 miles, proving wireless communication without wires, but newspapers and Congress blocked wider recognition.
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Washington, D. O
Marcon
Congress
Mahlon Loomis
Washington
Loomis
Blue Ridge Mountains
Virginia
Dog Timbuctoo Triggers Five-Bell Phone Call
A near Boston dog named Timbuctoo, untrained yet clever, learned to respond to a five-bell telephone ring. When the call rings at his farm on a seven-party line, he runs to his mistress and barks five times, never miscounting or calling at other rings.
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Boston
Timbuctoo
Cadets' Great Ride Across Australia For Defense
Two hundred fifty Victoria cadets completed a 1400 mile dispatch ride on bicycles from state commander to the minister for defense at an average over 14 miles an hour. They beat schedule by 6 hours 23 minutes, showcasing a new cadet training system and awakening parent interest in Australian boy soldiers.
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Victoria
B. C
Australia
Caimiraderie
Eggs From the Orient Shipments Bound for New York
A 25 car train carrying Japanese and Chinese eggs departed Vancouver bound for New York. Nine Seattle carloads joined sixteen from the Empress of Russia, with most consignments to New York except small portions to London and Montreal. The New York load totaled about 17,000 cases of NO and 86 dozen eyes, roughly 500,000 eggs, enough for breakfast for every New Yorker.
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Orient
Vancouver
B. C
New York
Seattle
Russia
London
England
Montreal
New York City
Economy Carried to Excess In Cafeteria Exchange
A cafeteria confrontation unfolds when a man eats a large ham sandwich and claims his stomach needs meat every third day to digest slowly while others insist on minding their own business. The exchange reveals unusual beliefs about eating pace and diet.
Should women smoke should the added fire risk worry insurers
The Birmingham Age-Herald notes a shift in debate from whether women smoke to whether the extra fire risk from women smokers could justify higher insurance rates. The exchange features Mr. Godspur and a theorizing man as context.
Promotion Sparks Love in City Office Tale
Anita Ranke earns a paid promotion denying herself to help Maude Hobbs care for her mother and ill sister. The manager later marries Anita, remarking that her selflessness showed him she would make a good wife. Maude remains unaware of Anita’s pivotal kindness.
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Matilde
Aula
Pia
Mother
Poe
Press
Maude
Anita
Bess
Mauie
Aniite
Manue
Hop Men Seek Restored Minimum Carload Weight
Oregon and Washington hop representatives and the public service commission press for restoring the minimum carload weight to 15000 pounds, arguing California’s 16000 pound rule favors growers there. T. A. Livesly of Salem met with service commission officials to push the change, noting typical orders weigh 700 to 750 bales with each bale about 200 pounds, causing Oregon and Washington shippers to pay freight on 9000 pounds more than actual load. The case has been docketed with the Transcontinental Freight Board at Chicago, with efforts to coordinate with California to determine state actions.
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California
Public Service Communion
Oregon
Washington
T. A. Livesly
Salem
Service Commission
Northwest Grower
Transcontinental Freight Board
Chiengco
Hope
Kervite Commission
Fragmented OCR note on tunnels and campus plan details
An unclear OCR snippet mentions underground tunnels near a college and a plan to survey a conduit or alignment. It references a university setting, paving, and potential construction considerations with scattered proper nouns and incomplete phrases.
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Ciase
Ehleg
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