Wishes and Fairies On a New York Rooftop
In a springlike morning at WHNU Service a weary Alice on a Wabash building window watches Tommy and Little Mother on the roof below. Aged by office life and longing for a baby, she envisions three wishes and helps Tommy receive a real doll and a squeezy bear as two children discover belief in fairies. Sidney Jevons, her office manager, affirms belief in Alice and the rooftop tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice
Sidney Jevons
Tevons
Tommy
Tandy
Flop
Little Mother
Oll
Miss Arno
New York
Ways of Monkeys And Humans Grooming Tendency Explored
An essay discusses grooming as an inherited primate behavior from monkeys to humans. It cites a chimpanzee raised in isolation showing grooming urges, and compares barbering, hairdressing, nursing, and surgery as modern expressions of this basic pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal Herald
Longest and Shortest Days Tied to Solstices
The article explains how standard time yields the longest day on June 21 or 22 and the shortest on December 21 or 22. Leap years shift December 22 to all but leap years, while June 22 is used in lean years. It notes the solstices occur at precise times by calculation and mark the year's extremes. The year is about 365.25 days, solstice timing varies, and leap years adjust. The daily length difference near solstices is a few seconds shorter than a minute.
Welsh Children Musical Wales Described As Song Art
The Montreal Herald notes Welsh children and adults sing throughout daily life. In Wales music springs from the heart and is a daily pleasure, with workers returning home to wash and eat before evening singing practice. Children even improvise conductors while at play, sometimes singing Bach or Passion music.
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Wales
Montreal Herald
Obsidian Highway in Yellowstone Rock Faces Roadway
Description of a rock formation in Yellowstone known as Obsidian cliff that resembles glass. A shelf-like cut forms a roadway through the rock, named after the rock itself. The roadbed is smooth and durable, with a note that Europeans mix ground glass into cement for highways.
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Yellowstone Park
Europe
English Commune in Paraguay Sparks Clash Over Fashion
Colonists welcomed by English founder of a future communistic settlement in Paraguay. After he departed to recruit, arriving newcomers faced social discord as well dressed immigrants clashed with ragged settlers, especially women tearing off and wearing the newcomers' clothes.
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Paraguay
New Eden
A Country of Thunderstorms In Java
Java experiences hundreds of thunderstorms during the rainy season with frequent severe events. The constant distant thunder rarely draws notice, and only a loud overhead crash breaks the sense of alert. People live in a perpetual uproar due to year round thunder.
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Java
Local social notes from Indiana area visitors and events
Marion Deznter and A. L. Steffy of Dubois attended the Steffy reunion and visited relatives. Miss Grace Wetzel of Baltimore stays with relatives. Numerous relatives and neighbors, including Park, Wetzel, Hine, and Ewing families, hosted and visited across Indiana and nearby towns. Pine Flats reunion drew a large crowd. damper details of travel and hospital updates noted.
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Marion Deznter
A. L. Steffy
DuBois
Steffy
Grace Wetzel
R.N
Baltimore
Frank Park and
Wilkinsburg
W. J. Shearer
Roberta McCombs
Jeannette
Mitchell
South Bend
Ind
Charles Johnston
Saltsburg
G. R. Hine
Kathryn Burkett
Indiana
Walter Ewing
T. C. Hood
Shearer and Wife
New Alexandria
Shearer
William and
Margaret Wilson
Esther
EB. E. Townsend
Mary McMurry
Cannonsburg
Nina McCulough
Crafton
Martha
Esther Hine
J. R. E. Craighead
Elders Ridge
West Lebanon
Black Hawk Camp
Yellow Creek
Annabel Ewing
Alfred Ball
Olivet
Ben G. Shearer
Geraldine
Denver
Colo
Crawford Shearer
McCoy
EB. R. Shearer
John Henderson
W. E. Colling
Silas Blakley
Harry Stephens and Son
Mifflin County
Pine Flats
W. A. Thompson
Ison
H. D. Stahl
Bertha Lois Bennett
Twila Engle
Jay Brown
Manor
John Engle
Dorothy Overman
Penn Run
Minnie Stephens
Overman
Margaret
Violet Overman
Niagara Falls
W. D. Johns
Vision defects rise with age and unchecked eye abuse
The article surveys eye health noting ninety five of a hundred at sixty show defects, sixty of a hundred at forty are affected, and about a quarter at twenty. It questions whether these issues are natural aging or worsened by improper eyesight care.
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Leete Stone
Modtare Newananer Byndiente
Whnu Service
Mra
Jevons
Ernest Wetzel
Elizabeth, Pa
Mary W. Wetzel
North Manor Street
Caroline Park
C. R. Park
Adrian Hospital
Mia
Samuel Ford
Florence
Pittsburgh
C. I. Moore
Guy B. Terpe
Pearl Learn
Near Flame
Ruth Holt
Lulu B. Kinter
Blairsville
R. E. Lockard
Watson’s Ridge
Cherryhill
Indiana Progress
Indiana County
Ehverts Pictorial Review
Country Home
Household Magazine
Poultry Tribune
Woman's Home Companion
Pennsylvania
Farmer
McCall's Magazine
Indiana Progress Country Home Breeder’s Gazette Poultry
Tribune Good Stories
Indiana Progress Pathfinder
Poultry Tribune Country Home
Science & Mechanics
Indiana Progress Pictorial Review
Progress
Good Stories
Delineator Magazine
Progres
S Gazette
Poultry Tribune Woman's Home
Better Homes & Gi Pictorial Review
Science & Mechanti
Indiana Progress Breeder's Gazette
Pictorial Review
Silver Screen
Pathfinder
Woman's Home Companie
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Post-Gazette
D Science & Mechanics
American Home
Pictorial
Batter Homes & Gardens
American Boy O Etude Music
Pennsylvania Farmer
McCall’s Magazine
National Sportsman
Needlecraft
Amercian Boy
Christian Herald
Collier's Weekly
Magazin
Life
Parents' Magazine
Pittsburgh Post Ga
Science & Mechanic
Red Hook
Screenland
Wonder Stortegy
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