Inflation a Slow Process Warns banker ayres in new jersey
Leonard P. Ayres vice president of Wheveland Trust speaks at Rutgers about inflation risks and policy options. He argues that inflation would be slow, tied to government deficits financed by bonds, and notes Europe’s experience. Ayres lists five requisites of inflation and warns the banking system faces credit expansion without a revival in business.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Leonard P. Ayres
Wheveland Trust Company
Graduate School of Banking
American Institute of Banking Section
American Bankera Association
Rutgera University
Ayres
Germany
France
Belgium
Italy
Europe
Hes
Ayras
Prophecy of the coming decade by a business writer
A noted business writer outlines major economic shifts expected in the next decade. Predicted changes include higher living standards, tech advances in production methods, factory built housing cheaper than handmade homes, easier money, faster travel, radio era media, a mechanized farming tool, cheaper electric power, broader goods distribution, and a forthcoming inflationary boom after a short downturn.
Farmers confront yields and efficiency across farms
A farm authority argues that without machinery and scientific farming methods such as proper fertilization crop rotation and efficient feed the gap between a farmer yielding 100 bushels of corn and another with 25 bushels will persist.
Banks Poised to Finance Industrial Growth
The June issue of Banking by the American Bankers Association notes banks are in an unusually favorable position to finance a period of industrial growth. The survey indicates the US government and related assets present significant potential for strengthening American industry through banking support.
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New York
The
American Bankers Association, Nee One
Holland Palace Stands on 300 Year Old Piles
A United Press dispatch explains Amsterdam’s Royal Palace sits atop 13,059 piles driven to 36 to 49 feet, resting on swampy soil under the Dam. The piles, imported mainly from Russia and Norway, keep the structure above water to prevent rotting, a practice dating back nearly 300 years.
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Holland Palace
Chiang
Amsterdam
United Praga
Russia
Norway
Holland
Germany
Schoolmaster’s wireless dream from 1859 Aberdeen meeting
James Bowman Lindsay, a Dundee schoolmaster in 1859, outlined wireless teleg raphy experiments and predicted transatlantic messages via Britain and America stations. The Manchester Guardian notes the remark able prophecy, but the idea attracted little attention until Marconi’s 1902 success.
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Aberdeen
British Association
Gage
Manchester Guardian
James Bowman Lindsay
Dundee
Britain
Cornwall
Scotland
America
Atlantic
Signor
Marconi
Poldhu
Lindsay
Real Estate Terms Through History
The article traces the origin of real estate and estate, noting real derives from late Latin realis and res, with real property dating back about five centuries in English. Estate is at least two centuries older, but the two terms merged in the seventeenth century. Early usage favored real property over real estate, and estate once included both personal and real property. The shift to real property emerged about two hundred years ago.
Engineering feat reshaped Glasgow into a seaport
Glasgow shifted from inland town to sea port through a bold canal like project. Engineers narrowed the Clyde channel to deepen a bottom, enabling ships to reach the city directly. The ambitious plan transformed freight routes and the city’s growth, marking a dramatic harboring achievement.
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Glasgow
Mohammed
Clyde
Women Escape More Common for Female Prisoners
Collier's Weekly notes that women prisoners escape more often than men and are less frequently recaptured. It cites statistics showing one escape per 45 female prisoners versus one per 75 males, with 90 percent of men traced and returned and only 90 percent of women ever recaptured.
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United States
Collier
Character and Personality in Personal Identity
A concise definition of character as an attribute or quality that shapes a person’s inner nature and social presence. It explores individuality and distinctive traits that distinguish one person from another, emphasizing how personal qualities inform behavior and reputation.
Cast Cannot Be Erased Featural Caste Defined By Skull Form
An authority states that skull shape and facial features cannot be erased as identifiers. The back of the head often reveals a person’s identity to friends and others. Personal idiosyncrasies such as carriage and gait are hard to obliterate, as they are unconscious requisitions.
Location of Nanking Capital in Kiangsu Province
Nanking, capital since 1928 of the Republic of China, sits in Kiangsu province on the Yangtze River about 130 miles from the river’s mouth. It also served as capital of the old empire from 1948 to 1403.
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Nanking
Republic of China
Kiangsu
Yangtze River
Difference in Monkey and Human Hands and Feet
A St Louis Globe-Democrat writer notes the human thumb faces the fingers aiding grasping and contrasts it with monkeys. American monkeys differ from African ones in teeth count tail use behavior and tameness. their big toes function like thumbs and some have four hands for tree grasping.
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St. Louis
Qglobe-Democrat
Glees of Men's Voices First Started in 1740
The Montreal Herald notes glees arose in 1740 from the Anglo Saxon glugge meaning music and credits Samuel Webbe with founding the glee The form gained popularity with male solo voices and evolving rhythms leading to a distinct style A coffee tavern glee club formed in St Pauls churchyard and public practice spread though glees are rarely sung today
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Montreal Herald
Samuel Webbe
St. Paul's Churchyard
Does Not Flow Uphill Mississippi River Question
A Detroit News note discusses the Mississippi and its tributaries flowing south toward the Gulf of Mexico. It explains the earth’s shape and claims the river’s sources lie above sea level, so the river actually runs downhill to the ocean despite a misperception it could flow uphill.
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Ohio
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi
Ocean
Detroit News
Bathing machines in 18th century England described
Collier's Weekly notes that no modest person wore a bathing suit and that men rented a covered wagon called a bathing machine. The device had a canvas awning lowered over the back to hide bathers from public view, allowing private enjoyment of the water while preserving delicacy.
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England
Blind Tom the Musicians Life and Feats
Thomas Green Bethune known as Blind Tom was born a slave near Columbus Georgia in May 1849. He died at age 108 after a life marked by precocious musical talent. He could identify tunes at age two and play piano by four, later touring Europe and the Americas. He reportedly could play any piece after hearing it once.
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Tom
Tiindom
Thomas Green Bethune
Columbus
Europe
North
South America
U S France Naval War Ends with 1801 Treaty
The early U S France naval war lasted about two years ending with a peace treaty ratified by the Senate on February 8, 1801. During the conflict 84 armed French vessels and most privateers were captured by the small United States navy. The Retaliation was the only U S ship captured by the enemy.
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U. S.-France
United States
France
Senate
United States Navy
The Sun Affects the Skin in Different Races
A Collier's Weekly article notes that sun exposure fades skin for some races while others tan or darken, citing light colored groups such as Chinese, Sandwich Islanders, and Fueglangs of South America as becoming lighter in summer compared to winter.
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Tay Molland, Jr
Kenmore
N. Y
Collier's Weekly
Sandwich Islanders
Fueglang
South America
Dura ruins date to 280 B.C. linking Graeco‑Numan trade
The ancient ruins of Dura in today’s Syria date from about 280 B.C. to 250 A.D. A Macedonian colony founded by Nicanor, it absorbed Semitic populations and served as a caravan link along the Euphrates. Over centuries it passed to Parthians, Romans, and Sassanians before being abandoned.
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Dura
Marcus Aurelius
Persia
Desert
Julian the
Durawan
New -York Herald Tribune
Balinese Life Imagined As Refined And Cheerful
A Montreal Herald writer portrays Balinese as refined masters who subdue outsiders, praising their beauty, laughter, and lack of gloom in religion. The piece notes their funeral customs with bamboo towers and bull coffins, describing death as a celebratory, musical procession.
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Montreal Herald
India
Bali
Early Rhinoceroses in North American Prehistory
Scientific research traces the earliest North American rhinoceroses to the Wyoming and Utah plains in Eocene times about forty to fifty million years ago. By Oligocene times they were numerous in the Black Hills plains, adapting as plains and woodland animals. In Miocene and Pliocene times, around twenty and eight million years ago, they roamed rivers flowing east across Kansas and Nebraska.
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Wyoming
Utah
Great Plains
Black Hills
Kansas
Nebraska
Zebra Fish Uses Hypnotism to Lure Prey Says Popular Mechanics
A tropical zebra fish uses waving feelers to mesmerize victims before gulping them. The slow approach and enticing motions draw smaller fish in, granting the striped predator a easy meal.
Longest Fence Between Norway and Finland Planned
Capper's Weekly notes a 260 mile border fence to halt reindeer wandering between Norway and Finland. Fir poles and barbed wire will be used to prevent livestock crossing into neighboring lands, reducing landowner tensions along the boundary.
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Norway
Finland
No Brakes Inventions and the myth of perpetual motion machines
Huntington West Virginia writer 4 T Smith notes in Collier's Weekly that many “perpetual motion” devices once patented carried brakes so they could be stopped immediately. The piece critiques the failed confidence of inventors in perpetual motion.
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4. T. Smith
Huntington
West Virginia
Collier's Weekly
United States
Great Britain
Development of parachute at McCook field under US Army
The first serious American parachute development occurred at McCook field under the US Army engineering division in 1919. Dummies were used until a satisfactory type evolved, improving on balloon-based designs.
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Mv Qook Field
United States Army
Personal Briefs Highlight Local Travel and Visits
Local society notes list Mr and Mrs Frank Kring vacationing in Niagara Falls. Numerous relatives and friends visit hosts in town, including Ruth Hamilton from Cleveland, Eleanor Forbush from Georgetown University, and families from Akron Jersey City and Baltimore. Guests include doctors, engineers, and university staff visiting home and attending weekends at relatives homes.
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Frank Kring
West Chestnut Street
Niagara Falla
Morris Straub
Johnstown
J. T. Stewart
School St
R. JA. Peoples
Allquippa
Ida Brown
South Sixth Street
Ruth Hamilton
Cleveland, C
Kathryn
Lottie Groves
Myrtle Hesley
Baltimore, Md
J.A. Brenneman
Grant Street
R. B. Joslin
Eon
Washington Street
RE. B. Joslin
Cleveland
Ohio
Blaine Helman
Locust St
Salt Lake City
Utah
Harriet Strong Speirs
W. R. Goodnight
Janet
Akron
Merle Fleming
Locust Street
Robert L. Lynn
Robert
Marjorie
Derry
Frank Winsheimer
Center Township
Lynn. Rey
W. E. Flesher
Marion Center
Middle West
Springfield
Coffeyville
Kans
Lawrence Getty
Jimmie
Jack
Youngstown
John L. Getty
Weat Church Street
Howard B. Butterbaugh
Laura Buterbaugh
Syracuse
N. Y
Harry Esses
Eesey
Buterbaugh
Mary
Gresko
Town
Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, D. C
Washington
Catholic University
Mia
Irvin F. Boggs
Younkers
J. F. Hood
South Seventh Street
Boggs
Otis Elevator Company
Hood
Eldera Ridge
J. B. George
Harle, Jr
Blairaville
Westmoreland County
Wilson Glassford
Penn Run
George
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Community Notes Show Residents Visiting Friends
Miss Laura Cambaugh of Aquip pa spent last week with Miss Viola Brown of Church street. Mrs. G. H. Blaxter and her sister Mrs. Margaret Gilbert of town are visiting in Atlantic City and points in Connecticut.
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Laura Cambaugh
Aquippa
Viola Brown
Church Street
G. H. Blaxter
Margaret Gilbert
Town
Atlantic City
Connecticut
Girls at Health Camp See Early Weight Gains
Seventeen girls and three new arrivals joined Brookside Health Camp in Hellwood for a week under Indiana County Tuberculosis Society oversight. Average gains reached two pounds ten ounces with some girls adding four to five pounds. all showed weight increases. Names listed include Helen Wolarycki Iselin and Josephine Lisac among others. boys’ session to follow in August. Donations of staple foods welcome.
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Brookside Health Camp
Hellwood
Indiana County Tuberculosis Society
Ralph E. Forrester
Church Street
Indiana
Helen Wolarycki
Iselin
Josephine Lisac
Hazel Burnheimer
Mary Louise Galardi
Homer
City
la Rue Hollowell
Smicksburg
Ruth Swanson
Robindale
Mary Izzle
Blairaville
Maybelle Stahl
Helen
Verna Hovanec
Commodore
Ethel Everett
Betty Kropinak
Betty Stevens
Naomi Ober
Clymer
Carolyn Hoffman
Mentele
Margaret Bramback
Hileen Morgan
Salisburg
Anna Virginis
Ernest
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Charles Pauch
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With & Water Lts
Indiana, Pa
Pennsylvania Threshermen
Pennsylvania Threshermen and Farmers Mutual Casualty Insurance
Harrisburg
M.C. Stewart
Homer City
Widdowson
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