All Alice Needed Was a Firm Hand
A tale of Alice Wayne who escapes an engagement to Charlie Blake and secretly pilots a personal flying machine at night. After a crash, Blake and Alice’s parents confront her reckless ambition as she recovers beneath their scrutiny and faces a firm, final decision.
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Alice Wayne
Charlie Blake
England
Charles Blake
James
Blake
Carey
Mrs. Carey
Mr. Blake
Europe
Doctor Smith
Alice
Wayne
Charles
Mr. Wayne
Archimedes FireBeam detail in ancient siege legend
The text notes ancient knowledge of focusing sunlight with curved surfaces used by Romans and Greeks. It says Archimedes proposed concentrating sun rays during the siege of Syracuse to set wooden ships ablaze, illustrating early burning lens concepts.
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Archimedes
Syracuse
13 Month Year Gaining Approval in Paris
The League of Nations backed plan by Moses B. Cotnsworth proposes a 13 month year called Sol to replace the 12 month calendar. It would insert a new month between June and July with four equal weeks per month and always fixed weekdays, aiming to simplify accounting and scheduling worldwide.
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Paris
France
League of Nations
Hard Work Reduces Riots in Pennsylvania Prisons
Harrisburg authorities credit prison work programs with curbing unrest as 878 inmates across four state institutions are employed in trades, temporary tasks, and construction. State Welfare Secretary John L. Hanna says eight hours of strenuous labor keeps prisoners near normal life and too tired to plan disturbances, though no method is foolproof.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Welfare
John L. Hanna
Tlanna
Hanna
Ancient Log Fort Near Woodbine Illinois Preserved But Stalled
An early settler fort built to guard settlers from Chief Black Hawk still stands near Woodbine Illinois with a flowing spring. A movement aims to rebuild the log fort as a museum, possibly the last relic of its kind in the Middle West.
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Woodbine
Ill
Black Hawk
Middle West
Kitten Wins Battle With Mountain Beaver in Well
Bluebell the Maltese kitten, famed for hunting rats, vanished and reappeared at the bottom of a 40 foot dry well in Seattle. Beside her lay a dead mountain beaver, evidence of a fierce struggle that preceded the fall.
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Seattle
Wash
Bluebell
Prisoner Paints Desert Scenes on Jail Walls
El Centro California sheriff George L Campbell knows a prisoner Charley Wrench painted desert scenes in the county jail to pass time. The inmate created a wall mural of rocks brush hills and desert plants beside the cell blocks illustrating a vivid arid landscape.
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el Centro
Calif
George L. Campbell
Walla
Charley Wrench
Wrench
Husband seeks vast harem as wife cites affair pattern
Mrs. Lindsay Stott alleges in a divorce petition that her husband wanted above all to possess a harem. She claims he was not satisfied with one woman and, hampered by finances, pursued outside love affairs.
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Washington
Lindsay
Stott
Social rounds in Harmony Grove area families
Mr and Mrs Pred Jewart visited Walter Harman home Thursday Rev Giffen of Phimville called at M J Boyer and Josiah Bisher homes Friday. Numerous callers including McIntire Blystone Cooper Harkelroad and Arlie Browne noted. Sunday school set at Harmony Grove Lutheran next Sunday with two sermons.
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Pred Jewart
Walter Harman
Rev. Giffen
Phimville
M. J. Boyer
Josiah Bisher
Paul McIntire
sSon
Near
Apollo
EB. J. McIntire
Sagamore
J. Be, Blystone
Glenn
Harl Blystone
Punxsutawney
Fred Jewart
Josiah Fisher
James Blystone
J. BE
Blystone
Archie Browne
St. D. Ralston
Indiana
Jessie McCausland
J. EB. Orr
Ethel
Glenn Jewart
Jess Aikena’pheld
Kenneth Alkiens
Uniontown Social Visit List Shows Local Travel and Callers
Uniontown residents and guests conducted a weekend round of social calls and visits. Numerous names appear including Mrs Will Vimn Calvin Langham and family from New Kensington and Johnstown visitors to local homes.
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Will Vimn
Calvin
Jane Boring
Johnstown
Max Langham
New Kensington
Iames Langham
Orvil Allison
Altoona
Warren King
J. No Hudson
James Langham
Indiana
Laura Beringer
Kinports
Blain Beringer
Harald Kamey
Don Langham
Aknite QC
Mes
Bart Itummell Vistled
Thomas Barthebaugi
Coal Glenn
Wwesbury
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Oxfords
Leathe
Brown’s Boot Shops
Mary Ann
Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
Joan Crawford
Jack Holt
Ralph Graves
Fay Wray
Constance ‘Bennett
James Dunn
Eschelman
Miller’s
Wingold
Goldenrod
Hetrick & Wilson
P.R.R
Indiana, PA
McClure Newapaner Syndicate
CWN
The
First National Bank of
Washington Township
Uniontown
Mra
del Baker
Benedict
Bert Michael
Eimeigh
Phila
Wilbur Coon
Nuoo Bush
Marion
Funeral Service
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