Washington Monument Becomes Free Public Movie Screen
The Washington monument hosts open air educational film shows under the bureau of commercial economics. Government films highlight national parks and growth of the golden red seed to flower. Aimed to educate without competing with exhibitors, the program tours major cities and towns this summer using a motor truck with projector and screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Washington Monument
Bureau of Commercial Economics
America
Filma
New Rolling Kitchen for the Army Adopted
After tests of rolling kitchen designs from domestic and foreign sources the Army adopts a satisfactory American model. Twenty five units on two wheels drawn by two mules will serve hot stew and coffee for a battalion, first trial at El Paso, with no roast meat equipment planned. Separate contract seeks ten thousand emergency crackers with lean beef, dried milk, and invert sugar as binder to test market availability and storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Tex
War Department
Boston
Army
Hampton Institute notes changes in leadership and progress
Captain Allen Wadsworth Washington is named successor to Major Moton at Tuskegee after 31 years linked to Hampton Institute as student and officer. The report covers graduates, diplomas, and the National Home association, plus a Houston rally backing a Negro college and a Philadelphia church women’s petition drive for direct mission funding. Also cited are wartime shipping losses, a Norfolk tuberculosis hospital plan, and Colorado River silt discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Wadsworth Washington
R. R. Maton
Cadeta
Major Maton
Hampton
Tuskegee
Ala
Hollis B. Frissell
Thue
Agricultural and Trade Schools
Academy School
National Home Association
Alexander B. Trowbridge
New York
Trowbridge
National Association
Institute
Doctor Frissell
Doctor Washington
Major Moton
Tuskegee School
Doctor Friasell
Friends of
General Conference
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Women's Parent Home and Foreign Missionary Society
Mra
Mary F. Handy
Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society
Mra. 5
G. Simmons
Missionary Board
Norfolk
Virginia Hills
Washington
Finley the camera dodger in Congress
AVID EDWARD FINLEY of South Carolina’s Fifth district is called the greatest camera dodger in the Sixty-fourth congress. He avoids photos on capitol grounds and quips that he has mortal dread of being photographed. The incident arose when Georgia's Edwards proposed adding member photos to the Congressional Directory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Finley
South Carolina
Finley
Kodak
Capitol
Barnhart
Indiana
Committee On Printing
House
Edwards
Georgia
Congress
Mr. Howards
Mr. Finley
Mr. Edwards
Embalmed in Verse sparks river and road pork-barrel clash
A lively House debate pits Nebraska figures led by a symbolic embalmment reference against Pennsylvania's Hampy Moore over appropriations tying roads to rail and waterway terminals. Sloan of Nebraska vocalizes rivers and harbors funding while Moore ridicules river dredging vs road projects, drawing chuckles and political theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloan
Nebraska
Delaware
Toaidea
Moore
Fichus and Afternoon Frocks Highlight Sea-son Style
Fashion notes describe fichus matching Quaker gray sea son frocks in crepe de chine or alk fabrics. Women may wear a fichu across the chest with or without a bib style, some hand embroidered, others with net edge frills. Worth features an afternoon frock in plate and striped taffeta with a large embroidered fichu and deep cuffed sleeves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fichu
Patchwork for Hats from Silk Scraps
A description advises women to reuse silk scraps by feather stitching them into a cover for a chiffon hat frame. It highlights that small pieces with carefully blended colors yield a better effect for fashionable headwear.
Congress neglects Negro regiments amid army growth
A New York Evening Telegram excerpt argues Congress and the War Department fail to authorize a new Negro regiment, praising the valor and record of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries and the Twenty fourth and Twenty fifth Infantry while condemning the stance as dishonorable. The piece also notes related scientific and trivial items from other reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
War Department
Andrew Sheridan Burt
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Guy V. Henry
Ninth Cavalry
Henry C. Corbin
Aaron Daggett
United States
Ninth
Tenth Cavalry
Canada to spend 745000 for experimental farm upkeep
The article lists a planned Canadian outlay of 745000 dollars this year for maintaining experimental farms. It also notes various science trivia including a new England invention of lighted cigarettes, copper use in electric infrastructure, and a French wireless telegraphy claim of 2000 words per minute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Money Making Inventions and Their Fates
A survey shows roller skates yielded about 96 million to their inventor while boot laces earned nearly 500 thousand. The safety pin creator made 10 million from a Pompeian taper idea. Yet Charles Bourseul died poor after 1865 telephony spark. Michaux the bicycle inventor died in penury and Sauvage the screw propeller pioneer faced bankruptcy and insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlies Bourseul
Michaux
Frederick Sauvage
Autograph Album to a Checkbook in Florida Times-Union
The amount of time saved shifts from keepsakes to finance as a contemporary girl trades an old red plush autograph album for a checkbook, reflecting changing priorities noted in the Florida Times-Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times-Union
Lesson on Acts Sixteen Deliverance in Philippi
In Acts sixteen the narrative from Philippi shows Paul and Silas delivering a possessed girl, enduring a brutal arrest, and prompting a jailer’s conversion. The passage contrasts persecution by authorities with divine intervention as an earthquake frees prisoners and leads to baptism and witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Vaughn
Philippi
Lydia
Apollo
Mt Parnassus
Paul
Stalker
Silas
Christ
Pilate
Lord Jesus Christ
Eln
Sam Jones
Thyatire
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washiington City
Anon
the Baptist Convention
Houston
Ben Campbell
P. W. Horn
J. L. Gross
First Baptist Church
H. Branch
Campbell
Humber
The
Geological Survey
Hns
Colorado River
Gulf of California
India
Kansas
New York Evening Telegram
Spain
Portugal
England
Shlers
Mow Bible Tnstitute of Cie i
Western Newspaper Union
Josie
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!