Nineteen-dollar Hero Meets Western Hope on Broadway
John Conrad helps a woman escape a street robbery on West End Avenue after overhearing a suspicious man’s offer to walk her home. The valuable diamond necklace hidden in a package prompts a wary pursuit and a swift police recovery, ending with a playful confession of love.
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Upper Broadway
John Conrad
Middle West
Seventy-ninth Street
West End Avenue
Conrad
Avenue
Broadway
Bravery of Eagle Impugned and Attar of Roses Mentioned
A correspondent retells a tale of a golden eagle attacking a lamb from a bag left by a shepherd on a hill. The story links the eagle to the lamb’s demise and notes distillation of attar of roses in India. It mentions attar used in perfume and perfumed medicines.
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India
Attar
Attar of Roses Description and Origin
Attar of roses is a volatile oil from rose petals. It is a nearly colorless or pale yellow crystalline solid below 80 degrees Fahrenheit and liquefies above that temperature. Imported from the East, notably Syria, Persia, India, Turkey, and Bulgaria, roses are grown for attar. Petals are distilled with about twice their weight of water.
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Syria
Persia
India
Turkey
Bulgaria
Whale Tank Heads The Sperm Whale Sperm Oil
A 60 foot sperm whale yields 20 barrels of spermaceti from its head's oil tank. Ambergris, used in perfumes, comes from the whale but is rare and tied to a pathological condition creating abnormal ambergris formation in the intestines.
Care of Palme and Palms for Rooms
Palms are hardy indoor plants that can thrive for years with proper care. Place near windows for light and use a soil mix of fibrous loam reaf mold decayed loam and coarse sand. Water only when the pot feels hollow and during mild showers, briefly, to refresh and clean the leaves.
Why Do You Sigh and Moan At The Photo Play
A Birmingham Age-Herald reader quotes a filmgoer exchange about a photo play. A sympathetic patron asks if the film is good while a melancholy man praises his favorite queen of the screen claiming years of worship without knowing her eye color.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Jap Minister Favored Disarmament Speech
Vice Admiral Tomasaburo Kato, Japan's navy minister, told a gathering of governors he supported arms reduction but no concrete proposals had been received. He said Japan's naval expansion, due to be completed in 1927 at 200000000 yen, would not require higher taxes.
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Tokyo
Tomasaburo Kato
Japan
Wallace calls for federal regulation of meat packing
Secretary Wallace told a House committee that federal regulation of the meat packing industry is desirable to aid the livestock industry. He proposed the Agriculture Department administer the law, citing its familiarity with the business and farmers' belief it would be closer to them than other agencies.
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Washington
Wallace
House
Peru Deports Politicians Amid Plot Allegations
A score of Peruvian political figures including Gen Oscar Benavides were deported aboard the liner Paita after his custody last week on alleged revolutionary plot ties. The ship reportedly heads to Sydney Australia.
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Lima
Peru
Oscar Benavides
Republic
Benavides
Sydney
Australia
Denby Urges Immediate Naval Air Carrier Construction
Secretary Denby told the House naval committee that at least one aircraft carrier should be built at once for the navy with a plan for two. He noted the second ship might be delayed briefly but urged rapid start on construction.
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Denby
Washington
Navy
House Naval Committee
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Mr. Wrong
Mr. Right
Dorothy Douglas
Long Island
Jean Venner
Jean
Palme
Denver
Library OF Records
Knight-Campbell Music CO
Denver, Colo
A. Hosford
Acoma St
Rand Ee
Kiesigresen Giedale Fensty Co
Beewe
the Cole Re
Gread Building
Seventeenth and
Logan St
DB H Deliv. Shoes
Wai
Tory
Yellow Front
Champa Street
AMO Kodak
Stman Kodak Company
Te Sixteenth Street
Colorado
Dallas
Baldhbrads
Charles
Charles Hair & Beauty Shop
16Th St
Park Floral Co
Neauty
Millicent Hart Co
15Th St
Romm Allen Jewelry CO
Bauman's Auto Service
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