Rainy Day Vacation Ends in Change of Plans
The Houghland and Stover families head on vacations facing finances and choices. Jim Stover learns that a planned Atlantic City trip may strain the budget, but Mr. Pulver covers the hotel bill, sparing embarrassment and sealing a promise to vacation yearly with restraint.
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Carrie
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Maude
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Albert Houghland
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Jones
Garrie
Sin Stover
Atlantic City
Aunt Carrie
Ancient Saying Quotation Ties to Poem The Size
Quotation “You can’t eat your cake and have it” linked to poet George Berbert born 1593 died 1633. The poem The Size published posthumously. Plautus earlier expressed a similar idea with “If you spend a thing you can not have.”
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George Berbert
Plautus
Christ
Blind farmer guided by windmills on Michigan farm
Bart Michigan features Kary McCauley a forty one year old blind farmer in Ferry township who uses small windmills placed around his farm and along the road to ferry to navigate his way to the barn chicken coop and into town when wind is scarce he sometimes follows a wire line through the property. The windmills have been damaged by winter winds hunters and boys and must be repaired so McCauley can continue to travel to town and back.
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Bart, Mich
Kary McCauley
Ferry Township
McCauley
Ferry
Bill
Terry
Sabes
French cookery jumps to science with intra sauce injection
In France a new method injects sauces directly into the bloodstream of poultry and meat to flavor all parts of the meat. Dr Ganduchean calls the fluid intra sauce and reports trials on over 200 animals including poultry and livestock. Different colors and flavors may be added and even lean meats enriched with melted butter as the carrier.
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Paris
France
A. Gaudnehear
Sightless Operators Run French Telephone Switchboards
Blind operators trained by the National Institute for the Blind man switchboards in several French offices. Prof. Pierre Henri heads the school. They avoid boards with signal lamps, using touch to select numbers. They keep calls in raised print and record messages on a typewriter.
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Paris
National Institute For the Blind
Pierre Henri
Accuracy claims of the Oxford Bible as first in accuracy
The Oxford Bible boasts 773 pages with 46 words per page and offers a $5 reward for readers who spot typographical errors. Average payments recorded amount to one per year.
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Washington
Street recalls French nobleman Carondelet in New Orleans
New Orleans notes reveal Carondelet Street honors Francisco Luiz Hestor dearondelet born 1747 in Flanders who governed Louisiana and backed a canal project linking the Mississippi to Lake Pontchartrain. His generosity funded work, with Canal Street marking the site of the planned canal and streets named after him.
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Carondelet Street
Cotton Exchange
Canal Street
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West End
Canal
Poydras Street
Carondelet
Gravier
Henry G. Hester
Francisco Luiz Hestor Dearondelet
Peru
Louisiana
Baron Carondelet
Mississippi River
Lake Pontchartrain
Plans a Dictionary of Good Grammar
Maurice H. Weseen, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska, outlines a book that treats correct grammatical usage as plainly as correct word usage. The work, Crowell's Dictionary of English Grammar, draws on 17 years of teaching in Iowa State College and Nebraska, emphasizing American usage with everyday examples and limited Shakespearean Milton quotations.
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Nebra
Maurice H. Weseen
University of Nebraska
Weseen
Crowell
Iowa State College
Purse Lost From Plane Recovered On Roof
Miss Barbara Pearson of Ashland Pennsylvania lost a pocketbook while viewing Washington from a plane. William Owens of the Public Buildings and Parks office recovered it from the roof of Temporary Building No 6 at Twentieth and C streets. The purse contained $4 73 a vanity case and keys. The bag will be mailed to Miss Pearson by registered mail after identification by a Sight certificate.
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Barbara Pearson
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William Owens
Tnsmith
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Rational Capital
Twentieth
C Streets
Wright
Public Buildings Guard Force
Shoes in Window Spark Injunction Battle in New York
A New York furniture dealer displayed unsatisfactory shoes in his storefront window with placards critiquing them. The seller obtained an injunction to halt further remarks while pursuing the case.
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New York
Fresno Justice Marries 5000 Couples in 25 Years
Fresno California George Washington Smith a longtime justice of the peace since 1908 marks a record as a marrying justice after officiating 5000 weddings over 25 years His ledger shows a peak of 594 marriages in one year and 49 in a single month On the record day eight couples wed at his office.
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Calif
George Washington Smith
Smith
Cathedral of the Movies Opens in New York
A grand New York cinema, built of stone, terra cotta and brick, seats 6,000 with a 4,000-guest foyer and 110-musician pit. It features an advanced organ with three consoles, unique screen projection, and color interior lighting designed for comfort and cooling. The project cost about $8,000,000 with weekly operation near $50,000 and potential box office around $185,000 if full.
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New York
Origins of Perfume Use in Ancient Civilizations
Perfumes were long enjoyed in ancient societies. The Jews used incense in temples and tabernacles, and women across Egyptian Greek and Roman cultures used perfumes and cosmetics. The perfumer’s art likely began in Arabia and spread to Egypt Greece Rome and Palestine.
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Egypt
Greece
Rome
Palestine
Midget Coal Mine on Yorkshire Moors A Far North Debate
The smallest coal mine in Great Britain lies high on the Yorkshire moors at Tan Will. Five men have dug a hillside tunnel nearly two miles long. The coal is good quality and sells at about three dollars a ton but must be fetched. farmers bring carts to haul it away.
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Great Britain
Yorkshire Moors
Tan Will
Iceberg Types Observed By Sea Monitors
Observers classify two iceberg types as solid bergs and drydocks. Solid bergs sit low, have rounded sides, and tilt slowly. Drydock icebergs feature two high sides with a low passage between and move along as if a ship.
Timing of Hair Cutting Tied to Moon Phases
A London seer warns against cutting hair during the autumn moon's decline, claiming sap rises in the head then. He urges swift trimming before the new moon, arguing sap shifts to the scalp and not the hair.
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London
Belgia
Seek Ancient Cannon From Galleon Wreck at Fort Pierce
The city commission plans an effort to recover several ancient cannon from a wreck believed to be a two hundred year old Spanish galleon off Old Fort Pierce. The relics will be placed in the city’s parks after recovery.
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Fort Pierce
Definition of Matrimony Lines from a Folklore Exchange
A playful exchange defines matrimony as going to adore, ringing two bells, giving your name to a maid, and then being taken in. The wording mixes ritual tone with light humor about courtship and marriage.
Aren't We All Vacation Discussion Dialogue
A fragment shows a casual exchange on vacations and work life with a playful remark about not needing to work permanently, reflecting a lighthearted, informal tone. The text includes phrases about vacation plans and money, hinting at a social interaction rather than a formal report.
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