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Roosevelt on game preserves and settlers in Africa Trails
In his African Game Trails, Colonel Roosevelt argues for balanced game policy. Sanctuaries protect breeding, while laws ensure hunting remains fair and sustainable for settlers and hardy sportsmen. He condemns game butchery as cruelty yet opposes total hunting bans as soft.
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Roosevelt
Mutual Shock motorist sale taunts with bold offer
A terse dialogue depicts a motorist trading a vehicle described as worth 3750 dollars for 250 dollars, prompting a sharp reaction from Vriend who warns of a shock. The back and forth centers on a quick, contentious price discussion and a firm purchase offer.
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Vriend
Debtor May Repay 750000 Rubles As Debt in Rubles
In 1914 a debtor borrowed 750000 rubles from Prussian Commercial and Industrial backed by securities. Now the British Bank of Foreign Trade seeks $200000 in sterling repayment, but Judge Russell of the chancery division at the Royal Courts of Justice in London ruled the loan redeemable in rubles of any regime. A stay of execution was granted pending appeal as Soviet rubles quoted about 60 to a penny.
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Russell
Chancery
Royal Courts of Justice
London
British Bank of Foreign Trade
Imperial Romanoff, Kerensky
Music Helps Invalids and the Mind Body Link
W D Moffat of Mentor Magazine describes an English scientist whose grip strengthens with heroic music and weakens with a lullaby, suggesting music acts as a valuable aid to doctors in treating disease and affecting the mind and body.
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Fritz Kreisler
W. D. Moffat
Mentor Magazine
Three-Position Light System Trials At Waterloo Station
Scientific American reports railroad signal experiments at Waterloo station in London favoring a three position light system. Filaments focus through a diopitic lens of white glass while rays emerge through greenish yellow glass and can be seen over a thousand yards in bright sun, with better fog penetration than white light.
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Waterloo Station
London
Scientific American
Clerks Challenge President Over Salary Cuts
In a financial office drama the clerical staff confronted their boss as he trims costs and slashes salaries before an extended southern California trip. When asked to justify pay, the president replies that his own salary was discontinued at year’s start, prompting a startled, unanimous nod from the delegation and a confused meeting.
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California
Jake
Wall Street Journal
Comet Visible After Weather Briefing Tonight
Johnny asks to view a comet seen by Bill Smith while grandfather cautions to stay safe and keep distance from the celestial display tonight.
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Johnny
Grandpop
Bill Smith
Grandfather
Crafty Germans and the Adoration of the Lamb Shutters
The Belgians hid Van Eyck’s Adoration of the Lamb during the war to protect the central picture and its shutters. After Versailles the six Ghent shutters were to be returned from Berlin, amid German demand rises from 20 million to 75 million francs, a sum offset against reparations.
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van Eyck
Ghent
St. Raven
Versailles
Berlin
Christian Science Monitor
Getting a Likeness Portrait Price and Preference
A photographer presents a tinted oil portrait of a young woman who notes the hair color is too bright. The photographer offers to darken it, but she decides to keep the shade and says she will change her hair to match the picture.
Writer asks for a film story from parade and game footage
Film Fun records a quip about turning 90 feet of a fireman's parade 150 feet of bathing girls at Long Beach and 300 feet of the Hale-Harvard game into a story of genius. A writer thanks the praise and invites a contrived tale using the footage as material.
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Long Beach
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