The Most Popular Girl in Town
Amy Stricker, a nineteen year old assistant librarian, becomes the town’s famed Miss U. S. A. amid a world tour contest. Her fiancé Tom Powell drives the campaign but a scandal ends in a brief elopement that shocks Orlando, yet the couple settles into marriage and hardship. Five years pass with children, illness, and financial strain testing their bond.
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Midtown Gazette
Tom Powell
Amy Stricker
Orlando
Amy
Stricker
Miss Stricker
Ludlow Street
Peter
Mary Pickford
Mary
Sam Powell
Northwestern University
Amos
Mr. Powell
Ching
Tom
Miss A. &. A
Amy Stricker- Powell
Tom Powells
Ife
Hadly
McClure
UWNU
Etiquette of Mrs Washington's receptions in early years
Maude Parker notes in the Saturday Evening Post that Mrs. Washington ran private levees open only to those in full dress, a courtlike circle where the President passed and spoke, never shaking hands. Today etiquette in Washington calls for yearly calls at the White House with cards, then a note to the social secretary to seek an audience with Mrs. Washington.
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Washington
White House
Maude Parker
Saturday Evening Post
Irishman seeks two in one shot after Bristol remark
An Irishman in London visits a photographer and asks to take a single card photo of him and his brother. The brother is in Bristol, prompting a joke about photographing someone not present. He then likens the situation to taking Satan’s picture and asks if the photographer met him there.
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London
Bristol
Satan
Where He Spent the Day
Mrs. Maggs hosted a neighbor to view new decorations after repainting. They toured the living rooms and entered the bedroom where Mrs. Diggs admired the ceiling paintings and asked their purpose. Mrs. Maggs replied they were for her husband who likes to have something to look at on Sundays.
Humane System Expands Prisons Under New Methods
Washington reports President Hoover received Sanford Bates describing humane, scientifically guided prison reforms. Overcrowding persists in main penitentiaries, but nine new facilities and jail expansions are underway, plus prison camps and a full time parole board. Bates cites education, fair discipline, and constructive recreation as safeguards against crime.
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Washington
Hoover
Sanford Bates
Bureau of Prisons
Bates
War Department
Northeast
Pennsylvania
el Reno
O&la
Camp Lee Reservation
Petersburg
Chillicothe
Ohio
Ozarks
Springfield
New
Leans
Billings
Mont
el Paso
Texas
Detroit
Georgia Leads States in War on Illiteracy
Washington. Georgia reports teaching 118,102 persons over ten years old to read and write, surpassing other states in illiteracy reduction per census data. The national advisory committee on illiteracy posted the findings, noting that in 1820 there were 328,553 persons affected.
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Washington
Georgia
National Advisory Committee On
Hit-Run Autoist Strikes Six at Roadside Camp
A hit-and-run driver plowed into a roadside camp killing one man and gravely injuring two women. The suspect is being sought after the incident left six sleeping victims struck.
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Los Amngeles
Georgia advances in literacy across ten-year-olds
The report notes Georgia's ten and older illiteracy fell to 9.4 percent from 15.3 percent, with 210,736 illiterates remaining under leadership of State Superintendent M. L. Druggan. Blackfeet Indians in Montana show rapid gains with 236 adults learning reading and writing within two weeks. Mississippi ranks second, cutting illiteracy by 41 percent of its population.
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Georgia
Leaderahin
State Superintendent of
M. L. Druggan
Montana
Mississippi
Window Breakers Admit Burglary Spree
Emilie Galimat and Eunice Fritsche, aged 14 and 12, confessed to a burglary spree in East St. Louis. Police say they climbed through an open bedroom window, taking dresses, a canary, radio tubes, paper dolls, lingerie, and suit cases before their arrest.
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East St. Louis
Emilie Galimat
Eunice Fritsche
Nile River Threatens Temple of Isis on Philae Island
Paris report warns that Philae Island’s Temple of Isis is crumbling under Nile erosion and dam changes. Scholars, antiquarians, and officials debate saving the site by dismounting the temple and moving it to the United States or another Nile island, with urgent action urged to prevent total disintegration.
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Paris
Isis
Philae
Nile
Russian
Egypt
Syene
Ptolemy Epiphanes
Ptolemy
United States
Balsa Wood Characteristics Describe Lightest Wood Properties
Balsa wood is nearly white or sometimes tinted red and shows little distinction between heartwood and sapwood. It has a silky texture, is rather coarse but straight grained, and is the lightest of all woods, lighter than true cork.
Dairy pasture cuts dairy feed costs and boosts output
North Carolina Dairy extension specialist John A. Arey cites records from Guilford and Forsyth counties showing average monthly feed costs per cow drop from 12.21 dollars in non pasture months to 5.02 dollars in pasture months, a 7.19 dollar saving per cow. Extra milk during pasture adds 1.41 dollars per cow monthly, with 123 cows producing 6,724 dollars more income in pasture season. Each cow grazed about 1.25 acres, yielding 44 dollars per acre. Arey notes tests indicate pasture and good roughage can sustain production, though skeptics point to high grain use and limited homegrown hay in North Carolina.
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Legume Bay
Guilford
Forsyth
John A. Arey
North Carolina State College
Arey
United States Bureau of Dairying
North Carolina
Dairy Calves Wear Muzzles to Prevent Calf Scours
Charles H. Crawford of the New York State College of Agriculture reports that Corveil university dairy calves are muzzled for the first three to four weeks to curb calf scours. The muzzles stop calves from eating coarse dust and feed that can irritate digestion, reducing illness. A strict sanitation program by Dr. D. H. Udall is available from the Cornell department of animal husbandry.
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Corveil University
Charles H. Crawford
New York State College of Agriculture
New York State
Crawford
D. H. Udall
New State College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Animal Huushandy
Cornell University
Quality Milk Cleaning Steps From Ohio State Extension
Bulletin 107 from Ohio State University outlines methods to produce good milk. Steps include rinsing utensils with cold water after use to remove milk, washing in hot water with a dairy washing powder using a brush, final rinse with hot water, and sterilizing with steam boiling water or hypochlorite solution.
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Agricultural Extension Service
Ohio State University
Bulletin 107
Columbus
Ohio
Dairyman Judging Feeds By Digestible Elements Price
A dairyman must decide price per pound of digestible feed elements rather than price per ton or bushel. He balances on hand feeds with needed nutrients and uses own judgment to choose cheapest options.
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Yust
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