Henna Mills Dominate Persian City Production
In Yezd Persia henna is a major industry with 80 mills enclosed to hide operations Ai mill workers use a camel to power the process and a boy shovels powder into jugs The dye, sourced mainly from Bam, colors hair nails and coats animals with red or fox red hues, supporting Persia and neighboring markets Bernhard Kellermann describes the scene in Berliner Tageblatt Living Age.
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Yezd
Peraig
Bam
Persia
Bernhard Kellermann
Berliner Tageblatt
Famous Leonardo da Vinci works and their status
The Last Supper, painted for the Duke of Milan on walls of Santa Maria delle Grazie, now decaying with fine copies including a Royal Academy version. The Mona Lisa, housed in the Louvre, is also ranked among the artist’s greatest paintings.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Milan
Madonna del Grazie
Royal Academy
London
Louvre
Making Safes Safer With Loud Internal Plates
A new safe uses one inch thick plate material inside the chamber that emits loud reports if tampered with. The system warns against attempted theft by heat or force and has proven resistant to melting, breaking, or destroying the material.
Little girl asks if a planted dead bird will grow
In Burbank a four year old girl and a boy found a dead bird in a neighbor's yard. They examined it with a family member answering their several questions. The girl then asked if planting the bird would make it grow.
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Nighbor
Long Drop Little Freddie’s Odd Question About Frankie
A mother comforts Freddie as he asks if Frankie came from heaven like him and muses that Frankie must have landed on his feet, explaining his bow-leggedness. The dialogue reveals a tender family moment with a playful, childlike line about origins and feet.
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Freddie
Frankie
Industry and Agriculture Must Balance for Small Town Growth
President T R Preston argues bankers see agriculture as an economic problem needing a mix of industry. He cites Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania as models where industry alongside farming reduces agricultural issues, boosts employment, tax revenue, and education. He highlights Kingsport and Elizabethton Tennessee as examples of industrialization lifting populations and investment, urging future manufacturing in small towns to ease labor pressure and broaden prosperity.
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T. R. Preston
American Bankers Association
Winn
Preston State
New York
Ohio
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Elizabethton
Bankers Aid Farmer Movement Grows in Pennsylvania
William S. McKay chairman of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association Agricultural Committee reports growth of the banker farmer movement in Pennsylvania. County agents lead, with county chairmen of agriculture and county bankers associations aligning banking with farming. The year shows efforts in state college courses for young farmers, farm shows, agricultural tours, club activities, lectures on poultry and cow testing, and distribution of livestock and disease free potatoes.
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Banker-Farmers
Pennsylvania
William 5. McKay
Pennsylvania Bankers Association
Agricultural Commission
American Bankera Association
State College
Mckay
Banking as a Service to State Prosperity and Character
A remark on banking institutions praising their role in material prosperity and, more importantly, as a service that will positively shape the character of those it serves. The statement links financial institutions to broader societal benefit and personal virtue.
Bankers Help Randolph County Farmers Reach Goals
A Fayetteville Arkansas banker headlines local farm progress in Randolph County. His push for purebred cattle seed improvements and county agent support aided clubs for boys and girls. The note details bankers financing four purebred groups, prize hens, and productive dairy outcomes over a period, highlighting farm service payments and community efforts.
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Fayettesville
Arkansas
Randolph County
Ark
Poverty and Cold Grip Beijing Population
A Washington Star excerpt notes many in Peking cannot afford heat and that daily deaths from cold rise as poverty worsens. Uncle Eben remarks on happiness if the fruit crop failed, linking hardship to scarcity and morale amid harsh winters.
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Eben
Uncle Eben
Adam
Washington Star
We Know Is Received Condemnation from Both Sides
A brief note states that the We Know phrase has drawn condemnation from both sides while urging impartial handling of all cases in California. The fragment references pyper handling and suggests ongoing dispute.
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California
Pyper
Happiness and Hope in Ruskin's Reflections
A compact reflective verse-like note quotes Ruskin on happiness found in labor, reading, thinking, loving, hoping, and praying. The message highlights inner fulfillment through daily virtuous acts and personal growth.
Lessons Learned and Used
A condensed note cites a Posten Transcript on applying yesterday’s lessons to today’s actions. It emphasizes practical wisdom and continual improvement through experience.
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Posten
A Vision of What Might Have Been at Lindbergh’s Welcome
A Washington Post editor’s vivid portrait of Lindbergh’s New York reception sparks reflections on missed opportunities. Nilson, now retired, recalls a shared dream with Crawford to attend college, a journey derailed by a girlfriend’s doubts forty years earlier.
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The
Washington Post
Lindbergh
New York
Nilson
Crawford
Nilsen
Budapest Bills to Rid City of Rodents
Budapest city fathers frame a bill to rid the city of rodents. They ought not to have trouble getting stratified as they push for pest control measures across districts. Farm and Fireside notes the plan with a humorous nod to city governance.
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Pied Piper
Budapest
Made Name infamous Jack the Dike Exeter
The entry recalls how the instrument nicknamed Jack the Ripper used to be called the Dike Exeter after John Holland Duke of Exeter who served as keeper of the Tower of London in 1447 and earned a fearsome reputation.
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England
John Holand
Duke of
Exeter
Teaver
London
De cadent humor and the thirst for renown in satire
An English writer notes that modern humor hinges on nothing or age old jokes from myth and biblical tales. He argues that the drive for fame and honor is strong, and that such desires serve great purposes when given to mankind.
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Atam
Eve
Tain
Abel
Woman recounts cure with Sorbol Quadruple at home
Mrs James Murphy of Brockville Pennsylvania narrates her experience using Sorbol Quadruple as described in the Brookville American. She reports relief after a few days and disappearance of dreadful symptoms. The product is applied externally, pleasant to use, and inexpensive. Manufactured by Sorbol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio. Sold by druggists including Lewis N Moyers drug store.
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James Murphy
Brockville
The
Brookville American
Sorbo
Sorbol Company
Iechanicsburg
Ohio
Lewis N. Moyers Drug Store
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