Say Ruth I m awful sorry I can t be home for dinner
A Brooklyn real estate agent Jim Boyd promises his wife Ruth a homecoming dinner as he hides a criminal partnership with Dan McGrew and a plan to stage a late night cigar store robbery. The scene shifts between 1907 Hell's Kitchen and 1927 framing, foreshadowing tension.
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Ruth
McGrew
Ruth Boyd
Jim
Brooklyn
Jack Boyd
Jack
Jim Boyd
Dan McGrew
Long Island
Tenth Avenue
West Side
New York
Hell's Kitchen
Theoore Roosevelt
Dan
Sing Sing
Carby Dunn
Carby
Luke
Tim
Bure
Thirty-seventh Street
Temptation When You Meet Temptation Turn to the Right
A short anonymous admonition urges turning right when facing temptation. The compact moral note appears as a dated moral fragment without broader context or attribution.
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Annon
Bossism To Become a Boss Requires No Ng
Forbes Magazine notes a paradox in leadership culture highlighting that attaining the status of boss does not depend on any specific code or rule. The piece discusses perceptions of authority and the mechanics of rising to leadership within organizations.
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Forbes Magazine
Areas of Industry Move to City Outskirts
Baltimore industrial bureau director HL Windley French says larger and smaller industries are shifting to outskirts as they plan a decade ahead. Reconsideration of previously passed over tracts shows new opportunity as ground and facilities improve. Most buyers come from the local town due to growing markets.
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HL. Windley French
Industrial Buureau
Baltimore
French
Real estate's four major groups and developer role
The article explains four real estate groups: developers, operators, brokers, and agents. It emphasizes the developer as the organizer who acquires raw land, plans it, improves it, subdivides, and markets home sites, initiating subsequent real estate activity.
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Wilds of Nature
California jays bathe before breakfast in natural habits
Nature Magazine notes that California jays favor eggs of wild birds or domestic fowl and prefer newly hatched nestlings. The birds are praised for care of kin and personal cleanliness shown by their cold morning bath before eating.
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California
Nature Magazine
Home Builder Should Look to the Future
The home builder should ensure the proposed area remains a residential district and seek advice on land trends nearby. Zoning can shift if legitimate commercial demands arise, so assess protected status and potential changes to guide long term property use.
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Tle
Considerations of Color and Exterior Schemes
The piece argues for using nature as a guide in choosing house colors. It notes elephants with sober gray tones, while birds and insects display vivid colors. A small amount of bright color is preferred over large expanses, with neutral tones best used sparingly as accents.
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Elephant
Coloring Driveways with Mineral Pigments for Lasting Hue
Coloring cement driveways with permanent mineral pigments adds a harmonious red gray palette that complements green grass and the house. The cost impact is small as a small amount of pigment goes a long way, enhancing appearance.
Trees Planted Along Stockton Sacramento Highway
Soroptimist club has planted a half mile of trees on each side of the Stockton Sacramento highway. The American Tree Association reports the plan to beautify roads across the United States is gaining momentum in many regions.
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Stockton-Sacramento
Painted trees planned on French Route Nationale to cut crashes
Along the Route Nationale in France trees at intersections and cross roads are being white painted to about six feet high. The aim is to reduce motor accidents caused by darkened roads.
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Route Nationale
France
Calendar on the Wrist Oblique English Wristwatch
An England made oblong wristlet measures one inch by one and a half and records time, day of the week, month, date, and moon phases. The four lunar and calendar records are shown in small circles on the dial.
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England
Location of the Set Is Most Important
Experts advise proper radio set placement affects sound quality. Jess Hawley and Arthur T. Haugh emphasize not placing consoles too close to walls and keeping portable speakers at maximum cord distance, with adjacent listening rooms preferred for best tone.
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Jess Hawley
Newcomb-Hawley Company
Arthur T. Haugh
United Reproducers Corporation
Peerless Division
Education Prize Definition From The Forum
A prizewinning definition of education appears in the Forum describing it as knowledge gained through systematic and harmonious cultivation of natural powers, enabling a person to adjust satisfactorily to their physical and intellectual environment.
Heaviside Layer Described by Heaviside and Preece
In 1892 Arthur W Heaviside a British scientist and Sir William Preece described the heaviside layer a region of ionized air in the upper atmosphere during experiments with parallel telegraph lines.
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Heaviside
Arthur W. Heaviside
Sir William Preece
Odd Computation Wortplay in Austriggn Subtraction Method
The text discusses a puzzle style where subtraction is treated as addition. It gives an example: the question asks what added to 43 gives 18, answering with SH. The note links SH to the phrase 43 minus 8 and explores numeric wordplay and letter mappings in a dated diagram.
President on the Air In Talk On Budget
President Coolidge and H M Lord will discuss the budget on NBC coast-to-coast radio January 28. The semi annual meeting of Federal Government business organization will be at Memorial Continental Hall Washington from 6 30 to 8 o clock with Army Band music to open and close.
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United States
Coolidge
H. M. Lord
NBC
National Broadcasting Company
Memorial Continental Hall
Washington
United States Army Band
Weak Humanity Fined and Misunderstood Allegations
A fragmented text laments society's failings and misjudgments toward the good and beautiful. The speaker condemns hostility from unempathetic crowds while noting confusion and alienation in their reactions.
Public libraries early roots traced to Nineveh
The text argues that the real pioneer of public libraries was Sardanapalus of Assyria. It states that six and a half centuries before the Christian era he gathered about 10 000 cuneiform tablet works at Nineveh for all to read.
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Sardanapalus
Nineveh
Real Estate Insurance and Investment Services Offered
Local agency advertises real estate services along with insurance of all kinds, investment securities, scrivening and clerking of sales. Offers consultation and brokerage support for property transactions and legal filings.
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Hershey & Gibbel
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