Answers to Readers Questions From 1920s Newspaper
A collection of reader inquiries and expert answers covering gun cartridge extraction, Billie Burke and Florenz Ziegfeld, caterpillar to moth metamorphosis, Bell System structure, necrology meaning, Missionary Hymn author, federal civil service retirements, ship scrapping totals, international law on medical practice, Houdini, snoring by gender, copper toe shoes origin, removing grease from books, homestead entries, clay use in papermaking, vocation versus avocation, etiquette on handshakes, Jack London’s age at death, and cold blooded reptiles.
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Billie Burke
Win
Blanche Burke
Washington, DC
France
England
London
New York
Florenz Ziegfield Jr
Bell System
Information Department
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
United States
Western Electric Company
Greenland
Reginald Heber
Ceylon
United? States
George A Mitchell
Mitchell
Maine
Department of the Interior
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
California
United States Bureau of Standards
Scraten Serres Sheeley Resources
Jn Tha
The
Bureau of Standards
Jack London
Judge Strahl heads syndicate buys S S President Arthur
Judge Jacob H. Strahl leads a syndicate of American Jews that purchased the S S President Arthur from the Emergency Fleet corporation for about 60000 dollars. The ship will be refitted to host pilgrimages to the Holy Land, with extensive cabin upgrades planned.
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Jacob H. Strahl
American Palestine Line, Inc
S. S
Arthur
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Holy Land
Princess Matelka
Orpheus Inspires Music Links Across Clubs and Myths
The legendary Thracian musician Orpheus is famed for inventing the lyre and enchanting beasts with his melodies. His tale includes the descent to Hades to retrieve Eurydice, and his name adorns many musical clubs as a patron of song and art.
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Orpheus
Hades
Eurydice
Osaka Millionaire Renounces Wealth to Lead Buddhist Life
Yamaguchi Gendo, Osaka financier and devout Buddhist, resigns from business to live in a Yokogawa shanty near Kyoto. He donates 600000 yen to social causes, liquidating mills and estates. Funds entrusted to Murachi Kyujiro. Yamaguchi, born 1868 in Onomichi, previously contributed 3 million yen to charity and funded the Yamaguchi Kosei hospital. He has no children.
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Osaka Asahi
Yamaguchi Gendo
Osaka
Yokogawa
Bakamoto
Mount Hiei
Kyoto
Murachi Kyujiro
Osaka Shoji Kaisha
Yamaguchi
Onomichi
Yamaguchi Kosei Hospital
Osaka Medical University
Yamaguch
Not Bad Mrs. Golitely Doctor Speaker
Unclear dialogue excerpt from a Brooklyn Eagle piece shows a speaker scolding a doctor over a bill and urging a cut in half or another solution. An elderly Uncle Eben comments on younger people feeling empowered.
Parisian Critique Triggers Sneer at Modern Male Fashion
The piece mocks M Poe iret and Paris fashion expert M Palu Potret for belittling men's styles calling them sausages. It cites reforms like velvet capes chiffon waists and trousers with real cut as impractical yet notes male vanity and democracy in fashion. The text compares social types and notes even cloaks of civility blur class lines.
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M. Palu Potret
St. Paul
Judy O'Grady
Judy O’grady
Cassena Flavor for Drinks
A wild Gulf Coast plant named cassena grows from Texas to Virginia and yields a beverage tested in the Agriculture Department lab. The leaves can be cured for commercial use, and hot water infusions of the leaves have served as a flavor base in fountain drinks.
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Gulf of South Atlantic States
Texas
Virginia
Department of Agriculture
South
Venerable Brother Asked to Confess at Harangue
A loud street preacher asks a man to come forward and confess sins while an old man bluffs about his hearing. The exchange reveals a humorous misinterpretation as bystanders try to decode the preacher's intent and office being run for.
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P'tu
Lopstitch
Kansas City Star
Cedar Tree Crowned by Hat in Nova Scotia Swamp
A cedar in a swamp near Chatham Nova Scotia has grown through a felt hat that has sat on it for at least 25 years. The tree stands twenty feet tall and the trunk pushes through the hat about five feet from the ground, with sturdy branches beginning a foot above.
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Chatham
N. S
Lightning Burns Clothes on Garment Line in Goshen
A lightning strike hit a wire clothesline near Goshen causing the wash to burn instantly. The freak weather event damaged the clothing and laundry on the line, with flames and scorch marks reported at the scene.
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Goshen
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Bureau
Great Britain
Japan
Padova
Italy
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Houdini
Harry Houdini
Appleton
Wisconsin
Mayer Samuel Weiss
William Jenkins
Jenkins
Bayer
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Boston
Reparations Commission
Sle
James I. Perkins
Rory Doe
Sera Ano
Uncle Eben
Cesspool
Bennett-Barnes CO
Ferro Haute
Ind
First St
Wabash
Ohlo, Terre Haute
Chief Justice White
Justice Harlan
Supreme Court
Clark County
Marshall Herald
Ilinois
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