Paper chairs may be built soon at Armour Research Foundation
The Armour Research Foundation at Illinois Institute of Technology develops a paper understructure for chairs and sofas. A paper fiber mat forms a solid, quarter to half inch thick framework in ten minutes, impregnated with resins for strength, then upholstered. Thorp says it is as strong as wood and handles heavy use better than plywood, saving labor and wood.
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Chicago
Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute Ofogy
Clark E. Thorp
Chemistry
Thorp
Snow Clearing Plans Announced for Major Streets
Chief Joseph Blackmore urged residents to cooperate as crews finish snow loading. Charles Street and Baltimore Street will be cleared tomorrow with no parking from 7:30 a.m. to noon. Police will guard the work zones along these stretches under Street Superintendent W. H. Shawhan.
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Joseph Blackmore
Charles St
Baltimore St
Blackmore
Central Ave
Tytus Ave
W. H. Shawhan
Belgium Planning Vacation Shows On Coast
Belgium plans a coast entertainment push to lure Belgians to stay home. French, Swedish and American stars such as Maurice Chevalier Orson Welles and Swedish tenor Tygesen will perform to promote Belgian beaches and halt the 58 percent of Belgians vacationing abroad, aiming to bolster coastal tourist trade.
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Ostend
Belgium
Maurice Chevalier
Orson Welles
Tygesen
Texan cowboy runs Lone Star Ranch near Beersheba
Jesse Tex Slade, 25, from Pecos County, Texas, farms about 180 head of cattle on a rough Negev ranch 50 miles south of Beersheba. He battles occasional Arab raids while adapting to brisk demand for milk and meat in austere Israel. Slade remains a familiar, Western-booted figure in the region.
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Beersheba
Israel
Negev Desert
Jesse
Tex) Slade
Pecos County
Tex
Slade
Lone Star Ranch
Princess Tatzumbie Du Pea’s 161 year lecture on staying young
Los Angeles reports Princess Tatzumbie Du Pea of the Piute tribe, age 161, preaching calm living to 125 attendees at a lecture on aging. She warned anger poisons the system and shortens life, urging the creed think right live right help those in need.
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Los Angeles
Tatzumbie du Pea
Marketing blurb for FASTEETH dental powder
An advertisement for FASTEETH promotes a powder to improve comfort of loose dentures. It claims the powder helps upper and lower plates fit tighter with no gummy taste or pasty feeling and is non acid and odor reducing. Available at any drug store.
City Smiles as Sun Returns and Thaw Begins
Middletown eyes thaw after a bright week of sun ends a heavy snow siege. Street Department opens inlets to handle rushing gutters while seven contractors assist and officials debate machinery purchases for future emergencies. Warren and Butler counties report lingering road issues with school doors reopening plans adjusted as temperatures rise into the mid 30s.
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Middletown
Warren County
Harveysburg
Waynesville
Monroe
Carlisle
Springboro
Kings Mills
Mason
Carols Add to the Joys of Christmas
Education writer David Taylor reports Mrs. Frank Kelly of the Kentucky Congress of Parents and Teachers urges Christmas carols to enrich children through music. She says early musical exposure builds communication, health, science understanding, and emotional and spiritual growth, with music a universal language and essential to public welfare.
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David Taylor Marke
Frank Kelly
Kentucky Congress of Parents and Teachers
Kentucky
David
Plato
Vancouver judge imposes longer sobriety sentences
Vancouver magistrate Matheson said he is losing patience with repeat drunkenness. A third drunkenness charge will carry a minimum six months in jail, up from the usual 30 day sentence.
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Vancouver
Magisstrate Matheson
Cleopatra's Death Leads Egypt to Roman Rule
After Cleopatra's death by her own action, Egypt shifted from a Ptolemaic kingdom to a Roman province, marking a decisive end to Hellenistic rule and beginning imperial governance under Rome. The transition reshaped regional power dynamics and paved the way for Roman administration across the Nile basin.
New Ethiopian Railroad Planned
A committee of French technicians will depart to survey the road-bed for an extension of the Franco Ethiopian Railway Co. The project aims to span about 310 kilometers from Modjo to Addis Ababa and connect Lake Margaret to the Djibouti line in the south.
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Djibouti
French Somaliland
Franco-Ethiopian Railway Co
Modjo
Addis Ababa
Lake Margaret
Bradley University rider plans rough tour of Europe by bicycle
Ge Tillotson, 22, of Peoria Illinois voyaging by bicycle to the British Isles and other parts of Europe on a $300 fund. He expects the trip to be rough but believes it will succeed. He is a student at Bradley University.
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Peoria, Ill
Ge Tillotson
British Isles
Europe
Bradley University
Buddhist church owns vast farmland in Tibet through sharecroppers
The Buddhist church controls nearly all farm land in Tibet, renting to farmers who operate as sharecroppers under the church’s ownership and management.
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The
Buddhist Church
Tibe
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