Honeymoon porch supper with Simeon Bartlett ends in promise
Nick and Gay host Simeon Bartlett at their cottage after a moonlit walk. Bartlett offers blunt, practical marriage advice while praising Gay’s cooking. The couple exchange tender moments about their future and a tricky problem Gay plans to reveal later, as they ride home.
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Mr. Bartlett
Simeon Bartlett
Gay
Nick
Gorry
Seri
Meller’s Falls
Sonny
Simeon
Moranti to Build Mediterranean Sea Tunnel for Spain Morocco
Paul J. Moranti, famed engineer who reshaped New York transit, is appointed consulting engineer for a Mediterranean tunnel linking Spain and Morocco. He will soon begin borings off Gibraltar to oversee the project while his subway excavation for the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit System nears completion ahead of schedule.
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Paul J. Moranti
Wall Street
Mediterranean Sea
Spain
Morocco
Gibraltar
Moranti
Brooklyn-Manhattan
Tempting Japanese Matrimonial Ad Lures British Reader
A translated Japanese matrimonial ad extols beauty and a large fortune offering lifelong devotion and a rose colored marble tomb. The quirky tone contrasts Eastern and Western sensibilities, highlighting cultural differences in marriage ideals.
Barbers in Sparta Offer Haircuts For Wheat
Sparta barbers accept wheat as payment for haircuts. Each bushel of wheat buys one haircut and 27 cents cash relief. Wheat trades around 67 cents a bushel and a trim is valued at 40 cents. Chickens owned by barbers may benefit from the deal.
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Sparta
Michigan
Baby's Own Tablets for infant stomach and bowel relief
This ad promotes Baby's Own Tablets as a safe laxative for babies and children that corrects digestion, eases constipation and indigestion, fights colds and fevers, and soothes teething pains. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Songs Of the People and the changing song landscape
The Manchester Guardian questions if any durable popular song has emerged in the last decade comparable to classic pursuits like After the Ball Was Over. It notes a sheet music collapse in New York amid talkies and mechanized music, arguing modern abundance yields barren results for songs of the people. Mil der worms? Millers Worm Powders are advertised as a health tonic for infants.
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Daisy Bell
Manchester Guardian
New York
Music Publishers’ Protective Association of America
Palestine grows oranges amid rising investment and bright prospects
Palestine is rising as an orange producer with a noted fine flavor and appearance. Jews in Palestine have invested over twenty million dollars in groves and new orchards are continually being planted. Recent experiments show flies avoid rooms lit by red or yellow glass, hinting at practical effects for housing.
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Palestine
Active Prospecting Year Brings Alaska? to Close in Alberta
The adjournment of prospecting operations in Northern Alberta ends a highly active year with five major companies carrying out extensive exploration by air at high cost. Reports indicate valuable mineral discoveries and significant data secured.
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Alberta
Little Helps For This Week From Sacred Verses And Remedies
A short devotional passage quotes Deuteronomy and Martin Luther praising God speaking to us, followed by a brief promotional notice for Douglas Egyptian Liniment promising relief for toothache neuralgia sore throat quinsy croup burns sores barber's itch and ringworm.
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Douglas
United States Junior Chamber Plans Winnipeg Tour
The national convention in Des Moines Iowa June 1931 will stage a post convention tour to Winnipeg led by national president Dunward Howes of Los Angeles.
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United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Des Moines
Iowa
Winnipeg
Dunward Howes
Los Angeles
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Martin Luther
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