Great Lakes Exposition Opens With Honeymoon Visit
The Cleveland fair begins its 1937 edition drawing crowds of 160000 as honeymooners thrill to orange blossoms and a grand lakefront spectacle. Highlights include Billy Rose's Aquacade with 500 performers, a Winterland ice revue, vast gardens, nightly fireworks, and the Streets of the World.
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Cleveland
California
Florida
Lake Erie
Public Square
Industries
Hall of Progress
Great White Mansion
Earl Brown
Tallahassee
Billy Rose
Johnny Weismailer
Tarzan
Eleanor Holm Jarre i
Alsen Riggins
Krueger
Uren
Runbung
Tomance
Evelyn Chandler
America
Bruce Mapes
Petite Maribel Vinson
Duke and Noble
College Inn
Chicago
Rlde
Ripley’s
Willie C. Litley
Mildred Musts
Ursus
Johnny Weismuller
Golden Age Reverie and Modern Excess in Ancient California
In a reminiscence from Santa Monica, the author recalls an idealized prewar era ending in 1914, critiquing turning points like suffrage, Prohibition, and wealth, while lampooning modern society’s reliance on automobiles, orange substitutes, trailers, and luxury yachts, predicting traffic and social excess.
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Anta Monica
Calif
Uncle Sam
Teddy Roosevelt
W. J. Bryan
Circus Tycoon Unworried by Labor Trouble Flurry
In Washington the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey show boss Samuel W. Gumpertz stays calm amid a labor dispute drive led by Ralph White of the AF of A for union recognition. Gumpertz, a veteran impresario, has modernized the show while maintaining personnel harmony in a sprawling 1600-member troupe across forty-nine races. A French journalist visits, and American views on war and Nazism are discussed by German scholars, with varied remarks on public opinion and propaganda.
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York
Washington
Samuel W. Gumperts
Mammoth Ringling Brothers Barnam and Bailey
National Capital
Ralph Whitehead
New York
American Federation of Actors
Gumpertz
Bull
Sam Gumpertz
Dreamland Circus
Coney Island
William H. Reynolds
Gumperts
Col
Charming Crochet Panel for Dress Up and Home Use
A lacy Grandmother’s time panel 24 by 35 inches fits bedspreads or doors, with a bolster lengthwise option as a scarf. Use string or finer cotton, pattern 5790 provides instructions and charts, with material lists. Send 18 cents in stamps or coins to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for pattern 5790, include name and address.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Quotations on life love and purpose from notable authors
A compact collection of quoted lines reflecting views on possession jealousy faith friendship and pursuit of meaning. Notable names include Havelock Ellis Lenore Ulric Andre Maurois Bea La Gallienne William Lyon Phelps and G K Chesterton, illustrating varied statements on human motivation and virtue.
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Havelock Ellis
Lenore Ulric
Andre Maurois
Bea la Gallienne
William Lyon Phelps
G. K. Chesterton
Keep a Secret Quotes From Sir Philip Sidney
A brief aphorism about love and privacy notes that one may give all to a loved one, but a secret remains personal and cannot be gifted. The line emphasizes the boundary between devotion and personal boundaries within intimate relationships.
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Sir Philip Sidney
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Great Lakes Exposition
William C Utley
Dan
Broadway
Merica
Roger Babson
Mommer
Popper
Erven
Cobb
Irvin
Lemuel F. Parton
Jacques Chastenet
le Temps
M. Chastenct
United States
Middle West
M. Chastenet
Paris
Lycee Condorcet
Legion of Manor
Germany
Friedrich Schoenermann
la Guardia
New York City
University of Berlin
Schoenemann
Goltengin
Heidelberg
Ced
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Coleman Lamp and Stove CO
Redalphin, Pa
Los Angeles
Corduroy
Corduroy Rubber Company
Grand Rapids, Mich
Emerson
Quaker
Quaker State Oil Relonion Corp
Oil City
Quaker State Motor Oil
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