Carthage Reconsidered through Virgil and Flaubert’s Eyes
National Geographic report tours Carthage and Tunisian sites once famed by Dido and Hannibal. It notes modern urban growth around ancient ports, Punic relics, and a cross atop the amphitheater at El Djem amid a landscape of mosques, olives, and desert towns.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
Carthage
Dido
Hannibal
Hamilcar
Virgil
Gustave Flaubert
Philadelphia
Amman
Trans-Jordan
Flaubert
Salammba
Brysa
Salammbo
la Goulette
Lake of
Tunis
Gulf of Tunis
Mediterranean
Tyre
Sidon
Cardinal Lavigerie
Mohammed
Caesar
Augustus
Scipio
Hadrian
Tunisia
Kairouan
Dating Dilemmas and the Cost of Marriage Claims
A young man worries about marrying into a moneyed family while unable to provide a home. The columnist argues the fiancée pressures marriage for status, not future happiness, and warns of trouble if she stays in her parents home. The second letter from M V H asks how to handle a cheating, unambitious lover and is advised to end the pursuit and let him stand on his own.
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Miss Dene
Mother
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Beatrice Bisno Wins Sorrow Bread for Girl
In Maxwell Street Chicago a famed sweatshop reader Beatrice Bisno wins a $2,500 prize for her novel To Girl Wins Sorrow's Bread. Francis Oppenheimer and Dorothy Canfield Fisher praised the work as a stark portrait of an idealist facing a hard world.
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York
Sam Langford
League of Nations
Maxwell Street
Chicago
Abraham Bisno
Russia
Erasmus
Sweatshops
Illinois
Bisno
Jane Addams
Hull House
Gresham
Beatrice
Norman Angell
Bisnos
Francis Oppenheimer
New York
Beatrice Bisno
Helvetia
Rue de Tournon
Paris
Luxembourgh
Liveright
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Fannie Hurst
Oppenheimer
Oil Tankers to be Built for War Use
Washington reports the United States moves toward armed peace with private industry. Standard Oil of New Jersey signs to build twelve high speed tankers that can be armed in wartime, with the Maritime Commission funding auxiliary gear and the ships, costing an estimated 60 to 75 million dollars. Joseph Kennedy announced contracts totaling 37.56 million dollars to four shipyards for three ships each. The program raises total commission ships to 25 and could employ about 10,000 yard workers.
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Washington
United States
National Defense
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Maritime Commission
Standard Oil
Joseph P. Kennedy
North Atlantic
Commission
Kennedy
Yale Family Property Hidden in Bryn-Eglwys Village
H V Morton notes in In Search of Wales that Yale family land lies around Bryn-Eglwys. Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University, is buried not in the Yale chapel at Bryn-Eglwys but in Wrexham, about ten miles away.
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Yale
Bryn-Eglwys
H. V. Morton
Three Main Factors Behind Child Marriages
Chicago reports from the Society for Research in Child Development identify climate delinquency and disposition as drivers of teen marriages. Monograph findings show temperate regions 60 to 75 degrees foster 17.7 percent teen marriages, colder areas 7.5 percent, warmer climates hasten maturity. The study notes 2 percent of women from socially superior groups marry before 20, country girls wed earlier than city cousins, and native age women have 13.3 percent younger-generation weddings versus 6.3 percent for foreign parentage.
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Chicago
Society For Research In Child Development
Onions and Garlic Found Useful to Fight Disease
Albany health commissioner Dr. Daniel V. O’Leary says onions and garlic help combat infectious diseases due to germ killing chemicals. Researchers Dr. Richard E. Vollrath and Dr. Carl C. Lindgren were cited as isolating these compounds from USC.
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Albany
Daniel V. O’leary
Richard E. Vollrath
Carl C. Lindgren
Bacteriological Department
University of Southern California
O'Leary
Horseshoe of 1847 Found in Oak Tree
Del Monte California residents discover a horseshoe believed to be over 90 years old embedded in the heart of an ancient oak on the Del Monte golf course. The shoe is thought to date to Monterey era when it served Spanish California. the limb grew around it after the shoe was placed in the tree.
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del Monte
Calif
Monterey
Spanish California
The Island of Bali Youll Find Like That
A travel description of Bali in the Dutch East Indies notes that children wear sun hats, women carry loads on their heads, men on their shoulders, water buffaloes tolerate rough handling, and some residents have long fingernails to show they do not work. It adds boats have eyes to see at night.
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Bali
Dutch East Indies
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Virgil and Flaubert
Mount Zairouan
Sidi Sahab
Sabers
Rue Saussier
Eve
Paul Bourde
Bourde
Sousse
Sfax
Hadrumetum
le Bardo
el Djem
Kahena
Ann Arbor Stadium
By Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated News Features
U.S
Island
Amily
Carlyle
Nujol
Medical Journal
Nature
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