Colonial Center in Virginia Reclaimed With Authenticity
The 1938 Williamsburg restoration uses strict secrecy and archival research to recreate colonial Williamsburg. researchers traced maps, Jefferson floor plans, and Bodleian plates to verify architecture, bricks, and finishes. A rebuilt glaze brick process and fireproof shingles revived period materials and details.
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Wren
Huntington Library
California
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Massachusetts Historical Society
Bodleian Library
Oxford
Colonial College
Capitol
Palace
America
College
Francis Louis Michel
Williamsburg
England
Germany
Netherlands
Tidewater
Virginia
Department of Research
Spotswood
Rolland Comes Home To Die Teachings Will Be Remembered
Romain Rolland returns to France after exile in Switzerland at seventy two. Tolstoi praised him as a Europe conscience ward, but many have not read Jean Christophe published 1913. Rolland warns of war, urges peace, and rejects idols and rigid fronts.
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New York
Romain Rolland
Jean Christophe
Leo Tolstoi
Europe
Switzerland
France
Clamecy
Carl von Ossietsky
Jerusalem
America
Zurich
Meats
Gies
Henri Barbusse
Clarte
Fichte
Tolstoi
Ecole Normale
Wagner
Shakespeare
Potato Nutrition Facts and Composition
The potato is mostly water at over three quarters of its content. Starch makes up about one tenth to one fifth of its composition. It provides phosphorus and iron in good amounts and serves as a fair source of vitamin C.
Favorite Recipe of the Week Master Ice Cream Tray Method
Recipe for automatic refrigerator ice cream using powder sugar milk powder and cream in various flavors. Describes mixing chilling freezing in a tray with staged stirring at intervals and yields about a quart. Includes variations for chocolate flavor and doubling for larger quantities.
Quick and the Dead and Lightest Substances
The living and the dead and the word quick derives from cwic meaning living. Hydrogen is the lightest element known to science.
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The
Verse Rhythm and a Nation of 280 674 People
A compilation notes verse without rhyme or meter and cites that each Congress member represents about 280 674 people under current apportionment law. It also mentions Eurydice as the first opera staged in Florence in 1600 and lists communications facts on radio speed and cable counts. Ezra Meeker’s Oregon Trail journeys from 1851 to 1923 are recalled, and Public No 418-Seventy-fifth Congress is noted for prohibiting photography of military and naval defenses.
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Congress
Florence
Ezra Meeker
Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Ohio
Oregon Trail
Federal Communications Commission
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Pacific
Loveliness in Crochet Cloth Pattern 6084
Crochet cloth made with a big hook using two strands of string. Three sizes available with the smallest at 26 inches. Pattern 6084 includes instructions, illustrations, materials, and a cloth section photo. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York for pattern 6084.
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Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Dustless Dusters and Housekeeping Tips
Practical household hints cover making dustless dusters with kerosene soaked cheese cloth, repurposing worn stockings into child socks, removing finger marks from polished furniture with cold-water chamois, preventing milk curdling by adding baking soda while boiling, improving cut glass with blueing in soap suds, and cleaning rhinestones by soaking tarnished pieces in gasoline before polishing.
Will and party telegrams fuel sly gossip
A dialogue reveals Harold inherited the hostess’s lap-dogs from his rich aunt while a guest declines a house party by telegraph claiming a lie will arrive by mail. The tidbit hints at family feuds and hidden motives surrounding the will.
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Harold
Neighborly Exchange Sparks Tense Remark
In a private chat, Jenkins wonders if a worded flirtation from a woman is serious. Wilkins replies by revealing the woman is his wife, shifting the conversation to a personal boundary within relationships.
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Jenkins
Wilkins
Begging Charge Aged Man Pleads Hardship In Court
The defendant pleads he is not lazy and works when able while claiming long unemployment. A magistrate notes the prisoner's soft hands as evidence of years without work. The piece also comments on marriage and divorce with a humorous aside on Elixir of Life.
Winter Compliment Joke From A Toast To Alexander
A brief humorous exchange about a wife giving compliments only in winter. The husband notes her line when the fire dies down she says Alexander, the grate indicating a playful pun about heating and praise.
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Alexander
In Retrospect The good old times all times when old are good
A reflective piece recalling Byron style musings on aging and nostalgia, noting how memories of the past seem golden as time passes. It muses on sentiment, memory, and the paradox of longing for bygone days.
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Byron
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WNU Service
Old Dominion
Boston
Faneuil Hall
Old Trinity Church
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Wythe House
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Public Record Office
Warrington Dawson
Paris
Yorktown
By Lemuel F. Parton
Rolland
TTWAS
John Reith
British Broadcasting Corporation
John
Italy
Imperial Airways
Americans
Consolidated Mewes
WNU
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
Xesto
Makin’s
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Ter
Bruce
Bill Tew
Prince al
Prince Albert
Gwell
M.m
Reynolds Tebeces Co
Salem
O. H. Deans
Ld National Joy Smoke
Ydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Leonardi
B. Leonardi & Co
New Rochelle
N, Y
Lycar Co
Fort Worth
Tex
Harold Somers
Ave
B'kly
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