SAFETY TALKS What Are You Going to Do
Traffic safety guidance notes that fatalities arise mainly from car pedestrian and multi vehicle collisions. National Safety Council 1937 data show 39 percent of fatal crashes involve a car and pedestrian. 26 percent involve two vehicles. non fatal injuries are mostly from multi vehicle crashes at 53 percent. Pedestrian deaths in 1937 totaled 15,400 with 10,300 deaths from motor vehicle incidents.
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National Safety Council
Mary Loring Weighs Writing Dreams Amid Family Finances
In New York Mary Loring endures Aunt Linnie Cotswell and romance interests while pursuing a breakthrough story for National Weekly. Her father sends a 85 dollar loan note, begging Mary to keep quiet about their financial strain as she drafts Their Son, seeking a publisher at Phillip Buchanan's office.
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Mary Loring
Jim
Linnie Cotswell
Lelia Ormsby
Mary
Ellen
Mamie
Peter
Christopher Cragg
Doctor Cragg
Linnie
New York
National Weekly
Jerome Taylor
Umberto Ballanci
Dad
Hawkinsville
Addie
Buchanan
Sei
Umberto Balianci
Balland
Lelia
Somerset Maugham
Balianci
Corliani
Miss Cotswell
Meeting with Phillip Buchanan at The National Weekly Office
Mary Loring arrives at ten for an interview with Phillip Buchanan in the National Weekly offices. She confronts a stern receptionist and a wary, Harvard-accented Buchanan who appears younger and more approachable than expected. The scene ends with a cautious exchange as she is admitted to his office.
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Phillip Buchanan
National Weekly
Mary
the National Weekly
Buchanan
Miss Hickenlooper
Miss Loring
The
Florida
Chris
Harvard
Typewriting as Character Gauge in French Theory
A Paris dispatch reports that French scholars compare typewriter output to handwriting as a sign of character. Margins and keystroke force reveal traits from taste and thrift to organization, intelligence, focus, and sensitivity in the typist’s personality.
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Paris United Press
Kiwi Its Strange Bird of New Zealand
One of the world’s strangest birds is the kiwi of New Zealand. It is about the size of a hen, cannot fly, and is such a sound sleeper that it can be picked up without waking.
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New Zealand
Simple Designs Are Lovely on Linens
Pattern 1960 offers 18 motifs from 2 by 3 inches to 2 by 15 inches for cutwork buttonhole stitches on scarfs towels and pillow cases. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eight Avenue New York for this transfer pattern and materials illustration of stitches.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Dr Caldwell's Pepsin Laxative Sensation Ad
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin with Laxative Senna. It claims rapid relief for stomach discomfort from undigested food and constipation, using Pepsin to break down proteins and laxative action to stimulate bowels. The pitch emphasizes safety, kid-friendly taste, and a money back offer.
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Dr. Caldwell
Waiting Room Definition of Home by Willie
A brief note defines home as where part of the family waits in a waiting room until the others finish using the car. The line attributes a domestic meaning to a shared space and time, reflecting a playful, familial view of home life.
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Willie
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