Night Storm Tragedy Leaves Family Shocked by Lightning
Mrs Sproul and her husband John endured a fierce thunderstorm that struck their home. Lightning ignited the kitchen and burned John, leaving a tree-shaped silver mark on his back. Their son searched for his father as neighbors entered to help.
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Bill Jones
Pete Smith
Mother Nature
Dame Nature
John J. Sproul
Keyport
N. J
Sproul
Sprouls
John Sproul
John
Mrs. Sproul
Gibraltar and Etesian Winds Overview
Gibraltar is a British colonial possession on the Iberian Peninsula near the Mediterranean entrance with a fortified rock rising 1,439 feet and a population around 21,000. Etesian winds are seasonal north wind patterns in the Mediterranean caused by Sahara heating and cooler European air.
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Gibraltar
Iberian Peninsula
Mediterranean Sea
Great Britain
Mediterranean
African
Sahara
Europe
Col Sherrill Named Manager of Cincinnati
Colonel Clarence O Sherrill accepted appointment as city manager of Cincinnati after serving as president of a prominent local organization. The record notes his recent move into municipal leadership.
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Col. Sherrill
Cincinnati
Clarence O. Sherrill
Sherrill
Modern Damon and Pythias in Ford guard circle
The piece traces Kid McCoy and Harry Bennett at Ford’s Dearborn plant where Bennett leads a “protective” group of ex convict and college athletes. It notes McCoy’s boxing fame, Bennett’s Navy background, and their discreet, assertive work in an Administration basement with hired men ready to act. Also mentioned are the Doukhobors and Charles Poletti’s rise to New York Supreme Court at age 33.
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Damon and Pythias
New York
Kid McCoy
Harry Bennett
Henry Ford
McCoy
Ford
Bennett
Dearborn
Ford “Protective
Huron
Reese
Navy
Tommy Ryan
Sam Robideau
Joe Fisher
Paddy Mills
Sailor Reese
Charles Poletti
Supreme Court of New York
Barre
Harvard
Giant Size Rules and Brightest Star Facts Quiz
The quiz reveals none definite height for giants with a seven foot two inch minimum. The North Star outshines the sun, emitting about 525 times more light. Electricity in a wire travels at about 186 284 miles per second, per modern theory. Hawaii is a U S territory integral to the United States. The deepest U S oil well is 10 440 feet at Bakersfield California. Movie tears are glycerin drops, not real tears. Uncle Sam destroys 3 to 4 tons of worn currency daily. The brown bear is the largest American bear, up to about 1 600 pounds.
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Hawaiian Islands
United States
America
Barnum
Bakersfield
Calif
Uncle Sam
Science and Advertising in Local Pharmacy Language
A pamphlet extols science and advertising as pillars of trusted medicine. It says remedies are tested in laboratories, manufactured with accuracy, and truth guides advertising. The local druggist is praised as the community's most valuable citizen.
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Cambria
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Belgium
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Vancouver
Wash
North Pole
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George Daidukov
Mary Norton
New Jersey
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Chicago
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Joe Louis
American Retail Federation
C. A. Dykstra
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University of Wisconsin
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Cannon Mountain
New Hampshire
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Robert Allison Parker
Father Divine
Peter Verigin I
British Columbia
Peter II
Halifax
Porwege Ei
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Lyons
League of Nations
John W. Davis Law Office
Democratic Committee
Lehman
Consolidated
WNU
Science and Advertising
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Tors
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