Tragedy and Turmoil Follow Chicago Family Storm
Amy Castaldi of Chicago endures a deadly sequence as a freak July 1933 tornado tears through her home. She shields her three children during flying debris and a live wire incident, then seeks shelter in a factory as dawn reveals shattered windows and flood damage. The account contrasts with political danger as another column argues new taxes are unavoidable to balance budgets. Senator Pat Harrison warns of higher levies amid federal deficits and calls for extended tax scopes impacting households and businesses.
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Amy
WNU
Harrison
Congress
Bureau of Internal Revenue Statistics
House Committee On Ways and Means
House
Roosevelt
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Practical Frocks Patterns Promote Home Sewing Ease
Advertises new fabrics and patterns for large women and school girls. Details sizes 36 to 52 and 8 to 16 years, fabric suggestions, and yardage. Promotes book Success in Sewing and pattern orders to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Chicago.
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Jersey
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Coronation Chair Bears a British Schoolboy’s Name
The oak Coronation Chair at Westminster Abbey bears the inscription of a boy from Westmin ster School who slept in the chair on January 4, 1801. The chair dates to the fourteenth century and sits above the Stone of Destiny brought by Edward I.
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Westminster School
P. Abbot
Westminster Abbey
Edward the Confessor
Chaucer
Isaac Newton
Britain
Scone
Scotland
Edward
Edward I
London
Abbey
Oliver Cromwell
Westminster Hall
Cromwell
George VI
Britannica Junior
Wisconsin Dells Formations Named by Ancient Stream
The Wisconsin Dells formed thousands of years ago as the Wisconsin river shifted its course across a limestone bed. Glacial action and erosion carved features like the Turk's Head, Balanced Rock, the Needle, and the Devil's Doorway into the landscape.
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Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin
Dells
English Expressions Show Peculiar English Usage
A discussion of distinct English phrases reveals how local terms express severity and scale. Phrases like pretty middlin affair and not arf convey nuance beyond standard equivalents with examples of a tidy few and a drop too much illustrating exaggeration and intoxication.
Threads of Life
A reflective meditation on human life, choice, and coincidence. The author contemplates how individuals’ paths intersect, blur, and reappear, as if unseen forces guide or nudge events across time. The looping pattern suggests fate and connection weaving through lives.
Gottes Acre Cemetery In Schoenbrunn Moravian Village
The Ohio graveyard Gottes Acker known as God’s Acre in Schoenbrunn features inscriptions reading Rebecca the little daughter of J Levi and Salome who died June 17 1773 Anna Rosina Fell Asleep Aug 11 1775 Phoebe a Widow a Great Sufferer Passed Over Into the Land of Well Jan 17 1774.
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Schoenbrunn
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
Gottes Acker
Rebecca
J. Levi
Salome
Anna Rosina
Phoebe
Wise and Otherwise: Quips on laziness and charity
A collection of pithy maxims on human faults and social habits. Observations note laziness and speech, home charity, friendship choices, money as poison with marriage as antidote, golf as danger, spontaneous combustion questions, and a fivefold rise in silk stocking output over five years.
Household Questions and Easy Home Remedies
A collection of kitchen and home tips on decorating ice cubes with mint and cherries, washing flour sieves in soda water, peeling onions with hot water, hanging pictures at eye level, drying sheets to avoid ironing, reusing gift ribbon for underwear straps, and removing perspiration and scorch marks from white silk with a bicarbonate paste.
Great Wall length and cultural questions answered
Answer set covers Great Wall length, US state citizenship, sea lilies, Utah name meaning, Bach family's musicians, India's languages, US vs UK strike counts, emerald sources, Christ of the Andes inscription. Individual facts: about 8 generations of musicians, 225 languages in India, 1937 US strikes 12,148. UK 1,175. Emeralds mainly from Colombia. Rotary tablet inscription in Spanish about peace at Christ the Redeemer site.
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China
United States
Utah
Bach
India
Great Britain
Argentina
Chile
Columbia
South America
Rotary Club of
Valparaiso
The Great Wall Length and Sea Lily Facts
The Great Wall of China extends over 1500 miles. Sea lilies are marine animals related to starfish and belong to the animal kingdom.
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Great Wall of
China
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Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
Ello
Amy Castaldi
Louisville
Castaldis
William Bruckart
National Press Bidg
Washington, D. C
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Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Hoover
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
White House
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Mr. Jones
Crowley
FDIC
Western Newspaper Union
Threads of
Brackart
Washington Digest
Menormeite Fotteres
Siaru
Full Directions
Iam
Una
Ina
Twins
Jimmie
Janie
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