Tragedy of Amy Castaldi in the July 1933 storm
Amy Castaldi of Chicago endured a night of terror when a fierce gale raged through her home. With her three children inside, the wind smashed windows and tore the house apart while a live wire lay nearby. they sought shelter in a factory where a night watchman aided them.
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Amy Castaldi
Chicago
Amy
Louisville
Castaldis
WIN Service
New Taxes Foretold by Senator Harrison Warns
Washington based column notes Sen. Pat Harrison as chair of the Senate finance committee warns of new taxes in the coming year due to a multibillion dollar federal deficit. It argues broadening tax scope including indirect taxes and lower income brackets, and contrasts House Ways and Means reluctance with Harrison’s push.
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Washington
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Congress
Bureau of Internal Revenue Statistics
House Committee On Ways and Means
House
Roosevelt
Hoover
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
White House
Jones
Crowley
FDIC
Western Newspaper Union
Practical Frocks Patterns Appeal to Home Sewers
The ad promotes sewing patterns for large figures and school girls with fabrics like silk crepe georgette and wool. It highlights sizes 36 to 52 for dresses and 8 to 16 for children, plus fabric yardage. It also pitches a sewing book Success in Sewing with 15 cent patterns and a Chicago address for orders.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
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Formed long ago the Wisconsin Dells carved by river and ice
The Wisconsin Dells formed thousands of years ago as the Wisconsin River shifted course over limestone. Glacial action carved odd shapes, giving rise to features named the Turk's Head, the Balanced Rock, the Needle, and the Devil's Doorway.
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Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin
Dells
English Expressions and Nuances in Everyday Speech
The passage outlines how English expressions carry unique intensity in describing events and states. It contrasts phrases like pretty middlin affair and not arf with stronger American equivalents, noting how terms such as a tidy few a bit of a draft and a drop too much convey varied degrees of severity.
Threads of Life and the Loom of Incidence
A reflective meditation on free will and fate as a person intersects others in life. The speaker notes how human lives weave together, sometimes touching, drifting, or missing one another, with unseen forces guiding patterns that reappear or continue weaving beyond perception. The question remains whether recurrence is coincidence or deeper force.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Vandenberg
Michigan
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Gottes Acre cemetery inscriptions from Schoenbrunn village
In a Moravian village cemetery in Schoenbrunn, later part of Tuscarawas County Ohio, the site is known as Gottes Acker God’s Acre. Read inscriptions include Rebecca daughter of J Levi and Salome who died June 17 1773 Anna Rosina who fell asleep August 11 1775 Phoebe widow a great sufferer who passed over January 17 1774.
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Schoenbrunn
Tuscarawas County
Ohio
Gottes Acker
Rebecca
J. Levi
Salome
Anna Rosina
Phoebe
Wise and Otherwise Snippet on Laziness Charity and Marriage
A collection of quips and witticisms on laziness charity friendships money and marriage. The piece playfully weighs social behavior with a satirical tone and quirks in modern life. It notes golf dangers and cites an unlikely rise in silk stocking production over five years.
Strange Coronation Chair Carved for a British School Boy
Britannica Junior notes the oak Westminster coronation chair bears the name of a Westminster schoolboy P Abbot who slept in the chair January 4 1801 The chair dates to the fourteenth century and sits above the Stone of Destiny brought by Edward I in 1296 It was moved during Cromwell's era and again used for George VI's coronation.
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Westminster School
P. Abbot
Westminster Abbey
Edward the Confessor
Chaucer
Isaac Newton
Britain
Scone
Scotland
Edward the First
Edward I
London
Oliver Cromwell
Westminster Hall
Cromwell
George VI
Britannica Junior
Household Questions From Practical Kitchen Tips
A collection of simple home tips on decorating ice with mint and cherries, washing flour sieves in soda water, peeling onions with hot water, hanging pictures at eye level, avoiding ironing by air drying slightly damp sheets, reusing ribbon from gift boxes as shoulder straps, and removing perspiration and scorch marks from white silk with a bicarbonate paste.
Great Wall length and citizenship myths questioned
The questions cover length of the Great Wall of China and whether U S state citizenship implies national citizenship, plus queries on sea lilies, Utah name origin, Bach family musicians, India's languages, strikes comparisons, emerald origins, and the Christ of the Andes inscription.
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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 Among Ancient Landmarks
The Great Wall of China stretches over 1,500 miles in length. Sea lilies are marine animals related to starfish, while sea lilies belong to the animal kingdom.
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Great Wall of China
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