Adventurers' Club honors Maury Dunford as fire hero
Maury Dunford of Chicago named today’s adventurer for a 1929 Russelville Arkansas fire incident. While battling attic flames he was shocked by electrified water yet remained clamped to the nozzle until a downstairs switch shut off power, saving him from a fatal shock.
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Ello
Maurice Dunford
Chicago
Russelville
Ark
Ozarks
Arkansas River
Maury
Ifa
Thought and Language Expressed Beyond Words
The Detroit News discusses language as a means to express thought, noting babies and dogs communicate without words. It suggests simple thoughts can be expressed without words, while music and math offer other expression forms. It speculates primitive language relied on gestures and cries.
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Detroit News
Tungsten Lamp Filament Wire Properties
Tungsten is valued for lamp filaments due to its extreme properties. It boasts a melting point of 3400 degrees Celsius a very low vapor pressure and a tensile strength of 600000 psi when worked. A former belief that tungsten was brittle was overturned by an expert who drew it into a bendable wire at room temperature.
Magna Charta Signed in 1215 at Runnymede
Londons Tit Bits notes four Magna Charta originals from 1215 exist. Two are in the British Museum one in Lincoln Cathedral and the best specimen in Salisbury Cathedral. The charter was signed on a small island in the river. Key clauses limit arbitrary imprisonment and taxation and preserve city rights.
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Runnymede
London Tit-Bits
British Museum
Lincoln
Salisbury
England
Ventriloquists Traced From Ancient Belief to Modern Art
A Washington Post writer notes ventriloquists produce words by standard vocalization but with special breathing and articulation control. The piece traces ventriloquism from ancient practices where statues of pagan gods were believed to speak through ventriloquists, highlighting its long held allure and techniques.
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Washington Post
Navy Building Budget Increase eyed by Adm Leahy
Adm William D Leahy chief of naval operations leaves the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt on next years naval building program He says the budget may need a rise of 200000000 dollars due to higher costs as ships under construction progress The program will go before the next congress.
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William D. Leahy
Naval Operations
White House
Roosevelt
Admiral Leahy
Escondido Crowned Queen of Grape Harvest
In Escondido California Miss Margaret Wiley is hailed as queen of the grape harvest after a bountiful season. The annual festival drew larger crowds than usual as residents celebrated the abundant crop and crowned their harvest queen.
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California
Escondido
Calif
Margaret Wiley
Bing Crosby in Sing You Sinners tops New Mexico screen notes
Paramount hitches Crosby to his hobby racing in Sing You Sinners a comedy with an uproarious mood and two songs. The cast includes Elizabeth Patterson Fred MacMurray and John Carradine delivers standout minor work in Alexander’s Ragtime Band. News notes Raft Lamour Langdon Kayser and Fred Allen radio plans.
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Bing Crosby
Paramount
Bing
Elizabeth Patterson
Fred MacMurray
Joe Beebe
Joe
John Carradine
Alexander
George Raft
Lloyd Nolan
Dorothy Lamour
Raft
Harry Langdon
Hardy
Laurel and Hardy
Stan Laurel
Studio
Charlie McCarthy
Easy to Make Crochet Medallion Pattern 6118
Affordable leisure craft guide shows making medallion pinwheels for a stylish spread. Includes instructions, stitching illustration, photograph, and materials list. pattern 6118 offered for 15 cents via The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York City.
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Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th St
New York
Citpa
Extras Boom Strains Actors as Studio Calls Rise
The Central Casting office reports a flood of calls for under 35 extras as studios seek fresh faces while veteran performers struggle to find work. Janet Gaynor may debut under Selznick profit share in Forever. The Cowboy and the Lady trims three cast members Benita Hume Thomas Mitchell and David Niven for economy. The North sees Ginidette Albert keep working amid studio shifts and Western focus.
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Janet Gaynor
Selznick
the Pictre
O Ae
Benita Hume
Thomas Mitchell
David Niven
Ginidette Albert
North
Ed RY
Wintersmith’s Tonic Praised in Two Ladies Letters
Two unsolicited testimonials celebrate Wintersmith’s Tonic as a cure for fever and chills. One woman’s son recovered after use and a friend reports rapid relief after a second dose. Mrs. M. F. notes the tonic builds the system and calls it proven malaria medicine used for over 70 years in the South.
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Wintersmith’s
Intersmith’s
Be It Right Whatsoever Thy Hand Findeth to Do
A compact motto echoes in the text urging steadfast effort in all duties. The phrase emphasizes disciplined action and personal resolve as guiding principles.
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Myril Hoag
Joe Gordon
Annie Farley Lawson
South Carolina
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Virginia Vale
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Mickey Borden
Mickey
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Mr. Garfield
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Frank McHugh
Claude Rains
Kay Kayser
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