Two Adventurers Circumnavigate World Die in Plane Crash
Marta Johnson left Kansas for Europe era to sail as stowaway. He and wife Osa Leinht roamed the globe over 26 years filming jungles and dangers. After six decades of travel they faced peril together, and a Salt Lake City plane crash claimed Johnson’s life amid his belief America is safest yet most dangerous.
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Marta Johnson
Jus Hume
Kansas
England
Europe
Dack Londons
South Sealands
Osa Leinht
Globe
Johnson
America
Salt Lake City
Martha Johnson
Freshman Congress Waits for Guidance From Bankhead
The piece notes looming debates in Congress with calls for ready made solutions. It cites Speaker William B Bankhead advising freshmen to answer constituent letters promptly, especially pencil written notes from locals who may become allies. It also mentions Massachusetts Tech and a remark on automation impacting employment and a jab at inaccurate strike rate figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House of Representatives
William B. Bankhead
Untitled Fragment on Patriotism and Leadership Voices
Fragmentary remarks quote Richard L. Dinley on shipment of arms to Spain and liberal Republicans under Harding or Hoover. References to Congress limiting Supreme Court power and concerns about business instability. Mentions William Harman Black and a general debate about national loyalty and national policy.
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Richard L. Dinley
Spain
Congress
William Harman Black
New York Supreme Court
Bible Thought Excerpt
A fragmented Bible thought text referencing belief in Jesus and eternal life. The excerpt echoes a verse style with phrases like verily verily and eternal life, though its OCR readability is poor and lacks coherent event or complete context.
Cornpone Cornmeal Cake From Local Recipe Tryouts
A fragment from a local residents recipe shows cornmeal cups and flour with salt baking powder soda sugar sour milk and melted shortening. Instructions call for milk and eggs beaten, then mixed with shortening and poured into a greased pan and baked at about a hot temperature.
Union Bridge Union Hridpe Jam 18-Mics Mare Semeney wankted
Union Bridge reports local society notes with election results and club meetings. Katharine Fasante leads Yovyt Woman's Club protest at church. Rev Stocksdale recovering from heart attack. teachers attend meeting to hear Dr Wruner from Columbia University. School dismissed early to attend lectures. Holmenmolkers Club meets with eleven members. Federal Government spent over 39 million dollars on emergency expenditures in Nebraska in 193e.
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Union Hridpe
Mics
Mare Semeney Wankted
Helena
Walkerey Ihe
Katherine Fasante
Yovyt Woman's Club
Electou
Blanchard Martin
Mere Dat Sonder
Snader
Sto Hus
Atikdiad Pawble
Treqearer
Paley
Hefeesh Mente
Stocksdale
Teeway
Weetninater
Wruner
Columbia University
van Mere Walter Tape
Lancaster
Kolb
Holmenmolkers
Faowa
Lowellerly
John Roop
Balfe
Louise Bierly
Mee Worly
LE Stauffer
Fifty and Twenty Years Ago Today in Frederick
Dated 1917 items note Rev. Osbourne Ingle sending £5790 to St Peter’s for Salisbury church fire loss. Red Hill principal Maryott dies of pneumonia aged 44, survived by seven daughters and a son. Edmund German plans a harness shop near Graceham. Local items mention compulsory military training petitions. Confederate Veterans banquet commemorates Gen. Robert E. Lee’s birth. Fort As Main Farm near Middletown bought for $6400 by Charles C. Maser. Edward Fyler, traffic director of Northern Central Railway, bitten by a lizard and confined at home.
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Osborne Ingle
All Saints Church
St. Peter's Church
Salisbury
C.W. Mariyott
Red Hill
Buckeystown
Edmond
Gernand
A. D. Doty
Jeferson
Mechanicatown
Graceham
Robert E. Lee
Alexander Young
New Buffalo
William HH. Shipley
Tatiana
W.C. T. UC
Fortas
GL Acres
Middintown
Charles C. Maser
Edward Fyler
Haileay
Viet Rees
Walk Orev Lle
Leukemia Overview by Dr Morris Fishbein
Dr Morris Fishbein discusses chronic leukemia in two types, noting slow onset and enlarged spleen in the first type with reduced red cells and altered white cell counts. He describes symptoms such as pallor and lethargy, with lymph gland involvement and a predominance of abnormal white cells, and emphasizes radium and X ray in treatment and the role of blood transfusion.
Daily English Lesson Words Misused and Mispronounced
Daily English lesson notes misused words mispronunciations and jargon. The text lists example errors such as fither of ye three boxes and heliet with guidance on pronunciation and spelling. It encourages vocabulary building with a daily word and notes a quote about one white transaction leading to another from Hurke.
Posture Winners All Hood To Be Announced
The Athletic Association of Hood College sponsors a health drive for students with a nominating process led by Miss Marjorie Meferran. Five girls deemed healthiest will be chosen during the assembly period. poor posture entrants are retired from further consideration. A fashion show highlighted the drive and good posture, with Dorothy Dutrow, Anna Margaret Galther, and Gertrude King modeling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Athletic Association of
Hoods College
Athletic Association Board
Marjorie Meferran
Abington
Nomada
Avene
Brodbeck
Dorothy Dutrow
Anna Margaret Galther
Gertrude King
Frederick
Birthday Dinner Honors Mer Jacobs at Diamond Avenue Home
Gaithersburg residents hosted a Sunday dinner on Diamond Avenue for Mer Jacobs's 20th birthday. Guests included Norman Jacobs Jr and Mary Jacobs of American University, with multiple Jacobs families visiting from Chevy Chase Olney Laytonsville and Gaithersburg. Mra McKendree Walker stayed as a house guest. Mr and Mrs Plummer marked their 27th anniversary. several families planned Florida travel and winter residence changes.
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Gaithersburg Gaithersaburg
Norman Jacobs
Diamond Avenue
Mer. Norman Jacobs, Jr
M Aaster
Mary Mat Jacobs
American University
J. Wriley Jacobs
Chevy, Chase
Mra Marble Jacobs
Willard Jacobs
Gaithersburg
Mra. McKen
Laytonsville
Thomas F. Hutchins
Atchison
Paul Wordett
Mary Mot Allnott
Wa Hington DC
Allison Taylor
Helen Taylor
Mary Taylor
Walker Leck
Louis Bell
Remus Riggs
Barbara Ann
Joyce ‘Riggs
Goshen
Ernest Hawkins
Nettie E. Hawkins
Washington W. White
Uriah Griffith
Elizabeth Griffith
Mises Virginia Grifith
Samuel Riggs
Thomas Stewart
H. Samuel Riggs
Terry Riggs
John Snouffer
George Snowffer
John Snoutfer
Ganthersburg Road
Wesley Clark
Fred Prienker
Edith Snoutfer
Earl Brengle
Washington
James Williams
Elizabeth Cramer
Julie Becraft
Udgar Worley
Dorsey, Worley
Harrisburg
Elyce Riggs
Allison ,Paytor
W. HL Dyson
Mehrle Raines
Contract Bridge
Dyson
St. Petersburg
Fln
Ont Mra
R. C. Warfield
Doris Lavinia Hawkins l
George Irving Gue
Brehtson
W. A. Ledford
Parkway PTA Program Includes Hood College Freshmen Musicians
Hood College freshmen Dotty Caulfeld and Yeverly Fert sing and play at a Parkway School PTA meeting tonight at 7:45. Caulfeld performs Ifungarlan Dance No 5 Brahmins Caprice Crimson Whitakes Old Black Joe and Miss Fert sings Who ll Buy My Lavender and The Lilac Tree. Mary Gladys Jones accompanies Caulfeld and Miles Fertig at the piano.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Parkway
Dotty Cauflel
Johannes Brahmins
Caprice
Ida Lester
Stephen Foster
Joe
Edward German
George 11. Cartland
Mary Gladys Jones
Miss Caulfield
Miles Fertig
Plana
Posture Cup Awarded to Campus Girl with Best Poise
At sixty one percent in Coblenz Hall the posture cup will be awarded to the girl on campus chosen by the committee as having the best posture. Announcements will list four other girls with exceptionally good posture and those voted the healthiest girls in the college.
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Coblentz Hal
Social News From Laytonsville and Surrounds
Laytonsville and nearby towns host dinners and parties through January with guests from Washington DC, Atchison, Goshen, and Harrisburg. Notable items include weddings, birthdays, and a bridge party, plus a note on a winter trip and a large federal highway program for Kentucky.
A Book a Day review of Cites of Refuge by Philip Gibbs
Bruce Catton lauds Philip Gibbs novel Cites of Refuge for its vivid portrayal of postwar refugees from White Russia, the Markov family, and their perilous search for security across Vienna Paris and New York. The book, though imperfect in propaganda balance, powerfully depicts a world in turmoil and a plea for peace through the fate of Michael Markov and his violin.
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Philip Gibbs
Refuge
Doubleday Doran
Markov
Michael Markov
Tania
Olga
Vienna
Germany
Paris
New York
Markova
Nazi Germany
Michael
Uniform National Power Policy Will Be Outlined
Washington, Jan. 18 President Roosevelt named a committee of high officials to frame a uniform national power policy within a couple of weeks. The move comes amid internal government controversy over how far to go in competing with private power firms in the Tennessee Valley. RACCOON OPPOSNUM ROAST at a Centerville gathering featured a raccoon of twenty pounds and a 12 pound opossum as the main dishes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley
R. A. Keeney
Centerville
RA Keeney
Mrendy Keeney
Trumm Keeney
Doreey King
June
Grace Frete
Mary Madalene Fogle
Kenneth Weddle
Charlee Fogle
Franklin Fogle
Mtr
Woodrow Ronre
Shitier
New Yorkese Lingo Described In Almanac Notes
GEORG ROSS explains New York slang in a Federal Project Writers Almanac. Samples show phrases from the city’s gendarme to busboy and barmaid, mapping how locals say move on, calm down, or arrange a meeting. The piece notes the linguistic quirks amid Manhattan life and ends with a slang command at a tavern.
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Georg Ross
New York
New
Taykadeezy
Taykae Deezy
Po Hceman
Manhattan Island
Vistor
Manhattan
Today in History anniversaries and notable births
Today in History lists birthdays and deaths of notable figures from 1749 to 1840, including Isaiah Thomas Robert E. Lee Edgar Allan Poe Minor C. Keith and Charles Wilkes. It notes milestones like Vassar College incorporation 1866 and the Presidential Succession Act. Mentions 1840 Antarctic sighting and German republic events.
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Annniversaries
Bernadin de Saint Pierre
Stratford
Lexington
Edgar Allen Poe
Boston
Baltimore
William Williams Kean
Philadelphia
Minor C. Keith
Latin America
United Fruit Company
Brooklyn
N. Y
David Stare Joran
California
Gainesville
Charles Wilkes
U. S.N
Antarctic
D'Urville
Vassar College
Poughkeepae
Conegreve
Treasury
Navy
Germany
Christian Popullete
Foreclosures Begin as Moratorium Sways Mortgages Nationwide
The 1938 nationwide banking crisis and storm damage trigger a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures by life insurance companies. The country faces widespread property loss as storms lashed the nation, prompting temporary relief measures.
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Hfe
Notable Birthday Anniversaries Across Professions Today
A list of prominent figures celebrating birthdays today includes Alexander Woollcott of New York journalist author born in Phalanx New Jersey 50 years ago and Dr Homer Rainey Washington DC director of the American Youth Commission former college president born in Clarksville Texas 41 years ago. Also listed are Orville C Pratt Spokane education leader and former National Education Association president born Marion Indiana 64 years ago and Sharwood Eddy New York former YMCA secretary Asia author and reformer born Leavenworth Kansas 68 years ago. Edward S Darwin Princeton jurist professor born Plymouth Michigan 59 years ago Karl Kreuger Kansas City Philharmonic conductor born New York 43 years ago and Major General Sir Frederick Maurice English soldier born 64 years ago.
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Alexander Woollcott
New York
Phalanx
N.J
Homer
Asia
Leavenworth
Kans
Edward $. Darwin
Princeton University
Plymouth
Mich
Karl Kreuger
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Frederick Maurice
Today Horoscope Reflects Thoughtful, Studious Path
A reflective forecast notes a nature that favors contemplation and steady study, with all sections rooted in life’s path. It suggests a peaceful, uplifted soul, though practical concerns may waver and failure is not implied.
Luf's Stuff and the Glow of Yore in Folkloric Voice
An aged reminiscence by N. A. Lufburrow recounts olden days and curiosities. The narrator laments changes, notes how glamour grows around discoveries, and reflects on feverish expectations, cures, and the peril of not pursuing truth in past times.
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the Daily News
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Predaricé
Mary
Massachusetts Tech
Harding
Hoover
Harritan
Norbert Moogy Wee
Meech
Derry
Bible Thought
John
Union Bridge
Nebraska
She News
Dan
Kovernment
Maryland Teague
National Defanen
Yi Tee
Ade
Morris Fishbein Egster
Journal of American Medical Assa and Mygeia
the Health Magerics
Tan
Ry Williams
Free Employment Bureau
Kentucky
Thomas I. Culler
Department of High Age
Bruce Catton
Watsons
Lews
Luig
BAIN
Long Island
Lawn Gyland
N. A. Lufburrow
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