Stamps Highlight Ceylon Rubber Rice and Temple Imagery
A summary of stamps from Ceylon showing a Singalese woman on a 2-cent stamp, rubber exports in 1932 exceeding 111 million pounds, rice fields on a violet and black stamp, river scenes on a 15-cent issue, and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth in Kandy on a 25-cent stamp. Also notes Hollow Horn Bear on US postage and Johore Sultan stamps depicting royal imagery since 1896.
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Ceylon
George V
West Virginia
Naddy
Kandy
Ceziox
Goa
United States
Hollow Horn Bear
Cook
Rosebud
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Torahim
Johore
Malay Peninsula
Sultana and Sultan of Joherei Bheru Feature in Royal Stamp Issue
A Myrtle green stamp in spile denomination depicts the sultana and sultan of Torahinis territory. The sultana, Helen Wilson, was married in London in October 1930 and crowned in Joherei Bheru with oriental ceremony. He, a 63 year old ruler, presides over a 7600 mile realm.
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Sultan
Sultana
Ibrahim
London
Helen Wilson
William Brockie Wilson
Singapore
Joherei Bheru
Jottings Australia unveils new postage due stamp set
Scattered Jottings describes a new postage due set of 16 stamps with a large numeral left of the grosch on stamps and a coat-of-arms motif. Denominations range from 1 to 39 groschen in blue and 2, 5, 10 schilling in dark green, featuring a double-headed eagle and related design elements. Nyasaland protectorate adds a 4-1 pence and olive green S-pente to the 1934 leopard series.
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Australia
Plane lands after near month long endurance flight
Fred and Al Key landed their plane Ole Miss at 6 06 p m CST after spending 27 days 3 hours 34 minutes aloft breaking the 1930 endurance records. The brothers stepped from the aircraft clean shaven as a crowd of 10000 cheered. The feat surpasses the official 553 hour 41 minute record set in Chicago by Joen and Kenneth Hunter in 1930 and eclipses the unofficial 647 hour 28 minute mark set in 1930 by Dave Jackson and Forest O Brine.
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Meridian
Afiss
Fred
al Key
Ole Miss
Suger Field
Joen
Kenneth Hunter
Chicago
Dave Jackson
Forest O'Brine
St. Louis
Omnibus volumes offer vast reading from world prose to Shaw plays
Bruce Catton reviews two new omnibus volumes: An Anthology of World Prose edited by Carl van Doren collects prose from many nations and ages, ideal for leisurely fireside reading, and Nine Plays by George Bernard Shaw gathers Shaw’s famous works with discursive prefaces, both strong bargains from Dodd, Mead and Co.
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Carl van Doren
van Doren
Persia
India
China
Japan
Sweden
Russia
France
Germany
America
England
George Berard Shaw
George Berard Shaw. Here Are Collected the Plays That Have Made Mr. Shaw
Mrs. Warren
Fanny
Androcles and
Shaw
Dodd, Mead and Co
Fishermen Hit Potomac as Bass Season Opens
Potomac River anglers flocked to banks and boats Monday to begin the legal size bass season. Most reports were fair to poor, with mud from Monocacy delaying clear water. The bag limit is 10 per day for bass 10 inches and up, season runs through November. Two bass weighing five and a half to three pounds were shown in a local store window.
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Potomac River
Potomac
Monocacy
HL F.1
Shipler
North Market Street
Hatchery plans new bass fish for aquarium display
Lewistown Hatchery owns the fish displayed for the bass season opening. Dor sey F. Shipley reported Monday that Albert M. Powell, Lewistown hatchery superintendent, intends to place two larger bass and a different variety of fish in the aquarium during the summer.
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Lewistown
Dorsey F. Shipley
Albert M. Powell
The Art of the Motion Picture Musing and Public Figures
A collection of quotes on film as a twentieth century art and on public figures. Goodyear defends cinema as unique to the era, while Johnson and Cannon critique policy and aristocratic pretensions. McHahon and White comment on justice and institutions.
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A. G. Goodyear
New York Art Museum
Flower Legends address featured by Gaithersburg club
Mrs. Raleigh Chinn of Rockville spoke to the Neighborhood Garden Club at Mrs. Charl E Becraft’s Washington Grove home, with a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Henry Becraft and others. Flower show prizes awarded for hydrangea, larkspur, roses, pansies, spirea, and more. attendees included Gaithersburg residents and Washington Grove members.
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Gathersours
Guy c
Raleigh Chinn
Rockville
Neighborhood Garden Club
Charl E. Becraft
Washington Grove
Mins
Henry Becraft
C. E. Becraft
Mabel Becraft
Bates Etchison
Charles E. Becraft
Scott Duvall
Wloe. Riley
Anthony Watererspiva
John Stover
Calardia
Walur Byrne
Merle
Walter Byrne
Albert Dorsey
Clayton Watkins
Orra Mullican
William McBain
Gaithersburg
George
George Young
Ray Wachter
Montgomery County Social Service League
Rockville Baptist Church
Chadwick
Jean Nicol
Mary Nicol
Travilah
West Hartford
Conn
Lufs Stuff This Weather
A short poem notes extreme heat and lack of breeze as the author laments the ovenlike air and sweating. N A Lufburrow signs the verse and asks readers to say they saw it in The News.
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N. A. Lufburrow
Princess Natalie Paley Cast Draws Hollywood Hype
Hollywood stirs as Natalie Paley, a vivacious young actress linked to the Grand Duchess stake of Russia, lands in New York. A contract lures her into a screen role, promising an interesting title and a bright future in film.
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Natalie Paley
Shalf Ster
Grand Duchess Stake
Russia
New York
Hollywood Ward
Gliding Versus Soaring in Flight Terms
Gliding describes a descent from a high elevation to a lower point without engine power, while soaring refers to sustained ascent or holding altitude above the takeoff level using rising air. Both terms compare flight modes in natural lift conditions.
Sam's Creek Diners and Visitors From Baltimore and Nearby Towns
July 2 note lists L. Alexander and family hosting dinner for relatives from Baltimore, Linwood and New Windsor. Har ve y Burgess, Earl Warner, John Snader and Marshall Nusbaum visited Rising Sun then returned via Conowingo and Lancaster. Other gatherings included residents of Linestown Pleasant Valley and Wel don with multiple local hosts and guests from Baltimore.
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Sam’s Creek
Sams Creek
L. Alexander
Baltimore
Linwood
New Windsor
Harvey Burgess
Earl Warner
John Snader
Marshall Nusbaum
Rising Sun
Conowingo
Lancaster
Edgar Erb
Roland Myers
Walter Erb
Sire
Geo. Muller
Thin Place
Oscar Heiner
Norsian Heiner
Nancy
Linestown
Roy Heiner
Pleasant Valley
A. W. Ecker
Paul May
Frederick
Ine Smith
Weldon
St . Ecker
Family visits in Taylorsville area at Helwigs home
A family spent a day with Mr and Mrs Robert Helwig near Taylorsville. A large crowd attended the children s service held at Edgewood.
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Taylorsville
Robert Helwig
Here
Edgewood
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