Return of Curves in Furniture Marks New Style
The vogue for ultra modern furniture wanes as a curved, early nineteenth century inspired look returns. Rounded lines and lyre shapes reappear in tables, sofas and chairs, blending classic influence with modern restraint.
Training Dogs to Thwart Jailbreaks
The Department of Justice trains Swiss police dogs for guarding government prison camps including Chillicothe Ohio. Sanford Bates says the dogs will be deployed where extra precautions are needed to prevent escapes once training is finished.
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Department of Justice
Chillicothe
Ohio
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Birth of Japan's Heir Prompts National Pride and Pondered Future
The birth of the one hundred twenty fifth mikado sparks jubilant processions and Buddhist prayers as Japan celebrates a male heir. Analysts wonder about international relations, defense capability, navy reach in the Pacific, and potential territorial growth tied to population trends.
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Japan
Pacific
Snake venom as a medicine, latest research idea
Modern medical research explores snake venom as a treatment. Swiss tests and Pasteur Institute trials in Paris seek to isolate venom components for safe, standardized cures. Early records include a plague case in India where cobra venom appeared to restore a sergeant to duty, but broader use awaits careful study and risk assessment. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets advertised as liver regulator.
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Pasteur Institute
Paris
India
Never to touch a card say old father bids
An old father warns his children against gambling promising never to play baccarat and to avoid wasting time money and health. He adds a grim rule if they must play to always take the bank.
S.S.S. Promises Color and Strength From Blood Tonic
A period advertisement touts S.S.S. as a blood tonic to boost hemoglobin and red blood cell color. It claims improved appetite, energy, and skin tone, noting S.S.S. stimulates gastric secretions and contains essential minerals. Sold in drug stores in two sizes by The 5.8.8. Co.
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Spy Cecilia Tokuda Returns as Army Aviator in Tokio
Cecilia Tokuda, the Tokyo youth who earlier gained fame by serving as a spy for Japan in Shanghai, has come back to Tokyo and joined the army air force as a pilot. She is pictured in her aircraft.
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Cecilia Tokuda
Shanghai
Tokio
Army
Rulers, Republics and Powers Behind Japan's Future
The author ponders if Japan will remain under an old ruler or become a republic as nations rise and fall. It imagines a possible future where Russia and China might unite against Japan and questions Japan's ability to endure such an alliance, speculating on the mikado's fate.
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Japan
Russia
China
Western Newspaper Union
Youth Wins 111 Contest Awards in Nine Months
Boston youth Ralph Stueber, publisher of a new magazine, claims he entered every contest heard of and won 111 awards in nine months. The piece notes 40 New York families live on contest work and experts whose sole activity is promoting contests. Prizes range from appliances and pets to cash such as $20 from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cat abandoners.
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Mass
America
Ralph Stueber
Massachusetts
New York
West Indies
Massachusetts Society of the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Mars Sun View Explained by Astronomer
An astronomer notes that if life exists on Mars, its sun would appear through a hazy layer akin to heavy urban pollution on Earth, shaping visibility and conditions on the Red Planet.
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Mars
Earth
Curse-Ridden Tomb Visited by 100,000 People
Washington recalls the Tutankhamen curse as Dr Maynard Owen Williams notes about 100000 visitors to the tomb since its 1923 opening. Weigall and Williams describe the opening events, world interest, and lingering superstition around the tomb’s treasures and mummy.
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London
Arthur E. P. B. Weigall
National Geographic Society
Maynard Owen Williams
National Geographic Magazine
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Luxor
Egypt
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World News
Plane seeding protects Santa Barbara watershed with clover
About two thousand acres of the Santa Barbara National forest were seeded with clover by airplane to guard the California watershed against heavy rain wash. The note echoes a literary quote about love from Stendhal before shifting to the environmental measure taken.
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Santa Barbara National Forest
California
Students vote to allow dancing at Willamette University
Salem Ore Willamette University students voted ten to one to permit dancing a practice banned since the university’s founding.
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Salem
Ore
Willamette University
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