Speed of Modern Transport May Halve Lifespan Says Scientist
A Danish professor reports that faster travel has shortened the average human lifespan from fifty seven to fifty one since 1914. He cites autos, aviation, and rapid movement as reducing natural exercise and increasing overwork of the body, predicting life expectancy could drop to forty or forty five within twenty years if speed becomes universal.
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Carl Fischer
French Academy of Sciences
Nossetta Fischer
Europe
Jesus Christ
Mascot Rescue Leads Montello’s Last Stand at Sea
In a mid Atlantic gale the Italian freighter Montello sank after days of flooding and failed pumping. The Giuseppe Verdi answered a distress call and saved 22 crew members and the ship mascot Nanetti a water spaniel before the vessel went down.
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Montello
New York
Naples
Sick Bay
Philadelphia
Marseilles
Bermuda
Sturese
Tomasco Montanari
Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Nanetti
Stagnaro
State Press notes state meeting in Lincoln and regional events
The State Press association plans a February meeting in Lincoln. Reports note Blackleg impacting Hall county cattle, and the Million Dollar Home project for Omaha Elks begins excavation. Oil prospecting near Blue Springs and a world hike by Richard Sholes are mentioned among Nebraska items.
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State Press Association
Lincoln
Blackleg
Hall County
Omaha Elks
Blue Springs
Richard Sholes
Omaha
Nebraska Holstein-Kesian Association
Kearney
This Bungalow Space Saver Popular With Home Builder
Building expert William A. Radford explains a 28 by 50 feet bungalow with five rooms, front and rear porches, and a plan that maximizes space. It features a living room across the front, a lighted dining room, a practical kitchen, a hallway with linen closet, and two bedrooms with baths on a layout expandable to an attic.
Beloi t Robbers Fail to Loot Sleek Office Safe
Beloit Wisconsin four burglars worked hours to open a bottomless Beloit Salvoline company safe in their office a plastered bottom rendered it a looker only. They dragged the heavy safe to nearby woods chipped out the bottom and found nothing of value, not even a postage stamp. Officials say the safe was for appearance only.
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Beloit
Wis
Beloit Salveline Company
Quartette
Meanest Man in Breckenridge Strikes Graveyard
A new type of the meanest man has been found in Breckenridge Minnesota after an overnight incident. Someone cut down several evergreen trees in a local graveyard and removed them.
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Breckenridge
Minn
What Is His Is Also Hers New York
Judge Rosenwasser in Yonkers ruled a wife taking $10 from her husband’s $20 roll without consent is not a crime. He said a wife has an inalienable right to take money if she needs it and suggested a formal assault complaint if pursued. The couple left arm in arm, with the wife whispering a vow about worldly goods.
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New York
Hubby
Rosenwasser
Yonkers
Nellie Deruban
Walter
Wall Street swindles drain forty million from Americans
The New York expert Charles M. Minton warns that Americans lost about 40 million dollars in stock swindles last year. He, head of the Minton Brokers Investigating Bureau, names 150 suspect houses in New York City and notes oil and mining stocks as common targets. He cites a case where a woman lost 80 000 and says radio schemes now trap savers.
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New York
America
Charles M. Minton
Wall Street
Minton Brokers
Bureau
New York City
Minton
Consumes 25 Pickled Eggs Then Sits Down to Banquet
Harrisburg man Paul Miller, a Riverside Fire Company delegate, accepted a dare in Shamokin and ate 25 pickled eggs before two hours later joining a banquet. A rival fireman taunted him as the crowd counted the numbers.
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Harrisburg
Paul Miller
Shamokin
Riverside Fire Company
Miller
Cannot Prey on Small Fish
The large whale with a whalebone baleen cannot swallow small fish due to its narrow throat. Its diet comprises tiny sea life forms rather than larger prey. Toothed whales, by contrast, hunt and eat any living creature they can catch.
Health in Good Humor and the Soul
A compact reflection on mood as health noting good humor as the soul’s health and sadness as its poison, attributed to Stanig laus.
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Staniglaus
Bill Would Regulate Sleep and Odd Legislation
In Concord New Hampshire the house heard four bills including a plan for eight hours sleep per day a commission to inspect homes for happiness a ban on marrying one’s grandmother’s son and a rule requiring Klan meetings only with authorized kleagle approval. The speaker denounced the package as freak legislation.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire
Steps to Dress Dies in Fire in Middletown
James Thorpe died in a Middletown New York house fire after stopping to dress and then encountering smoke filled halls. He attempted to escape but was overcome.
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Middletown
N. Y
James Thorpe
Production of Tea From Gardens at Varying Elevations
Tea originates from many countries and gardens at sea level and high, up to 6000 feet. Tasters blend formulas to achieve a desired grade, then an apothecary like prescriber fills the formula. Buyers rely on reputation for skill and honesty of blenders, not just names, as they experiment with black green and mixed varieties to balance taste and cost.
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Kansas City Star
Master of His Art in Windsor Town Hall
A Windsor tale of Sir Christopher Wren building the town hall. Councillors doubted the pillars, he slid a paper between capital and ceiling from atop a ladder, and the objection vanished.
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Christopher Wren
Windsor
Royal Borough
Christopher
Memorial to a Great Explorer David Thompson Memorial Fort
The Canadian Pacific railway with Hudsons Bay Company erects a memorial building on Lake Windermere BC to honor David Thompson. The fort like structure will serve as a museum for local Indian relics and as a recreation hall for the summer camp on the lake.
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David Thompson
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Hudson’s Bay Company
Lake Windermere
B. C
Thompson
Rocky Mountains
Tobacco as King in Early Colonial Economy
The piece notes tobacco’s rise as a major colonial crop for English settlers, from Jamestown beginnings to scientific cultivation, with demand driving widespread planting and even turning Maryland into a legal tender in 1732, where tobacco paid debts at a penny per pound.
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England
New World
Europe
Jamestown, Va
Maryland
Mischievous pair disrupt Times office with odd rent ad
Two young boys on roller skates burst into the Eldorado Kansas Times office and left a house for rent notice stating no children unless well trained before skating away without closing the door. The incident caused broken fixtures and immediate commotion in the newsroom.
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Times
Eldorado
Kan
Near East Folk Lore Across Generations
Folklore in the Near East preserves proverbs passed down through generations reflecting ancient philosophy and orient cynicism as a broad cultural tradition.
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Near East
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Senate Committee On Miscellaneous Affairs
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J. A. Moss
Robert G. Simmons
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Chamber of Commerce
Tangier Temple Shrine
Lexington
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