The Go-Getting Smarty Fable and Julius the Egoist
A humorous Old World satire traces a self styled ruler or “Superman” who dictates others lives and rises to power at Gobie College and in law. It skewers vanity wealth influence and public adulation through a boastful Julius and his entourage. The piece ends with moral note on applause and merit.
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Stock Exchange
U. S. Senate
Institution of Learning
Goble College
Umpty-Ump
Gobhie
Trene
Julius
Ife
Con Itn
Smoke Nuisance in London 1661 and Evelyn’s pamphlet
The record notes John Evelyn’s 1661 pamphlet Fumifugitum detailing London’s smoke nuisance. It blamed brewers lime burners salt and sope bowlers for pollution and proposed moving offending trades five or six leagues from the city. King Charles II supported a bill to address the issue, which failed to pass.
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London
John Evelyn
Lis
Charles 11
Charles
Evelyn
Wall Street Journal
Port Royal College Aims to Aid Jobless Professors and Students
Dr A C Hill opens Port Royal college to unite unemployed professors with financially strapped students. No degrees, full-time faculty to student ratio of 1:6, annual cost 250 dollars covering living and instruction, no athletics. The institution uses old Port Royal houses as classrooms and dorms with professors paid in board.
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Port Royal
A. C. Hill
Port Royal College
Doctor Hill
HOUSCHOM Questions
Household hints cover food storage shelf care and kitchen tips. Suggestions include keeping sweet potatoes in a warm dry place and using rubber rings under ice cube trays to avoid sticking. Other tips include oats in veal loaf and patties for flavor, covered kettles for candies, and blotting paper in medicine cabinets.
MSU Women Earn Polo Spot on Men Team for Intercollegiate Games
Katherine McCutcheon, a coed at Michigan State University, secures a place on the men's polo team and will participate in all intercollegiate matches scheduled for the squad.
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Katherine McCutcheon
Michigan State University
You Cant Cut Out a Disposition
A 1932 Western Newspaper Union piece compares two women, Mrs. Crawford and Nettie Crane, noting Crawford's chronic irritability and Crane’s patient suffering from arthritis. After a suggested operation Crawford returns no kinder, while Crane’s resilience is highlighted as a contrast.
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Mrs. Crawford
Quicksilver Test Finds Drowned Girl in Bedworth Canal
In Bedworth England a missing fifteen year old girl Ethel Wright was believed drowned. An uncle placed quicksilver in bread and, with police, cast it into the canal. The loaf settled near a bridge and the body was recovered there, validating the old superstition.
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London
Bedworth
England
Ethel Wright
Southampton Rejects New Post Office Plan
Southampton trustees led by Mayor J. Foster Terry oppose a $110,000 federal post office project. They argue it would raise local taxes and add government operating costs, with rental income from the current building at $3,000 yearly, and fear outsiders will be hired for the new construction. They also sought intervention from Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler to halt the proposal.
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Southampton
L. I
Long Island
J. Foster Terry
Elmer van Brunt
Robert E. Hubbard
Lewis Fe, Downs
Latham R. Reed
Secretary of the Treasury
Ogdensh. Mills
Terry
Mills
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
GasBy GERTIE "Happy is the bridegroom who can say on his wedding night, 'A loan at last.' "
A witty line from GasBy GERTIE reflects on marriage and finance with a playful quip about finally securing a loan after the wedding. The remark targets couples navigating money matters in early domestic life.
The Ghost of the Heavens Zodiacal Light in October
The zodiacal light, strongest in October, appears in the eastern sky before dawn as a ghostly glow broad at its base and tapering to the south. Astronomers say it is sunlight reflected from numerous small bodies orbiting the sun within Earth’s orbit.
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Western Newspaper Union
Crow Defeats Hawk in Aerial Confrontation Near Shamokin
Road workers repairing the Cameron Mountain highway witnessed a crow battle a chicken hawk overhead. The crow gained the upper hand circling the hawk then pecking its head until the hawk fell and died. The crow, a medium sized bird, was observed after the chase.
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Shamokin
Cameron Mountain
Here
Purdue Engineer Dean Potter Elected ASME President
Dean Andrey A Potter of Purdue University School of Engineering has been elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He previously served as a consulting expert to the Interior Department and as a representative on the American Engineering Council, elected by a nationwide member ballot of about twenty thousand.
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Dean Andrey A. Potter
School of Engineering
Purdue University
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Dean Potter
United States Department of the Interior
American Engineering Council
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Appian Way
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Morai
William Lindsay
Los Angeles
College
Rappahannock
James Monroe
Washington
United States
Dartmouth
Springfield College
Brookings Institute
Smart Ensemble
Houschom
Quicksilver
Lame Bode
Roy Woods
ME. Ketchum
Wayne County
West Virginia
France
Ben Turpin
Robert Libby
Dorchester
Mad3
WNU Service
GasBy Gertie
By Charles Sughroe
Dad
Pirate
Ransom
Mom
Buddy
Crow
Hawk
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