Hank Cowden and the Stanley’s North Sea gale rescue
In March 1896 Hank Cowden, second mate on the four masted Stanley of Liverpool, fights a sudden gale off Texel island. The ship grounds, sailors abandon decks, rockets signal for help, and a Texel lifeboat and Hercules of Amsterdam rescue 16 aboard. Hank is last to jump to safety as the Stanley sinks amid a deadly storm that claims hundreds of fishermen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ELSO
Henry S. Cowden
Chicago
Adventure
Hank Cowden
Stanley
Liverpool
Calcutta
India
Hamburg
Germany
English Channel
Straits of Dover
North Sea
Hank
Texel Island
Mr. Steeves
Hercules
Amsterdam
Nieu Diep
Holland
Disney’s Mother Goose Goes to Hollywood Casts Pop Eyes
Walt Disney parodies nursery rhyme icons in a Technicolor short with Simple Simon Old King Cole and others. Reginald Denny’s White Lodge home references and screen career notes for Barbara Denny Jack Holt Gary Cooper Pat O’Brien Nancy Kelly Jane Warren Peter Van Steeden and others mark a bustling prewar Hollywood panorama with industry moves and upcoming roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Disney
Hollywood
Disney
Simple Simon
Old King Cole
Reginald Denny
White Lodge
Queen Mary of England
Duke of Windsor
Duke of York
Reynolds Albertini
Denny
Barbara Denny
Reginald
Heather Angel
Jack Holt
RKO
What to Eat and Why for Expectant Mothers
An advisory explaining nutrition for pregnant women, emphasizing that fetal health begins with maternal diet. It covers caloric needs, protein quality, milk intake, minerals like calcium phosphorus iron and vitamins D A C, iodine if needed, and the role of bulk foods for regularity. It warns against overeating and stresses physician guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm—C. Houston Goudiss
Quick Stocking Case From Odds and Ends
Ruth Wyeth Spears suggests practical ready to sew crafts for fairs and bazaars. A flat stocking case holds six pairs and keeps them tidy, stitched on a sewing machine with cretonne or ticking and bias binding. An elaborate version can use silk and ribbon for bindings.
Around the House Homemaking Tips and Book Offer
A homespun feature highlights simple kitchen and craft tips. It covers removing grease from stoves, handling hot aluminum, whipping evaporated milk, lubricating carpet sweepers, nail driving with lard, washing gloves, removing scorch marks from silk, and quilt edge binding. It promotes Mrs. Spears books 1 and 2 with autographs and a free Crazy-patch quilt leaflet. Address: Mrs. Spears Chicago Indiana.
American soda water history and The American's Creed
The piece traces the discovery and commercial spread of soda water from Priestley in 1772 to Schweppe in 1790 and the US introduction by Dr Philip S. Physick with Townsend Speakman in 1807. It also notes Eugene Roussel's syrup use and presents The American's Creed by William Tyler Page affirming democracy and patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priestley
Paul
Geneva
Schweppe
London
Philip S. Physick
Philadelphia
United States
Townsend Speakman
Eugene Roussel
William Tyler Page
United States of America
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Adventurers’ Club
WIN
Simon
Virginia Vale
Hark
Gary Cooper
Abraham Lincoln
John
Cooper
Warner Brothers
Pat O’brien
Nancy Kelly
Livingstone
Africa
Twentieth-Century-Fox
Jane Warren
Rudy
Peter van Steeden
Admiral Richard E. Byrd
van Steeden Sr
Admiral Byrd
van Steeden
George Washington
Mathematics
Nan Wyn
CBS
Neal Hopkins
Hopkins
Richard Arlen
Universel
Western
Union
C. Houston Goudiss
By C. Houston Goudiss
BY Ruth Wyeth Spears
Sherti
Spears
Mak
Smith Bros
Joe Bowers
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