Sheraton furniture linked to Hepplewhite in design
Detroit News writer Edith B. Crumb notes Sheraton furniture bears strong resemblance to Hepplewhite pieces, sharing similar backs and frames though Sheraton favors more ornament and Louis XVI details. Hepplewhite chair backs are typically round or heart shaped, while Sheraton uses rectangular slender backs with straight or slightly curved top rails.
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Thomas Sheraton
Prince of Wales
George IV
Edith B. Crumb
Detroit News
Sheraton
Hepplewhite
Tower of London Group Dates Back to Year 1078
A Boston Globe writer notes the Tower began as the White Tower built in 1078 by William the Conqueror. The site housed a fortress royal palace and treasury with Traitors Gate entry, executions on Great Tower Hill, and Beefeaters guarding the fortress.
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Tower of London Group
Tower of
London
White Tower
William the Conqueror
Boston Globe
Alfred the Great
Charles 1
Tower of London
Thames
Tower
Tower Hill
Insulation Options for Old Houses Face Two Key Questions
A heating engineer notes insulation now centers on type and amount. He warns attics, especially in older homes, heat up quickly in summer unless roofs are insulated and usable space is considered. For storage spaces, insulation between or on attic joists offers a cheaper alternative.
Bills and Resolutions Explained in Legislative Terms
A Dill is a prospective law document presented in a legislative body. A Dill differs from a joint resolution in language. A senate resolution concerns the senate, a house resolution concerns the house. Concurrent resolutions affect both chambers but not the President. A joint resolution starts with a resolving clause while a bill starts with an enacting clause.
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Senate
House
Courtesan's Letters Sold to National Library
The Bibliotheque Nationale purchased Madame de Maintenon’s correspondence for $340, along with her letters to the marquis de Dangeau. A letter from Empress Josephine to Talleyrand fetched $144, and several autograph letters of the marquise de Montespan sold for $134, as reported by the Indianapolis News.
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Madame de Maintenon
Louis XIV
Marquise de Dangeau
Bibliotheque Nationale
Josephine
Talleyrand
Marquise de Montespan
Indianapolis News
London Zoo Ostrich Ate Odd Finds In Digestive Fail
An ostrich at the London Zoo that died after digestion trouble was found to have consumed a mix of items including two handkerchiefs and three gloves along with miscellaneous small objects such as a camera film spool string clock parts and coins.
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London Zoo
The Price of Business Speed
Dr. Harold Stonier of the American Bankers Association told the American Institute of Banking that bank failures follow business failures and are not the cause. He noted more U S banks survive long histories than in other nations, with 108 over a century and 2,000 over 50 years. He blamed rapid business development for failures, not the banking system.
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Chicago
Harold Stonier
American Bankers Association
American Institute of Banking
Government Owns Fifty-Two Financing Institutions Says Hanna
Professor Hanna of Columbia cautions that the government controls a wide web of banking and lending under 52 financing institutions with 40 state ownership and 12 with two thirds government stake. He calls for a federal finance corporation to consolidate agricultural and lending activities, separating business finance from subsidy driven policy.
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Merica
John Hanna
Columbia University
American Bankers Association Journal
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
New
Farm Credit Administration
Hanna
Corporation
Bureau
Historic rail laws proposed but failed in state legislature
A_PRECENT state bill set curious rules for railroad operations including a bell bearing track man by day and lantern at night to lead trains, conductors smiling when asked questions, serving eggs only fresh, stopping on hitch hiker flags, and lifeboats for crossings over twenty five feet. The measure did not pass.
Quotes on love, prudence, and politics in daily life
The excerpt offers aphoristic musings on romance risk, marriage amid critics, urban animal life, skepticism about forgiveness, the word alleged as safety, caution in trust, love of children, aging discretion, demonic endurance, marital harmony on wallpaper, back yard gardens, gun safety, optimistic spendings, republican voting pressures, and scholarly speech overuse.
Armless Justice of the Peace Moylan Serves Cleveland Since 1916
David Moylan, an armless municipal judge in Cleveland since 1916, writes with teeth, flips pages with his chin, and uses a special contrivance to hold a telephone receiver. He lost his right arm in 1896 and his left in 1904 while working in Pennsylvania yards. He began studying law in 1909 and passed the bar in 1912 among the top ten candidates.
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David Moylan
Cleveland
Pennsylvania Yards
Moylan
Bermuda keeps horse drawn travel as island staple
The New York World Telegram notes Bermuda still favors horse and carriage as the main transport, despite motorized trends elsewhere. It adds that bicycles appear common in pictures, but the island actually has roughly equal numbers of horses and bicycles.
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Permuda
Bermuda
New York World-Telegram
United States
Islands
Oil output rankings show shifts among major producers
Russia maintained second place in oil output in 1932 after boosting to that rank in 1931, though production fell by over 7 million barrels. The United States still supplied nearly 60 percent of consumption, with Venezuela third and Romania fourth as other leaders saw sharp declines.
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Russia
United States
Venezuela
Rumania
Wild cat bounty rise in Berkshire hills report
The Pittsfield Massachusetts annual treasurer report shows rising wild cat numbers in the Berkshire hills. Bounties paid for 25 cats killed last year, up from 20 in 1931 and above the 16 average. Mount Hunger crags are noted as favored habitats.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Berkshire Hills
Mount Hunger
Enjoying Life Again as Bridge Club Returns to Auction
The piece describes Bill appearing happier and his wife convincing their bridge group to abandon contract and resume auction play, reviving the pleasant times they once enjoyed together.
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Bill
Kitchen Etiquette Echoes on Modern Service Norms
In a Boston Transcript exchange, a speaker shifts from phrases like kitchen maid to modern wording about colleagues, noting changing language around service staff and workplace hierarchy. The remark contrasts old and new terms while reflecting evolving social norms.
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Boston Transcript
Poetry and editors spar over giving up poetry
An exchange in An swers Magazine contrasts doubt and encouragement about continuing to write poetry. The editor urges the writer to begin, while the poet wonders if giving up is wiser.
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Answers Magazine
Banks Mirror the Life of the People and Economy
Jancis H. Sisson argues in Forum Magazine that a bank reflects local conditions through its notes and loans. He says farm, manufacturing, mercantile districts, and securities financing all reveal regional health, crop risks, overproduction, or expansion, tying bank health to national prosperity.
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Jancis H. Sisson
American Bankers Association
Forum Magazine
Farm District Bank
Bank Renovation Turns Loss into Profit in Tenement Revival
A New York savings bank earned 6 percent on an $80,000 investment after modernizing 40 year old lower East Side tenements it foreclosed on. The bank spent $40,000 to upgrade the buildings, added an oil heating plant and other improvements, now fully rented with $14,000 annual income. The project already repays in under four years and 15 similar renovations are in progress.
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New York
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