Dutch Elm Disease Threat Urges Immediate Action
Washington reports the Forestry Association warns that without urgent congressional funding to curb Dutch elm disease, one billion elms could die, valued at over 750 million dollars. The elm census by the U.S. Bureau of Entomology details regional totals, losses in the New York area, and state elm counts with shade-tree values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
The
Forestry Association
Congress
Federal Bureau of Entomology
New York City
Association
New York
America
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Our Machine Age Reflections On Youth And Modern Life
A curbside scene shows two boys admiring a parked car as one proclaims his dad drove the bolt in its construction. The piece extols youthful pride, contrasts it with aged weariness, and urges renewing a childlike spirit to face modern life’s stern realities.
Woman Explorer Louise Boyd Sets Sail For Greenland Waters
Miss Louise Boyd, the only woman polar explorer, sails on the Bergensfjord to Norway with American scientists. She leads and finances her expeditions and will seek the undersea shelf linking Greenland to Spitzbergen during a new Greenland waters voyage.
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Louise Boyd
Bergensfjord
Norway
Greenland
Miss Boyd
Greeland
Spitzbergen
British Marriages Rise While Divorces Decline
Registrar general statistics show 1935 had more marriages and births and fewer divorces in Great Britain. Marriage rate 17.2 per 1000, births 598,756, England and Wales population about 40.645 million, decrees absolute 4,069, down 218 from 1934.
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London
England
Great Britain
England and
Wales
Niso
The Machine Age and the Cost of Daily Labor
A reflection on factory life and automation condemns mechanization as eroding human spirit. It warns of monotonous tasks grinding creativity and endurance into powder while asking how labor and machines can coexist without destroying mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ixion
Lisa
Colors in Interior Decoration That Set a Lady Off at Her Best
Betty Wells discusses themed rooms inspired by owners personalities with color palettes for brides and varieties for brunettes blondes and silver haired women. London model rooms illustrate personal style using blues greens creams and pinks to create inviting homes suitable for modern use yet stylish and practical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Betty Wells
WIN Service
Supreme Court Umpires Pollution and Rights Rulings
The Supreme Court has often acted as umpire in environmental and civil rights cases. It upheld limits on polluters using public water and air, and ruled that a church case over noise supported by the court. It protected the right to jury trial in criminal cases and emphasized state interest in air and water quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
United States
Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
District of Columbia
Western Newspaper Union
Charm of Yester Year in Crochet Pattern 5790
Pattern 5790 offers a lace crochet design for a 24 by 35 inch panel suitable for bedspreads doors or bolsters. Instructions and charts detail stitches and materials with illustrations. Send 15 cents and name address to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept New York for the pattern.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Two day week blessings and leisure reform
A Western Newspaper Union piece argues for shortening the work week to two days as a moral and social aid. It says leisure should renew both body and spirit, not merely be a stimulant, and may require workers to leave factories for farms to preserve human value over machines.
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Western Newspaper Union
Lieutenant Generals of the U S Army Named
The list includes Winfield Scott Ulysses S Grant William T Sherman Philip H Sheridan John M Schofield Nelson A Miles Samuel B M Young Adna R Chaffee Arthur MacArthur John C Bates Henry C Corbin Hunter Liggett Robert L Bullard and Edgar Jadwin.
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United States Army
Winfield Scott
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Philip H. Sheridan
John M. Schofield
Nelson A. Miles
Samuel B. M. Young
Adna R. Chaffee
Arthur McArthur
John C. Bates
Henry C. Corbin
Hunter Liggett
Robert L. Bullard
Edgar Jadwin
Poland's Storks Lure Prosperity Across Cities and Farms
A Boston Globe writer notes great white stork nests on Poland's huts and palaces mark luck and spring. Poland, a summer home for storks, protects and cherishes them for centuries. Peasants build roof platforms to attract the birds, whose nests become talismans of prosperity and peace.
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Poland
Boston Globe
Europe
Real Friendship Flows From the Heart
A quotation by J. Fenimore Cooper on friendship that endures adversity, comparing it to water from a spring that does not congeal in winter.
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J. Fenimore Cooper
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Boy Rakes
Junior
U. S
Illinois
Chicago
Evanston
Hinsdall
Rockford
Iowa
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Arnold
Arctic
Alaska
Vnu Service
Teo Bell Syndicat
Champ
Gene Gagliardi
Gene
Mount Vernon
Ousehold
Williamsburg
Robert Merrill
William S. Knudsen
General Motors Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Sloan
Lamott duPont
Knudsen
AN ‘Grocers
Shean ‘Optician
O Street
Lincoln, Neb
Sir Philip Sidney
Peterman
David Starr Jordan
Burns
WNU
Corrales
Nature
Dean’s
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