Colorful Seminoles cling to ancient tribal customs
A first hand field note from the Everglades describes the Brighton Seminole Reservation. The piece notes three generations living together, values of traditional dress, and a shift toward education and employment while housing remains largely traditional. It cites land absence for over a century and postwar changes.
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Chikee
Florida
Everglades
William Boehmer
Osceola
Food habits shift under progress in Seminole lands
The text argues that White progress has shaped Seminole eating more than culture, with Everglades draining and deforestation reducing natural foods. It notes grocery access fills gaps with bread beef coffee sugar syrup and canned fruits, while wildlife declines.
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Everglades
Palmistry Needed in Florida for Tree Guides
A humorous note on distinguishing trees in Florida with palmistry. The speaker jokes about telling pepper trees from a senator by bark and laments living situations from dog houses to park benches.
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Florida
March of Dimes Launches 1947 Drive Amid Severe 1946 Polio
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reports 1946 polio cases topped 24 000 with deaths 5 to 10 percent as the March of Dimes opens January 15 and runs to January 30. The drive funds research and supports local chapters in Mississippi Valley states Florida and California, with millions allocated for treatment, education, and staff training.
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Instrument OF Mercy
Broadway Confessional Notes From A Jazzy Hodgepodge
A lively column jabs at showbiz folly and society buzz. Tex Beneke returns funds to promoters after a Southeast tour with Glenn Miller, citing weak audience turnout. The piece riffs on charity photos, scandals, hotel doings, and a mix of literary and cultural tidbits from Emily Post to poker and theater chatter.
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Glenn Miller
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Berlin
Alaska
Florida
Grand Central Station
Relief From Campus Grind Debates Time To Think Policy
Cedar Rapids Iowa reports college president Byron Hollingshead proposes periodic days off for students to study or reflect. Faculty offer informal conferences and campus services stay open. Administrators plan future weeks off before finals to reduce curricular rush.
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New Device Tests Drunk Drivers
EAST LANSING MICH. Michigan state police will equip all patrol cars with a new on-the-spot intoximeter by mid March. The device aims to reduce miscarriages of justice from illness or drugs and provide a foolproof method of proving intoxication. Officers use a balloon and color change in a glass tube to assess sobriety at the scene with later technician verification.
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Nashville
Tenn
Grand Ole Opry
Emily Post
Polan Banks
Margaret
New York
Juliet Lowell
Clickerature
Encye Brit
John la Cerda
Japan
MacArthur
Rutgers Univ Press
East Lansing
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Michigan
Caesar J. Scavadara
Longer Life Pays Cash Dividends
Chicago economist Frank G. Dickinson of the American Medical Association notes life expectancy rose from 49 in 1900 to 65 in 1946. He says modern medicine, better food and housing drive longer life and higher lifetime earnings, with a 35 year old’s prospective earnings rising from 25 000 to 26 200 between 1900 and 1940.
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Frank G. Dickinson
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United States
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Huge Plastic Buffalo Memorial Planned at Cedar Mountain
Cody Wyoming reports sculptor Lawrence Tenny Stevens plans a giant 150 to 200 foot plastic buffalo on Cedar Mountain to honor Buffalo Bill. The statue would include an elevator a lunch room a curio shop and possibly a cocktail lounge inside.
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Cedar Mountain
Lawrence Tenny Stevens
Crematories Expand Pet Cremation Services in New York
Four pet crematories operate in the country with the most modern facility in New York City. Established in 1939 it cremates over 500 pets annually including cats parrots and canaries. Service fees range from 15 to 25 dollars with urns from 5 to 300 dollars and niches plus perpetual care from 25 to 100 dollars.
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New York City
Sir Mark Young and the Left Handed Lunch Joke
The Hong Kong governor Sir Mark Young, captured by the Japanese and later released, is famed for wit. A guest at Government House complained about being seated on his left, and he replied that those who matter do not mind and those who mind do not matter.
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Hong Kong
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