France Breaks Left Tide in Elections Shrugs Off Communist Threat
Washington Digest reports that France shifted away from leftist power, with the Republican Catholic party defeating the communists, restoring balance in a crucial postwar Europe scene. The piece analyzes Franco-German postwar alignment, Allied unity, and potential shifts in Russia policy amid the French vote and broader lobby activity in Washington.
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WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Adolph Hitler
Europe
France
Hitler
Germany
Russia
Saar
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Socialist Party
Resistance
Barbs on fashion, travel, and politics in 1900s satire
A satirical collage mocks fashion for cows with zippers and girdles, notes airplanes can now stop in the air to deter ticketless travelers, and voice critiques on government ownership of mines and railroads as a costly farce. The piece closes with a meteorological line about missing sunshine when clouds darken.
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Aviation News
Delaware a Diamond State rich in history and industry
A historical overview celebrates Delaware as The Diamond State. It details early settlements, statehood in 1787, key industries like flour milling and Du Pont powder mills, the Chesapeake canal, railways, and notable towns such as Wilmington, Dover, Newark, Lewes, Milford, New Castle, and Rehoboth. It notes Governor Walter W. Bacon’s tenure and state features from fisheries to beaches.
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Delaware
Brandywine
Lafayette
Fort Christina
Wilmington
Zwaanendael
Lewes
Duke of Yors
Penn
Oliver Evans
Newport
DuPont
Delaware and Chesapeake
Walter W. Bacon
Bacon
New Castle
Brandywine Creek
Willingtown
Dover
University of Delaware
Newark
Delaware Bay
Cape Henlopen
Milford
Delaware Valley
Rehoboth
Delaware's rich farms and industry shape its proud history
Delaware blends farming and coastal industry with wheat corn hay and diverse crops in the north and peaches truck crops poultry and dairying in the south. Wilmington emerges as the manufacturing hub and port while E I du Pont de Nemours anchors chemical production. The state honors its colonial past with markers monuments and historic homes as roads wind from Rodney Square through Wilmington's riverfront.
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United States
Delaware
Wilmington
E. I duPont de Nemours and Company
Delaware and Chesapeake
Brandywine
Caesar Rodney
Dover
Lewes
Netherlands
Sweden
Great Britain
Samuel Argall
Virginia
Bay
Cape la Warre
Lord de la Warre
Thomas West
Rodney Square
Christina River
Delaware Statehouse: 1792 building spans and battles
The old Kent county courthouse in Dover, built in 1722, proved inadequate by 1787. Funds from a state lottery financed a new Delaware Statehouse, begun in 1792, with the assembly later authorizing completion of battlements, copper roofing, stone steps, and legislative seating in both houses.
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State House of Delaware
Dover
Kent County
General Assembly
Blue Hen Chickens Named State Symbol in Delaware History
The Blue Hen Chicken became Delaware's state bird after an early Revolutionary era adoption. Kent county company men carried fighting game chickens from a noted brood, fighting under Captain Jonathan Caldwell a regiment that fought at Long Island White Plains and Princeton. The term Blue Hen's Chickens later carried into Civil War militia identity.
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Delaware
Jonathan Caldwell
Kent County
Captain Caldwell
Long Island
White Plains
Trenton
Princeton
Quirky Snippets and Wit From an Era of Edits
A collage of witty quotes, editor anecdotes, and rumor lore from a newspaper office. Highlights include Hugo Frye hoax humor, radio and press critique, and a tale of an astrologer who predicted his own death on July 21. The piece blends personalities like Emery Reyes and Irving Hoffman with playful jests about editors and mass media.
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Emery Reyes
Irving
Algar
Wall
Reibeisen
Atlantic City
Critic’s Anecdotes Spotlight Woollcott and Encores
Robert Coleman recalls Alec Woollcott dozing through an opening, filing a review by Western Union, and dozing again at Sardi’s while Kelcy Allen remarks on an encore. A newsweekly notes this and Justice Murphy’s opinions gain alto in Supreme Court circles as “justice tempered with Murphy.”
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Robert Coleman
Alec Woollcott
Western Union
Sardi's
Kelcy Allen
Justice Murphy
Supreme Court
Murphy
Flower borders and motifs in Pattern 807 embroidery
Bright or pastel flower borders offered in two embroidery methods. Outline stitch for quick beauty and buttonhole stitch for durability. Pattern 807 includes six motifs with transfers sized about 3 by 15 inches. Send your order to the listed address.
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Pais
Ieasda Areca Tre
Miniature Golf Craze Hits Wide Spread in 1930
The 1930 miniature golf fad spread widely and peaked briefly. About 30,000 courses opened at a combined cost of 135 million dollars and many became gold mines earning 15 to 25 times their original investment.
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April Mercury Magazine
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American Automobile Association
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Zionists
George Zook
Amvets
Ameriae Legionna
Beak Pee Association
Alcoholics Anonymous
Anti-Cigarette Alliance
Anti-Poll Tax Committee
Anti- Saloon League
Distillers Institute
National Caterers and Sandwich Makers Association
National Association of Ornamental Nonferrous Metals Manufacturers
National Association of Ornamental Metal Manufacturers
National
Azerbaijan
Baku
Wyoming
Fire
House of Representatives
Bankhage
Business Week
Edward Emerine
Cowex
Middletown
Smyrna
Atlantic Ocean
Statehouse
Old Town Hall
R. C. O’brien
Chuchu Martinez
Irving Hoffman
Ethel Merman
Anon
J. Dgubert
I. Panin
R. Frost
Mlle
Bertin
Wm, Brady
Eric Remarque
Larry Singer
Cornell University Sun
Hugo N. Frye
Republican Party
N. Y
Sun
Irv Leiberman
Pacific Base
Johnny
Mike Hodgins
Mid-West
Papa
Potsdam
U. S
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
San Francisco 6
Calif
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Paramount
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Tate Bridgeport
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