Sail Storm and Rescue Aboard the Stanley of Liverpool
In 1896 the four-masted bark Stanley from Calcutta bound for Hamburg encounters a gale off the North Sea near Texel Island. Hank Cowden, second mate, helps launch lifeboats as the ship grounds and sinks. Rockets signal rescue. survivors, including the captain’s wife and baby, are saved by Texel and Amsterdam vessels after hours of peril. Hank eventually leaves the sea for Holland shore.
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ELSO
Henry
Cowden
Chinecago
Adventure
Hank Cowden
Stanley
Liverpool
Calcutta
India
Hamburg
Germany
English Channel
Straits of Dover
North Sea
Hank
Mank
Texel Island
Strteen
Hercules
Amsterdam
Hant
Hank Thad
Manx Cats and Ancient Puzzles Origins
The text explains why Manx cats lack tails with legends about Noahs Ark and contrasts this with genetic explanations. It then traces the origin of puzzles to early civilization, noting the antiquity of anagrams in Jewish, Greek, and Latin traditions and mentioning acrostics.
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Isle of Man
Europe
Guessing Game in Disney's Mother Goose Goes to Hollywood
Virginia Vale notes Walt Disney's Technicolor short spoofs top stars with caricatures of Simple Simon and Old King Cole. She mentions Reginald Denny at White Lodge, Barbara Deacr rising in films, Jack Holt's son entering pictures, Gary Cooper's Lincoln portrayal plans, Warner Brothers' What the Constitution Means to You, Nancy Kelly in Stanley and Livingstone, Jane Warren on Rudy Vallee program, and that Admiral Byrd will appear on a For Men Onis program while a boy excels in class.
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Walt Disney
Hollywood
Disney
Eimple Simon
Old King Cole
Reglush Denny
White Lodge
Queen Mary of
England
Duke of Windsor
Duke of York
Reynous Albertini
Denny
Barbara Deacr
Reginald
Heather Angel
Jack Holt
RKO
Warner Brothers
Pat O'Brien
Nancy Kelly
Stanley and
Livingstone
Nts
Twentieth-Century-Fox
Peter van Steeden
Richard
Byrd
van Steeden Sr
Admiral Byrd
van Steeten
George Washington
Abraham Lincgin
Nan
Colorful Afghan That Saves Time and Wool Pattern 1724
Advertisement for a scrap friendly afghan pattern 1724 from The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York. Describes striped quick to knit blanket using wool scraps, large hook, varias color schemes, includes pillow illustration and materials, requests 65 cents by mail with name address and pattern number. Strong entities: Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept, New York.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N.Y
Time to Debunk the Machinery Poverty Theory
A publicist urges an inventorial holiday and questions whether invention truly reduces poverty. The editorial argues for personal responsibility and self reliance, claiming ethics and law should guide progress. It warns against unnecessary noise and the harm of silence at the wrong moment.
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