New Orleans A City of Coffee Rivers and Robed History
Prepared by the National Geographic Society extols New Orleans as a port city with vast coffee culture and French culinary tradition. It notes Le Moyne’s planning, a grand riverfront, elite dining, and a unique drainage system with engineers from Tulane, plus the city’s soft soil foundations and storied Jackson Square.
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National Geographic Society
Washington
WNY
New Orleans
Louisiana
United States
Tulane
Loyola
Newcomb
Jean Baptiste le Moyne
Sieur de Bicorille
le Blond de la Tour
Alciataries
Lirecuttus
M'sleur le Chef
Mississippi
South Pass
Gulf
Corps of Engineers
Bayou Bienvenue
Lake Fontechart Ramp
Tulane University
Tle
New Orleana
Place d’Armes
Jackson Square
Star Dust Star Dust Betty Doris Wester rises as radio to stage star
Doris Wester, groomed by a radio amateur hour success, signs with Rain Room in Radio City and gains a career boost as audiences applaud her original singing. The piece notes other stars like Jean Blondell, Henry Wilcoxon, Helen Hayes, and Fred Astaire in varied industry moves.
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Betty Doris Wester
Doris
Radio City
Mother Heve
Jean Blondell
Helen Hayes
Old Maid
Hollywood
Fred Astaire
Bing Crosby
Lew Tyres
Richard Barnheimess
Robert Sirmstrong
Hert Lytell
Tom Mix
RKO
Hosalind Nussen
San Francisco
Rio da Janeiro
Unioo
Cross Stitch Quilt Blocks by Grandmother Clark
Cross stitch is presented as simple handwork for girls and grandmothers. Pages describe making blocks, doilies, pillow tops, scarfs, and bedspreads from stamped white muslin squares. Outlet No 164 offers six stamped squares for 10 cents plus a reply envelope to Home Craft Co Dept A St Louis Mo.
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Outlet No
Address Home Craft Co. Dept
Arabic Influence on Western Civilization Discussed at Glasgow
Dr Henry Farmer lectured at Glasgow University on Arabic influence in daily speech and science. He noted housewives use Arabic roots in words for sugar and fabrics while scholars use many Arabic terms in medicine astronomy and mathematics.
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Henry Farmer
Glasgow University
Glasgow
Railway Clerk Burned When Cigarette Touched Leg
Harry Sheehan, a Kansas City station clerk, with hay fever and an artificial leg, was burned when a smoker tossed a lighted cigarette into his trouser cuff on the wooden leg. He failed to feel heat or smell smoke until half his trouser leg was burned away.
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Harry Sheehan
Kansas City
Sheehan
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Fulia
Canada
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MR. Jenkins
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