Hurricane Safari of Boris Flake Beach Hotel
In Miami in May Col. Tucker recounts Boris Flake turning hurricane fears into profit. The Beach hotel stayed open through August with hurricane scare bookings, building a reputation as the only hurricane proof refuge and proving summer trade keeps the business afloat.
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Miami
Col
Joel Tucker
Miami Beach
Florida
Beach Hotel
Boris Flake
Tucker
New England
Boris
Caribbean
Atlantic
Beach
New Baltic Coinages Add Aluminum Bronze to Estonian Finnish Poland
Estonia introduces a new aluminum bronze one kroon coin with a Viking ship obverse and Hesti Babariik on the reverse. Finland issues a 20 markkaa coin in the same alloy featuring the Lion of Finland and Suomen Tasavalta. Poland releases 5 and 10 zloty coins with Marshal Pilsudski portrait and a rising sun eagle design, marking the first coins to bear Poland's national hero.
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Estonia
Finland
Poland
Baltic
Hesti Babariik
Lion of Finland
Suomen Tasavalta
Chamber of Commerce
France
Marshal Pilsudski
Rzeczpospolita Polska
Berlin’s Four Most Accurate Clocks Use Quartz Crystals
The Reichs Institute for Physics in Berlin displays four new timepieces claimed to be the world’s most accurate. Each clock uses a quartz crystal oscillating 60,000 times per second inside vacuum tubes with dual copper feather lined boxes to stabilize temperature and reduce drift to about 0.002 seconds every six months.
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Reichs Institute For Physics
Berlin
Naming the United States by Constitutional Convention
The name United States of America was agreed to by the Constitutional convention on August 7 1787 after considering the committee of detail report. The choice reflected the union of states and the nation being broadly called America.
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United States of America
Committee of Detail
America
The Judson Talked Citizen and City Life
A Beaumont style narrator relays advice from Judson about civic duty and citizen action. He details frustrations with street repairs, nuisance complaints, and local departments. Progress turns to personal conflict as authorities ignore issues and his push for accountability meets resistance.
Hobson's Choice Origins Explained by Steele
The Cleveland Plain Dealer cites Richard Steele in the Spectator No. 509 as the leading authority for Hobson's Choice. It recounts Tobias Hobson offering only the nearest horse to the door, forcing customers to accept what was available rather than their preferred option.
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Hobson
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Richard Steele
Spectator
Tobias Hobson
England
Steele
A Perfect Number Explained
A perfect number is a value equal to the sum of its proper divisors. For example 6 equals 1 plus 2 plus 3, illustrating the classic concept where aliquot parts add up to the original number.
When a King Read the Bible in Josiah’s Reforms
A lesson notes Josiah's godly reign and the revival sparked by discovering the Book of the Law. It covers the temple restoration, reading before the king, his penitence, the prophetess Huldah's message, and the reforms including covenant making, removal of idolatry, Passover keeping, and expulsion of occult practices.
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Josiah
Hezekiah
Shaphan
Muldah
Jerusalem
Huldah
United States
The Universe Rewards Kindness in Murphey Quotation
Elmer R. Murphey asserts that the universe returns one’s actions with corresponding returns. He links smiles with reciprocity, song with social invitation, thought with entertainment, and love of the world with earthly treasures.
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Elmer R. Murphey
Reputation and the Life Shaped by Public Opinion
A compact reflection on how a person’s standing stems from the reputation they build. The quote suggests social perception influences opportunity and character across life.
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O. W. Holmes
Housewife Suggests Card Revival With Powder
A Housewife column advises reviving worn playing cards by spreading them flat on paper and lightly dusting with talcum powder or cornstarch then rubbing in. The method promises cards will feel like new again.
Hams at the White House Trouble for Coolidge
The article recalls President Calvin Coolidge telling a friend that the White House ham gifts caused him more concern than any other presents. He joked that a big ham would arrive, Mrs. Coolidge would take a slice, he would take a slice, and the butcher would whisk it away, never to be found again.
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Public Works Department
Judson
Bell Syndicate
Calvin Coolidge
White House
Good Housekeeping
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Cassidy
Owyn
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Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Housewife's Idea
Public Ledger, Inc
WNU
Aletabs
Peterman
ANT Food
NEW York Lit Hotel
Edison
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