Price of Silver Index to Prosperity Around World
Washington report notes silver priced at 71.11 cents an ounce as a global prosperity indicator. It traces silver’s historic role in money, mining booms in Mexico, the Comstock lode, and the broader shift after demonetization. It cites yearly U.S. and Canadian silver use in 1938 as 27 million ounces and notes rising uses in industry and film.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Globe
National Geographic Society
East
Mexico
Joachimsthal
Europe
New World
American West
California
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Henry Comstock
Comstock
Uncle Sam
Morocco
Montana
Canada
Reddy Squirrel Frightened By Mr Blacksnake's Clothes
Chatterer the Squirrel hides to stalk Cresty the Flycatcher for eggs in the Green Forest. A tail of Mr Blacksnake swinging from the nest doorway frightens him, revealing it was only the coat tail, while Sticky-toes the Tree Toad laughs at the ruse. T. W. Burgess. WIN Service.
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Reddy
Mr. Blacksnake
Chatierer
Red Squirrel
Green Forest
Bumble the Bee
Bumble
Chatterer
Lance Bumble
Green Meadows
Farmer Brown
Cresty
Drummer
Woodpecker
Mrs. Cresty
Secretary Should Arrange Details Of Club Meetings
Secretary duties include preserving the club's constitution and bylaws and maintaining the membership roll and minutes. She must record amendments, changes of address or phone numbers, and new member names, read minutes, prepare old and new business lists, track reporting committees, and handle general correspondence.
This Isn't a Hold Up Judge Tells Defendant
In Youngstown Ohio Judge Harry Hoffman tells a speeding defendant this isn't a hold up as the man raises both hands during sworn testimony. The defendant is fined ten dollars plus costs.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Harry Hoffman
Blind Students Gain Advantages, Tutor Says at Pennsylvania School
Miss Sarah Taylor, a 49 year Pennsylvan ia School for the Blind music teacher, notes blind students show advantages in concentration and foundation. She recalls teaching 20 when starting. now 160 pupils, about 2,450 taught overall, with methods emphasizing notes and piano before instruction deepens.
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Pittsburgh
Sarah Taylor
Pennsylvania School For Blind
Taylor
Ellsworth Seeks Antarctica Return Driven by Science
Lincoln Ellsworth, scion of wealth born 1880 in Chicago, pursues another Antarctic expedition to uncover primal interior secrets. His career spans Grand Trunk Pacific surveys, gold prospecting, World War I aviation, and partnerships with Raoul Amundsen, culminating in a 1926 dirigible North Pole flight. Professor J B S Haldane, famed British biochemist, endures extreme trials from air raids to inhalation experiments, illustrating fearless scientific inquiry. He writes on fatigue, acids, gases, and mind body research, earning comparison to G B Shaw. He is 47 and Oxford-educated.
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York
Antarctica
Lincoln Ellsworth
Admiral Byrd
Mr. Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Chicago
Hill School
Pottstown
Columbia
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Canada
Northwest
Grand Trunk
Prince Rupert
B. C
Peace River
France
United States
Raoul Amundsen
Paris
North Pole
Thetis
G. B. Shaw
Crochet a Lace Doily Centerpiece From 1935 Pattern
Add luxury to a well kept home with a large 18 inch doily a 12 inch medium doily and a 6 inch small doily for a luncheon set pattern 1935 contains directions illustrations stitches materials photos and sends 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Real Nobility Quote by Plato on Generous Mind
A concise reflection from Plato asserts that true nobility arises from a generous mind. The piece frames character as the highest form of virtue, surpassing birth or title. The message emphasizes internal virtue over social status as the decisive measure of nobility.
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Plato
Sunlight Sparked Fire On Woman's Hat In Glass Ornament
A brief item notes sunlight through a glass ornament ignited a woman's hat. The report hints a reflective glare caused the blaze but provides few details beyond the incident.
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Legionnaires
French Foreign Legion
Rollet
Legion
Venice
Calif
Thornton Burgess
Phyllis Belmont
WNU Service
Claude Joseph Bradley
Brooklyn
N. Y
Brad
By Lemuel F. Parton
J. B. S. Haldane
Oxford
Consolidated Features
Wwnu
University City
A. G. Brauer
Lydia E. Pinkham
WNU
Grover Cleveland
Yate
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