The Klingers and the Rise of a Family Orchestra
Otto Klinger a veteran director of a large New York theater orchestra loses his job to canned film music. To cope his wife and six children form a family orchestra with Bertha guiding the plan. Edith, youngest, reveals remarkable talent leading to intense family dedication and a conservatory debut.
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Klinger
Otto Klinger
Picture Studios
California
Berlin Conservatory of Music
Nurnberg
Hollywood
Otto
Firmin
Max
Mathilde
Otto Calamity
Klingers
New York
Bertha
Ehdith
Mother
Edith
Conservatory
Eicher
Priceless Old Papers Found Cut Up for Lamp Shade
A London workman while cutting parchment into segments found a James I deed. William le Hardy led a public appeal to stop destroying historical documents for fashion. A solicitors’ archive was opened, revealing facts about ancient manors and county families.
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London
James I
William le Hardy
London Mail
Automatic Mixer Ensures Uniform Concrete by Photo-Electric Control
An automated mixer uses photo electric cells and dial scales to measure ingredients with high precision. Conveyor fed batches enter weight hoppers while electric eyes detect beam interruptions to stop charging, ensuring uniform concrete grade across batches.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Botanically Speaking Height of tulips sparks grand daughter joke
An out of town guest shared photos of her young granddaughter amid a tulip bed where flowers towered over the child. Sonny, watching with interest, quipped that to grow taller flowers would require hollyhocks.
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Sonny
Belize City Built On Shaky Ground Says Time
Time remarks that Belize City was founded on unstable foundations and sits mere inches above sea level. The piece notes prior neglect of proper drainage and raising ground would have reduced hurricane and tidal flood risks.
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Belize
Sea Lions Furnish Thriving Industry in California
In Santa Barbara California sea lions sustain a nascent industry by capturing and selling trained animals to zoos and Hagenbeck's circus. Captives from Santa Cruz island are penned in crates then trained for display and performance. Young pups are spared and the California law bans killing while fishermen face accusations over net damage.
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Santa, Barbara
Calif
California
Santa Barbara Channel Islands
Hamburg
Germany
George McGuire
Santa Cruz Island
Captain McGuire
Hagenbeck
Aviatrix Walks Wing to Extinguish Blaze
Pueblo, Colorado. Aviatrix Jesse Martin and partner Jimmy Woods landed with a scorched wing after an oil saturated wad near the cylinders ignited. Martin crawled from the cockpit helmet in hand and beat the blaze while Woods continued moving the plane toward its destination.
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Pueblo
Colo
Jesse Martin
Pueblo Aviatrix
Jimmy Woods
Jessie
Jimmy
Pennsylvania Insists on Fresh Eggs
State agents prosecuted dozens of Pennsylvania storekeepers for selling cold storage eggs under plates reading fresh. A ten dollar minimum fine applies for the first offense, with heavier penalties for repeated violations.
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Pennsylvania
Leaning Cape Romain Lighthouse Tops South Carolina
The Cape Romain lighthouse, built 1828 and rebuilt 1853 and 1857, began leaning after 1869 with a noticeable tilt. It required lens and lantern leveling after Civil War damage, and a more powerful light has just been installed by the Department of Commerce to aid mariners.
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Washington
United States
Pisa
South Carolina
Cape Romain
Department of Commerce
Biblical Trade Ideas Wreck Turks Market
A Turkish market downturn follows a shift to barter as peasants hoard cash after years of agricultural slump. Traders aimed to sell goods, but buyers refused to part with cash, weakening trade and signaling broader economic distress in Istanbul.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Hoodoo Breaker On the West Segovia Ship
In New Orleans a steamship crew recounts how Captain Charles E Edgely used the ship's radio to summon a surgeon and combat a hoodoo on a voyage from South America. A series of deaths plagued the journey after cattle bones were loaded in Buenos Aires, culminating in a healer myth as the crew sought救.
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New Orleans
South America
West Segovia
Charles E. Edgely
Buenos Aires
Port of Spain
Trinidad
West Indies
Ramon Sanderson
Munamore
Munson Line
New York
Sanderson
Trade Terms For Goods In Livestock Barter
The passage describes traders accepting payment with sheep goats cattle and poultry as barter terms. Traders face emaciated animals on return from long hauls, lowering purchase prices in city markets.
Colorado Brothers with Alphabet Names
Pueblo residents Leo Hurst and his brother Jisseippii Normandiz ziezzii were born in Siam and now live in Colorado. Leo, a linguist who speaks eleven languages, is known to friends as Lieienssuieusszesszes. The brothers are celebrated for memorizing their long names and are urged to receive acknowledgment.
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Pueblo
Colo
Lleiensszuieusszeiszes
Lieienssuieusszesszes
Leo Hurst
Cincinnati Enquirer
Investments in Palestine for 1930 Report Highlights Growth
The fourth annual Palestine Economic Corporation report for 1930 shows 2 751 591 dollars invested to stress sound social economic development rather than maximum returns. P E C provided credit to agricultural industrial and housing loan institutions and acted as shareholder in key economic projects.
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Palestine Economic Corporation
P. HE. C
Palestine
Report Card Poor Causes Tragic Suicide in Modesto
Fifteen year old Farl A. Woodbridge, a Modesto High sophomore, returned home with a poor report card and handed it to his father W. E. Woodbridge. Hours later his parents found him dead from poison in his bedroom as doctors arrived.
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Modesto
Calif
Farl A. Woodbridge
Modesto High School
Wood Colony
W. E. Woodbridge
Adminster
Ship Doctor Treats Youth with Appendicitis
Captain Edgely took San derton's temperature and noted symptoms. The Manamore physician diagnosed appendicitis and the ship proceeded to Trinidad where the youth was taken to a hospital for care.
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Edgely
Sanderton
Manamore
Trinidad
Intricacies of Kinship in Southern Life
Howard Mumford Jones argues in Scribner's Magazine that kinship binds Southern society more deeply than in New England. He notes widespread family connections across Virginia Georgia and South Carolina influencing marriages appointments and public life despite a perceived decline in the family’s power today.
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South
New
Darken Gray Hair Safely With Sage and Sulphur
An advertisement promises a simple, natural way to darken gray hair without dyes. It claims WYETHS SAGE SULPHUR restores original shade and keeps hair looking young, with a large bottle costing 75 cents and easy brushing directions.
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WYETH
Rockets Rout Wolves on Lonely Road in Portugal
M. Da Serra used rockets to rout two wolves near Pampilhoa Portugal as Bran bashful cane failed to deter them. He fired rockets toward the animals driving them off toward the countryside, while he was en route to a fair.
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Pampilhoa
Portugal
M. da Serra
da Serra
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Los Angeles
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Boy
Gray
Carol
McKesson¢ Robbins
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Lawrenceville, IN
Sane Products
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Chicago
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