Heartbreak House and the Monte Carlo Gamble
A detailed narrative follows Gentleman Dawes a Colorado trader who retires to Monte Carlo to gamble. After losing 485000 dollars in eight days he becomes a penniless pensioner and elevator operator living in squalor for fourteen years before a relative leaves him 200000 dollars. He later returns as James KE Squire to Deauville, Cannes and Nice where a new fortune loss of 200000 dollars is reported.
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Riviera
Monte Carlo
Dawes
Mediterranean
Gentleman Dawes
Colorado
French Riviera
Hermann Dawes
Baedekers
Angie Falls
Keokuk
Iowa
America
Europe
Deauville
James KE
Squire
Blue Coast
States
Nice
Cannes
No Tame Rooster Match for Ringneck Pheasant
Detroit News notes the ringneck pheasant outruns and outlasts domestic roosters in fights and in winter barnyard intrusion. It cites the bird’s long spurs, agility, and bold nesting season posture while acknowledging occasional cannibalism rumors and superior physical condition over fowl.
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Plymouth Rock
Rhode Island
Detroit News
Moravia Bride Trousseau Highlights Local Traditions
Moravia, a small principality in what is now Czechoslovakia, shows Moravian and Slovak influence in a bride’s trousseau with frills laces and embroidery. The region, once independent, has long been under external European powers and is described as a mountainous plateau with Mooravian and Slovak inhabitants.
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Moravia
Republic
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Heights of Abraham Name Origin in Quebec History
The heights of Quebec derive their name from Abraham Martin a Canadian pioneer of Scotch descent Martin served as a pilot on the St Lawrence river during Champlain’s founding of Quebec Champlain granted Martin a homestead on the heights and his cattle and sheep herds were common on the tableland along the St Lawrence He was affectionately known as Maitre Abraham by locals.
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Abraham
Quebec
Abraham Martin
Martin
St. Lawrence River
Samuel de Champlain
Champlain
St. Lawrence
Maitre
Modern River Arks Cut Coal Freight Costs
River men built arks to float coal from Pennsylvania mines to the Atlantic coast at about $5 a ton. The bulky vessels could not be hauled back upstream and were sold for salvage. Each ark carried roughly 60 tons of coal.
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Noah
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Seaboard
Neva Ship Without Wheel Disturbs London Sailors
Salty British seamen criticize the Soviet ship Neva for steering by electric buttons rather than a traditional wheel. The vessel carries Black Sea butter and is noted for its modern electric helm, alarming old salts who cherish sails, rigging, and wooden hulls.
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London
Neva
Black Sea
Government Workers Now Travel by Air
The Commerce department reports the average fare per mile on air passenger routes in the United States is 6.29 cents, seven percent lower than early 1932 and about half the rate of January 1930. Rates were calculated on 50,000 miles of routes. Government employees on official business are now permitted to travel by air instead of rail.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Department
Sight Restored After 20 Years for 87-Year-Old Man
Jacob Lieberman, 87, blinded for two decades, regained sight after eye surgery at the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind. He described joy at faces, trees, and streets, noted his white hair, and said he was richer than Rockefeller.
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New York
Jacob Lieberman
New York Guild For the
Rockefeller
Old Salt's Squatter's Rights Upheld by Court
Superior Judge Franklin T. Hammond upheld the squatter rights of Capt. Dewalden Lebaron Brown eighty three who has lived aboard his land bound ship on Dorchester mud flats for a quarter century. A realty company had sought a court order to force him to vacate.
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Boston
Franklin T. Hammond
Dewalden Lebaron Brown
Dorchester
Hindu Ceremonies Cost Billion Yearly in India
A Hindu religious committee reports that annual ritual spending in British India totals about 2.78 billion rupees or 1.05 billion dollars, with deaths, births, and marriages driving the costs. They urge government budget review and lower ceremonial expenses to avoid debt and ease living costs.
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London
India
Shankarcharya
Kartakoti
British India
Government of India
Gardner Cowles to join board of Reconstruction Finance Corp
Gardner Cowles Sr publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune succeeds Charles G Dawes who resigned on the board of directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Gardner Cowles, Sr
The
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Charles G. Dawes
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Italian Stores Retail Gas Masks for Next War
Fear of gas attacks haunts Europe as Italian stores display gas masks in shop windows. In Rome two mask types sit alongside rubber goods near Mussolini's office, signaling a push to encourage civilian stockpiling. Italian disarmament talks at Geneva seek to end gas warfare and dismantle toxic-gas factories while mask production grows as a new rubber and chemical staple.
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Rome
Europe
Italy
Mussolini
Geneva
Paris Announces Harsh Divorce Fraud Law
Paris enacts a severe anti fraud statute published in the Journal Officiel. It prescribes imprisonment from six months to two years and fines from five to five hundred dollars for bogus declarations or trickery in entering and serving divorce notices.
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Paris
Officiel
France
Bread from Heaven Lesson Overview in Exodus 1671
Bible lesson text outlines the Exodus journey from Elim to wilderness focusing on murmuring against Moses, God's provision of manna and quails, and the discipline of daily bread. It covers God’s promises, the gloried vision, the shareable duties of the Israelites, Sabbath observance, and manna memorial for forty years. Influential figures include Moses, Aaron, God, and the Israelites.
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Egypt
Moses
Aaron
Elim
Red Sea
God
Israel
Christ
PITHY PICK-UPS From Bible Verses and Clerical Notes
Excerpted lines discuss private prayer and ministerial emphasis. Philpott advocates more Andrews than Peters as personal workers while Zwemer reflects on creation and the Carpenter of Nazareth in scriptural context.
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Andrews
Peters
Philpott
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles High School
Old Salt
Am. P. B. Fitzwater
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Lights
Heaven
Vazareth
Zwemer
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