Fur Has Played Stellar Role in World History
A National Geographic bulletin highlights fur’s global impact from royal gifts to trade routes. It traces beaver’s central role in maps, economies, and the rise of cities like New York and Montreal, noting beaver money and the fur exchange in London’s Beaver House.
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Washington
London
Beaver House
Europe
North America
National Geographic Society
Bulletin
Hudson’s Bay Company
Fur Exchange
Money Gets Bath After Fish Dealers Handle It
London reports that money used in Billingsgate fish market becomes highly contaminated. Coins are boiled in bank kitchens to be reissued, and notes are exchanged for fresh issues after market circulation. The odor and corrosion persist, with coins sometimes lumped by corrosion, while banks employ washing soda and drying dust in the process.
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Billingsgate
Fur trade shifts as cheaper furs replace costly coats
The piece notes wartime wages and postwar prosperity push housewives and stenographers to swap cloth for fur. Cheaper muskrat and rabbit furs rise in demand as disguise terms decline and more accurate names are used. Canada and the United States supply much raw fur for European processing, with the U.S. remaining the largest overall producer.
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Canada
United States
Cabinet Members Soaked By White House Pool Prank
Washington report notes two unidentified cabinet members were soaked when a dog playing in the east entrance pool at the Executive mansion shook off water as they hurried by. The incident occurred near the Roosevelt era open-door policy, but the pair attended the White House meeting with the President dryly afterward.
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William L. Brackart Washington
White House
Executive Mansion
Cabinet
Living Pebbles Found On Islands Of Washington
Smithsonian curator Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt reports discovery of living pebbles or leucosiid crabs on the Galapagos shores. He notes their coral-like shells and motion as key identifiers. Also collected freshwater crustaceans showing eggs hatch only after repeated drying and rewetting, with dormancy lasting years.
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Washington
Waldo L. Schmitt
Smithsonian Institution
Galapagos Islands
Doctor Schmitt
Galapagos
G. Allen Hancock
Los Angeles
Smithsonian
American
Pardoned He Stays in Penitentiary by Choice
Michigan City Indiana seventy two year old Fred Kettleshake was granted a pardon and freed three years ago but chose to remain in the state prison where he has lived for 33 years. Illness and age left him wheel chair bound and with no family or job prospects he opted to stay behind bars.
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Michigan City
Ind
Fred Kettleshake
Kettleshake
Birthplace and Snuff Mill of Artist Restored
The Gilbert Stuart birthplace in North Kingston Rhode Island has been restored by the Rhode Island Historical Society. Norman M. Isham directed the work after researching in England and America to verify details of the old snuff mill. The mill is restored as it was in Stuart's era and snuff is ground there today.
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North Kingston
R. L
Gilbert Stuart
Rhode Island Historical Society
Norman M. Isham
England
America
Stuart Birthplace
Stuart
$310 Bill Paid With 260 Pounds of Pennies
Weeks Printing of Hali fax shipped 81 000 pennies weighing 260 pounds in a stout crate to Jacob Bloom & Co of Boston to settle a $310 bill. With the Canadian dollar near 83 cents the firm saved a substantial sum by using American pennies.
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Boston
Mass
Weeks Printing Company
Halifax
United States
Jacob Bloom & Co
Watch Said to Belong to Late Russian Czar Offered Here
A watch claimed by Itla to have once belonged to the late czar of Russia was put up for sale in Delhi for about $7,800. The timepiece features portraits of seven generations of British rulers and seven generations of czars.
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Delhi
India
Russia
Foxhound Turns Wild Near Marshall Mountain
A thoroughbred foxhound owned by Nert Morris of The Forks Maine has gone wild and joined packs roaming near Marshall Mountain, former Maine guide reports say.
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the Forks
Maine
Nert Morris
Marshall Mountain
Which Husband Qualities Win in a Dilemma
A women writer argues reliability alone does not ensure happiness in marriage. She warns that good-natured sociability matters as does adaptability and generosity. True character includes disposition and mood stability, not just honesty or diligence.
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Hobson
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Leprosy Battle Launches at Culion Island Colony
Seven American bacteriologists led by Dr. Malcolm H. Soule will serve at Culion Island leprosy colony in the Philippines to intensify study of the disease. Earlier work at Porto Rico with Dr. Earl B. McKinney isolated the leprosy bacillus and showed transmission to monkeys fails to sustain infection in animals.
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Malcolm H. Soule
University of Michigan
Culion Island
Porto Rico
Doctor Soule
Earl B. McKinney
George Washington University
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la Salle
Champlain
New York
Albany
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Montreal
Edmonton
John Jacob Astor
Lord Strathscona
New Netherlands
New York City
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Mint
Roosevelt
Ross
Wyoming
Democratic National Committee
Sharkey and
Carnera
Fight
Jimmy Johnston
Jack Sharkey
Primo Carnera
Johnston
Johnny Buckley
Sharkey
Bill Duffy
Louis Seresi
Czar’s
Dodge
A. B
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