Dutch Elm Disease Threat Prompts Urgent Action
The Forestry Association warns immediate congressional funding is needed to combat Dutch elm disease after a national elm census. It predicts up to one billion elms could die, with a value over 750 million dollars, unless sustained research and control through five to ten years are funded. The report highlights New England and the middle Atlantic as elm centers.
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Washington, D. C
Forestry Association
Congress
Federal Bureau of Entomology
Tri-State
New York City
Association
New York
America
New England
Middle Atlantic States
Woman Explorer Louise Boyd Heads for Greenland Waters
Miss Louise Boyd, noted as the only woman polar explorer with Arctic expeditions rivaling men, sails aboard the Norwegian American ship Bergensfjord for Norway to begin a new Greenland voyage. She travels with American scientists to locate the undersea shell linking Greenland to Spitzbergen, leading and financing her own expeditions.
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Louise Boyd
Mner
Bergensfjord
Norway
Greenland
Miss Boyd
Greeland
Spitzbergen
British Marriages Rise While Divorces Decline
London reports show 1935 had more marriages and births and fewer divorces. Marriage rate reached 17.2 per 1000, births numbered 598,756, and England and Wales population was about 40.6 million, up from 1931. Decrees nisi made absolute fell to 4,069, down 218 from 1934.
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London
England
Great Britain
England and
Wales
Our Machine Age Reflections On Youth And Modern Life
A mural of youthful pride shows two boys admiring a parked car. One points to a bolt and says his father uses that bolt in all those cars. The piece muses how youth preserves truth and how aging may lose happiness, urging a return to childlike spirit tonight.
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Mberica
Roger Babson
Mommer
Popper
Irvin
Cobb
WNT! Service
The Machine Age and the Human Spirit
A Western Newspaper Union opinion piece laments industrial monotony and dehumanization in the machine age. It contrasts eight hour factory life with leisure, urging a two day week to restore creativity, vitality, and balance between work and recreation. It warns that machines threaten both body and spirit unless leisure becomes a true renewal.
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Western Newspaper Union
Colors in Interior Decoration That Set a Lady Off at Her Best
Betty Wells surveys model London rooms themed to a hostess's personality. Each space uses color schemes like blue for a bride, mulberry and white chintz, and accents in cerise or Parma violet, pairing traditional furnishings with modern whimsy to flatter various complexions and styles.
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Williamsburg
London
U S Army Lieutenant Generals Listed by U S Officials
A historical record enumerates U S Army lieutenant generals including Winfield Scott Ulysses S Grant William T Sherman Philip H Sheridan John M Schofield Nelson A Miles Samuel B M Young Adna R Chaffee Arthur McArthur John C Bates Henry C Corbin Hunter Liggett Robert L Bullard and Edgar Jadwin in a formal listing by officials.
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United States Army
Winfield Scott
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Philip H. Sheridan
John M. Schofield
Nelson A. Miles
Samuel B. M. Young
Adna R. Chaffee
Arthur McArthur
John C. Bates
Henry C. Corbin
Hunter Liggett
Robert L. Bullard
Edgar Jadwin
What Wrech Thinks About The Good Old Days
Irvin B. Cobb laments a bygone era in California contemplation. He contrasts early 20th century optimism with modern excess, noting suffrage, prohibition, advertising dodges, fake flavors, luxury yachts, and a predicted surge in trailer life and road congestion. He critiques substitution and speed worship while reflecting on social change and fleet-footed progress.
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Anta Monica
Calif
Uncle Sam
Teddy Roosevelt
Twentieth Century Limited
W. J. Bryan
Charm of Yester-Year i in Crochet Pattern
Crochet pattern 5790 offers a reusable panel design for bedspreads door panels or scarves. It describes a 24 by 35 inch panel in a durable string or finer cotton with charts, stitch instructions, and illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for the pattern.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
W. Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Real Friendship Flows From the Heart Not Frozen by Adversity
A quotation attributed to J. Fenimore Cooper highlights that true friendship remains warm and resilient despite hardship, likening it to water that does not congeal in winter and emphasizing heartfelt bonds over trials.
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J. Fenimore Cooper
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Chi Aa
U. S
Illinois
Chicago
Evanston
Hinsdole
Rockford
Town
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Arn
Arctic
Alaska
Champ
Gene Gagnardi
Gene
Mount Vernon
Ixion
Ousehold
Betty Wells
WIN Service
William S. Knudsen
Jeff
General Motors Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Sloan
Lamott duPont
Knudsen
California
Irvin S. Cobb
Gia
Lincoln, Neb
Sir Philip Sidney
Ata Ee
Bam Ele
David Starr Jordan
Lan
Dean
Dean's
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