Treasure Island rises in San Francisco Bay for 1939 World’s Fair
An island mile long and nearly a mile wide is forming in San Francisco bay between Oakland and San Francisco to host the 1939 Golden Gate World’s Fair. Dredging by 11 machines and 1,000 workers dug 25 million cubic yards of sand to create a 400 acre site raised 18 feet above water and ringed by a three mile seawall. The project will yield a municipal airport after the fair, with a 110 foot causeway linking to the Bay Bridge and parking for 12,000 cars, as tides and currents shift under study by the army engineers and coast survey. Exposition runs February 18 to December 2, 1939, costing 40 million dollars with federal, state, and private funding and expected attendance of 20 million.
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Washington
San Francisco Bay
Oakland
San Francisco
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
National ‘Geographic Society
Davis Island
Tampa
Fla
Governor'i Island
New York Harbor
Portland, Ore
Lower Potomac Park
Washington, D. C
Zuiderzee
Netherlands
Treasure Island
Exposition Site
United States Army Engineers
Black Bay
San Francisco-Oakland
Yerba Buena Island
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
California
Baptist Missionary Author Uses G Words for All 13000
The Rev. J. F. Cargile of Macon Georgia, a sixty six year old Baptist missionary minister, wrote The Gladiator's Chalice with all 13000 words beginning with the letter G. He explains his aim to confine himself to g words for personal reasons.
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J. F. Cargile
Macon
Cargile
Taxable Ballot Boost Proposed In Legislature
Hawaiian legislators consider raising the poll tax from 5 to 10 with a 5 rebate to any voter who casts a ballot in a general election. The plan aims to encourage turnout while increasing revenue for territorial affairs.
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Honolulu
Territorial
My Library by Leonard A Barrett
The essay discusses Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa tour pigskin library and cites reading habits of statesmen who relax with detective fiction. It argues good books provide inspiration and mental stimulus, yet notes many busy people read only daily papers and finance magazines.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Africa
Reading as Culture and Character in a Personal Library
A Western Newspaper Union piece argues that a library reflects a person’s inner life more than size. It urges selecting meaningful works to foster lasting truth and personality, calling a library a sanctuary that reveals hopes, fears, and the essence of labor and soul.
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Lincoln
Lfe
Western Newspaper Union
Color schemes for a mixed era living and dining room
A reader outlines plans to redecorate a walnut living room and dining room using aquamarine walls with mulberry accents. Suggestions cover furniture updates, slip covers, draperies in pale cafe au lait, and mirror cornices. Venetian blinds in aquamarine and furniture layout tweaks are advised to keep the spaces cohesive and appear larger.
A Nation Needs Religious Homes
Lesson text extols Christian home life as nation’s backbone. Emphasizes worship of God, honoring His Word, home as public testimony, and the role of parents in guiding children. Argues enduring home life requires God centered living amid modern life pressures.
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Lfe
Israel
Jesus
America
Chorus Girl Vanity Reflected in Mirror
A dialogue portrays a chorus girl admiring her own beauty in a mirror, debated as vanity. A friend questions her lack of imagination, highlighting a clash between self-image and creativity.
Quotable Exchange About Dog Bark and Bite
A humorous exchange features a lawyerly debate over a dog's bark versus its bite. The dialogue turns on warnings to keep the animal quiet and an implied claim of a bite incident.
Smothered Draft Dispute Reveals Tense Exchange
Reported remark shows a heated exchange over a proposal with a plan to resolve it by sending in a draft. The confrontation questions actions taken as a damper is placed on the matter.
Brown Heads to Greengrocer With Empty Golf Bag
Mandy jokes about Mandy Hiullo Brown carrying an empty golf bag as he heads to the greengrocer. The quip notes his wife requesting a head of celery and a bundle of rhubarb.
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Mandy “Hiullo, Brown
Domestic Silence Lesson Sparks Family Guess
A family exchange questions a child’s use of the phrase domestic silence at school. Mary asserts the term, her mother corrects to science, and the father suggests Mary’s meaning.
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Mary
Fortune and Fear Shape the Future, Quintilian Note
A quotation from Quintilian warns that fear of what lies ahead can be harsher than current circumstances. It emphasizes mindset over material fortune.
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Sue
Favors
Tue
China
Automobile Makes
WNU Service
Leonard A. Barrett
Swiftest Flyer
Jacqueline Cochrane
Burbank
Calif
Miss Cochrane
Betty Wells
WNN Service
Helen Cookman
Old China
Peiping
Tientsin
Harold L. Lundquist
Moody. Bible Institute Chica
Western A Nomatoer Union
Aimple
Sevyen Daya
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
WNU
Ma Olson
Doan
Mateful Ponvnates
James McGurrin
Florence Hale
Mary E. Woolley
F. D. Roosevelt
R. E. Akely
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