Tomb of Basket Maker people found in Guadalupe Mountains
Jim White, explorer and former Carlsbad cave guide, discovers a 4000 year old Basket Maker burial tomb in the Guadalupe mountains near the New Mexico Texas line. The cave yields skeletal remains, cactus cordage, split bamboo mats, sotol nets, tortoise offerings, and bird and deer remains indicating mortuary use and diverse weaving.
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Carlsbad, N. M
Jim White
Carlsbad
Guadalupe Mountains
New Mexico
Texas
Mr. White
National Park Service
White
Oriental
Rio Pecos
Mexico City Bishops Ban Short Skirts in Churches
In a joint circular three Mexican bishops from San Luis Potosi Guadalajara and Tepic condemn modern feminine styles as immodest and bar women and girls from church entries. They denounce low necks bare arms and blame family heads for permitting such dress noting style or heat are no excuses. The bishops frame the attire as a moral scandal and punishment from God.
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Mexico City
Mexico
San Luis Potosi
Guadalajara
Tepic
Alarm Clock Lights Up at the Ringing Signal
Schwarzwald introduces a ball shaped alarm clock with fixed hands. When the alarm rings a light on the clock face turns on to help locate it in a dark room. The clock is advertised as a cuckoo clock home product.
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London
Schwarzwald
Cordage From Spanish Bayonet Fiber Proves Durable
The passage describes cordage woven mainly from Spanish bayonet fiber and a yucca species called weeping bear grass. These cords retain strength over centuries in extreme dryness. A remarkable example is cordage made from human hair that is black coarse and faded to red.
Musicians Return to Vienna Cafes After Sound Film Boom
Vienna cafes revive prewar music as small orchestras play amid talkie era closures. Musicians, displaced by the cinema conversion, entertain patrons for modest tips in coffee houses across the city.
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Vienna
Austria
Women Avoid Driving to Hide Ages in Montana
In Butte Montana a number of women drivers have given up driving rather than reveal their ages when applying for drivers licenses. Applicants are asked to state their age and many left in a huff rather than disclose the information.
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Age Butte
Mont
Miss Katherine Morley Wins Advertising Beauty Prize
Katherine Morley, a factory worker, enters a photo advertising contest and wins a thousand dollars, enabling her dream of owning a hat shop. Her employer Mrs Stowell reacts with mixed pride this milestone reshapes Katherine’s status and future.
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Atherine Morley
Stowells
Mr. Stowell
Mrs. Stowell
Katherine
The
Curlyhead
Philo Mason
Philo
Dorothy
Dorothy Mason
Ancient Scissors Acquired by Guildhall Museum
A 250 year old pair of scissors, found behind paneling at Queen Elizabeth's Lodge in Epping Forest, has been acquired by the Guildhall London museum.rust removed reveals a heart above a TD monogram, a trade mark recorded for Thomas Elliott in 1673 to 1674, dating the scissors to Charles II era.
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Guildhall
London
Queen Elizabeth’s Lodge
Epping Forest
Cutlers’ Company
Thomas Elliott
Charlies II
Utility First Consideration in Living Life
The Providence Journal notes a tension between utility and culture. It argues utility remains the first consideration in business and daily life, supplying physical needs as indispensable while culture adds finer understanding, warning that neglecting utilities in pursuit of culture leads to a swift finish.
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Providence Journal
Plant nerves? scientist finds nerve currents in water plants
Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout of the Rockefeller Institute reports evidence of nerve currents in Nitella plant cells similar to animal muscles. Experiments used a sensitive electrical device to detect tiny variations inside the cells.
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Popular Science Monthly
Nitella
W. J. V. Osterhout
Rockefeller Institute
Geographical Globes Made by Hand and Machine
A description of methods used to manufacture geographical globes. Machines and hand labor interweave to form gores printed on a sphere. The inner shell is pressed from peat board and glue, then a plaster coat dries and is smoothed on a turning lathe to perfect a sphere.
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Paris
Unsettling Proverb Origins Of Green Moon Cheese
The term green in green cheese is explained as fresh not colored matter. The moon cheese metaphor dates back centuries in England and became a proverbal claim that many are fools to think the moon is made of green cheese.
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England
UA AP RT
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