Ruhr Basin Riches and St Kilda Isolation Highlighted
The Ruhr valley in Germany is a vast industrial center with major coal and pig iron output and key plants such as Krupp at Essen. Nearby St Kilda remains cut off from world news, receiving a May shipment by the Hebrides to help locals, who lost wireless contact during the war.
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Ruhr Saaln
Ruhr
Germany
Rhine
Detroit News
Krupp Works
Essen
St. Kilda
St. Kildans
Hebrides
Heat from audiences cuts theater fuel use say experts
A Boston professor reports audiences generate heat during exciting plays and films, reducing theater owners fuel needs as acts near the end. Fat patrons produce more heat and moisture than thinner attendees, improving the typically dry theater atmosphere.
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Boston
Miller
Scientific American
Sister of Friend Marry’s Boston Husband in Texas Missouri
At a social function in her husband’s hometown a dowager questions a new bride about her origins. The sister of the friend explains she is from Texas and Missouri, prompting a remark on mentioning both places.
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Baird Leonard
New York Morning Telegraph
Texas
Missouri
Mapping the European Sky Under British Meteorology Bureau
The British weather bureau leads a continental project to map Europe’s sky after completing France’s synoptic sky map. Photographers and observers across Europe will take daily two exposures for one to two weeks, with images sent to the national bureau to trace weather causes from the photographs.
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Europe
British Weather Bureau
France
National Weather Bureau
Things Remembered: Persian Costume and Customs
Arthur Sherburne Hardy surveys Persian life in Things Remembered noting court ladies wearing a shah favored ballet like dress, Teheran streets lacking Indian color, timeless punctuality quirks, rug care shocking to New England norms, and Persians using rugs while rest eating and praying with aged glass attributed to bare feet.
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Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Corps de Ballet
Europe
Teheran
India
Hardy
New England
Local Notices and Society Rounds Up Boyden Region
Front page note highlights VAN DYKE advertisement and local social notes. Townsfolk travel for medical care, visits to relatives in Sioux City Hull Hartley and Hospers, Miss Meyn and students start college, new gas pump installed, Remington portable typewriter on sale, and local ads for coffee and books.
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van Dyke
George Brinks
le Mars
Henry Westra
Sheldon Hospital
Joe Steven
Charles Steven
Sioux City
M. Moret
Sheldon
Benj
Frank Frisbee
Shedon
Boyden
P. M
Work
Big Four Oil Company
Johanna Veenschoten
Johanna
T. J. Stientjes
Hull
Bosch
China
Vanden Brinks
Herman Kruse
Near George
Ella Stegeman
Minnie Vander Horst
Dick Ringers
Hartley
Boyden Reporter
Nettleton Commercial College
Sioux Falls
C. Landhuis
Netherlands
J. B.landhuis
Hospers
Iowa
Ella Meyn
Peter Meyn, Jr
Mankato
Minn
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Steven’s Store News
Steven
Boyden, Iowa
Marie Hundt
Augusta
Marie Reyalts
Wartburg College
Waverly
Ben Scholten
Bert Vander Naald
Pella
Central College
Fred Starkweather
Kansas City
Geo. Miazgar
Rolland McConnell
Monmouth
Ill
California
Wm. van Leeuwen
Ben J. Meylink
Paul T. McCrum
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