How Words Have Changed Through Time and Trade
Dr. Frank Vitsetelly explains how English words drift in meaning and form. He cites glamour grammar furnish and veneer once shared roots and traces of serge and silk from sericum, noting how distant origins like taften mustard calico and others shaped modern usage.
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Frank Vitsetelly
New York
Wisetelly
Fabrica
Persia
Mosul
Tigris Valley
Calicut
India
China
Russia
Baltic
England
Gales Have Their Uses In Breathing Fresh Air
A London Sunday Express letter argues gales disrupt shipping and damage property but are essential for life. The writer notes gales circulate air, refresh vegetation, and bring rain. A recent gale reached 76 miles per hour from Croydon to Renfrew, while West Indies gales hit about 90 mph.
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London Sunday Express
Thames Valley
Croydon
Renfrew
West Indies
Coronation Colors Highlight Red and Blue Selections
The British Color Council adopts ten special coronation colors with coronation red and coronation blue as the most important. Coronation red blends sword-belt red heraldic red peers robes red and tartan red to a vivid peony shade, while coronation blue combines royal blue Union Jack blue and gentian blue.
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British Color Council
Fertilizer Sales in Canada Hit New 1936 Totals
An official preliminary report shows Canada's fertilizer sales for the year ending June 30 1936 at 442 085 short tons. The breakdown includes 96 479 tons of fertilizer materials and 137 544 tons of mixed fertilizer sold domestically, with exports of 190 268 tons of materials and 17 904 tons of mixed fertilizers. Compared with 1935 the 1934 figures indicate an increase of over 42 000 tons.
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Canada
Glaze Wired with a pitchfork at Newark factory
A man armed with a pitchfork attacked a glaze room at a Newark Ohio factory. Police arrived, the suspect was restrained and detained for questioning. No serious injuries were reported as workers evacuated and officials secured the site.
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Newark
Ohio
Budapest's First Woman Detective Claudia Majdan Dies
Claudia Majdan, possibly the last woman detective in Budapest police, dies at 62. Her career included leading the children’s defense league, supervising detention houses, starting workshops, and aiding detained youths. She earned high regard from police chiefs and was cited as Hungary’s first woman detective. 70 percent of Budapest detectives hold advanced degrees, reflecting a highly educated force.
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Claudia Majdan
Budapest
Count Edelsheim
Majdan
Claudia
Edelsheim
London
Children’s Defense League
Misa Majdan
Nadoay
Police
Hungary
Laky
Shaw Letter Mix Up Upsets London Pulp Editors
A Baltimore Sun reader recounts Bernard Shaw sending a 1000 word piece to the Daily Mail and accidentally mailing it to the Daily Express. The Express splashed the piece, leaving Shaw frustrated as Beaverbrook and Rothmere’s papers sparked mockery and a breakfast mishap. The note also mentions a 1932 Scotland record and a massive locomotive with a nine by twenty two foot firebox.
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John O’ren
Baltimore Sun
England
G. Bernard Shaw
London
Presse
Beaverbrook
Rothermere
Shaw
Daily Mail
Daily Express
The
Express
Bernard Shaw
the Express
Sydney Railways Influx Strains City Traffic
Sydney faces congestion as morning suburban electric trains bring 660 passengers per minute and trains depart every 38 seconds in the evening. One thousand passengers head home each minute, with 112 million rail journeys in 1925 rising to an estimated 180 million this year, Brandon Sun reports.
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Australia
Sydney
Railway Department
Tramway Department
Aee
Brandon Sun
New Paris pastime tests town names spelled same backward
In Paris readers pursue a geography game identifying French towns and villages that remain identical when read forward or backward. Names cited include Calac Eve Eve Sajas Sarras Lees Selles in Senones Soa Sys Sus Taxat Noyon and the curious Oo.
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Paris
France
Calac
Eve
Riviera
Sajas
Lees
Senones
Soa
Sys
Sus
Taxat
Noyon
Copper Utensils Dictate Status In Turkish Society
In Turkey the lower classes invest savings in copper utensils and social standing is measured by the number of these items. A barrel of dimes is valued higher than a barrel of silver dollars, highlighting relative wealth perceptions.
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Turkey
Wonders of Odd Lakes Around the World
The Montreal Star describes bizarre lakes such as Flores with ruby red and turquoise waters separated by rock, Trinidad pitch lake whose level defies extraction, East Africa’s soda lake fed by solution and evaporation, Grant County Washington soap lake whose surface sheds blondes after swims, and Cerknička in Yugoslavia whose spring empties each year revealing fertile loam for crops.
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Flores
Trinidad
East Africa
Queezer
Grant County
Washington
U.S.A
Cerknica
Yugoslavia
Special Fund Helps Society Seek Better Speakers
A noted speaker declined a donation after addressing a literary society. The secretary proposed adding the cheque to a special fund intended to enable the group to attract higher quality lecturers next year, a plan the speaker approved.
Tiny Tom Thumb radios head for British market
Tom Thumb radios as small as a cigarette case may enter Britain soon thanks to a new midget valve. Diamonds are the hardest minerals. The ostrich is the only two toed bird in the world.
Favor Sunday For Coronation In London View
The London Evening Standard notes that coronations have often been on Sundays or major church feast days since the Conquest with fourteen on Sundays. Crowned on Wednesday May 12, King Edward will join a minority with Wednesday coronations. only George I and George II did so among thirty six kings since the Conquest.
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William Rufus
Elizabeth
Edward
George I
George II
London Evening Standard
Highest European road opens on Italian Iseran Pass
The Iseran Pass on Route Nationale 202 in Savoy connects Vale dIsere and Bonneval sur Arc. The top reaches 9,088 feet above sea level with sharp hairpin bends. The 26 foot wide route is part of the Route des Alpen and slated for formal opening in 1937.
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Europe
Penny on City Hall Desk Draws Odd Attention in San Antonio
For 15 years a penny has rested atop a desk at San Antonio City Hall. Janitors search around it while some workers bag a quick game of heads or tails, yet a woman employee always places the coin back. She notes she set it there to observe how long it would stay.
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City Hall
San Antonio
Texas
Chicago Directory Shows Vast Johnson Listings
The new Chicago telephone directory contains nearly forty five Johnsons across its pages. Meanwhile in China the New Year is celebrated twice annually reflecting lunar and solar calendars.
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Chicago
Winter Storage Of Vegetables From Farm Notes
Instructions on maintaining humidity and ventilation for root crops and cabbage storage. Beets and carrots require layered sand beds and controlled temperatures, while cabbage shelving and hanging methods help preserve produce. Celery storage uses moist sand with upright plants, onions are sun dried and hang dried store rooms, potatoes and turnips need a cool moist cellar with soil on the floor and avoidance of whitewash to prevent dry rot.
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Dominion
Scott, Bask
Canadians Buy Less Wheat Per Capita In 1935
Turgeon royal grain commission heard statistician James McAngh of the Canadian Wheat Board report a per capita wheat consumption fall to a new low of 3.9 bushels in 1935 from about 4.5 bushels between 1923 and 1929. The 1935 population, about 11 million, consumed roughly 43 million bushels, down from nearly 1,000,000 more bushels for a population nearly 1,000,000 smaller in 1929.
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Turgeon Royal Grain Commission
Canada
James McAngh
Canadian ,Wheat Board
McAngh
Queen Mary’s Housekeeper Mrs Moore At Marlborough House
Mrs Moore, tall gray haired and kindly, serves Queen Mary as housekeeper and friend at Marlborough House. Hired after a Buckingham Palace vacancy and a suggestion by Viscountess Astor, she chose to stay with the Queen when Edward VII offered options after George VI’s death and now orchestrates the daily clockwork routine.
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Queen Mary
Marlborough House
Mrs. Moore
Buckingham Palace
Viscountess Astor
Palace
Clock Designed as Searchlight Aims at City Landmarks
A novel clock in a South American city uses a revolving searchlight design. Each hour the clock’s light sweeps onto a different landmark, highlighting the skyline as time passes.
Giraffes Run, SOS Mail Yodeling in England Report
Fragmentary notes claim missing relatives of sick persons and a 54 percent success rate in some cases. It mentions SOS broadcasts, a plan to teach yodeling by mail in England, and a claim that giraffes can run about an unidentified speed miles per hour.
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SOS
England
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George Bernard Shaw
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Hari Te Hanne
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Mistreus
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