Vagabond No More A New Life Begins For Nick And Gay
Nick and Gay host Simeon Bartlett at their cozy cabin supper and receive blunt, loving counsel on marriage and jealousy. Bartlett warns of tempering independence with responsibility, while Nick and Gay grow closer, hinting at future challenges as they settle into married life.
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Mr. Bartlett
Simeon Bartlett
Gay
Nick
Seri
Meller’s Falls
Sonny
Old Simeon
Engineering Wizard Moranti Eyes Mediterranean Tunnel Project
Paul J Moranti, famed for tunneling feats on the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit System, is appointed consulting engineer to a Spanish plan to bore a rail tunnel under the Mediterranean linking Spain and Morocco. He will depart to drill borings off Gibraltar as the project advances.
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Paul J. Moranti
Wall Street
Mediterranean Sea
Spain
Morocco
Gibraltar
Moranti
Songs Of the People and a Songless Era
The Manchester Guardian questions whether any durable popular song has emerged in the last decade to rival earlier ditties like After the Ball Was Over Daisy Bell or The Man That Broke the Bank. It links the decline to sheet music losses from talkies and machine production, noting abundant music yet a barren output for the people. It contrasts with the era’s ready access to music at home and briefly shifts to advertising for Miller's Worm Powders as infant health remedy.
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Daisy Bell
Manchester Guardian
New York
Music Publishers’ Protective Association of America
Active Prospecting Year Ends in Northern Alberta
The adjournment of prospecting operations this season ends one of the most active years in Alberta. Five major companies carried on intensive exploration with aircraft at high cost and report valuable mineral discoveries and data secured. London has been invaded by street bagpipe players. W. N. U. 1861.
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Alberta
London
Tempting Matrimonial Ad Rehearsed in Japanese Paper
The piece translates a cheeky matrimonial ad praising beauty, wealth, and obedience, promising eternal repose in a rose colored marble tomb. Its tone both tempts and unsettles, reflecting cross cultural dating fantasies from a quaint Japanese specimen with a sly British observer noting the odd lure.
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Japan
A Satisfactory Arrangement for Wheat Barbers in Sparta
Spartans barter haircuts for wheat. Farmers can trade one bushel for a haircut and 27 cents. Wheat sells at 67 cents per bushel and a trim is valued at 40 cents, with local chickens also set to gain from the barter.
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Sparta
Michigan
Baby's Own Tablets for infant stomach and bowel relief
Babies show varied progress from birth while digestion often causes delays. Baby's Own Tablets claim to ease stomach and bowel troubles, banish constipation and indigestion, help colds and teething pains. Sold by medicine dealers or mail order for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Palestine Turns Orange Hub With Growing Groves
Palestine emerges as an orange producing country with high quality flavor and appearance. Jewish investors exceed twenty million dollars in orchards and new plantings grow, signaling a bright agricultural future. Recent tests show flies avoid rooms lit with red or yellow glass.
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Palestine
Little Helps For This Week In Spiritual and Health Notices
A short devotional fragment cites biblical blessings and prayers by William Channing Gannett and Martin Luther about hearing God. The piece stresses belief that God speaks brings blessing. An old advertisement promotes Douglas Egyptian Liniment claiming cures for toothache neuralgia sore throat quinsy and croup, burns, sores, Barber's Itch and Ringworm.
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Douglas
Will Visit Winnipeg After U S Junior Chamber Meet
The United States Junior Chamber of Commerce National Convention will be held in Des Moines Iowa in June 1931. A post convention tour to Winnipeg is planned led by national president Dunward Howes of Los Angeles with participation from the national organization.
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United States Junior Chamber of Commerce
Des Moines
Iowa
Winnipeg
Dunward Howes
Los Angeles
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William Channing Gannett
God
Martin Luther
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