Volunteers Aid Weather Bureau History and Role
A Smithsonian driven effort and a long tradition of cooperative weather observers support daily records at about five thousand sites. The article notes observers read instruments daily, mail monthly data to state centers, and that data underpin climate statistics and past records. It traces roots to William Merle's English journal, George Washington's weather diary, and early U S efforts from 1848 through the formation of the climatological service within the Weather Bureau.
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Washington
American Meteorological Society
United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
William Merle
England
George Washington
Thera
Cleveland
The
Western Reserve Historical Society
Smithsonian
Corps of Co-Operative Observers
Smithsonian Institution
Signal Service
Hinrichs
Iowa
Big State
Climatological Service
Maryland
Couple Wed After 65 Year Courtship in Yorsell
Charles Blanchford age 87 and Grace Rollands age 85 married after a 65 year courtship in Yorsell England. Canon Norman Pares officiated and allowed the couple to leave the altar to a jazz band serenade outside the church.
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Yorsell
England
Charles Blanchford
Grace Rollands
Norman Pares
Straw Hat Exports Drive Luton's Thriving Trade
Straw hats are worn in England mainly by schoolboys and some bookmakers. Luton's hat factories are thriving on exports, chiefly to the United States, highlighting the town’s prominent role in the straw hat industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luton
England
United States
Hikers Force Railroad to Go Out of Business
San Francisco hikers have toppled the Tamalpais and Muir Railroad by making the ascent to Mount Tamalpais popular. Trails to the peak outpaced the train, as hiking clubs grew and an auto road offered tolls yet drew fewer riders.
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San Francisco
Mill Valley
Mount Tamalpais
Marin County
Bay
Amalpais
Tamalpais and Muir
Tamalpais
Min. Valley
Muir Woods
International Phone Book Plans Expanded Global Directory
Copenhagen based stock company Annusire telephonique International plans to compile an international telephone directory listing 60 000 to 100 000 residents across Europe Africa North and South America and possibly Asia as transoceanic telephone use grows.
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Washington
Annusire ‘Telephonique International
Copenhagen
Europe
North
South America
Asia
Betty Crocker Cooking School on the Air
Betty Crocker guides a 15 minute twice weekly broadcast offering a 26 week domestic science course. Listen Wednesdays and Fridays 8:30 to 8:45 A.M. from Cent. Stand Time on local stations. Washburn Crosby Company promotes practical home economics and economical cooking.
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Washburn Crosby Company
Millers of Gold Medal
Pithy Snippets and Cartoons From Distant Clippings
A collage of quips and scenes includes a fashionably dressed eighty year old, a pencil salesman marking a surgeon’s pencil on skin, Doris at an art exhibit failing to spot “Matt and Jeff,” pacifist quarrels, and Uncle Eben’s malapropisms as printed in various newspapers.
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St Clogfield Union
Doris
Matt
Jeff
True dyes are easiest to use for lasting color
True dyes offer even bright colors for dresses drapes or lingerie with no spotting or streaking. Diamond Dyes promise rich pure anilines for easy use and long wear, a 50 year reputation available in 15 cent packages at drug stores.
Diamond-Dyes and the Spade A Spade Remark
The article notes Plutarch coined lines about Macedonians calling a spade a spade and the phrase he has one foot in the grave, highlighting these long lived expressions from ancient biography and Golden Book Magazine.
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Plutarch
Golden Book Magazine
How One Woman Lost 20 Pounds of Fat
An advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a fat loss aid. It claims weekly weight loss and improved vitality after taking one half teaspoonful in hot water each morning, with a money back guarantee if no health improvements are seen.
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America
Large Size Needed Clerk Youthbrush What Size
A reader asks for the largest available clothing size described as fo’teen in a family. The note uses slang and regional speech, requesting the biggest item “fo’tteen.” It reflects a casual shopper inquiry rather than a formal product listing.
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Mellon
Oak Hill
Virginia
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
David K. Estes Bruce
James Monroe
Bureau
Florence Smock
Eustis
Fla
National Congress of
Florence
Famous Cooking School
Betty Crocker
WOC
Washburn Crossy Company
of General Mills, Inc
Minneapolis, Minn
G. M
Eben
Uncle Eben
Washington Star
Guaran
Paty
Potter Drug & Chemical Corporation
Malden Mass
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