Dancing with a mysterious bronzed stranger in a New York cafe
Starr, a penniless young woman with a deadly six month curse, meets a tall mysterious man in La Lana cafe. He guides her into a wild rhumba and a tense, probing conversation about her past and motives as rain lashes the city outside.
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Michael Fairbourne
Egypt
Hope
Star F
Starr
Bowery
Tve
la Lana
Great
Desert
New York
King Edward Builds Personal State Car With New Features
The Overseas Daily Mail reports King Edward's personal limousine design. The maroon vehicle seats the King and one equerry at the back with a miniature desk, night-reading amps, royal blue upholstery, and a low windscreen for clear driver view. Folding seats allow extra equerries if needed.
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Overseas Daily Mail
George
Queen Mary
Edward
European Wheat Crop Figures From U S Department Of Agriculture
The United States department of agriculture reports European wheat production excluding Russia at about 1.492 billion bushels this year, down from 1.974 billion last year. Danube basin countries grow 359 million this year versus 302 million last year, due to a strong crop, aiding deficit nations. Some countries plan increased imports to stockpile grains, amid export surplus.
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Europe
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Russia
Danube Basin
Weather Stretching Frontiers of Hope and Faith
Chicago Daily Drover Journal reflects on extreme weather dry spells and cold snaps, asking if climate shifts signal divine punishment or a test of endurance. The piece urges humility, gratitude, and resilience as farmers face ruined crops and dwindling home water supplies amid unprecedented conditions.
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Chicago
Daly Drover Journal
Hopes To Be Recalled Cavalcade King Alfonso Seeks Return
King Alfonso, 47, leaves Browns Hotel in Dover Street and travels to the Continent after news from Spain. He laments his exile from Madrid and hopes to be recalled to the throne as the British royal circle remains distant. Queen Ena, living at Kensington Palace, has not rejoined him.
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Starr
Alfonso
Spair
Lean de
Bonair
Gure
Browns Hotel
Dover Street
Endowers
Continent
London
Spain
Buckingham Palace
Madrid
Queen Ena
Ena
Beatrice
Queen Victoria
Kensington Palace
George
Speedy German locomotive tops 109 mph in service
The German National Railway runs a streamlined steam locomotive reaching 109 miles on forced runs and averaging 92 mph on regular runs. The 85 foot long, 14 foot high engine carries seven and a half foot diameter wheels, hauls a 250 ton five-coach train, and features advanced brakes including photoelectric automatic stopping aids.
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German National Railroad Company
Smuggling Ducks Pass As Geese On Polish Border
Smugglers devised a trick on the Polish German frontier in Upper Silesia by attaching ducks heads and feet to dressed geese to exploit lower duties. The Reich had cut the duty on ducks, while Germans preferred fewer smugglers’ tricks and more affordable goods. Other unrelated lines discuss job satisfaction and a shouted exchange over affording a car.
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Upper Silesia
Reich
Why Crater Lake Appears Intensely Blue
Lake Crater in the Cascade Mountains near Oregon is the extinct volcano crater whose water is noted as unbelievably blue. Dr John C Mirriam and Dr Gon Pettit of Mount Wilson studied its purity and light scattering, finding the blue hue results from water clarity and selective light scattering by deep water particles, not surface reflection.
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Cascade Mountains
California
Oregon
Natonal Academy of Sciences
John C. Mirriam
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Gon Pettit
Mount Wilson Astronomical Observatory
Pettit
Crater Lake
New York Herald Tribune
Rastus Votes for Least Corrupt Democrats in City Election
An anecdotal tale from election day narrates an acquaintance asking Rastus if he voted. He explains he accepted money from both parties but chose the Democrats as the least corrupt, illustrating voter influence and satire on political corruption.
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Rastus
Yassir
Mahogany four poster bed on display at Chicago furniture show
A mahogany four poster bed weighing 150 pounds and priced at 1900 dollars was shown at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Ordered by several retailers, the solid piece underscores the era’s costly furniture trends.
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Merchandise Mart
Chicago
Hope and Faith Meditations for Difficult Times
A devotional passage quotes scripture about God offering strength and help in distress. It urges calm reliance on the Lord, finding peace and joy amid life’s troubles, and emphasizes daily service and faithful work in one’s station to receive support and comfort.
Ingenious Rolling Library Serves Detroit Hospital Patients
In Harper hospital Detroit a rolling library on an invalid chair framework offers 700 volumes mostly popular fiction. Mrs. Joseph Sanderson founded the service after lonely hospital years, aided by 20 volunteer librarians. Elizabeth Morley from Detroit library assists with cataloging as a small leak on the top shelf requires monitoring. The free service receives new and expensive works donated for inmates.
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Harper Hospital
Detroit
Michigan
Joseph Sanderson
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