Lights of New York and a World of Ink
A memoir fragment sketches Joe, longtime boot black at a Manhattan magazine firm, who hopes to write but faces editors’ taunts until a younger listener funds a partnership. It recalls Ward editors, Ann Harding, General Gately, and soldiers of the Rainbow division. The tale blends city life, rivalries, and odd encounters.
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Joe
Manhattan
Shiners
Los Angeles
Rainbow
Ann Harding
George Gately
Miss Harding
Gately
Camp Sevier
Greenville
France
Gus
Glass Eye For London Snak e
London 700s prize Madagascan constrictor lost an eye in an accident and an oculist fitted a glass eye. The procedure restored its sightless gaze with a single glass eye now in place.
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London
Giraffe Described as Silent by Smithsonian Institution
A Smithsonian Institution description states that giraffes are mute despite long necks and tongues and may not vocalize even in distress. The piece notes the giraffe as the tallest land animal with no known sound.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Cleaning tips from a curious neighbor list
A reader offers household advice on washing woolen blankets without wringing, rinsing in multiple waters, and hanging dripping. Vinegar and salt remove tea stains from china cups, vinegar cleans glass bottles, and careful handling prevents glass breakage with jar safety steps.
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China
Bank vault door stuck as cash borrowed from Chicago
Macomb bank used money borrowed from other banks and shipped from Chicago after its vault door jammed. Officials said the vault was enlarged but could not be opened, yet funds remained secure in reserve for bank needs.
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Macomb, Wie
Macomb
National Bank
Chicago
Weekend Cheese Dishes and Dessert Ideas
A list of simple cheese based snacks and grape juice desserts from 1932 offers hot cheese balls grape juice sherbet grape juice pudding and chocolate mint snowballs. Recipes include ingredients steps and serving notes attributed to the Western Newspaper Union.
Rank and File and the Borrowing of Military Terms
The passage notes how military language has entered civilian life with terms like rank and file. It says business and politics adopt military phrases for those without official standing, such as nonmembers, and suggests checking with a drillmaster about the usage.
Simple Life Ideals Prompt Summer Comfort
A light exchange quotes a speaker defining the simple life as leisure in warm weather, wearing shirt sleeves. The remark captures a casual, homespun view of ease and contentment during summer.
Military drill terms defined as rank and file
The passage explains that rank and file refer to soldiers below sergeant. Two soldiers form a file, two rows of fifty make fifty files. Right and left files exist, and marching in a single or double file is described. A front rank and rear ranks are noted.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Fun for All the Child Cheerio Chapters Game Rules
Four players max, each starts from a corner and shoots flat celluloid disks to land on a central tree target. Points are earned by landing on numbered trees. if a disk lands off a surface half way, the score does not count and the turn restarts. The object is to obtain the highest score while avoiding misses.
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Cortis
Modern Iraq Emerges From Mesopotamian Ruins Into New Baghdad
National Geographic notes RAQ as the modern name for Mesopotamia and traces Iraq’s birth under a British mandate. It describes Mosul, Baghdad, and Basra, the goofah and tkelek boats, bustling bazaars, hydraulic works, rail lines, consulates, and the shift from empire to a sober modern state guided by European-educated administrators.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU Service
Raq
Garden of Eden
Mesopotamia
Iraq
Tigris
Euphrates
Mecca
Tigris-Euphrates Valley
Baghdad
Basra
Babylon
Mosul
Tigris- Euphrates
Arabian Desert
Persian Uplands
Syria
Turkey
Persian Gulf
Belgium
Baghdad-Mosul
Jonah
Moses
Old City
Harum-al-Rashid
Ali Baba
Aladdin
Zobeida
Harun-al-Rashid
Baghdin
Europe
Near East
Abraham
Marco Polo
Bethlehem
Shatt-el- Arab
Kut
Amara
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Lights OF
New York
Acren Ravmsuur
Boothlack
Bob Sherwood
Arthur Sherwood
Donald Carlisle
Norman Stevenson
Ritz
Madison Avenue
Mr. Stevenson
Calvin Coolidge
House
Senate
Milkhail Kalinin
Eft
Central Executive Committee
A. L Rykov
Leven
Associated Newspapers
War Department
Henry Harris
Bayonne
Western Newspaper Union
Dorothy Edmonds
Talon
Bagh Sit
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