Mayan explorer Dr Fransblom and NYC social notes
Dr Fransblom of Tulane leads a Yucatan trip with a sightseer party. Dorothy Dix touts Maya ruins as superior to Greece Italy and Egypt. Freddy Benham recaps wartime moves from West Point detours to cinema, ambulance work, French Foreign Legion, and war correspondence. New York contrasts history with daily prices and city life.
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Fransblom
Tulane University
Yucatan
Dorothy Dix
Greece
Italy
Egypt
France
Braden Military Academy
West Point
Henry Darius Benham
New York Engineers
Freddy Benham
Foreign Legion
Fontainbleau
Herbert Bayard Swope
Summer Dishes for Children from Kitchen Cabinet
A kitchen column outlines kid friendly summer dishes. Fruit salad uses assorted market fruits with a lemon sugar sauce after chilling. Asparagus French dressing pairs cooked tips with a thick white dressing of salt, vinegar, olive oil, sugar, pepper, and onion juice. Other notes describe pastry utilization, banana and cream dessert with crumbled pastry, and a peach short cake recipe with pastry flour, butter, milk, and ripe peaches.
Peach Topped Cake With Almond Cream Flavor
A 1932 Western Newspaper Union recipe describes layering peaches on cake, buttering, and spreading with peaches, then topping with whipped cream lightly sweetened and almond flavored.
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Western Newspaper Union
Fifth Avenue Hotel and Knickerbocker Bar Murals Noted
The article recalls the Fifth Avenue hotel and the Knickerbocker bar above Masfield Parrish’s mural of Old King Cole, with Big Tim Sullivan’s Bowery bar also mentioned. The piece is from 1932 and distributed by Bell Syndicate.
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Fifth Avenue
Masfield Parrish
Old King Cole
Big Tim Sullivan
The
Bowery
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Sauce for the Goose and Gander Phrase Origin
The article explains the saying sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and links its use to Otway's Venice Preserved (1682). It notes the phrase's popularity in everyday speech and its recent use as a play title.
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Otway
Venice
Bell Syndicate
TWNU
Birthplace of Harvard's Name Giver Discovered
Cambridge mass country old college locates exact birthplace of Rev John Harvard its namesake and first benefactor per Harvard Alumni bulletin article by Louis A Holman of Boston. The find places him in an Elizabethan house on High Street Southwark London.
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Cambridge
Mass
John Harvard
High Street
Southwark
London
Louis A. Holman
Boston
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
Bible Still Best Seller Fort Worth Fort Worth
Wallace Wachob of Berkeley California said the Bible remained the world's top selling book last year with 14,000,000 volumes sold. He spoke in Fort Worth presenting figures from a national publishing concern.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Wallace Wachob
Berkeley
Calif
Holman Finds Old Southwark Connection in London Artefacts
A water color painting aged 105 and the writings of Dr William Rendle guide Holman to link Chaff at the Wild Oats home and Robert Harvard’s butcher shop opposite Boar's Head tavern to the college founder's era.
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Robert Harvard
Boar’s Head Tavern
London Guildhall
William Rendle
F.R. C
Old Southwark
Holman
Neighbors and Peas Canned Quickly After Pick
Readable notes advise canning neighbors and peas promptly after picking. Guidance covers drying spots after cleaning, using steam to remove rings, and careful shelter and ventilation for chicks in hot weather to prevent overheating. Lemon juice is suggested for all chilled beverages to aid juice blending.
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Associated Newspapers
Quiet Vacations Elude Them In Grim Riddle
A couple debates vacation options with a macabre twist as the husband pleads for a quiet inexpensive retreat while the wife wryly notes cemeteries are the only quiet places left.
Beatings Counted In California Divorce Suit
In San Jose a woman files for separation citing 1040 beatings over 19 years of marriage to Jack Schwartz. The complaint lists the repeated abuse as grounds, outlining the long history of alleged mistreatment and its impact on the marriage.
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San Jose
Calif
Mabel Schwartz
Jack
Heartbreak House Heartbreak House
A study of Gentleman Dawes a Colorado retailer who after gambling away 485000 dollars at Monte Carlo and years of penury returns to the Riviera as James B. Squire to rebuild fortunes. A tale of ruin and reinvention along the famed gambling coast.
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ADV
Baedekers
Riviera
Monte Carlo
Dawes
Mediterranean
Gentleman Dawes
Colorado
French Riviera
Monte -Carlo
Hermann Dawes
Monte. Carlo
Angie Falls
Keokuk
Iowa
America
Europe
Deauville
James B. Squire
Blue Coast
Squire
States
Nice
Cannes
No Tame Rooster Match for Ringneck Pheasant
The Detroit News notes ringneck pheasants outclass domestic roosters in fights, with longer spurs and truculent disposition. Pheasants invade barns for corn, kill roosters in unequal combats, and show bold, confident behavior even near humans and automobiles in spring.
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Plymouth Rock
Rhode Island
Detroit News
Moravian Bride's Trousseau Reveals Local Frills
Moravia, a small principality in Czechoslovakia, known for Moravian and Slovak people, shows cultural dress such as laces and embroidery in the bride’s trousseau. Once independent, Moravia has long been under external European powers and was part of Austria before World War I.
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Moravia
Republic
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Heights of Abraham Name Origin in Quebec History
The heights of Quebec derive their name from Abraham Martin a Canadian pioneer of Scotch descent Martin a pilot on the St Lawrence river when Champlain founded the city Champlain granted him a homestead on the heights and his cattle herds were a common sight on the tableland He was affectionately known as Maitre Abraham among residents.
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Abraham
Quebec
Abraham Martin
Martin
St. Lawrence River
Samuel de Champlain
Champlain
St. Lawrence
Maitre
Modern River Arks Carried Coal By River Men
Arks built by river men to float coal from Pennsylvania mines to the Atlantic seaboard cost about $5 a ton. The large craft, carrying roughly 60 tons of coal each, were too bulky to be pulled back upstream and were sold for whatever price they could fetch.
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Noah
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Seaboard
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Tulane
Knoga
Frederick Darius Benham
Park Avenue
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Museum of the City of
Manhattan
Utah
Vermont
Salt Lake City
Capitol
Macon
Goodyear- Zeppelin
Akron
Jean Newton
Cheerio
Dorothy Edmonds
Sammy Samson
Heartbreak House
Fannie Hurst
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
CWNU
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