Lights of New York in a City of Shadows
A collage of vignettes from Manhattan scenes narrated in a noir tone. Central Park benches, chess match tension, crowded subways, rain soaked streets, and glossy avenues show ordinary people amid urban bustle. Subtle glimpses of kindness and danger punctuate a city that never sleeps.
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Manhattan
Central Park
Gotham
Grand Central Terminal
Boston
Sixth Avenue
RCA
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Third Avenue
Andre Baruch
New York
Bowery
Cotton roads tested as future highway material near Memphis
A 1937 Memphis area experiment uses cotton fabric under asphalt to reinforce roads. Engineers report cotton layers bind well, resist moisture, and reduce maintenance costs. Federal backing supports trials in over twenty states as the strategy aims to convert millions of miles of dirt roads to durable pavement.
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Memphis
Dixie
Fossil Pod Linked to Coal Age Plant Evolution
A fossilized seed pod, about 400 million years old, found by Henry Andrews at oil shales near Edinburgh, Scotland, is viewed as a potential link between coal age fernlike plants and modern flowering species. The tulip shaped pod, 2 1/4 inches long, adds to Washington Universitys botany collection after Andrews and the Belgian American Educational foundation research.
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ST. Louis
Henry Andrews
Washington University
Edinburgh
Scotland
Andrews
University
45 Million Americans Lacking Library Access
Washington reports Carleton B. Joeckel of the University of Chicago finds that 45 million Americans have no library service with rural and agricultural areas hit hardest. He notes three quarters of farming households lack access and contrasts Massachusetts library reach with West Virginia access.
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Washington
United States
Carleton B. Joeckel
University of Chicago
Joeckel
Advisory Committee On Education
Massachusetts
West Virginia
External alcohol application intoxicates patient in Houston case
In Houston Texas external application of alcohol to a thigh wound intoxicated a woman over 36 hours. J H Stephenson of Jefferson Davis hospital and staff reported four pints of 70 percent alcohol used. Blood contained 260 millimeters of alcohol per 100 centi meters and spinal fluid 180 millimeters, far above the normal 100 millimeters ratio.
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Houston
Texas
J. H. Stephenson
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Stephenson
Weather Forecast and Financial Pressures in 1920s Style
A collage of humorous exchanges shows a weather talker predicting a gale by the captain’s frantic orders. In a separate vein Green claims full financial commitment while Harris reports every cent spent. The Chicago Tribune quips on comfort of a solid head as a professor’s daughter declines a match due to lack of funds.
Pepsodent Tooth Powder Promises Sparkling Teeth
An advertisement touts the newly improved Pepsodent Tooth Powder. It claims fast action and reasons readers should switch, highlighting Pepsodent as unique among tooth powders for its effect.
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Lights of
L. L. Stevenson
Joan Edwards
Park Avenue
Forty-ninth Street
Roxy
Radio City
Broadway
Benny Venuta
Bell Syndicate
WNU
U. S
Bragg
Silk” Fowler
Alta
Circus
Lala Palooza
ED Wheelan
Skoorkie
Frank Jay Markey
Syndiate, Inc
Whee Len
Jan
Rube Goldberg
Spinto
Gonzales
Yipe
Zeero
Barry the Right
Pop
By C. M. Payne
Cole Gor
wWaLitin
Aru
UWL
J. Millar Watt
Bell Syndical
Gluyas Williams
Kichen
Johnny
Jack Tar
Montreal Star
Harper
Green
Harris
Chicapo Tribune
Inium
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