Lights of New York on Battery and Harbor Life
L L Stevenson portrays Manhattan harbor and Battery Park as a living moving picture. The piece follows dawn to night hours with ferries tugs liners and work boats, highlighting ships, scenery, crowds and the bustle around the Statue of Liberty and Times Square.
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Manhattan
Battery Park
Staten Island
Richmond
New Jersey
Kill Ven
Kull
Coast Guard
Ellis Island
Governor’s Island
Narrows
New York
Wardly
Hudson
Bay
Queens of the Sea
Morgan
Astor
Socialite romps through ranch life on Nevada sheep ranch
Mrs. Roma Ware a New York Paris Pebble Beach and Del Monte socialite describes running a 3000 acre Nevada sheep ranch near Lake Pyramid. She learned ranch talk to motivate workers, acts as foreman, polices the ranch with badges, and engineers irrigation and gear while joking she must still roll her own cigarettes.
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San Francisco
Roma Ware
New York
Paris
Pebble Beach
del Monte
Nevada
Ware
Henry H. Wehrname
Houses of Glass Are Now Rapidly Nearing Reality
A Toledo architectural survey led by John D. Biggers shows 1938 homes contain double the window area of earlier houses. A single company produced 19 square miles of flat glass last year, while plate glass framed views and vitrolite glazing expands interior glass use. Doris Wirth runs Australia's Wirth circus, the nation’s largest, under Miss Doris Wirth.
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Toledo
John D. Biggers
London Kindergartens Add Baby Violins to Music Program
London Ontario to expand music education with 33 quarter sized violins for seven kindergartens. The board of education will double minor recitals after 1800 attendees last year and expects growth in instrumental students, building on a 25 percent rise previously.
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London
Ont
London Board of Education
E. W. Quantz
Board of Education
Ryerson
Lady_ Beck
Ealing
Fraternity Dog Earns Weekly Meal Tickets at Amherst
Tony the silken-eared mascot of Phi Delta Theta at Amherst College holds a meal ticket for ten hamburgers a week at Cramer's diner. The dog strolls in to signal his craving to the cook, and the hamburgers are charged to his card which is topped up each Saturday by fraternity members.
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Amherst
Mass
Tony
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Amherst College
Cramer’s
Quick Thinking Jokes and Snappy Exchanges Parade in Uproar
A collection of short quips and exchanges from telephone topics and jokes. Notable lines include a husband requesting permission to marry and a humorous courtroom exchange about a wife throwing things for twenty years. The piece showcases light commentary on family life and social pretenses.
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Lights of
L. L. Stevenson
the Battery
Sandy Hook
Atlantic Highland
Rye
Battery
Times Square
Saint Peter's
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Socialite
Foreman
Circus
Adelaide
Australia
The
Wirth
Doris Wirth
Ontario
Fraternity
ED Wheelan
Alta
Gwen
Big Top
Kirtuuis
Myra
Agais
Baldy
ED Wheejass
Lala Palooza
Gonzales
Rube Goldberg
Ent
By C. M. Payne
Ars Omar
Hed
Aed
Panna
Waar Tha Ding
Huntley
Oan
J. Millar Watt
Gluyas Williams
Bob
Aunt Sue
Jones
Meeker
Judge Sockman
Twin Falls
Tsiam
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