Priceless Picenum Relics Highlight New Italian Museum
A newly opened Italian museum at Ancona, inaugurated by King Victor, showcases priceless relics with the Picenian antiquities as its centerpiece. The Picenum region lies between the Apennines and the Adriatic, once home to Sabine styled peoples later absorbed by Romans. The core exhibits feature pre Roman civilizations including Etruscans Greeks and Gauls before conquest.
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Ancons
Victor
Picenum
Italy
Tha Appenines
Adriatic
Picenuma
Dall 'Ossa
Moretti
New Museum
Ancona
Giorgia de Sebenico
Government Breeding Program Aims to Save North American Marten
The article describes a U S government effort to breed martens in captivity to avert extinction. It notes the marten’s range in North American woods, its fur value, diet, and behavior, and outlines recommended breeding pens. It highlights historical fur trade and trapping methods and calls for conservation to prevent loss of this graceful forest mammal.
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North America
Hudson's Bay Company
Seizure and burnings spark debate on art and decency in Bow Street
The article notes Miss Ifall’s novel being seized and burned by Sir Chartres Biron at Bow Street Court London. It recalls reactions from artists who defend works as art while Biron deems the volume poison and insidious. Background references to Roman archaeology and Italian history follow in a sprawling, fragmented piece.
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Chartres Biron
Humcombe
Chances Against Lightning HAT From GE Bulletin
A GE bulletin reports average persons face about one in several million odds of lightning strike at home. It notes top of hill risk and city home safety, advising stay away from lightning conductors and central plumbing and heating systems during storms.
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C. D. Wagoner
General Electric Company
R. M. Sparek
Bab
Amd
Walla
Western fashion and Siamese cinema spark contrasts
A discussion of Maria Bard and Miss Lilachat in Munich and Bangkok highlights how Western costumes influence Siamese film and street attire. The article notes the first all-Siamese picture, its Siamese star Lilachat, and how Westernization spreads through Bangkok fashion and cinema.
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Bangkok
Siam
Munich
Germany
Maria Bard
Miss Charnay Lilachat
Miss Bard
Miss Lilachat
Camera Incn
United
Banglok
Royal Siarmere Band
United States
Misa Lilachat
Mise Maria Bard
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Fanners
Vanishing Marten
Brone
Cence
Fabriano
Pariveni
Mise Charney
Lilachat
Mise Radclyine Wall
Pecenum
B.C
Pompeius Strabo
Pompey the Great
Sulla
B. C
Caesar
San Francico Delle Sente
Buit
Giorgio de Sebenico
Piennum
Marche
Sianesef
vesSvanty
Orient
Hughness
Siam Way
Fkn
Naty
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