Insignia program aimed at reducing Westchester car accidents
Automobile owners display a bureau devised safety insignia to curb careless driving. Three hundred plates have been distributed with seventeen hundred more expected for enrollees in Westchester. Westchester Lighting Company leads firms with 175 vehicles to bear the insignia as others join in. The movement seeks to cut accidents though full suppression is unlikely.
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Public Safety Bureau
Bureau
Westchester
Westchester Lighting Company
Camp Waymore Works to Build Health in Westchester Children
The Westchester County Tuberculosis Association operates Camp Waymore at Elmsford with 20 children each month. Boys adapt better to the regime than girls, gains average one pound weekly, and improvements show in eyes and poise. One child, Tony, loses out on a move to another camp, while Mary becomes a walking dairy advertisement after a month. The Lions Club of White Plains supports facilities. final costs exceed $2,600 funded by Red Cross Christmas Seals sales.
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Camp Waymore
Westchester County
Westchester County Tuberculosis Association
Little Mary
Yorktown Heights
Tony
Beecroft
Herman
Claire Anway
Robbins
Edwards
Stevens
Grasslands Hospital
Walter Zell
White Plains
Lions Club of
Susan Baker
Waymore Boys
Lion
Elmsford
Lions’ Club
Lions
Red Cross
Detours and Detroit and Niagara Falls in a windy Chicago mood
The narrator extols detours as a route to discovery praising detour variety and the urban allure of Chicago Detroit and Niagara Falls. Chicago is described as swift flamboyant and flapperish while Detroit is a car capital with aggressive street rules and Niagara Falls glitters with painted lights and crowds by the bridges and promenade.
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Niagara Falls
International Bridge
Canada
Bliss for Two Engagement Revealed in Life column
In a Life magazine style squib, a couple discusses an engagement that is not yet real to both, highlighting a lighthearted misunderstanding. The note contrasts this with a curious remark about Iceland where trees are scarce and only a low willow exists.
Parlez Vous Grace in Paris
Viola recalls Paris trip jokes about language with two Denver women who could understand her. The Life snippet captures travel chatter and cross city bond.
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Denver
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Scarsdale
N. Y
Wayside Inn
Post Road
The
Scarsdale Inquirer
Lions Club
Jane Cornell
America
New Tribune
Wrigley Building
Chicago
Detroit
New York
Lake Michigan
Paris
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve
Elizabeth Locke Bogart
Henry Szaniawski
General Insurance
Court Street
White Plains, N. Y
Briarcliff Laundry
Briarcliff
Staten Island
Dyers & Cleatiers
Ney
Billy
Iceland
Grace
Viola
Tarrytown
Tarrytown Cleaners and Dyers
North Broadway
Main Street
Russell & Lawrie Building
Green Knolls
Greenacres
Greenridge
Bronx Parkway
Leewood Golf Club
Scarsdale Golf Club
Madison Avenue
Robert E. Farley
New York City
White Plains and
Hartsdale Station
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