Odd Mechanical Banks Exhibit at Boston Penny Savings
Boston exhibition features 59 mechanical banks from Mark Haber of Hartford with diverse forms from Rube Goldberg devices to dancing bears and coin swallowing figures. Notable items include a magician bank, a whale bank, and a Han dynasty bear from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dating 206 B C to 220 A D.
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Boston Penny Savings Bank
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Hartford
Mother Goose
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Metropolitan Museum of New York
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New Drug Aids Epilepsy Patients in Britain
London reports a new drug, sodium diphenylhydantoinate marketed as apanatin, sodantoin, shows benefit in over half of hospital epilepsy cases. Doctors W McCartan J Carson I Frost present results from Brighton Mental Hospital and Friern Hospital, noting 50 percent relief and 27 percent substantial improvement among 142 severe cases after treatment.
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United States
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J. Carson
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Friern Hospital
H. Houston
Housewife Becomes Canada's Only Woman Steeple Jack
Agincourt Ontario Mrs Charles Miner a comely petite blonde left domestic life a year ago to become Canadas only woman steeple jack She has painted some of the tallest steeples flag poles and water towers in the Dominion and says she prefers the height to housework as she climbs to church steeples.
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Ontario
Charles Miner
Canada
Dominion
Queen May Wear Famous Diamond but Not King
London reports the Koh-i-noor crown jewel follows a royal superstition. The 406 carat stone may be worn only by a queen and never a king as legend holds. Queens Victoria Alexandra Mary and Elizabeth have used it since its arrival in Britain.
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India
Victoria
Alexandra
Mary
Elizabeth
Copper Roof Firelike Shine on Utah Fieldhouse
The copper roof of the University of Utah fieldhouse appears as a field of fire when sunlight hits it. C. Pack, supplier of the copper, states the roof covers 59,400 square feet in one foot wide strips. If laid end to end, the strips would span nearly 12 miles and weigh about 16,000 pounds, equivalent to over 1.1 million pennies.
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Salt Lake City
University of
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Irene
Jim Carlson
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Carlson
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Showroom Tension and Irene’s Rising Call
Irene, a gown shop assistant, faces jealously driven rival Daphne as Jim Carlson weighs staff decisions. Irene pitches a single-item window display, earns trust, and helps pursue a new sales approach while a hidden romance with Jim unfolds.
World Events and Domestic News Roundup
A broad digest reports on troop movements and diplomacy in Europe and the Near East, including British and French stance toward Germany and Russia, and Canada’s third contingent arriving in England. It notes Japan’s 2600th anniversary, air disasters, riots in Northern Ireland, and Russian advances in Finland. Also covered: U S policy shifts, strikes, sports, weather, and regional California items.
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Russia
Near East
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Japan
Italy
France
Finland
Northern Ireland
Great Britain
Irish Republican Army
South America
Palestine
Karelian
Revelry Echoes From Duchesse of Richmond Ball Near Waterloo
On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in Brussels the duchess of Richmond hosted a famous ball in the Rue des Cendres. A nearby building served as the ballroom where a sound of revelry persisted past midnight, reflecting the height of social occasion before the clash.
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Rue Des Cendres
Brussels
Duchess of Richmond
Golf Ball Splits Pipe During Aussie Tee Shot
A golfer in Australia was unsettled when a ball from a nearby tee struck his pipe and broke it off at the stem, happening as he prepared for a long drive.
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Australia
Friesen Service Upsets Central Market In City Hoops Overtime
Friesen Service topped Central Market 32 to 29 in overtime after a 29 all tie. Vic Voth sparked the winner with a field goal and Mike Janzen sealed it with a free throw. Earlier Tips Barbers beat Volunteer Firemen 42 to 29 to break the first place tie with Pontiac.
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Elmer Anderson
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Chism
Combs
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Merkel
Camp
Heath
Graves
Janzen
Callaway
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Rodgers
Lockard
Discretion In Disorderly Car Encounter
A motorist cuffed a boy who scratched his name on a standing car. The crowd gathered as the boy's father demanded to see who struck his son. The motorist, tall and broad in girth, admitted the strike with a quiet, firm reply.
Wolf encounter on Sibétia steppes described by club explorer
A fragment quotes a woman's club explorer recalling sleigh travel on Sibétia steppes when wolves appeared and bared their muzzles. A bystander remarks how fortunate the wolves had muzzles, prompting a startled gasp from a young onlooker.
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Sibétia
Ben and Bess Exchange Tender Words in Private Note
A terse private note reveals Ben professing love for Bess with a line about devotion and life. Bess responds with a calm acknowledgment, reflecting on the life she leads and the surprise at his words.
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Ben
Bess
Pilgrims Yearly Harvest Sparks Car Purchase Joke
A teacher asks what the Pilgrims did after a year of crops. Gertrude replies with a humorous anachronism stating they bought a car. The moment blends classroom storytelling with a child’s playful misanswer.
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Gertrude
Twain Arrives in Canada and Scribes a Witty Signature
Mark Twain visits a Canadian hotel and notes the last arrival signature in the register reading Baron and valet. He signs his own name as Mark Twain and Valise, prompting amused clerkly eyes at the registry.
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Mark Twain
Mark
Twain
Rival butchers wage witty window war
Two neighboring Montreal butchers carried a rivaling sign war. The first boasted The King eats our sausages, while the second answered God save the King. The playful rivalry drew local attention in the shopfronts.
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King
Montreal Star
Inheritance and a Gloomy Question on a Fortune
A traveling sales man asks about Mesa Bill’s fate with a marked deck inherited from his parents. Cactus Joe notes he may face an inheritance tax and wonders how it will affect his livelihood. The short exchange blends humor with a tax worry.
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Mesa
Cactus Joe
Shafter High To Crown Campus King In Student Vote
The German club at Shafter High sponsors a campus king contest decided by student vote. Any enrolled male can enter while burly football players with curly hair are seen as favorites for the feminine vote, with a promised photo in The Laur ion annual.
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Shafter High School
Laurion
Snuff Sales Rise in the South by 1938
A survey shows U.S. snuff consumption in 1938 was 32 times 1870 levels and more than half of snuff sales occurred in the South.
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United States
South
Rocks Contain Small Radium Quantities
Many rocks show trace radium levels according to the report. Researchers note that minerals in various locations contain measurable amounts, though overall concentrations remain low.
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