Weight in Wild Cats and Frontier Legends Recalled
A feature reflects on frontier bravado and tall tales shaping American myths. It highlights Mike Fink and other frontiersmen, their ruthlessness and resourcefulness, and notes how Dan Boone Davy Crockett and John Henry became enduring symbols in tales and songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appalachians
James Daugherty
Houghton Mifflin Company
Mr. Daugherty
America
Mike Fink
John M. Peck
Daniel Boone
Paul Bunyan
Babe
John Henry
Arkansas
T. B. Thorpe
Ozarks
Simon Kenton
Davy Crockett
Lewis Wetzel
Seliar Bonen
New Power in C. I. O. Rise of Philip Murray Highlighted
Profile of Philip Murray tracing his rise from Westmoreland coal miner to labor leader. Details include his punch at age eighteen, role in UMWA, work with John L. Lewis, and influence in the steel industry labor-civil relations. Notes his war labor board stint and salary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Murray
Westmoreland County
Lanarkshire
Scotland
America
Keystone Coal & Coke Company
United Mine Workers of America
Wilson
War Labor Board
Harding
Wingo County
W. Va
Twilight of Knee Pants and Fashion Jabs From Abroad
A collage of satirical snippets on diplomatic dress, baseball pay disputes, Hollywood fashions tilting masculine and feminine looks, a strange new hat, and brutal Ethiopian suppression with mass executions under Graziani. The tone skewers vanity and power with terse, biting observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bee
Paris
Hollywood
Spring Fashions and Sew-Your-Own Patterns
The piece highlights Barbara Bell and Sew-Your-Own patterns for spring and summer. It promotes Silk and Cotton all-occasion dresses, two blouse patterns, and a Barbara Bell Pattern Book with sizes and fabric yardage details. Ordering details for the patterns and the Sewing Circle Dept. are given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of the Road
Barbara Bell
New Montgomery Ave
San Francis
The Hunters of Kentucky Ballad Recited in City Pace
A fragmentary verse recounts Kentuckians with Kentucky rifles facing British general Packenham at Cypress Swamp. The piece praises American marksmen and retells a historic encounter with vivid regional pride, naming John Bull and Cypress Swamp as key images.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packenham
Kentucky
Hunters of
Jackson
Trifles
Cypress Swamp
John Bull
Old Kentucky
Farsighted and Nearsighted Pupil Behavior Despite Drugs
A cross eyed person can be farsighted when pupils turn inward or nearsighted when they turn outward. Dilated pupils are often caused by bella donna or atropine. An excessively contracted pupil results from excessive morphine use.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Elmo Scott Watson Owever
Andrew Jackson
New Orleans
Old Hickory
General Pakenham
Samuel Woodworth
Boston
Mike
Themar Woods
Proud Joe
Fink
Mous
Boone
Henry Howe
Kenton
Big Foot Wallace
John C. Duval
Wallace
Lone Star
Fact
David Crockett
State of
Tennessee
Jim Beckwourth
Jim Bridger
D Western Newspaper Union
Woodsman
Mike Finke
King
THE
Keel-Boatmen
Johnny Appleseed
Lemuel F. Parton
New York
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Benjamin F. Fairless
Carnegie-Ilinois Corporation
John L. Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
Pennsylvania
Edward VIII
British Court of Claims
Edward
George VI
Britannia
Lord Ancaster
Ancaster
Stanley Baldwin
Westminster Abbey
Richard
Lincolnshire
Eloise Breese
L. W. Breese
Drummond and
Grimsthorpe
Bristol
New York Yacht Club
Twilight of Knee Pants
Anta Monica
Calif
Solomons
Irvin G. Cobb
North America
Ethiopia
Graziani
Addis Ababa
Newmeans
Rais’d
Ken
Kenterky
Mark
Smith Brothers
Smith Bros
B. T. Babbitt
Lye
B. T. Babbitt, Inc
Dept. WN
Foardive
New York City
Rth
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