League's New Palace Ready in Two Years
Geneva report states the League of Nations plans a 5 million dollar palace with a 1934 completion target. structural work on the secretariat is done, council hall underway, and foundations for assembly hall and Rockefeller library are being dug. site disputes persist, library funded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Americans have donated over 8 million to date.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Assembly Hall
Rockefeller Library
League
Secretariat
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Alexis Barton
Barton
Council Hall
The Urge of Poverty and a College Prodigy
The narrative recalls Cervantes’s admirer urging Toledo’s archbishop to pension the poor but gifted author, a friend’s protest, and reflections on Porter a promising student whose family sacrifice funded his college path and professional training before he returned home.
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Cervantes
Toledo
Porter
Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe Improves Layered Dessert
Recipe for a chocolate fudge cake with two 9 inch layers and fudge frosting. Includes instructions to sift flour with leaveners, cream butter and sugar, beat egg yolks, melt chocolate, alternate flour and milk, fold in whites, bake at 350 F for 30 minutes, and assemble with frosting. Doubling yields three 10 inch layers.
Automatic radio steering aids air transport progress
New York report describes a device that provides automatic steering with wind drift correction by radio to improve all weather air travel. The system aims to reduce dependence on instrument flying as pilots train under Commerce rules, potentially easing seasonal disruptions caused by fog and storms.
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New York
Department of Commerce
Automatic plane pilot machine replaces pilot in gale tests
A new radio guided automatic steering system for aircraft surpasses human piloting by controlling the rudder against wind drift. In tests over 30 miles from Lake George to Schenectady a heavy Mohawk valley gale blew down lines while Lieut. G. W. Holloman and an observer rode a straight course south as the machine maintained course within 20 degrees of west. The device, tested at Wright Field, uses magneto compass, turn compensator, radio compass, steering loop engines, and a radio receiver and is designed to automate navigation up to 150 miles and beyond for entire airways.
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Wrightfield
Lake George
Schenectady
N. Y
Mohawk Valley
G. W. Holloman
Contrasts From Paris in Dresses This Season
In Paris fashions this season M leeves vary in length and style from long to short and puffed to cape like. High molded waists pair with skirts that fall in narrow lines. Patou uses color contrasts with purple accessories against light green frock while Lelong favors plain fabric with printed contrasts.
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Paris
Patou
Lelong
Giso
The Lawyer Transformed by Wealth and Lazy Comfort
In this 1932 Western Newspaper Union piece a once ambitious lawyer in the Midwest abandons practice after marrying a wealthy woman. He now idles at home caring for pets, avoids work, and travels to the Riviera, becoming fat and a mere cipher while poverty’s urge might have made him a great figure.
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Middle West
Riviera
Western Newspaper Union
Buttered Frosting Tip Improves Flavor And Texture
Adding a little melted butter to unfrosted frosting enhances flavor and helps prevent cracking. A small amount yields a smoother, richer finish without altering the base recipe.
The Housewife Tips From Old Times
A reader note offers kitchen tips such as rubbing a chicken with lemon to improve white tender meat, warming bread before toasting for better taste, and cleaning a stove with a vinegar cloth. It also suggests sprinkling insect powder borax and powdered sugar in the bathroom, closets, and sink before summer closure.
Cinderella Girl Editha Davis Leaves Estate For Nursing School
Editha Pierce Davis of Boston, twenty, known as Cinderella Girl, donates her Pierce-Davis share to Salem hospital for Nurses' Training matriculation. Her legacy includes The Acres estate and a trust fund yielding 100000 dollars in five years, plus 500 preferred and 200 common shares in American Radiator Co.
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Editha Pierce Davis
Boston
Pierce-Davis
Salem Hospital
Nurses’ Training School
Davis
American Radiator Co
Two Men Discuss Hancock County as Fortville Passes
Two drivers heading to Indianapolis mention Hancock county while passing through Fortville. One notes the county’s identity and the other confirms it entirely, joking that the wife of the first speaker was born there as a child.
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Indianapolis
Hancock County
Fortville
Indianapolis News
Choosing a Course in Politics Sparks Debate
A Washington Star quotation contrasts two senators on weighing sides. Senator Sorg Hum argues the effort to see both sides may hinder steady progress, warning against overcomplication in decision making. The exchange frames a larger debate on approach to governance.
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Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
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