Extinct Bermuda Bird Found by Museum Curator
Louis L. Mowbray of Bermuda’s natural history museum visited the Smithsonian to display Bermuda cave found skeletons of the extinct cahaw a web-footed bird with a hawk like beak and nocturnal cave dwelling habits. The cave’s discovery by local youths last January adds urgency to the find.
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Bermuda
Smithsonian Institute
New York
Louis L. Mowbray
Bermuda Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Ered
Mowbray
Bermuda Cave Reveals Crystal Chamber and Ancient Bird Remains
Explorers discovered a vast cave in Bermuda between Hamilton and St George with gleaming calcite walls and a 350 by 150 foot lake. Mr Mawbray found bird skeletons and feathers encased in calcite, likely from a white bodied russet winged Cahaw, suggesting a unique specimen. An entrance is planned, making the cave a show place on the island.
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Mowbray
Hamilton
St. George
Bermuda
Reisner Leads Nile Excavation for Nubia Project
University of California's Dr. George A. Reisner is named archaeologist in charge of Egyptian government digs in Nubia. The 150 kilometer excavation along the Nile from Kalabsche to Derr aims to document monuments buried by the rising Assouan dam. Prof. Maspero will oversee temple restoration and inscriptions copying. The project lasts about five years.
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University of California
George A. Reisner
Egypt
Nubia
Nile
Kalabsche
Derr
Assouan
Maspero
Department of Antiquities
Evelyn Thaw Plans Quiet Summer At Park Avenue Home
Evelyn Thaw prepares to run a furnished Park Avenue house during the summer. She will cook and manage with one servant and hopes to keep her husband in the Tombs occupied with daily meals while awaiting the law's next step. Friends say she seeks seclusion and freedom from notoriety.
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New York
Evelyn Thaw
Thaws
Park Avenue
Evelyn
Remarkable tramp visits Middletown in 24 years
A No. 1, the world’s most famous well dressed tramp, stops in Middletown, N Y for a second visit in 24 years. He has traveled since 1888 at 11 years old, covering about 451000 miles with only 7.56 dollars spent in cash. Since January 1 he logged 5200 miles at 26 cents a day, does not beg, carries life policies, plans a trust fund for public school prizes, and has bought a cemetery plot in his hometown.
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Middletown
N. Y
United States
Ife
Curious Chinese hair cutting ceremony in Oakland banquet
Fong Hock, San Francisco banking supervisor and prominent merchant, hosted a 150 guest banquet on Eighth Street Oakland to celebrate his son's first hair cut. The elaborate, costly feast featured birds nest soup, shark's fin, and other delicacies while relatives and San Francisco clearinghouse members offered congratulations. Gifts worth thousands were exchanged as the rite marked the heir's entrance as a family factor.
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Oakland
Chinatown
Fong Hock
Anglo-Californian Bank
San Francisco
Eighth Street
Berlin Police Wage Campaign Against Cinematograph Exhibits
Berlin authorities declare moving pictures harmful to sight especially for children. The crackdown targets the 200 cinematograph theaters in Berlin and surrounding suburbs amid regulation efforts.
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Berlin
Pudding That Will Keep and Its Sauce
A traditional steamed pudding recipe uses beef suet raisins molasses and milk mixed with flour and soda then steamed four hours in an airtight vessel. A hot sauce made from water cornstarch cinnamon nutmeg allspice lemon juice rind and whisky complements the pudding which can be kept for a long time by turning out and reheating by steaming.
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New Orleans
Make Your Home Distinctive With Original Home-Made Touches
The piece urges using personal talent to create unique home decor rather than copying others. It suggests affordable upgrades like covering a cheap table with chintz to match wallpaper, emphasizing thrift, originality, and that husbands value homemade effort.
Finishing Swiss Curtains with Lace Edging
A guide to finishing white Swiss curtains for summer use by machine stitching narrow linen or cotton lace along the fronts and bottoms. Curtains should never sag below the window sill. lace edging provides durability and a neat hem. Lace costs three to five cents a yard and can similarly stabilize cretonne overdraperies.
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Cretonne
Brown Sauce Recipe From Historic Kitchen Text
A dated recipe directs browning two pounds of beef with two onions and lean bacon in butter for ten to twelve minutes then simmering with two quarts of water. Skim fat, then continue cooking slowly for an hour and a half to finish the sauce.
How to Can String Beans Freshly Picked
Trim young beans, remove both ends, and drop into ice cold water. Cut into inch pieces and keep them in water. Boil beans in salted water until tender but not mushy. Pack into heated jars and seal with boiling salted water.
Sauce for Roast Meats Improves Juicy Dishes
A quarter pint of water, parsley sprig, lemon juice, pepper, salt, and one ounce and a half of butter. Melt butter with parsley, add lemon juice and water, heat to just boiling, then serve with roast meat.
Gingerbread Recipe Notes for Classic Cookie Bake
A simple gingerbread recipe lists ingredients including molasses butter brown sugar eggs soda dissolved in hot water and spices with optional raisins and citron. Bake in a well greased pan in a moderate oven for an old fashioned treat.
Washing Berries With a Tin Pan Home Method
Use an ordinary tin milk pan with many holes punched in the bottom. Rinse berries in a sink with water running over them so sand and dirt wash away. Place the pan inside the sink so it sits above the front edge.
Pluck and Enthusiasm Drive Successful Business
A historical editorial urges readiness for opportunity and constant drive. It argues luck plays no role, only pluck and enthusiasm, with perseverance and a steady purpose. It warns against snobbery toward the working class and stresses serving the public to grow sales.
Perseverance and pluck conquer all things in work
The piece urges seizing opportunities and avoiding pipe dreams. It cites Bacon on fortune, notes that not all can succeed fabulously but all can strive, and promotes perseverance. It contrasts overalls with the upper tens and stresses fair treatment to win trade and cash flow. It ends by praising zeal in business and the joy of studying the field.
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Bacon
Advertising as the dynamo of business success
The piece urges merchants to widely promote their varied stock through newspapers circulars and direct contact. It argues advertising reaches all of human nature and is the essential engine powering business growth.
Push Through Hard Times for Profits
The text argues that persistent effort pays in good and bad times. It urges continuous pushing to speed up favorable outcomes and to recover when they reverse. The author claims constant effort yields personal improvement and greater earnings, noting that overthinking hinders progress.
Fashion Is Ever Changing Hat Price Inquiry
A Mrs Shopper questions why a milliner keeps a hat at the same price after it was $35 earlier. The milliner replies that fashion and pricing persist, while Mrs Shopper notes the style is no longer new.
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