Brisbanes Week Unearths Oddities and Opinions
Arthur Brisbane surveys diverse topics from a sensational trial with 11 husbands and one bachelor to Lake Titicaca fish stock plans. He jokes on jury fairness, beauty contests, rising accident deaths, salmon oxygen depletion, Townsend pensions, and the 1936 Republican convention site in Cleveland with 72,000 feet up photographs.
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New York
Reisman
Lake Titicaca
Bolivia
Peru
Sam
Cleveland
Chicago
Kansas City
Siamese twins and Washington society seating chaos
A humorous essay argues that a congresswoman twin and her nonranking sister would upend Washington's strict order of precedence at dinners. It imagines seating, rivalries, and potential clashes from the President to the Secretary, with exchanges about left and right twins and the burden on the hostess during soup.
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Washington
Yankee Stadium
Sioux City
Mount Vernon
Smithsonian Institution
Ethe Navy
Army
Navy
Necklace once owned by Mary Queen of Scots sold for fifty cents
In Forfar Scotland a woman bought a string of black pearls for two shillings fifty cents and later a jeweler notified authorities. Crown jewels officials reportedly recognized the pearls as a Mary Queen of Scots necklace missing for years.
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London
Mary, Queen of Scots
Forfar
Scotland
Physical Drill to Aid Millions Aim in Britain
Britain plans mass physical exercise programs to improve health and happiness. Hundreds of welfare and physical culture groups organize classes costing 5 to 10 cents, reaching every village and city in the British Isles. The Central Council of Recreative Physical Training spearheads the effort after a nationwide survey showed under 13 percent participation.
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London
Britain
British Isles
Central Council of Recreative Physical Training
Board of Education
Minnie the cat and theater life on Broadway stages
Minnie the Winter Garden cat had a long public career with Joe Cook’s company and Beatrice Lillie, appearing at stage doors, surviving odd interruptions, and even sharing in a birthday party. Theater life features backstage antics and union quirks, plus a suggestion to issue programs with tickets.
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Broadway
Minnie
Winter Garden
Joe Cook
Cook Company
Beatrice Lillie
Manic Stranger Roams Vermont Mountain School
Fannie M Foot, sixteen, teaches in a remote Vermont district. A barefoot man with a club stalks the yard during recess, terrorizing pupils. She forges a tense classroom scene, keeps the children safe, assigns a lesson, and finally escorts the man out, only for him to vanish into the woods and die a month later clutching a Gret reader.
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Fannie M. Foot
Fannie
Vermont
Marm
Fanny
Fanagie
The Source of an Idea and Hollywood's Grievance
A column contrasts rugged pioneer ancestors with modern lax laws and taxes. It mocks economic theories, references a shipwreck parable about hat passes, and pokes fun at Hollywood’s stance on polygamy trials. The banker anecdote ties debt talk to stock market wisdom.
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Anta Monica
Calif
N.B
Congress
Willow crafts in England long history of use
Willows in England have long supplied basketry and furniture made from withies and branches. The craft spans hundreds of years, shaping everyday items like baskets hampers and woven goods.
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England
Engeland
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Jack Mears
Miss Lillie
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Floyd Gibbons
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Desert
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