Ann Arbor Plans for Legionnaires Fourth State Convention
Ann Arbor will host the American Legion Michigan state convention September 5 and 6 with about five thousand delegates and visitors. Sessions will be at Hill Auditorium and housing in campus quarters. Landis Fordney and Denby to address. officials at pre dinner include Martin Broderick Tatter Ganayer. Commander Martin urged patriotism and civic service over self interest.
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Ann Arbor
American Legion
Michigan Legion
Hil
University
Legion Department
Kenesaw M. Landis
Joseph W. Fordncy
Navy
Denby
Congress
Washington
Plate
Department
Paul A. Martin
Frank J. Broderick
Lyle D. Tatter
Auguse Tua H. Ganayer
Martin
The Great Power of the President in Constitutional Practice
The Yale Review excerpt notes the President's eminent legal duties and executive reach. It asserts the president steers major policies, appoints senior offices, guides legislation, and leads foreign affairs and the armed forces. It contrasts modern practice with founding ideals, citing Washington and Jefferson as limits.
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Sharpe
Mme
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Clung to the Foot Hills and Ancient Settlements
John Van Dyke notes humanity’s preference for foothill settlements, with cities often built on hills or rock platforms. He cites Mesopotamia, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, and Jerusalem as examples of urban origins tied to elevated ground and rock foundations.
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Utir
Mices
Tien
Foonhills
Great Myers
Mesopaitiuila
Mision
Athens
Acropolis
Pagus
Cephissus
Issue
Rome
Constantinople
Jerusalem
John
van Dyke
One of Octan's Biggest Fishes
The turbot is among the largest fat fetes and highly valued commercially. It seldom exceeds two feet in length and about 15 pounds, though larger specimens have been caught. It is a flat sea fish with a brown upper surface covered in hard knobs, eyes on the upper side, and a long dorsal fin. It thrives offshore off western Europe and is exported.
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Octan
Europe
Mazarin's Library Dispersed During Fronde Era
During the Fronde in 1048 Anne of Austria ruled as regent while Cardinal Mazarin faced opposition. The Mazarin library, containing about 40 000 books, was ordered dispersed and offered for sale by salt auction to return the collection to Mazarin. The librarian died of a broken heart. Mazarin's paintings were saved.
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Mazarin
Varig
Anne of Austria
Louis XIV
France
Cardinal Mazarin
Maxarin
Lent
Fonquet
Secret passageways in old Cod Itington house rumors
In Quincy Massachusetts a Cod Itington house supposedly holds a hidden upper room with a secret stair and a trapdoor. Histories claim John Hancock hid there while searching for Dorothy Quincy and used the passage to escape. The tale links early free thinkers like Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson to the site.
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New England
Quiney
Mass
Mary Noerthend
Boston ‘Transcript
Edmund Quincy
Wheelright
Anne Tuatchinson
Wand
John Mancock
Dorothy Quincy
Serosa
Dita
Oil Sprays Combat Sand Dunes On Columbia River Highway
The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads funds extensive use of oil spraying to bind loose volcanic ash on the Columbia River Highway from The Dalles eastward. Oil is heated, atomized, and sprayed 100 feet ahead, forming a wind dependent barrier against shifting sand. Cost estimates are not yet clear.
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Northwest
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Columbia River
Dulles
Town Line social notes and funeral reports near Ithaca
Mr and Mrs Claude Church attended the funeral Saturday of Mrs A Carnahan south of Ithaca a former resident. Miss Virginia Joseph spent Sunday with Miss Josephine Johnson. Prank Writeraft and family and George and Harold Shoemaker of Arcada visited Mrs Angeline Obryant north of Forest Hill. Mrs Ivah Whitcraft and two daughters Vergil and Thelma visited Mildred Dunkel Alma. Mr and Mrs Matt Johnson entertained Mr and Mrs Hugh Johnson and family Sunday. Perl Whitcraft visited George Shoemaker Arcada Saturday night. Vera Beeder Stmerton visited Eliza Hoyt Thursday. Sunday school attendance was not very good.
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Claude Church
A Carnahan
Ithaca
Carnahan
Virginia Joseph
Josephine Johnson
George and
Harold Shoemaker
Arcada
Angeline Obryant
Forest Hill
Ivah Whitcraft
Vergil
Thelma
Mildred Dunkel
Alma
Color interpretations from Mars and lunar views
A terse note discusses color effects observed in Earth vegetation and seas when viewed from height, comparing with vivid hues seen on Mars and the Moon. It notes shades of green blue brown yellow and red brown along with black white and various hues, seeking an interpretation of color sprite observed from elevated vantage points.
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Mars
Olor
Moon
Blame Ancestry for Colds in Forest Dwellers
A fragment from the Vos asli Zeitung reports Professor Zell linking draft sensitivity to ancestral traits. He argues Germans, historically forest dwellers, are more susceptible to drafts than people from treeless regions. The piece critiques racial determinism and suggests climate and habitat shaped immune responses.
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Doktor Th. Zetl
Vosalsche Zeitung
Zell
Milwellers race of Tadlans in Itte Grande valleys
On Milwellers is a race of Tadlans formerly Tsing In located at the elite border of the Itte Grande and Rio Colorado. Homes are built on cliff recesses about ten eral hundred feet high, with crumbling rock destroying earlier paths. Dwellings often have multiple stories hewn in the Pek with wooden lintels and plastered clay walls. Subsistence likely from hunting and washing as surrounding soil is barren. Pueblo Indians in the area are thought descendants and skilled in pottery.
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Milwellers
Itte Grande
Rio Colorado
The Exception Proves the Rule in Language
A compact discussion traces the saying Prove all things from early English use. It argues that exceptions test rules but cannot weaken or redefine the rule when it remains strong, noting shifts in connotation over time.
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St. Paul
Secrets of a haircut reveal guarded life stories
A quoted excerpt from Florence A Kilpatrick’s Educating Ernestine suggests a universal female reluctance to share personal life details with a hairdresser. The piece notes women forgive men for crimes but dislike exposing private truths during salon visits.
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Ketreny
Ernestine
Florence A. Kilpatrick
Origin of Influenza Traced to 17th Century Usage
The term influenza dates to around 1657, appearing in The Lame Lover where a character notes being confined to bed for two days with the new influenza. The term’s early usage marks a historical reference to the disease and its name.
NEW AND GOOD ROADS BUILT
Progress in constructing a national network of good roads addresses needs of commerce tourism and farmers. The 1916 appropriation began at 75 million with last release of 25 million in 1919, later increased by 20 million. Plans approved for 27 070 miles with 13 540 under construction. Но
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New York
San Francisco
Boys’ Life
TEST DURABILITY OF ROADS AND FARM PRACTICES INAGENCY REPORT
Government bureau tests road durability on Arlington stretch using a heavy machine to simulate traffic as part of a $200,000,000 program. Farmers drag private roads with graders, and advice notes warn against delaying shed construction and discuss soil amendments with rotted manure. Water ditches in fields harm crops, likened to a rotted potato in a bin.
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Government Bureau of Road Building
Arlington
Perfect Little Gentleman Prayer Bit Poised in a Boston Transcript Note
A Boston Transcript item records a humorous line from a boy reciting a prayer asking God to forgive him for dying that night and to grant him Heaven in his pajamas, reflecting a quaint, informal religious whimsy.
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Boston Transcript
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