Betty Brown and the Road to a Quiet Life
Betty Brown, a young dancer, suffers knee injury in an automobile crash with Andy Adair and receives help from George Harris who funds her hospital bills. As she contemplates marriage to George for stability, old friend Lois recounts a troubled road life, failed shows, and a past brush with the law as Betty clings to thoughts of Andy.
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Betty Brown
Bhe
Andy Adair
George Harris
Andy
George
Betty
Lois
Jessie
Olive
Boss
Bess
John
Chicago
North Carolina
Englewood
Indianapolis
Bear
New York
Lois Lois
Monday Holidays In New Calendar
BERKLEY Calif The 13 month calendar would place all holidays on Mondays to reduce confusion University of California president W W Campbell said Campbell noted he was named a committeeman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to study a reform calendar Under the 28 day 13 month plan each month would start on Sunday creating longer weekends and stable business weeks Independence Day would shift to July 2 with the declaration dated July 2 and the new month likely named Sol.
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Berkley
Calif
W. W. Campbell
University of
California
Campbell
American Association For the Advancement of Science
London Letter: Channel Tunnel Revisited in Parliament
Arch Rodgers reports on renewed talk of a Channel Tunnel linking Dover and Calais, with Parliament revisiting the project amid calls it would ease unemployment and boost British industry. France favors the plan, but military concerns and strategic objections linger, while Kipling receives new birthday congratulations.
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London
Paris
England
France
English Channel
Dover
Calais
Channel Tunnel Company
Robert Perks
Sir Robert
House of Commons
Mediterranean
Imperial Defense Committee
Foch
Ancient Egyptian army size claim debunked
A historical claim asserts that the army of ancient Egypt around 2000 B C numbered two million soldiers. Modern scholarship questions such precise figures, noting that ancient records rarely provide exact troop counts and that scale exaggeration was common in early representations of empire size.
Ohio Moose State Association formed from 110 lodges
Columbus March 13. The 110 Ohio lodges of the Royal Order of Moose consolidate into the Ohio Moose State Association. J. Jack Stroehr is state chairman, with J. W. Tortall and Lee Rinkerberger as officers. An April 20 21 Columbus meeting will pick the executive committee. Akron Canton Cleveland and Cincinnati bid for the state convention as the campaign aims to raise state Moose membership from 65,900 to 100,000.
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Columbus
Ohio
Royal Order of Moose
Ohio Moose State Association
John J. Lentz
American Insurance Union
J. Jack Stroehr
Steubenville
John W. Tortall
Dayton
Lee R. Miller
Lawrence Grove
Massillon
Louis Rinkerberger
Cincinnati
Ray H. Willams
Toledo
Harry T. Walter
Lima
Fred W. Witter
Canton
N. F. Savage
Cleveland
W. G. Talbott
Bucyrus
Simon Strauss
Portsmouth
Dan S. Sout
J. Sanford Vans
Jackson
Akron
The
Moose Order
Stoehr
International Bank Proposed to Handle German War Debt
Owen D Young, chairman of the reparations committee, proposed an international bank to manage German war debt payments. He consulted J Pierpont Morgan and British delegates Sir Josiah Stamp and Lord ReaIstoke as sub committees submitted reports. The plan aims to create a central financial institution to stabilize economies and foster peace.
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YA Mtc Bianawas
International Bank
Owen Dr. Young
J. Pierpont Morgan
Josiah Stamp
Lord Realstoke
Young
Morgan
Flying boat wears out seven engines on Seattle to Vancouver route
The Boeing Airplane Company built a seaplane in 1919 that operated on the Seattle to Vancouver mail route. It has worn out seven engines in ten years and flown about a half million miles, roughly twenty circumferences of the globe at the equator. W. E. Boeing, founder of the company and pioneer in aviation, started in a 30‑person shop and this craft later served a contractor on the first U S air mail route.
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Seattle
Boeing Airplane Company
Vancouver
B. C
Puget Sound
W. E. Boeing
Apprentices Advised on Wearing Blue Cloaks and Gowns
In Elizabethan London, apprentices were mandated to wear blue cloaks in summer and blue gowns in winter to maintain appearance and identify fellow trades, reflecting strict wardrobe regulations of the era.
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England
Queen Elizabeth
London
Atheism as State Doctrine in Revolutionary France
The source claims atheism served as the ruling doctrine of the French republic from 7704 to 1K, outlining a period where secularism shaped governance and public life. The statement frames atheism as official policy during a wide historical interval.
Plan for an international bank born from reparations talks
The text notes Thomas Nelson Perkins proposed a deliveries in kind idea while chairing the sub committee on deliveries in kind. It credits Young with drafting a tentative bank plan and describes the expert committee's struggle to reconcile Allied and German views as they seek a nonpolitical, peacetime solution for war debts.
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Thomas Nelson Perkins
Perkins
Young
Wyoming Defeats Speedy Divorces In Legislature
Cheyenne Wyoming seemingly aims to curb rapid divorces as a bill to shorten residence from one year to 86 days faced amendments. Publicity drew letters from women nationwide. officials worried by the influx and by flight connections. The Wyoming House defeated the measure 44 to 17.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Reno
United States
Wyoming
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Elyria and Lorain Window Cleaning Co
Langberg and Brown
Elyria
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West End Furniture
Murphy Bros
Broad
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Broad St
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Adams
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Logan Gas Co
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