Betty Harris Chooses Work Over Wealth to Help Needy Family
Betty Harris, daughter of John Harris, rebukes idle luxury after his death. She quits a cushy secretarial post to benefit Mrs. Lane and Robbie Lane with Pal the dog, resigning to hire the sick mother and prove small acts count. Dr. Jack Burns observes, as Betty drives change in her town.
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John Estris
Betty
Betty Harris
Jack Burns
Doctor Burns
Burns
Mr. Smith
Miss Harrisey
Miss Harris
Pat
Robert
Bob
Pal
Pappies Harris
Iss Harris
Mrs. Lane
Robbie Lane
Robbie
Pointers For The Runner From London Answers
Regular training helps running properly with tips from London Answers. Stand erect and stay on the toes for short distances, while longer runs use the ball of the foot. Avoid overstriding, heavy foot strikes, and wide stances. Coordinate arm swings with leg movement for efficient motion.
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London
Ecstasy at the Ball Echoes in Gossip Columns
A fragmentary note from Associated Newspapers hints at ballroom bliss and playful romance with a line about walking on roses. The banter suggests a social gala and a lighthearted coin-related tease between a man and a woman.
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Associated Newspapers
Perfect Freedom and the Mamma Question in a Comic Exchange
A humorous dialogue features Perfect Freedom asking Harold what he would do without his mother. Harold replies he would do exactly what he wants, revealing a playful view of independence and dependence.
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Harold
Mamma
Respect for Law Urged by Cook County Jail Superintendent
Captain Wesley H. Westbrook, longtime Cook County jail superintendent and criminologist, laments that 75 percent of inmates believe money or influence buys bonds and bail. He urges universal respect for law, comparing duty to wartime slacker accountability and warning that civilization collapses without enforceable law.
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Wesley H. Westbrook
Cook County
Chicago
Senator Warren Promises Fall River Road Improvement
Senator Francis E. Warren chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and backs a plan to widen the Fall River road in Rocky Mountain National Park. The bill would allocate 280000 dollars in 1924 for turning the one way road into a two way route with season passes sold for one dollar to fund a sinking fund. Mountaineers and tourists would gain a better highway into Estes Park and toward the Colorado River valley.
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Francis E. Warren
Wyoming
Senate
Senate Committee On Appropriations
General Pershing
Rocky Mountain National Park
Fall River
Estes Park
Colorado Continental Divide
Colorado River
Globe Trotters
Congressional Committee
Porto Rico
Canal Zone
Alaska
Mount Rainier
Glacier
Yellowstone
Rocky Mountain National Parks
Rocky Mountain
Fall River Road
Bok offers 100000 American Peace Award prize
Edward Bok of Philadelphia funds a $100,000 American Peace Award for the most practicable U S plan to cooperation with other nations for world peace The prize splits into two $50,000 parts with the idea and its demonstration Key committee leaders include Esther Everett Lape John W Davis Learned Hand Henry Stimson and others
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United States
Edward W. Bok
Philadelphia
Ladies’ Home Journal
United States Senate
Bok
Esther ‘Everett Lape
John W. Davis
Great Britain
Learned Hand
William H. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
Nathan L. Miller
New York
Melville B. Stone
Associated Press
Henry L. Stimson
Gifford Pinchot
Ogden Reid
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frank A. Vanderlip
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr
Mystery of the eel solved by Dr. Schmidt
Danish zoologist Dr. Johannes Schmidt reveals eel life cycle findings. European and American eels are born in deep Atlantic waters northeast of the Leeward Islands, migrate to coasts during their first summers, mature in fresh water by age six, and return seaward to breed.
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Johannes Schmidt
Dansh
Atlantic
Leeward Islands
Brutes in Sleep and the Odd Ways of Rest
A playful survey of how animals and people sleep, noting humans who cannot lie down, horses that rest on one leg, and birds that sleep perched. The piece highlights rare cases like a New Yorker who never lay down before his death and the social setting of sleep in modern cities.
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New York Sun and Globe
Mexico
Chicago
Machinery replaces handwork in Manila hemp industry
The Philippines Manila hemp industry adopts a hemp-stripping machine that now processes seven times more fiber than the old hand method. Previously one man scraped strips by hand. the new device lets a single worker strip 140 pounds of fiber daily, replacing a week of manual effort.
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Manila
Philippines
Luzon
Mindanao
This Swan Was a Fighter on the Thames
The London Times reports a man bathing below Windsor Bridge on the Thames was attacked by a swan. He reached the bank but the swan blocked his return for his clothes. Onlookers lured the bird with bread while the bather swam underwater. He surfaced to flee, but the swan pursued in a tense chase that the man won.
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Thames River
London Times
Windsor Bridge
Modern milk shipping via glass lined tanks on tracks
Milk can be shipped hundreds of miles without spoiling using 6,000 gallon glass lined tanks insulated with cork. Less than two gallons clings to the tank sides. Milk has traveled over 100 miles with less than a two degree rise in temperature despite 88 degree heat outside.
Army Cooks Must Be Clean for British Soldiers
The new army cook for British soldiers is required to be shaved before duty, not allowed to smoke in the mess hall, and must keep clean hands and fingernails.
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National Park
Kentucky
B. Swango
Adams St
Owenton
Dean
Stearns
Uee
Msg
Pan Dan Oe Eed
Bellans
Kore
Owl Chemical Works
Torre Hinute
Big Pour Paint & Varnish Co
Cleveland
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