Salvatore Branchiella Wins U S Residency After Exoneration
Salvatore Branchiella of Mamaroneck New York joyfully poses in his shop after President Roosevelt signed a special bill granting him the right to live in the United States. He had faced deportation on a decade old accusation of stealing $15 in Italy, which was proved false and he was exonerated.
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Salvatore Branchiella
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Salvatore
Roosevelt
United States
Italy
Branchiella
Prieto Leads Loyalist Effort in Negrin Cabinet
Indalecio Prieto, a dynamo of the loyalist cause, has become a key figure in the civil war within Premier Juan Negrin's cabinet. He aims to reorganize and strengthen the fighting forces.
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Indalecio Prieto
Juan Negrin
Murder on Sooc Creek Feud Reported
A local crime note references a murder on Sooc Creek with unsettled tensions in the community. No suspects named in the fragmented item, which notes police involvement and ongoing inquiry.
Marine miner in Soochow Creek ambush story from 1932
Milton Weaver of New York City, a U.S. Marine, faced a mob of Chinese refugees at Soochow Creek during fighting between Japanese and Chinese forces. After a sampan rammed his boat and blinded him, he fought off attackers with a baton until English police and fellow Marines restored order and saved him.
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China
Spain
Milton Weaver
New York City
Milt Weaver
United States Marine Corps
Shanghai
Soochow Creek
Milt
International Settlement
WNU Service
Abigail Smith Adams Pioneer Wife of John Adams
Abigail Smith Adams, born in 1744, married John Adams at age twenty. She and her eighteen year old daughter Abby joined him in London when he became the first US minister to Great Britain in 1784. They curtsied before British royalty next summer, a scene later echoed by many of their sisters.
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Abigail Smith
Massachusetts
John Adams
United States
Great Britain
Abby
London
First Sleeping Car Built in Canada Reaches Service
The article in the Canadian National Railway Magazine states the first sleeping car on this continent was designed in Canada. Plans began in 1859 for the Prince of Wales visit, and construction occurred at Brantford Ontario in a plant later used for malleable iron castings for cars.
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Canada
Canadian National Railway Magazine
Prince of Wales
Edward VII
Brantford
Ont
Blondes and Brunettes Contrast in a 1920s View
A Fancies Weekly essay compares brunettes and blondes. It paints brunettes as thoughtful, imaginative, serious, tenacious, conservative and stable, often founding religious cults and finishing what they start. Blondes are described as builders, go-getters, explorers, and inventors.
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Fancies Weekly
The Chaldeans A Semitic tribe with links to Babylonians
The Chaldeans were a Semitic group likely migrating from Arabia to lower Mesopotamia around 700 B C They merged into the Persian empire and some descendants may still live in that region They practiced polytheism and were noted for astrology and occult science The passage suggests the Wise Men from the East were likely Chaldeans or Babylonians
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Arabia
Lower
Mesopotamia
Asia
East
Frocks Bloom With Stitch Flowers In Embroidery
Fashion instructions for spring and summer embroidery with flowers on dresses. Details pattern 5801 including transfer motifs and color ideas. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. for pattern and instructions.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth Street
New York
N. Y
Foreign Phrases and Their Noted Phrases
A compact catalog of foreign terms with English equivalents and brief notes. Entries include Mauvais gout Meaning bad taste Bella donna Meaning a pretty woman and Ad majorem Dei gratiam For the greater glory of God.
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Alter Ego
Mauvais Gout
Bella Donna
la Vallee
Adlerika Provides Quick Relief for Constipation
Mrs Mabel Schott reports thirty years of constipation and gas relieved by Adlerika. She says one dose cleared bowel tract and she now sleeps well and enjoys life. The ad promises complete cleansing where ordinary laxatives fail and claims action in about thirty minutes.
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Adlerika
Mabel Schott
Foe's Anger Reflects Our Faults and Duty
A quoted line by Taylor muses that an enemy's anger exposes our faults and spurs duty more than a friend's kindness. The reflection weighs value of opposition in moral growth.
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Taylor
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