It Was in a Good Cause It Was in a Good Cause
Tom Blain hurries to Walnut Hill school to borrow a dress suit for a charitable play. There he meets Daphne Crawford, who wears his clothes and secretly inspires a romance after he impersonates a male usher. The tale turns to love at first sight.
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Tom Blain
Mrs. Blain
Tom
Hils
Walnut Hill School
Alice
Walnut Hill
Bertrams
Crawford
Baldwin
Daphne Crawford
Daphne
Ned
Jom
Drurys
Wireless Telephony Seen as Boon to Subscribers
London An swers cites Professor Turpain who imagines abolishing exchanges and telephonists. Wireless telephony could let any subscriber converse with all others using varied wavelengths. Each user would have a transmitter to reach all, and a receiver tuned to a single wave length serving as a telephone number.
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London
Turpain
Tibet Cradle of Man Unveiled by Dr W M McGovern
Dr W M McGovern former Tibetan expedition member and Buddhist priest reports to Detroit News finding cave relics in Tibet he claims include gigantic dinosaur bones and ancient skulls at four feet depth suggesting very old age and a cradle of land life.
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W. M. McGovern
New York
Tibet
Detroit News
American Museum of Natural History
Gobi Desert
Gobi
Italian Interpreter Serves in Court Kindness
In a Recorder's court a defendant pleads simple larceny with no English fluency. An Italian speaking attorney asks for help and a bystander offers to interpret. The interpreter helps the mother in law confess to stealing a pair, leading to an 80 day sentence.
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John Faust
Recorder's Court
Detroit News
Men and Women Conversing Habits Reported by Ohio State
Prominent psychologists at Ohio State University tabulated that men devote 17 percent of their talk to themselves and 8 percent to women, with about 75 to 80 percent of conversation spent on amusements, sports, weather, business, and trivial matters. The findings suggest men lead in conversation and women follow, focusing on topics of interest to men.
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Ohio State University
One Good Point Rental Agent Quip About Mice
A rental agent notes a feature of the apartment saying there will be no mice. Mrs Pierce counters with a joke about the rooms being so small the mice will think they are mouse traps.
Middy and Bloomer Suit Fashion Preview 1924
Julia Bottomley reports a summer wardrobe focus on practical outdoor wear. The feature showcases a khaki middy and bloomer suit with silver and oriental braid details, plus matching satin frocks, tunic smocks, and striped madras ensembles highlighting straight sacque lines and decorative borders.
Weevil Maxim Proposes Scent Traps Using Female Moth Odor
Hudson Maxim recalls historic trapping methods using animal odors and insects senses. He notes Indians used beaver odor to lure male beavers and compares insect smell detection, suggesting scent from female boll weevil moths could lure males to traps or poisons. He cites silkworms sensing mates two miles away. An advertisement for Cutincura products follows.
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Hudson Maxim
How American Fliers Gained Day on Trip
A Washington National Geographic Society bulletin explains the date line feat by American fliers crossing the Pacific. The party arrived May 17 in Parama shru Island Kuriles at 11 35 am local time, yet their papers read 4 am press time, making their Saturday 11 35 am appear Friday in the U S. The authors jumped twenty four hours after the Aleutians, starting a new language of time for the readers.
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Paramashru Island
Kuriles
Washington
National Geographic Society
Dispatch
America
Aleutian
United States
The Editor’s Car Theft Advice From Sinkville
The Sinkville editor jokes about how writers begin auto theft scenes and mocks a reporter’s question with a line describing robbers jumping into a running car, engaging the clutch, shifting gears, and speeding away.
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Sinkville
Railway Auto Ambulance to Serve Arica La Paz Line
Government to purchase a railway auto ambulance for the Arica La Paz railway through a desert Chile region lacking railways. The note ends with a grim line about tax collectors.
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Arica
la Paz
Chile
Weather reports top reading for students says professor
Professor Harold W. Melvin of Northwestern University Chicago reports a poll showing weather news is read by more students than any other news type in the daily paper. Sporting news attracts about half of the readers, per the study.
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Harold W. Melvin
Engineering
Northwestern University
Chicago
Anoint the eyelids with Roman Eye Balm
An advertisement urges applying Roman Eye Balm to the eyelids at night to refresh and strengthen the eyes by morning. It directs sending to 372 Pearl St. N. for purchase.
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Pearl St
Rivers Carry Salt Into the Ocean
The sea’s brine comes largely from rivers, which deliver about 100,000,000 tons of salt yearly. The ocean holds roughly 140,000,000,000 tons of salt, enough to cover dry land to 400 feet if removed, and it took about 90,000,000 years to reach current salinity.
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Tropics
London
Study of Electric Eel Attendants at New York 200
An inquiry investigates the electric eel power source after current shocks stun attendants. Attempts to measure the surge failed due to insensitivity of equipment, with keepers describing blows as sledge hammer like and capable of blanketing skin in blue marks. A German professor linked the current to bulbs, producing a brief dazzling flash.
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New York
Popular Mechanics Magazine
R. L. Ditmars
Laundries to Track Marks in Crime Tracing
London police rely on clothing laundry marks to identify victims and trace criminals. A proposed regulation would require laundries to maintain an owner linked marks register. Special detectives skilled in this criminology phase lead the effort.
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London
Couldn't Be Sure Do You Dance All The Latest
A terse exchange suggests uncertainty about dancing latest trends. One person claims to have stayed home all day yesterday, offering alibi context amid a light conversational dispute.
Blind confidence to 31 risks health and finances
An article citing United States Life Tables 1920 warns that health and earnings decline after 40, urges self assessment, and discusses caffeine dangers. It promotes Postum as a caffeine free alternative, offering a free week and thirty day trial through Carrie Blanchard.
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United States
Nature
Carrie Blanchard
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Cradle of Man
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Western Newspaper Union
Hinola
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Cincinnati
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