New York Lights and City Sights in 1930
A Bell Syndicate feature tours New York focusing on subway operations and city scenes. It notes signaling blocks on the subway, a front platform perspective, Park Avenue traffic speeds, and a six hour walk from the East Side through the slums. It mentions seafarer hopes for cabaret crews and Broadway style gigs at summer resorts with lower pay.
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City Underground
New York
Park Avenue
Manhattan
Upper East Side
United States Lines
Broadway
Big City
Forty-first Street
Greenwich Village
Sixth Avenue
Puck
Lafayette Street
New York University
Washington Square
White Men Use Indian Lodge as Courthouse
In Tishomingo Oklahoma the granite Indian Lodge courthouse sits where Chickasaw chiefs once made laws. The historic building, quarried from Pennington river, became a courthouse after state changes and sale by the United States to Johnston county. The site echoes old Chickasaw governance in a modern legal setting.
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Tishomingo
Okla
Pennington River
United States
Johnston County
Executions in Poland Reach 115 in Five Years
A report by the Polish minister of Justice states that 115 people have been executed in Poland over the last five years for capital crimes.
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Poland
Warsaw
Gerber Declares Richest Town With Gold Shipment
Train 18 carried a cargo valued at 16 million dollars into Gerber California. The shipment from Seattle to San Francisco boosted the town to the richest locale of its size for a brief 20 minute period.
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Gerber
Cal
Seattle
San Francisco
Wilma's Own Wedding
A daydreaming clerk Wilma Wilson imagines her own wedding in a quiet church. She meets Glenn Martin, a real estate worker, who invites her to lunch and later promises to remind her of a yearlong vow. A year later she attends a simple country wedding with Glen awaiting her.
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Wilma
Wilma Wilson
Watson’s Great Department Store
Glenn Martin
Glen
St. Mark's
Chlorination Transforms Water Purification History
The article explains that chlorination, first used in Lincoln England during a major typhoid outbreak, cut waterborne typhoid deaths from 17 per 100000 to around 1 per 100000. Chlorination makes river water both safe and palatable in taste and odor.
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Lincoln
England
Plumber Bobby Saw It in Capper's Weekly Note
Bobby Saw It describes a plumber named Bobby who came to fix an old kitchen tub, while a mother mentions a man who wants to see the cook in a Capper's Weekly style vignette.
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Bobby
Capper
Secret of snowy clothes told by washer dealer
An advertisement voice promotes Rinso as the whitening solution for clothes in a domestic setting. A housewife and dealer tout Rinso’s rich suds as the reason for extraordinary whiteness, urging readers to try it in their own washer. The piece blends home life vignettes with brand messaging and ends with a reflective quip on aging.
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Little
Will
Jack
Ordnary
Finney
MR. Finney
Lights ” Dixon of
Bell Syndicate
New Brunswick
N. J
Hadley Flying Field
Ernest R. Hood
Isabel Neill
WHOOL
Marcelle
Marcel Eusace
United Trades
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Smythes
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