Automatic detective backfires in Chicago suburb tale
Chicago engineer Byron Putman built an “automatic detective” to spy on his wife using a hidden microphone and a radio transmitter. The wife countered by creating a noisy scene at the piano and discovering the covert devices, including a parrot named Tootsie used as a lookout. She sought divorce while exposing the surveillance setup.
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Wife
Chicago
Byron Putman
Wheaton
Putman
Old Town
Ele
Byron
Tootsie
Adelaide
Tootsie the Stooge
Boy chooses dog over home as judge helps
Fourteen year old Bobby Brassfield from Memphis runs away with his dog Bessie traveling 300 miles to Kansas City. At the juvenile court he rejects a $5 offer for the dog, preferring to return home with Bessie as judge Meade provides the fare for the trip back.
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Bobby
Kansas City
Bobby Brassfield
Bessie
Memphis
Tenn
Henry Meade
Sun Shines Faulty Glass Ignites Casablanca Street Blaze
In Casablanca a heat wave and magnified sunbeams through broken glass set Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau on fire. Fire leaped several feet, damaging house fronts as residents sought to avert further damage during the scorching spell.
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Morocco
Casablanca
Mlames
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Dekanawida and Hiawatha Unite the Five Iroquois
A narrative of Dekanawida and Hiawatha forging the Iroquois Confederacy about 1570, uniting five tribes through law and diplomacy. The legend of a huiless birth and the struggle against Onondaga opposition are recounted, noting the confederacy as a lasting peace monument.
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Dekanawida
Hiawatha
Longfellow
Manabozho
Onondaga
Delvers
Baking Companies Unite Operations Across Central West
The National Biscuit Company and the Iten Biscuit Company announce a unification of operations across the Central West. Otto H. Barmettler of Omaha named vice president with headquarters in Omaha as the two firms fuse their cracker and cookie lines begun in 1928. Various bakeries will continue operating, and distribution will be realigned to protect workers. The combined entity, employing about 25,000, runs 50 bakeries and 260 branches making roughly 500 varieties.
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New York
National Biscuit Company
Iten Biscuit Company
Central West
Otto H. Barmettler
Omaha
Neb
Barmettler
American Biscuit Company
Continental Biscuit Company
Iten
Clinton
Oklahoma City
Memphis
Des Moines
Kansas City
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Wyoming
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Porky Porcupines Scout Odd Diet in Glacier National Park
Ranger Lou Hanson reports porcupines at Glacier National Park eating unusual foods from cardboard to tar paper and even devouring a 50 pound bale of oakum. He notes the animals show no ill effects and remain healthy seeking more such fare.
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Lou Hanson
Glacier National Park
Hanson
Leader Grover Whalen Reflects on Russia World Role
Former New York Greeter Grover Whalen told a New York reporter that Russia believes it will lead the world and compared the idea to a man who chased a cat to the country, then found his way back home after losing it.
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Grover Whalen
New York
Russia
Nother
Hawthorne’s Profile of the Great Stone Face Origin
Nathaniel Hall first sighted the Great Stone Face in 1805 near Profile Lake while hunting for partridge meals for road workers. Nathaniel Hawthorne visited the spot in 1832 and wrote the tale in 1848 that made the profile a renowned natural curiosity.
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Hawthorne
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Nathaniel Hall
Profile Lake
Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is a Difference Ossip Is Mrs Nayber the modern kind
A witty exchange frames Mrs Nayber as the old fashioned type who rules at home. The humor contrasts a modern label with traditional domestic authority in a brief dialogue.
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Ossip
Full Gasoline Tank Slogan Sparks Courier Journal Mention
A Louisville Courier Journal item highlights the slogan The full gasoline tank as a pointed line. The quote signals a provocative marketing or editorial jab likely tied to fuel sales or policy debates during the period.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Young Folks Misread Vitality And Caution
A columnist notes youths seem full of vitality and rarely consider feeling spry, while some clever people avoid trouble yet their cleverness can draw others in. The piece contrasts energy with caution and social influence.
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