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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1935
Page
2
Cecil John Rhodes founded the Rhodes scholarship to fund three year study at Oxford. It targets ages nineteen to twenty five with emphasis on scholastic ability and character. Ex Rhodes committees select thirty four UK candidates and thirty two from the United States each year.
F W Christmas of Boston writes in Collier's Weekly that modern people are taller and heavier than their ancestors. He cites wax effigies in a historical museum wearing clothes that fit people from 50 to 500 years ago, now too small for today’s average citizen.
An advertisement urges readers that a three day cough signals danger and promotes Creomulsion as a remedy. It claims the product reaches the throat and lungs, loosens phlegm, soothes inflamed membranes, and guarantees refund if not satisfied from the first use.
A Baltimore mother reports her year long ringworm of her boy's head relieved after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She praises the remedy and notes prices for Soap Ointment and Talcum, with free sample offer and the company address in Malden Massachusetts.
Commentary on air warfare in Ethiopia with Italian losses and Ethiopian resistance. Notes on free speech in England and Marconi from Rome. Betting odds for 1936 Republican nomination show Landon leading, with Borah, Vandenberg, Knox, Coffman, Mills, Reed at various odds. Bandwagon supporters grow more favorable to Landon.
The sanctions wall by England and France around Italy is complete. Two million organized Italians protest the effort to punish Italy for actions in Ethiopia that England and France have taken against other nations.
H G Wells in America on way to Hollywood praises film as superior art to book stage or opera. He notes film combines all three and adds photography while discussing Japan China tensions and British State department views. Also mentions church mergers and Yale alum Dr Alan Valentine’s Rochester presidency and inflation comment from government official.
Kenneth Fosters crowded street shopping shifts from frugal to meaningful as he buys gifts for the family. A pottery piece for his mother sparks a new appreciation of beauty and balance between practicality and ornament. He follows his grandfather's wish by spending wisely and joyfully, envisioning each recipient's delight.
Grandmother Clark presents a bird cage themed pot holder set as a charming kitchen accessory and affordable gift. Package A-8 includes stamped muslin pieces with embroidery instructions and color scheme. embroidery thread not included. Price is 15 cents each or four for 50 cents postpaid from Home Craft Co. Dept A St. Louis Mo.
The census bureau reports that in 1930 most men wed at 24 and most women at 21, a trend toward younger marriage. It notes much higher marriage ages in 1890 but offers no speculation on the causes.
A Cosmopolitan feature describes a future air route to China aboard the China Clipper. Passengers will depart San Francisco in the afternoon and enjoy dinner under a starry sky, then fly daylight to Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila, and arrive in China for luncheon. The itinerary emphasizes luxury compartments and extensive Pacific stops.
Engel Dine Janssen a widow died at Esens East Frisia aged ninety one left a family of six hundred descendants across five generations. She had one husband and fourteen children ten of whom married young and bore on average ten children each creating a vast regional lineage. Her grandchildren and further descendants spread across the area and beyond.
In Italy macaroni varies by city with Bologna offering ribbon shapes Rome producing strips and Sicily shaping pasta into tiny spirals rolled around knitting needles to amaze visitors.
Mystery surrounds the Chislehurst caves in Kent now fitted as a gas proof civilian shelter. The chalk labyrinth extends beneath Chislehurst hill with claims of twenty miles of passages. During the war the government commandeered the caves and stored large quantities of high explosives.
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