Boy Prodigy Crunches Trillions Then Struggles With Millions
St Louis report details Willis Dy sart a 16 year old math prodigy from Omega Georgia who wowed Washington University instructors with left-to-right criss cross multiplication and cube roots. A misread thousand thousand in the millions column led to a rare error while demonstrating. Willis notes a need for food and persistence as he recalls calendar facts like May 2, 1910.
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ST. Louis
Willis Dysart
Omega
Washington University
Willis
M. E. Bunch
Frank W. Bubb
Bubb
High School Girl Joins Suburban Machine Shop Class
Celia Varady an 11 year old girl in a Cleveland area high school enrolls in the machine shop course. She enjoys operating a lathe and the hands on work though filing is tiring. She jokes about her greasy hands and abandoning nail polish.
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Cleveland
Celia Varady
Celia
Student cuts off tongue after swearing at John Brown University
Rol land Wells, a dishwasher at a John Brown University dormitory in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, cut off the tip of his tongue to stop swearing after repeated reprimands. He had been in trouble for swearing and was sent home to Tulsa to recover.
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Stroam Springs
Ark
Rolland Wells
John Brown University
John Brown
Wells
Tulsa
Leg Fractures 12 in Four Years
Little four year old Terry Shepherd has broken his leg 12 times in four years. His parents and doctors keep braces on the lower knee area, then he sustains a fracture above it, making him a record breaker for broken bones.
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Scotts Mills
Obe
Terry Shepherd
Multiple Choice Quiz Challenge
A set of six trivia items with four to five options each plus a rapid name-capital prompt. Participants select the single correct choice per item, tally scores, and report results.
FANGS ee . Superior meets passing marks
The report notes a student named FANGS achieved 75 percent, with 25 as a top score and 65 total or below, indicating a passing result while highlighting a strong performance at the higher end.
Name On Stationery Show At Scott's Store
Fine new samples of Name on Stationery are on display at Scott's Store. The display highlights personalized writing paper and correspondences offered for customers.
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Scott’s
Bell System Telephony Early Innovations and Workforce Scale
A 1900s style description notes a transmitter design using a crystal-filled button magnifying voice signals for local calls. It cites a typical daily workload of a mother and housekeeper and reports wages totaling over 47 million dollars monthly for nearly 300,000 Bell System employees and about 600 routine tests in a large central office.
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Bell System
Factories show washing makes cotton a better insulator
In Western Electric plants the Bell Telephone System unit reveals washing cotton yarn greatly enhances insulation for telephone wires. The average laundress might see 250 million miles of yarn as vast fabric, enough to circle the world 10 000 times, yet washing is a key factory detail.
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Western Electric Company
Bell Telephone System
Booths Booming in New York City Transit and Fair Growth
Visitors note the vast public telephone network in NYC with about 52 200 booths now and an expected addition of 1 200 booths when the World’s Fair resumes operation this year.
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New York City
Quietest Place in New York City Found for Noise Check
Bell Telephone Laboratories hosts a testing chamber where the carbon button of a telephone transmitter sits to measure the minimal noise produced by the carbon granules themselves in a quiet, controlled environment.
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New York City
Bell Telephone Laboratories
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