Book Wagon Brings Library to Staten Island Homes
A feature on the Staten Island book wagon from the New York Public Library, detailing its routes and the joy it brings to scattered rural families. Librarians meet diverse readers, with western and foreign books in demand, and monthly summer trips delivering 75 to 100 books per outing to 14 to 17 families.
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Christopher Morley
Pegasus
Staten Island
Stater Island
New York
Liibrary
Book Wagon Service
Quiz on Books and Authors Sparks Readers’ Memory
The item poses a trivia quiz titled Novels and Novelists with questions about George Washington’s recent best seller, Sin clair Lewis’s residence before Elmer Gantry, a leading American philosophy writer, cities famed for book bans, a minister-novelist, a famed detective killed by his creator, Samuel Clemens pen name, a Civil War classic, and a European intrigue author.
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George Washington
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
Samuel Clemens
Casterbridge
Stunt outside Paris shop sparks debate in fashion district
A Barker Paris stuntman, a well groomed southern black man, entertains Americans outside a dress shop in Rue de la Paix to draw customers. The act draws praise and criticism as it disrupts local dignity but proves profitable for advertising. Kate Foley, blind rights educator in California, advocates early co education for the sightless to enable self support and reduce future dependency.
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Paris
Rue de la Paix
Kate M. Foley
California
Miss Foley
Administration Notice Letters Testamentary for Blystone Estate
Letters Testamentary on the Estate of Sarah J Blystone late of South West Township Warren County Pa granted to the undersigned. Creditors and others indebted to said estate must make immediate payment and those with claims must present them for settlement duly authenticated before the court.
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Sarah J. Blystone
South West
Warren County
Audit of school accounts balances and indebtedness 1927
The document reports audited school accounts July 1 1927 with totals for wages supplies and payments including Heat Light and power, bonds issued and redeemed, unpaid orders and balances. It lists liabilities such as bonds payable bills payable present worth and school property value with a certification by Warren and associates dated July 8 1927.
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Ossseessee
Warren
Fennsyivening
E. M. Branch
A. H. Wickstrome
D. Bartlett
German push fails as Russians halt Galician advance
Reported from the front in Galicia as German efforts to drive Russian forces back are checked. The July 16, 1917 dispatch notes renewed clashes and cautious gains near the front, with Allied lines holding and no decisive breakthrough announced.
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Galicis
IMODERN Haven Menus Corn Delights And Recipes
Mrs Brown and Mrs Jones discuss new corn and pricing while sharing green corn recipes. Green corn custard pudding uses scraped corn, milk, butter, soda, eggs and seasonings baked until firm. Corn croquettes mix corn bread crumbs flour egg and seasonings then fry. Roasted green corn requires butter and hot oven, then salt and pepper. Toasted corn is boiled then broiled. A brief note echoes a playful aside about a Dolly father and a ukulele factory.
The Maltese Twins and the Tailor’s Banter
A business man, softened by summer scent and winter meals, visits his discreet tailor for a fitting. The tailor teases about changes in his figure, joking that maybe a little more concealment is needed. The exchange touches on the plain people and women voters with a sharp line from a Louisville Courier Journal quote.
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Jolleneas
Louisville Courier Journal
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