Dope Upset in Bowling at DuPont Alleys
Opening night drama as Gibson's Coal Passers edge the DuPont Plant Office Force by one pin in a tightly contested match. Wolff's Train Wreckers defeated the Plant stars without a handicap, 2403 to 2350, amid spirited rivalry and lingering good-natured tension.
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Gibson
DuPont
Dope
John Gibson
Charles Wolffts
Train Wreckers
du Pont
Wolff’s Wreckers
Wreckers
Crack du Pont
Wolff
Charley
Elkhorn
John
Andy Johnson
Plant Crew
Oor
iheMars Crew
Axelberg
Hovde
Lumsden
BIE Ope Conde
Wolfe
Pramile U2i
Geisert
Nelson
Garberg
Mess. Hc Ae
Met Rmr A Sih
Brubaker
Debt paid in COD package discovered in sawdust note
A Poughkeepsie woman opened a Christmas package sent by a messenger and found a note inside stating she owed $8. The note read Here in receipt for the $8 you owed me for go long. The debt was paid with COD charges attached to the delivery.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Robins Reunited After Train Car Nest Rescue
A car inspector finds a bird nest with two robin hatchlings atop a journal box on an empty coal car in Arkvile New York. Switchmen and yard crews track the car to West Davenport 54 miles away and restore it to its original spot, reuniting the mother robin with its chicks.
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Arkvile
N. Y
West Davenport
Candidate Known as "the friend of the people" Triggers Flight
In Kansas City, a controversial figure arriving in town sent crowds fleeing in panic described as white faced and startled. Bystanders reported a frenzied dispersion as residents questioned the candidate’s intent and impact.
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Kansas City Star
Hatband as Identity in Bank Cashing Plot
A bank teller refuses a man’s cashing of a $200 check without proper ID. The man’s hat, a weathered straw, becomes the decisive proof as the teller notes the letters in the hat band may reveal the true name behind the counterfeit documents.
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Joseph Johnson
John Jones
Leacock’s Funeral Plans Canceled by Westminster Abbey Burial
G B Burgin notes in Memoirs an anecdote about Stephen Leacock visiting a literary club. A cemetery custodian remarks Lord Strathcona is the only distinguished Canadian there, with a vacant lot beside him. Leacock then says he will be buried in Westminster Abbey, canceling Burgin’s plans.
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G. B. Burgin
Stephen Leacock
Highgate Cemetery
Lord Strathcona
Leacock
Burgin
World's Largest Horn Broadcasts Music From Idora Park
The 85 foot horn at Idora Park California daily transmits radio music over about 29 square miles. Its electro dynamic reproducer yields true tones with reduced distortion. Built with 1000 feet of clear airplane spruce, the project highlights park spectacle and advancing radio tech.
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Idora Park
California
British Buddhist Mission Plans Tibet Forbidden City Visit
A British mission aims to enter the Forbidden City to uncover Tibet history religion and literature. All team members are Buddhists hoping religious ties yield access rare for travelers and explorers.
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Forbidden City
Tibet
Old English hedges fading under modern farming
English hedgerows once seen as May beauty are vanishing from the countryside. Tractors replace double hedge rows with wire fences across Hertfordshire Sussex and marsh fringes. Young farmers push labor saving methods claiming fields expand from four 10 acre plots to 40 acres in 10 days with one tractor.
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England
Hertfordshire
Sussex
A Tired Business Man At A Jazz Resort
A tired businessman is described as seeming not more than forty in the evening at a jazz resort, yet in the morning his mood and health appear much worse, suggesting he might be seventy when at the office. The dialogue questions Mr Grab com's exact age, labeling it uncertain.
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Mr. Grab
Birmingham Age-Herald
Easy to Prevent Goiter by Daily Iodine
Doctor Marine notes simple goiter is preventable through iodine. Goiter signals iodine deficiency in the thyroid, and Dr. O P Kimball’s Akron Ohio school studies show that a minute daily iodine dose prevents goiter in affected regions.
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Doctor Marine
O. P. Kimball
Akron
Ohio
Prairie fashion and a 1860s relief box suit tale
The Nebraska State Journal cites two vivid accounts. Charley Wooster allegedly set a western record wearing blue denims, barefoot, and a silk tile in the early 1870s. The Atchison Globe notes Paswell acquiring a clawham mered suit via a relief box from Boston in 1860 and wearing overalls to church all summer on his farm.
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Charley Wooster
Prairie
Atchison Globe
Paswell
Boston
Nebraska State Journal
Origin of the word cop traced to initials of constable of police
Police Commissioner Enright of New York City explains that cop derives from the initials of constable of police. He notes the shorthand tendency to form a single syllable from initials and cites familiarity and naturalness as key factors in the word’s acceptance.
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London
Police
Enright
New York City
Enrght
Mound
Buffalo Times
Everest Top Still Untrod By Human Foot On Peak
Two Mount Everest expedition members reached 27 300 feet using oxygen. Capt. Geoffrey Bruce and George Finch near the summit on May 28. A planned June 6 attempt was thwarted by the monsoon, suggesting the summit would be reached on a future attempt.
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Henry S. White
Popular Mechanics
Mount
Everest
Geoffrey Bruce
George Finch
Hair Counting Study Surfaces In Munich University
A Berlin dispatch reports Munich professors counted hairs on an entire university class. Men reportedly ranged 40 009 to 50 000 hairs and women 60 000 to 70 000. At one hair per second the task would take over 19 hours to reach 70 000. A separate item notes a barytone singer drawing shoppers’ attention above Eighth Avenue and Fifty Second Street as a megaphone announces a new grocery and butcher shop opening on a five story building.
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Berlin
Munich University
Barytone
Eighth Avenue
New York Sun
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