Idea of Growing Old Far From the Farnum
In Kansas City Star style a casual chat turns to aging and hunting. Ike defies age saying the fiftys are not the end while Maurice jokes about aging and a quieter life near shore. Ike recalls youth and insists he remains vigorous despite time.
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the Farnum
Tom
Lie
Ike
God
Jim
Kim
Maurice
Sean
Tke Farnum
J. Po
Kansas City Star
Shrine of Carme’s Children Clothes Mixed with Donations
War diary excerpts recount a French regiment receiving children’s garments instead of warm underclothes. Soldiers reacted with jest and muttered concern before building an altar to honor the gifts and renewing their oath to France to repel the invader.
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France
James G. Harboard
Saturday Evening Post
Dickens Revival Interest Through London Home Purchase
The Providence Journal notes chatter about buying Dickens old home at 48 Loughty Street London as a sign of renewed reader interest in Dickens. Yet librarians publishers and booksellers report no real renaissance as fans remain engaged with Oliver Twist Copperfield and the Micawber stories since their first publication.
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Providence Journal
Dickens
Loughty Street
London
Oliver Twist and Copperfield
Boy Hero Helps Girls Across Flooded Walkway
A fifteen year old boy in a rainstorm laid boards from a shed to the sidewalk in front of the Selig building on West Washington street. He stood in water ankle deep to aid girls and women crossing the makeshift bridge. H E McArthy of the Continental National Bank praised the act as gallant and gentlemanly, comparing him to a boy scout on a daily good turn.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
New
Indianapolis News
Chapel cars visit American rails in missionary expositions
A new exhibit at the Vatican Santo exposition features chapel cars operated in America by the Catholic Church Extension Society. Edward F. Curry of the Pullman Company presents three miniature yet exact models of traveling chapels. The cars serve distant regions lacking permanent churches.
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America
Catholic Church Extension Society
Edward F. Curry
Pullman Company
Say What Drove Out Back Fire Near Smoke House
Gap Johnson asks about a commotion behind the smoke house as Banty explains a dress caught fire while a man made soap. The woman rolls on the ground trying to extinguish the flames while children watch and shout. Kansas City Star notes the scene.
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Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Banty
Johnson
Kansas City Star
Motherhood Exalted as World’s Asset by Rev Holderby
Rev W M Holderby of Chicago urged advertising motherhood as the world’s greatest asset during a Mothers Day observance at the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World convention in Houston. He linked merit in advertising to moral training by mothers, citing quotes from Washington Lincoln Moody Edison Garfield Wanamaker and McKinley to praise maternal influence on American greatness.
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Houston. Tex
Christian Motherhood
William Matthew Holderby
Chicaco
Christian Family Crusade
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Holderby
America
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight L. Moody
Thomas A. Edison
John Randolph
Garfield
McKinley
John Wanamaker
Christ
Republic
Vast Army of Boys Headed for Camps Under Y.M.C.A. Care
New York dispatch details the Y M C A planning hundreds of summer camps for boys ages 12 to 18, with an expected enrollment near 1 100 000 across 600 camps from June to September. The program emphasizes outdoor activity, basic religious study, and character development without preaching, noting global reach and uniform camp practices.
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New York
Young Men's Christian Association
Arthur N. Cotton
The
National Council
United States
Mr. Cotton
Sumner F. Dudley
Orange Lake
N. Y
Newburgh
Ernest Berkeley Bal
Jersey
Colorado
Kansas
German Village Solves Flag Display Dilemma
In Gross-Solschen Germany officials create four color flag strips black red gold white with snap fasteners to show combinations for republican imperial and Prussian displays. The system lets white be covered for republican use gold hidden for monarchy and black white visible for Prussian state insignia.
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Gross - Solschen
Germany
Feet of Clay at Fox Theatre Promises Novelty and Thrills
Cecil B DeMille returns with Feet of Clay at the Fox theatre continuing his lavish style. Vera Reynolds leads with a daring arc from seventeen to twenty one, backed by Rod La Rocque and others in a story adapted from Margaretta Tuttle. The review praises timeliness novelty and strong entertainment value.
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Paramount Screen
Cecil Bo DeMille
Fox Theatre
Vera Reynolds
Gotowmi
Peet of Clay
Miss Reynolds
Rod la Rocque
Victor Varconi
Ricardo Cortez
Julia Fave
Theodora Kossoff
Robert Edeson
DeMilie
Parachute History Spurred by American Upgrade
The RAF today uses a parachute perfected by an American, prompting discussion on parachute origins. It recalls Jacques Garnerin who, as a prisoner at Koblenz in the Rhine fort, conceived a parachute and later, in 1799, made a successful 38 000 foot balloon drop using a parachute nearly like today’s design.
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London
Royal Air Force
Jacques Garnerin
Essenbreitstein
Coblence
Rhine
Garnerin
France
Radio interference eradicated near Tacoma copper smelter
May 7 Seattle reports that after two years O R Redfern federal radio supervisor for the Pacific northwest has eliminated excessive interference from precipitors near a Tacoma area copper smelter. Tacoma residents could not receive Seattle Portland San Francisco or Los Angeles stations within a 20 mile radius. Larger chokes cut interference by about half.
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Seattle
O. R. Redfern
Pacific Northwest
Tacoma
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Radio Corporation of America
Smelter Rectifiers Run Round the Clock at High Voltage
The smelter operates 21 mechanical rectifiers in continuous 24 hour service. Rectification is done by aindis mounted on a shaft turning 1 800 times every 6 minutes. Discharge occurs as a rotating shoe passes a stationary shoe. Current ranges from 30 000 to 50 000 volts at 50 to 100 milliamperes.
Forward-looking Progress Imperative
The passage argues life is continuous progress and implies focus on future accomplishments. It reflects a mindset of pushing past obsolete aims to pursue attainable, meaningful tasks. It emphasizes action over nostalgia and urges consistent effort toward improvement.
Longest Regular Passenger Air Service In Western Australia
Between Perth and Derby the W A Airways Limited operates a weekly service with six intermediate stops. The route spans 1500 miles and claims to be the world’s longest regular passenger air service, unchallenged by rail or fast mail steamers, and has flourished since inauguration in one of the world’s most sparsely populated white countries.
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Perth
West Australia
Derby
Clies
Western Australia Air Ways, Limited
Western Australia
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Carme
Maria Esther Pomar
Mexico
Rev. W. M. Holderby
Assameted Press
Y.M.C.A. Care
Harlem
de Mille
Music Coombes
Triumpus
Caluiet Red
Daryl D. Dayton
Washington
Weiman
West Chester
Por
Oberlin
Ohio
Loth
Lown
Australaa
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
William Basset
Standard Git Company
Standard
Standard Oil
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
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