Panic in Stock Markets and Hospitality Jobs Revealed
The piece details a sharp stock downturn on the New York boards amid tariff deflation fears, naming firms like United States Steel and New York Central as hit hard. It also recounts a curious hospitality job in New York hotels, where a man is paid to evaluate guest experiences, including dining and service, over a year.
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New York
Boards of Trade
Own
Icon Telephone
United Stateteel
American Can
York Central
Atchison
Ht of
Jersey
Noel Westingho Electric
Allieples Gas
Worthington
Dahl
Manhattan
Iig
Frankenstein and His Monster Take Stage in Flop Plays
Fragments describe a comic trend of actors overacting on stage with theatrical flair while a leather expert for tap shoes and a shop selling spanky eye glasses join the scene. The prose references Hilbert Swan and a tour of inspection in a tin mine as part of the flamboyant theater milieu.
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Hilbert Swan
Mito
Marriage banns and weddings in Cannelburg area
Banns for Roy Templein of Washington and Alma Williams of Cannelburg were read at All Saints church with a June 30 wedding planned. Numerous local visitors and relatives attended weddings and visits, including Matthews, Kavanaugh, Craney, Spaulding, and Williams families from Evansville, Indianapolis, and Mitchell. Notes mention wedding ring practices and ancient combs used in Greek and Roman culture.
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Roy Templin
Washington
Alma Williams
Cannerburg
All Saints Church
Joe Matthews
Indianapolis
London-Pretty seeks donors for operation to save mother’s sight
A young woman named Pthel Kear man, aged 20, offers to be a companion or payment for anyone who funds an operation to restore her mother’s eyesight. She proclaims she cares only that the donor is refined and nice, underscoring her self-styled “very mod girl” persona in a London scene.
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London
Pthel _ Kearman
Beacon Light To Aid Night Air Travel In Winnipeg
Winnipeg plans a massive beacon atop a Hudson Bay Company store to aid aircraft at night. The beacon would stand about 200 feet, permit visibility up to 100 miles, and become the largest airway beacon in Canada.
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Winnipeg
Hudson Bay ‘Company
Canada
Yale researchers seek Earth's age by uranium analysis
Under Prof. Aloise F. Kovarik direction Yale University researchers will use chemical and radioactive analysis of large quantities of uranium and thorium to derive figures for estimating the earth’s age. The project aims to produce multiple estimates to inform geologic time.
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New Haven
Conn
Aloise F. Kovarik
Yale University
Kovarik
Em press of Japan powered by electric ship tech in Canada Pacific liner
London electr city contributes to the Em press of Japan liner featuring wireless telegraphy, wireless-direction finder, submarine signalling gear, a gyroscopic compass, an electric phonograph repeater, and an electric movie. Food aboard cooked on electric stoves.
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London
Electcity
Human Pin Cushion Case Baffles London Doctors
Hume of Blyth is described as a human pin cushion able to endure pins placed in arms jaw legs or ears without hurt. He reportedly bears pins all day while doctors struggle to explain the condition due to an allegedly ordinary nerve system.
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London
William
Hume
Blyth
London boy designs gas detector box for danger warnings
A 19 year old London lad, William H. Pritchard, builds a compact detector like a wireless set to sense lethal gas in coal mines or future warfare. The device uses two amps a green light for fresh air and a red light with a buzzer when gas reaches one part in two thousand.
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London
William H. Pritchard
Brew Disturbs Cop in Gary Detective Bureau
A loud blast disrupted Gary Indiana detectives when a broken home brew bottle exploded in a closet. Captain Frank Roach opened the door and found the dripping bottle to be the cause of the disturbance and noise.
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Gary
Detective Bureau
Frank Roach
Bedford jail inmates learn folk dances under guidance
Spring weather influences prisoners at Bedford jail as convicts practice capers of folk dances in the yard. Instruction is given under Hon. Phyllis Russell, daughter of Lord Ampthill, shaping a curious scene in the prison.
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London
Bedford
Phyllis Russell
Lord Ampthill
Why the coal miner did not get the job in Washington
A public column argues that Washington should buy and burn coal mined by Daviess county miners. The writer calculates 1800 tons weekly could employ 40 men and inject 3600 dollars into circulation, urging local businesses and citizens to boost home production, curb out-of-area coal, and keep profits local this fall and winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democrat
Daviess County
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Lee
Hayes' Son Ill and Local Coal Prices Spark Debate
The note discusses Rutherford B. Hayes's ill son at Marion and Fremont, Ohio, alongside local coal yard practices that raise costs for poor residents. It mentions miners, employment effects on business, and hints at future remarks. An unrelated item notes Jeritza’s maid suing for wages, with a settlement of 2200.
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Webb C. Hayes
Rutherford B
Marion
Fremont, O
Vienna
Jeritza
Mme. Jeritza
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