Free Gift Drama and a California Educational Theater
A tale of Rachel and Jacob plans to abandon a baby on a park bench is foiled when Alvin Stanley's act of kindness leads to a safe home at Miss Marcia Dole's, while San Jose plans a community educational theater to develop residents' talents in singing speaking and dancing.
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Rachel
Jake
Rachel Mine
Jacob Carter
Alvin Stanley
Stanley
Mrs. Morse
Marcia Dole
Waverly Place
Dole
Marcia Cole
Miss Cole
Eva
San Jose
Cal
Mabel L. Dorsey
Dorsey
Chamber of Commerce
Future civilization envisioned by Dr A M Low
London engineer Dr A M Low predicts 2420 A D will see underground roads parks roofed in wireless powered vehicles traveling at 100 miles per hour with wireless telephones in cars and televisions enabling distant viewing. He says parks will be roofed and people will live in physical isolation as science advances. European botany notes 420 flowers with agreeable scent among 4200 cultivated species.
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A. M. Low
London
Low
Love and Ambition in a News Snippet
A compact excerpt contrasts love and ambition quoting La Rochefoucauld. It notes Jap Children Make Toys describing Japanese children producing cheap toys for export, grouped in dozen plus, earning a few cents daily.
Mary’s dog hidden in Mother Hubbard drawing
A teacher asks Mary to draw Old Mother Hubbard’s house with her dog. Mary quickly sketches a crude house and places Old Mother Hubbard beside the door. When praised, she explains the dog is inside the house.
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Mary
Old Mother Hubbard
London Subway System Moves Mass Transit Milestones
London underground railways carry four million passengers daily and the fleet completes about twenty circumnavigations of the globe in journeys each day. Monthly gross revenue reaches one million pounds, underscoring the system’s vast scale and economic impact.
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London
Giving Up Fairy Stories In The Public Library
A public library reports the challenge of guiding children from fairy tales to real life narratives. Attendants note a surge in fairy tale requests while hoping for more engaging titles like Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer to ease the transition from fantasy to grown up reading.
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Blue River
Age Computation Trick For Birth Month Revealed
The method asks a person to state age, then perform a sequence of multiplications and additions. The resulting two leading digits equal the age and the final two digits reveal the birth month, after subtracting 250. It demonstrates a simple number puzzle for deducing age and birth month.
More Salt at Equator The Ocean Becomes Fresher Farther North
A brief note explains that ocean salinity decreases with distance from the equator as waters move toward cooler regions. It outlines the mechanism of evaporation and precipitation influencing salt concentration, and mentions that warmer tropical regions tend to retain higher salinity while higher latitudes dilute it.
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Equator
Ocean
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Wilson
Montgomery Hardware Company
Western Newspaper Union
Community Theater
Europe
Leonard
China
Grand Rapids
Leonard Leanable Refrigerator Ade
Grand Rapids, Mich
Manning & Clark
Mother Hubbard
the Sun
Bonham
Whitewright Bakery
Crockett & Frazier
Props
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