Namescape of Charlotte Amalie Fades Into St Thomas
The Caribbean city once spelled Charlotte Amalie or Amalia becomes St Thomas after a 1921 U S Board change. Governor Cramer signs, Colonial Council approves, six months of watchful waiting ends as mail flows intact with the new name. Officials note hardly anyone uses r Thomas or Walla Walla as mail improves.
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Eddie Gilmore
Washington
Caribbean
Virgin Islands
Charlotte Amalie
Christian V
Denmark
United States
Caribbean Islands
United States Geographic Board
Charlotte Amalia
Amalienborg
St. Thomas
Colonial Council
Lawrence W. Cramer
Territories
J. E. Laniel
International Postal Service
R. Thomas
Walla Walla
Bat at City Hall Delays Roll Call for 20 Years of Service
Philadelphia investigators faced a bat during a roll call at city hall honoring a detective with 20 years of service. A air gun discharged three shots, dispersing the bat and allowing the ceremony to continue.
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Philadelphia
City Hall
Public Sale of City Property in Winchester
Special Commissioners will sell at public auction in Winchester Virginia on September 4 1937 at 11 00 AM two parcels of city land with brick and frame residences Nos 301 South Cameron Street and Nos 309 311 South Cameron Street. One third cash with balance in two annual installments secured by a deed of trust and insurance policy.
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Corporation Court of the City of
Winchester
Merton Kremer
Elizabeth Gratchen
County Court House
Virginia
Towit
Cameron and
Clifford Streets
South Cameron Street
M. M. Lynch
T. Russell Cather
Clark M. Smith
Corporation Court
Farm Poultry Calendar For September
Extension division news suggests a September poultry calendar with 15 items. Key tips include targeting 12 eggs per hen, moving pullets to the laying house, feeding laying mash to old hens, keeping litter deep and green fodder growing, feeding pullets scratch grain, maintaining growing mash for pullets, selecting top cockrels for breeders or sale, keeping ventilators open, seeding yards with Italian rye grass and clover, treating poultry for lice, preparing windows for October, visiting fairs to learn judging needs, subscribing to poultry magazines, youth involvement in 4 Hastings poultry clubs, and selling all eggs twice weekly.
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Ginta Extension Division
Lightning Roasts Nebraska Farm Poultry Shed
A farmer Charles Sadil of Thompson Nebraska lost his entire chicken herd when a lightning bolt struck his poultry shed. The blaze quickly consumed the structure and all birds. Local fire crews responded but the flock perished.
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Thompson
Charles Sadil
Clinics To Be Held For Motorists
Chicago judges announce a safety clinic to screen drivers for emotional and psychological issues. Judge Braude cites emotionally unstable drivers as common and says the court may suspend licenses after evaluation by Dr. Rotman.
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Chicago
J. M. Braude
Braude
Jurge Braude
Life story of Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City on March 3, 1911. Her rise began with a Fox casting in Hollywood and led to a contract with Hal Roach before becoming a star at MGM with The Secret Six in 1931 and hits like Red Headed Woman and Dinner at Eight.
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Jean Harlow
Kansas City
Harlean Carpentier
Barstow School For Girls
Hollywood
Hollywood School For Girls
Bigelow School
Highland Park
Chicago
Central Casting Office
Fox
Richard Dix
Paramount
Hal Roach
Roach
Jean
Clara Bow
Christie
Ben Lyon
James Hall
Caddo
Howard Hughes
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Missouri
China Seas
Women Who Hold Their Men Never Let Them Know
An advertising column urges wives to conceal menstrual pain and nagging, touting Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy and recommending enduring hardship with a cheerful front. The copy uses dated rhetoric and promotes a specific patent medicine.
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Lydia Pinkham
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Gable
Harlow
Gaaratoga
Uomel Barrymore
Frank Morgan
Una Merkel
Walter Pidgeon
Warner
Capitol
McNamee News
Lennie Hayton
Ogden
Utah
K. B. Cornia
Miles
Loudoun St
W. B. Snider & Son
Hamman’s Dollar Store
Will Next
Farmers & Merchants National Bank & Trust CO
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
J. W. Arthur General Insurance
Rouss Avenue
Capon Springs
Asco
Ayel
Pilot Life Insurance Co
N. Loudoun St
R. G. Hengeveld, Gen. Agt
W. Bird
Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co
George W. Kurtz
David
Woodward, Maer
E. Piccadilly St
Harry W. Willis
Ghost of Princess
Jean’ Harlow
Winchester Milling Corp
Irene Hervey - Robt. Armstrong
Fox “News” Reel
Hable
Jack Haley
Rochelle Hudson
Asouine
Maytag
Newton
Iowa
Lupton Orchard Service Co
Yardley
Bond Street
Rhodes Drug CO
THE
Yardley Agency
Cook
Heatrola
Perfection Cook
John S. Miller & Co
Haldeman
Haldeman’s Creamery
S. Kent St
Palm Beach
Gray & Sheetz
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