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Everything from tags and labels to rate information on the cost of shipping a trunk to Kamchatka is supplied by the local force of the Railway Express Agency, which is meeting its annual June problem of transporting thousands of pieces of students luggage by placing a representative in each House and dormitory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RAILWAY EXPRESS PUTS AGENTS IN DORMITORIES | 6/13/1934 | See Source »

Back a child with bronchial asthma up against a tree and peg a lock of his hair into a hole bored in the tree trunk. Snip the lock from his head. When bark grows over the hair, the asthma will disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Folk Remedies | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...join with Great Britain in observing a two-minute silence at 11 a. m. on Armistice Day. He founded the namesake Towns movement to bring together U. S. and British towns of like names. His medals, decorations, citations, scrolls and memorials would fill a trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: John Bull | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...shiny affair, all a glitter with highly-polished brass and chromium plate, the new switch-board sports a chic little dial, supposedly a much needed labor-saving device, which, the telephone company claims, will eliminate the pseudo laborious task of pushing the signal lever to connect with the outside trunk line, while at the same time, it is also asserted, it will speed up the service greatly, but this only after the operator has "finally got the hang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Switch-Board Finishes Quarter Century of Service---150 Calls Per Day Proves Fatal | 5/22/1934 | See Source »

...heary predecessor, the new switch board connects with some 66 different rooms throughout the confines of the older buildings of the domains of the Gold Coasters, in addition to which there are also two other phones for the janitor and the like. Unfortunately, however, only six of the trunk lines can be connected up at one time; and although the operator late last night refused to commit himself, we'll bet he has a hard time listening in on all of them at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Switch-Board Finishes Quarter Century of Service---150 Calls Per Day Proves Fatal | 5/22/1934 | See Source »

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