Britain to Build Two New War Cruisers
London reports confirm that two British cruisers will be laid down this spring under the 1924 MacDonald plan. First lord Bridgeman asserts construction proceeds despite Treasury pressure, with one ship begun this month and one in March. UK debate follows US Senate action on related cruiser legislation.
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London
W. C. Bridgeman
Admiralty
Treasury
MacDonald
House of Commons
Bridgeman
United States Senate
Unusual frog hatch from egg found in Bermuda Jamaica
The Crane Pacific expedition for the Field Museum reports a froglet that emerges directly from the egg. Specimens were collected in Bermuda, Jamaica origin is suspected, and the mother frog guards eggs unusually. Another frog type was found in the dungeons beneath Christophe’s throne room in Cape Haitian Haiti.
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Chicago
Crane Pacific Expedition
Balboa
Panama
Field Museum of Nation History
Bermuda
Jamaica
Karl P. Schmidt
Schmidt
Christophe
Cape Haitien
Haiti
Champagne Bottles Trigger Rhine River Diving Spree
After a boy surfaced from Ehrenbreitstein Castle riverbank with a champagne bottle, divers swarmed the Rhine. A saloon keeper, under investigation for irregularities, had hidden bottles in the water prompting a flood of divers and reports of more bottles.
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Cablenz
Germany
Ehrenbreitstein
Rhine
Trap Across Road Aims To Stop Bandit Cars In 100 Yards
Scotland Yard considers a new road trap using steel tentacles and wire chains across the road. As a bandit vehicle crosses the mat the wires grip the chassis and entangle it, halting a fast car in under 100 yards.
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London
Scotland Yard
Bathing plea meets old opposition in Hattsbridge
London report notes Hattsbridge village schoolmaster urging a school bath while a school board member reveals a decade without bathing and recalls a friend who never bathed after his mother stopped washing him, illustrating local resistance.
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London
Hattsbridge
Tragic Denver widow tied to Rockefeller kin dies in fire
Anna Inman, a distant cousin of John D. Rockefeller Sr., perished in a bed fire caused by sparks from a grate in a cheap rented room. Police moved the charred body to a mortuary as details emerged of her family links and late life in Denver. The report also notes studies at the University of Chicago and local ambulance contact.
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United Press
Denver
Colo
Anna Inman
John D. Rockefeller
Secretary of State's
Anna Miller
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van Buren
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George F. Inman
Cheyenne
Wyo
ATU
C. Chicago
University of Chicago
Blackburn's
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Sara
Ir Gam
Texas
The
Brown Cracker & Candy Co
del Monte Fruits
del Monte
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Swift
Puritan
Mission Belle
My Rt
Ladies
Polk
West
N. Fillmore
Clarence Saunders
Polk Street
6Th Street
16Th Street
J. H. Harris & Son
East 10Th Street
B. L. Johnson
Cleveland
McIlroy's Grocery and Market
Grocery
Lemons Grocery
Arthur Street
West 7Th Street
East 17Th Street
Wilkinson Grocery
West 13Th Street
Bradford Grocery
Taylor Street
Mississippi
West 16Th St
East 10Th
Maryland
Taylor
North Buchana Grocery
North Buchanan
West 6Th Street
Barton Brothers Grocery
West 14Th Street
Reitman and Son Grocery
R. L. Williams Grocery
Fillmore Street
S. Broad Grocery
Johnson Street
Central Grocery
E. R. Martin Grocery
J. W. Johnson
Chambers Grocery
Bungalow Grocery
West 16Th Street
Fowler Grocery
East 13Th Street
City Market and Grocery
East 6Th Street
Edgefield Grocery
Tyler Street
Hallmark Grocery
Prrece Street
H. J. Cobb Grocery
18Th Street
J. L. Harrrington Grocery
11Th and Jackson
W. L. Harrris
Buchanan
Jordan Market
MRS
Rolling Stone Grocery
North Fillmore
Ponders Grocery
G. G. Laing Grocery & Market
Washington
Sidd Woodward
Francis Cornelius
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