Television over 438 miles seen in London Glasgow test
John L. Baird demonstrated television over telephone lines covering 438 miles between London and Glasgow. The test surpassed the prior 200 mile U S test and aimed toward transatlantic viewing, with plans to use radio for London New York transmissions. Distinct images and moving heads were observed, and a compact receiver fit on a table in Glasgow.
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International News Service
London
John L. Baird
Glasgow
United States
New York
Washington
Atlantic
Baird
America
England
Mrs. Emma Blankenship Rites Planned at First Christian
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Lucratia Blankenship will be held this afternoon at the First Christian church with Rev. F W O Malley and Rev. Virgil Fisher officiating. She died Friday night at her home ten miles east of Amarillo and is survived by her husband C R Blankenship and four children including ie Blankenship Mrs H Thornton Mrs C R Denhan and R N Denhan of Fort Worth.
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Emma Lucratia Blankenship
First Christian Church
F. W. O'Malley
Virgil Fisher
San Jacinto
C. R. Denhan
Amarillo
R. N. Denhan
Fort Worth
French Exports Surpass Imports in Early 1927
Paris reports that exports in the first four months of 1927 exceeded imports by 683,342,000 francs. Total exports reached 18,254,249,000 francs, up 648,890,000 from 1926, while imports fell to 17,570,000,000 francs, down 2,166,822,000.
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International News Service
Paris
France
Custom Department
Hair stockings worn in Japanese rice fields to deter cats
Workers in Japanese rice fields use stockings made from human hair as a preventive measure against cats. The practice reflects local ingenuity in pest control and field management during harvest season.
Nationwide war on roadhouse vice led by women reformers
Boston June 13. Women reform leaders have declared a nationwide effort to curb roadhouse vice citing moonlight dancing, liquor and curtained booths. Through the National Congress of Parent-Teacher Associations and the Massachusetts Civic League, literature is distributed to push legislation giving state police authority over licenses and stricter inspections. The Massachusetts law already restricts licenses, forcing several roadhouses to close. inspectors may bar music and entertainment, and the law applies to all common victualer licensed venues. Mrs. William Tilton warns of possible violence against reformers and cites study showing about 90 percent of roadhouse patrons are under 25.
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International News Service
Boston
Massachusetts
National Congress of
States
Hawaii
Massachusetts Civic League
William Tilton
Washington
Sudbury
Middleton
Scituate
Hanson
Westwood
Commissioner of Public Safety
Cupid at Your Elbow Aids Berlin Dancers
Report describes a Hamburg pavilion with a table telephone system called Cupid at Your Elbow. A male guest selects a dancer at Table 15 by turning a dial. a red light signals the chosen table and the girl to answer. If declined, the suitor can move on to another table without public embarrassment.
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Cupid
Berlin
Associated Press
Hamburg
Bacchanalian Rivalves in Maryland Oyster Incident
Three Maryland oysters were apprehended after hitting a whiskey cork in a Bacchanalian display. W Swepson Earle, estate conservation commissioner, believes they would have succeeded in three or four years. In Washington DC, magnets remove tacks nails and metal bits from roads.
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Baltimore
Maryland
W. Swepson Earle
District of Columbia
Dodson's Liver Tone touted as safe calomel alternative
An old advertorial warning against calomel and praising Dodson's Liver Tone as a mercurial, gentle liver remedy. The copy claims calomel harms bones and bowels and promotes salts, recommending a nightly spoonful to cleanse the system and allow normal eating without salivation. It urges readers to keep a bottle at home.
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Dodson
Two German couples mark 65 years of marriage
Two German couples celebrated their sixty fifth wedding anniversaries in Berlin. The Roeders of Frankfurt an der Oder, ages 93 and 89, are in good health. Heinrich and Friederike Matthiesen from Pellworm also report health. A Berlin widow, 65 years with a firm dealing in lobsters and crabs, Frau Auguste Spellerberg, 79, has served the same company for decades.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Herr
Frau Roeder
Frankforten-ih-Oder
Heinrich
Friederike Matthiesen
Pellworm
Frau Auguste Spellerberg
German firm plans air flivver service Berlin to Copenhagen
Daimler works in Stuttgart announces a trial of tiny two horsepower air cars carrying one passenger at 75 mph. Price set around $1500. Plan is to operate these aerial taxis linking Berlin and Copenhagen with land pickups at both ends.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Daimler Works
Stuttgart
German parliament adopts new timeout signaling system
The text notes a president implementing a sequence of cue lights to curb lengthy speakers in the German stag. A five minute warning and a red stop light are described as part of the new procedure. Further details include travel times and ticket costs for express and second class railway services.
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German Stag
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