Wild to Attend Great Plains Highway Convention
Claude C. Wild assistant manager of the Board of City Development will leave Saturday to attend a Great Plains Highway association meeting in Valentine Nebraska. The highway runs from Regina Canada to Laredo Texas traversing plains country. Amarillo concerns are to be raised at the meeting.
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Claude C. Wild
Board of City Development
Great Plains Highway Association
Valentine
Nebraska
Great Plains
Regina
Canada
Laredo
Texas
Plains Country
Amarillo
Lightning's unequal toll on trees studied by experts
Forest Service researchers explore why lightning hits certain trees more often. European studies flag pine oak and spruce as frequent targets while a US survey of 76,000 West trees found 72 percent of strikes hit western yellow pine and Douglas fir. Open questions remain on kill rates ignition sources and species effects.
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Associated Press
Forest Service
Ill woodland film misleads swamp oil hopes
In Urbana Illinois May 19 the Illinois geological survey warns swamp owners chasing oil after spotting an oily, iridescent film on water found only limonite. Tests showed the film would not burn and dispersed into sharp fragments, proving no oil beneath.
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Associated Press
Urbana
Ill
R. 5
Knappen
Illinois Geological Survey
Illinois
Electrically warmed soil speeds crops in Sweden tests
Electricity heats soil to grow lettuce out of season near Stockholm. Eighty thousand lettuce plants thrive in electrified soil with March marketing prospects and plans for potato trials. Northern Sweden experiments attract strong interest due to sun but cold soil conditions.
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Prosa
Sweden
Commerce de
Partment
Stockholm
Exhume 600 Chinese For Shipment Home
The bones of six hundred Chinese buried seven years or more will be exhumed at Mountainview cemetery in Vancouver and shipped to China. Dr I B Young provincial health officer granted permission. City profits seven thousand two hundred dollars from reselling graves at twelve dollars each. Exhumations ease cemetery space short term for Chinese graves now full.
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International News Service
Vancouver
B. C
Mountainview Cemetery
China
I. B. Young
Lord Birkenhead Balks At 18 Inch Gift Cigar
Lord Birkenhead, secretary of state for India, balks at an eighteen inch cigar presented as a souvenir at the Tobacco Trade inaugural banquet in London on May 14. He is known for his fondness for long cigars but refuses this unusually large gift.
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Lord Birkenhead
International News Service
London
India
Eleven Year Old Suzanna Mizerak Wins Carnegie Medal
Eleven year old Suzanna Mizerak receives a Carnegie medal for heroic rescue at the Barge Canal in Little Falls New York. On September 21, 1924 she climbed from a six foot below edge, jumped into 12 foot deep water and swam 22 feet to a ladder to save 4 year old Joseph Pichota.
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International News Service
Little Falls
N. Y
Suzanna Mizerak
Suzanna
Joseph Pichota
Fakir Declares Houdini Genuine Mystic
Den Ibrahim, a recent eastern mystic arrival, asserts Houdini was a true fakir and not a faker as Houdini claimed. The statement is reported from NICE with Associated Press attribution.
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Fakir
Houdini
Associated Press
Nice
den Ibrahim
Fakir Calls Houdini Master of Fakir Arts
In Europe the Egyptian Hindu lauds Houdini as one of the world’s greatest fakirs. He says Houdini relied on mysticism for major feats while using simple legerdemain in basic tricks. The Egyptian Hindu claims to have known the American illusionist.
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Europe
Houdini
Edison Answers Questionnaire on New Edison Phonograph
From his laboratories Thomas A Edison outlines his fifty year effort to perfect the New Edison Phonograph. He argues mass production cannot match crafted tone and urges dealers to compare devices in homes with living artists to reveal no difference in Re Created performances.
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Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Edison
Masa
Edison
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