Spirit of Labor Day in old editorial on dignity of toil
A historical essay traces Labor Day origins to 1882 and 1884 as a tribute to the industrial worker. It cites Samuel Gompers and quotes reflective editorials on the rights and responsibilities of labor, urging organization and enduring toil as a moral and economic force. The narrative links progress to worker dignity and the divinity of labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
New York City Central Labor Union
American Federation of Labor
Congress
District of Columbia
Territories
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federationist
America
Workers of America
Longfellow
Compact Organization of American Labor
Gompers
John P. Frey
Ohio State Federation of Labor
Labor Day
Prairie Dogs Raid Prompted by Poison On Uintah Basin
In Vernal Utah the Uintah basin spanning 6000 square miles faced crop losses as prairie dogs devoured forage. A ten ton oat bait laced with strychnine killed thousands daily until Indian leaders halted spread near reservations. Red Cap warned Washington of food disruption to his people.
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Vernal
Utah
Uintah Basin
White River
Uwintah-Ouray Reservation
United States Biological Survey
Red Cap
Tam Gray
Washington
Washington Paper
Biological Survey
Indian Service
Uncle Sam
Arizona
Oxygen Tank Aims To Help High Altitude Flyers
Lieut. Carleton C. Champion Jr. flew to an altitude near 47,000 feet where his plane burned but he made an exceptionally fine landing. He seeks to perfect an oxygen tank enabling aviators to breathe and stay conscious six to seven miles up, preserving barographs and advancing high altitude flight. Champion, born 1896, has logged over 1,000 flight hours and is a Naval Academy graduate of 1919 with service on the Michigan and Olympic and later in destroyer squadrons and the scouting fleet before Pensacola aviation training.
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Washington
Carleton C. Champion, Jr
Naval
Navy Department
Champion
Naval Academy
U. S. S. Michigan
Olympic
Mediterranean
Pensacola
Exercise as a Duty When Should the Elderly Stop
The piece notes that elderly people should cease strenuous play when they lose the desire to cavort and cut up. It argues exercise is a duty that becomes groansome and lonely, suggesting golf as a safer activity for those past noon, while harsher exertions like stairwork and mountain climbing carry health risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Italian device stops trains by third rail power
A new Italian invention uses a third rail that generates electricity during train movement to stop the engine without driver action. If track obstruction occurs a light appears in the cab and a bell sounds. if ignored the brakes engage automatically. The rail also supports a driver telephone service.
Yonkers Wife Seeks Legal Redress Over Husband’s Daily Dodges
For 15 years Mrs. John Brake says she dodged crockery and small furniture as John Bombarded her with a dozen eyes daily. She found the barrage too raw and turned to the law for relief.
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Yonkers
N. Y
John Brake
Hippos Sweat Red But Not Blood at Zoo
The Washington zoo notes hippos of the Nile variety shed a red perspiration mistaken for blood during exertion. Dr. William N. Mann says the pigment in the skin makes carmine sweat crystals. The pygmy hippo from Liberia lacks this protection and sweats profusely, trailing white foam like a heated horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Zoo
Nile
William N. Mann
Africa
Hippo
Liberia
President Coolidge
Harvey L. Firestone
Borchardt Restaurant in Berlin Closes After 70 Years
Berlin’s famed Borchardt restaurant and catering house has filed for bankruptcy after seven decades of serving elite diners. Once frequented by the former crown prince and international royalty, it fell victim to postwar poverty and changing tastes, ending a legendary era in German gastronomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Borchardt's
Borchardt’s
Nicholas II
Russia
Edward VII
England
Giant Florida Skeletons Unearthed By Archeologists
In Florida a burial site on a gulf island reveals skeletons over 500 years old linked to the Carib Indians of the West Indies. Giants with oversized skulls jaws and bones suggest tribal battles and a population larger than contemporary peoples. Bones are sent to the Smithsonian for study.
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Tampa
Fla
Florida
Gulf Island
West Indies
Smithsonian Institution
Newspapers to Buy Eggs in Congo Delight
Mr and Mrs Robert PD Hill return from the Belgian Congo after three years. They say newspapers are a great pleasure and necessity there. The natives trade in kind, and eggs are exchanged for papers two days after arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congo
Rapid City
S. D
Robert PD. Hill
Belgian Congo
Harold Chaken Pulls Eight Boats Around Lake George Course
Harold Chaken swam with one leg tied to a towrope and towed eight boats full of campers around a three mile loop on Lake George New York.
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Lake George
N. Y
Harold Chaken
Vera Menchik Crowned World Women Chess Champion
Vera Menchik, at twenty one, wins the world title by taking ten and a half of eleven possible games in a recent tournament. This confirms her status as the reigning women’s chess champion.
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London
Vera Menchik
Two Kansan Quakes Set New Record in China
Washington reports May 22 quake in the Kansu province of China repeats a deadly pattern after the 1920 disaster. Commander N H Heck and Science Service seismographs traced the epicenter before communications arrived. Casualties about 100000, down from about 500000 in 1920, with the event concentrated in mountainous terrain near the Nanshan range and the Great Wall region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kansas
China
N. H. Heck
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Heck
Science Service
Peking
Nanshan
Tibet
Why Bathtub Fills Slow Madison UW Bulletin Explains Loss of Head
The University of Wisconsin will publish a bulletin for hydraulic engineers explaining why baths fill slowly. Co authors Prof C L Corp and H T Hartwell describe seven years of tests on pipe sizes from one to eight inches and water speeds from two to twenty feet per second.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
University Press
C. L Corp
H. T. Hartwell
Hydraulic Engineering
University
Chilled Postage Stamps Cool Florida Tongues
St. Petersburg officials opened a cold storage room at the parcel post station next to the outdoor post office. Stamps will be kept at 36 to 42 degrees to prevent mucilage from becoming sticky, making stamps unusually cool for Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Fla
Parcel Post
Florida
Tuberculosis and Malaria Plague Soviet Russia
Dr. W Horsley Gantt, a Pennsylvania physician, reports from a two volume study that malaria exceeds 4,000,000 cases in the Soviet Union, tuberculosis affects millions, and trachoma harms more than half a million, a far higher burden than in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leningrad
Soviet Russia
W. Horsley Gantt
Charlottesville
Russia
Gantz
Soviet Union
Gantt
United States
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Rodin
Charles Stelzle
Thornton Oakley
Toller
Pluto
Earth
Teller
Lieutenant Champion
Kansu
Kulang
National Geographic Society
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