Mayan Cities Rise and Fall In Yucatan History
The article chronicles the Mayan civilization from 500 B C to 1448 A D, detailing Old and New Empires in the large central region, the rise of Chichen Itza and other city states, the role of cenotes, and the impact of Toltec Aztec influence culminating in the city’s abandonment. It notes the 1924 Carnegie excavations and the Court of the Columns discovery.
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National Separaee Society
Washington
Central America
B. C
Tabasco
Chiapas
Mexico
Department of Peten
Guatemala
Honduras
New World
Old Empire
Yucatan
Yucatas
Chichen Itza
New Empire
Mecca
Chichen-Itza
Uxmal
Mayapan
Chichen § Itza
Hunnae Ceel
Ana
Quetzalcoatl
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Flying influences architecture and skyline evolution
The article discusses aviation reshaping architecture, citing Frank J. McMillan’s Chicago post office design with a vast roof, and predicts skyward city views, rooftop gardens, and billboard integration. It notes European interest and envisions Gothic losses as cities adapt to air travel. Lieut. Bernt Balchen recalls flying over France and not needing the Eiffel Tower to land.
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Washington
Frank J. McMillan
Division of Post Office
Chicago
America
Rome
Atlanta
Woolworth
Chicago University
Lieut
Bernt Balchen
France
Eiffel Tower
Indians Enjoyed Rolling Bones Relics Indicate
Oklahoma City story notes that Ed ward Snow, a local collector, preserves one of the city’s largest Indian relics collections. It includes gambling stones similar to dice, poker chips, lagging stones, and archaic tools dating back four centuries, plus a Mexican spearhead from the Alamo era and historical firearms.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Edward Snow
Snow
The
Alamo
French test pilot survives 19000 foot fall in parabola
Emile Van Laere, a French test pilot, fell from a plane near Beaumont sur Olse in the Carnelle forest. The aircraft plunged from 7000 meters and the parachute finally opened at about 1000 feet from the ground, leaving Van Laere stunned but unharmed.
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Paris
Emile van Laere
Beaumont Sur Olse
Forest
Carnelle
van Laere
Chamberlin Flight May Cut Sea Trips
Washington reports that Clarence Chamberlin's flight from the Leviathan to New York with mail marks the potential start of a service reducing Atlantic crossings to under three days. W Irving Glover and David A Burke foresee faster trips and ship to shore mail service, with plans advanced by the Post Office.
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Washington
Clarence Chamberlin
New York
W. Irving Glover
David A. Burke
United States Lines
Chamberlin
O'Connor
The
Shipping Board
Leviathan
Glover
Post Office Department
Von Steuben Drill Book Found in Ohio
Mrs. Bettie Wilson Neville found an 1794 Von Steuben drill book in an old bureau drawer in London. One of only two copies, the other at West Point, it bears the title Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States with an appendix on the Militia Act. Henry Ford offered $1,000 for it, but she plans to keep the relic.
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London
George Washington
United States of America
Bettie Wilson Neville
United States Military Academy
West Point
United States Army
Baron von Steuben
Valley Forge
United States
Army of the
Oklahoma Land Office Closes After Long Frontier Service
The U S land office at Guthrie Oklahoma closes after a century of operation. Records will move to Washington and depart to the Interior Department. The Guthrie office opened April 22 1889 with the run of eighty and spurred Guthrie’s growth around the shack.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
United States Land Office
Washington
Department of the Interior
Guthrie Land Office
Oklahoma Territory
Little Office
Federal
What to Do With Old Safety Razor Blades
Boston F M Durkee of Brookline solved a problem by mounting blades on a rotary mower built from an old cleaner motor and toy cart wheels. He connected a belt drive to power, with a lamp cord supplying electricity to the handle and motor, creating a light, pushable grass cutter that whirled the blades as it cut the lawn.
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Boston
F. M. Durkee
Brookline
Durkee
Flies Change Styles Bridgend England
A peculiar fashion note from Bridgend England reports a local style shift as a plague of horsefiles alters dress trends. Long dresses with wide sleeves and high necks gain popularity, paired with woolen stockings.
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Bridgend
England
X ray tests reveal originals in Veronese and Mesina works
New York reports that museum X ray studies by Alan Burroughs show hidden underpaintings in Veronese Mars and Venus and Mesina Madonna with Infant St John. Alterations indicate originality, as changes in underpaint reveal evolving composition and help distinguish originals from copies.
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New York
Venus
Veronese
St. John
Antonella da Messina
Alan Burroughs
Mars
Students Explore Jasper Park Glaciers and Coal Chutes
Princeton university geology students on a Jasper National Park trip recount a 200 foot coal seam slide and a 1200 foot glacier descent on Mount Edith Cavell. Guided by Prof. Leon Collet they cut ice walls with Yee picks and glissaded down snowy fields to study geological formations.
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Vancouver
B. C
America
Princeton University
Ita
Jasper National Park
Brule
Alb
Jasper Park
Mount Edith Cavell
Leon Collet
Switzerland
Swiss Alpine Club
Motor Toll in Eight Years Surpasses World War Deaths
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce reports 137,017 automobile fatalities from 1919 through 1926, surpassing the 120,050 American military deaths in World War I. Auto injuries total 38,500,000 since the armistice, with 26 percent of the dead and injured under age fifteen. 1927 saw an estimated 23,000 deaths, up 1,000 from 1926.
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Washington
United States
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Women Can Now Do More
Fifty years ago women faced limited jobs and health concerns rose with independence. Elizabeth Chamberlain of 500 Monmouth St Trenton NJ, who works in a Unionall factory, praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for improving health and offers to answer inquiries from other women.
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Elizabeth Chamberlain
Unionall
Lydia E. Pinkham
Chamberlain
Monmouth St
Trenton
N. J
Lydia BE. Pinkham
How to Have Strength Endurance and Courage
An old health ad promotes daily bowel movement for overall wellbeing. It claims the kidneys liver and bowels must be active to remove poisons and offers Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy for constipation head- ache indigestion and biliousness. Pills are sugar coated and do not contain calomel with 25c and 75c red packages.
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Carter
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von Steuben
Ohio
Oklahoma Land Office
U. S
Oakland
Nebr
Anglo-American Drug Co
Fulton Street
J. Austinson
Dennison, Minn
Pocus Come Pound Co
Fletcher
Fremont Ave
Minneapolis
Minn
Des Moines
Fuller
Dean
Doan
Milburn Co
MigCh
Buffalo
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