New Guinea Island Remains Vast and Veiled in Mystery
National Geographic notes New Guinea as the world’s largest island outside the polar regions, with vast unexplored interior mountains over 12,000 feet, diverse peoples from Papuan to Negritos, and a mix of cannibal legends and rising Christian influence. The article highlights language puzzles, indentured labor impacts, communal longhouses, and the coconut driven economy led by Queen Emma’s descendants.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Australia
Holland
New Guinea
Papua
Polar
Malasia
Philippines
Pacific
German New Guinea
Netherlands
Malay Archipelago
Dutch East Indies
United States
Continental
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Washington
Island
South Sea Islands
Emma
Paris Jewelers Duel Threat After Social Snub
Paris society buzzes over Baron Maurice de Rothschild and Louis Cartier dating a duel threat. Cartier was snubbed at a Baron’s dance invite misread by a secretary, prompting threats of swords or pistols and prompting Rothschild to flee to Marienbad for a month while awaiting reply.
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Paris
Louis Cartier
Rue de la Paix
Maurice de Rothschild
Chamber of Deputies
Rue Monceau
Maurice
Mme
Monsieur
Madame Louis Cartier
Baron Maurice
M. Cartier
Madame Cartier
Marienbad
No Learn Step on Gas Says Old Indian Braves
Glacier Park Montana Chief Two Guns White Calf of the Glacier National Park reservation says the automobile will not fully replace ponies among Indians until the present older generation dies. He notes younger Indians adapt quickly to flivvers while elders cannot learn to use the gas brake and clutch due to long habit of digging heels into the cayuse's ribs.
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Glacier Park
Mont
Two Guns White Calf
Glacier National Park Reservation
Boston Housewife Walks About Eight Miles Daily
The National Foundation for Foot Health reports that an average housewife walks eight miles daily in daily tasks. The survey notes the number of trips up and down stairs by a woman housekeeper would equal climbing the Boston Custom House tower about thirty stories.
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Boston
National Foundation For Foot Health
Boston Custom-House
California Astronomer Measures the Universe
Allan Maxwell of the University of California Lick Observatory estimates the sidereal universe has a diameter of 194 quadrillion miles. Using spectroscopic study of six Cygnus region areas he measured star spectra and distances to about 96 quadrillion miles, suggesting the universe ends not far beyond.
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Berkeley
Calif
Allan Douglas Maxwell
James M. Geeway
University of California Lick Observatory
Mount Hamilton
Maxwell
Cygnus
Milky Way
Earth
Not Many Civil War Nurses Remain Alive
Washington reports the number of Union Civil War nurses dwindling with 46 survivors identified from pension records out of about 2,000. The article notes many served without formal nursing as a profession, highlighting Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton and naming several remaining pensioners across Illinois Indiana Michigan Wisconsin Iowa and other states.
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Washington
Dorothea L. Dix
Clara Harlowe Barton
American Red Cross
Amelia Barlow
Confederacy
Ella K Newsom
Dixie
Florence Nightingale
Ike
Wade McClellan
Gettysburg
The
Union
Emery Hospital
Carroll
Iowa
Woman's Relief Corps
Cornelia Hancock
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Army of the Potomac
Ilinois
Clarissa Crossman
Julia McCarthy
Irene D. Cook
Chicago
Addie Emery
Pontiac
Eliza Pyle
Norris City
Kate McLaughlin
Quincey
Mary C. Upton
Vera
Indiana
Mary Brady
Friends Redeem Goods of Bankrupt Farmer
In Cedar Rapids Iowa a farmer Peter Gulbrason of Humboldt faced sheriff sale on mortgage secured possessions. Friends gathered at the farm bought the goods, paid the mortgage, and gave him the paper to burn, wishing him a fresh start.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Peter Gulbrason
Humboldt
Gulbrason
Guibrason
Spurned Parents Plan Behind Young Woman's Business Rise
Nancy Alexander left college to pursue business and now at twenty one heads a large northwestern lumber company branch with control across North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida and Alabama. She runs the office from her home proving a business office need not be in a building.
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Charlotte
8. C
Nancy Alexander
Northwestern Lumber Company
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Not a Good Mixer Stroudsburg Penmixer Rescue
The champion penmixer William Lacey crawled into a concrete mixer in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania to make repairs. He was whirled for three minutes in sand water and cement and escaped with cuts and bruises.
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Stroudsburg
William Lacey
Lacey
Gifted outdoor stage opens in Montpellier France
A new outdoor stage with lights fountains and dressing rooms has been built in Montpellier as a gift to the city from Auguste Rose a Paris dramatist and theatrical manager born and educated in Montpellier.
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Montpellier
France
Auguste Rose
Paris
Crown Hirohito to be Crowned in Economy Focus
Tokyo reports preparations for Hirohito’s November 1928 coronation in Kyoto. Committees set up and a multi‑million yen budget planned to be presented to the diet. Japan seeks economy, no foreign envoys, with limited ceremonial costs and mixed Japanese Western music selections.
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Tokyo
Kyoto
Hirohito
Taisho
Japan
Lift Ban on Yank Wives Seeking to Enter Cuba
President Machado relaxed Cuban entry rules for American women, clarifying that the prior decree requiring husband permission would not be strictly enforced for Americans. The change followed a stir after Mrs. Anna Joy was affected and involved guidance from transport agents and the tourist commission to exercise discretion.
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Cuba
Havana
Machado
Santiago Canizares
Immigration
Anna Joy
Secretary of the Treasury
Child Pronounced Dead Awakens at Her Funeral
Vicenta Corozot, five, was pronounced dead by a physician in San Vicente Argentina. Three days later she awoke crying in the coffin as a crowd gathered for the funeral. Her parents, doubt raised, were persuaded by the officiating doctor’s urging.
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San Vicente
Argentina
Vicenta Corozot
Forecasting Earthquakes in the Soviet Union Project
The Academy of Sciences builds one hundred seismological stations across the Soviet Union to forecast earthquakes before they occur. Professor Nikiforoff, a noted quake expert, leads the effort to save lives and property.
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Leningrad
Soviet Union
The
Academy of Science
Nikiforoff
Housemaids of Paris Win Odd Rights Contract
In Paris a new labor contract grants a house servant named Emma two hours daily for courses in clothes cutting, stenography, piano, and singing. Wages start at 350 francs monthly for three months, then rise to 600 francs by month four, with bathroom access twice weekly and formality of addressing her as Mademoiselle.
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Paris
Mademoiselle Emma
Mademoiselle
Emma
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Nurses
A nurse testifies to improved health and stamina after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She notes increased energy for heavy nursing duties and housework. The Pinkham company cites hundreds of letters from women across the nation praising the remedy.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Mrs
Lydia BP
Mars
J. Pierson
Lancaster
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Pennsylvania
Washington
Texas
Illinois
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Lydia BD
Count of Smiths in the United States
The census shows 1,304,300 people named Smith in the United States. The note compares this to the populations of several states and mentions Smiths occupy 17 pages in Who's Who in America.
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United States
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
Delaware
Florida
Oregon
Colorado
Utah
America
The
Outlook
Tracing the Origin of the Term Bachelor
The origin of the term bachelor remains uncertain with a view toward a possible link to the old French word meaning a young man. The discussion notes that multiple explanations exist without a definitive answer.
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Baron
Paris Jeweler
Rothschild
California
Lydia E. Pinkham
Haarlem
Hanford’s
Smiths
Alee
J. Earl
Oneida
N. Y
Seratica
Dodd
Dodd's Medicine Co., Inc
Main St
Buffalo, N. Y
KRO CO
Springheld
Ohio
Des Moines
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