Dry Officer Denies Death After Dry Raid Rumor
Nelsonville prohibition officer George Baynham says reports of his death are false. He and partner Dana Nash were said to have been shot during a dry raid, but Baynham says they did not hear a gunshot last week and encountered no trouble in apprehending violators in New Straitsville East Palestine Gallipolis or Newark before returning to Nelsonville.
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George Baynham
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Ew Straitaville
Columbus
Baynham
Dana Nash
New Straitsville
Palestine
Gallipolis
Newark
Nash
Fascisti of Poland Threaten Revolution in Warsaw
London dispatch says Poland's political crisis worsens after Gabriel Narutowicz wins the presidency. The cabinet has resigned and fascists threaten to seize control in a looming confrontation with the government.
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London
Gabriel Naruttowicz
Warsaw
American consul Mason Mitchell returns to desk after wound
Malta dispatch reports Mason Mitchell, the American consul, who was recently slightly wounded by an assailant, has resumed his duties at the consulate today.
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Malta
Mason Mitchell
Easter Island Center of a Lost Pacific Empire
Professor J. Macmillan Brown reports Easter Island as the former center of a dense Pacific empire destroyed by a cataclysm. He notes massive stone statues on terraces and many tombs, suggesting a once-thriving civilization now vanished.
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Easter Island
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J. Macmillan Brown
University of New Zealand
Haster Island
Brown
Fortune Islands
Atlantic
Pacific
Chilean
Enor
Easter Island statues tell tale of vanished empire and cannibal hunger
The article describes massive stone figures scattered across Easter Island their incomplete state suggesting sudden abandonment after a long labor by islanders of a vanished Pacific empire. It notes the carvings from a single rock and the likely cannibal pressures before disappearance.
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Saster Island
Pacific
Easter Island
Ehler
Army to mass produce helium for balloons
Secretary Weeks pushes rapid helium production after the Roma and C-2 disasters. The Army Air Service now has about 1,000,000 cubic feet and aims to supply a non inflammable gas for future airships within a year, with Fort Worth serving as a joint helium plant site.
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Servics
Washington, D. C
War Weeks
Army Air Service
San Antonio
War Department
Roma
Norfolk
Iire
Air Service
Army and Navy
Fort Worth
Texas
Relic of Early Atlantic Cables Finds Home in Los Angeles
A cross section of the first Atlantic cables, made in England and linked to Sir John Pender, Cyrus W Field, and Peter Cooper, rests in Los Angeles with George MacKenzie. The piece recalls the 1865 Great Eastern voyage, early cable breaks near Ireland, and the labor to lay these now mostly dead lines that carried seven to ninety words per minute in different eras.
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Los Angeles
Calif
John Mackenzie
George Mackenzie
John Ponder
Cyrus W. Field
Peter Cooper
Sir John Pender
England
James Pender
Sir John
London
Niagara
Agamemnon
Great Eastern
Finds From Roy Chapman Andrews Expedition In Mongolia
Roy Chapman Andrews led the Third Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia returning to Peking after five months. They unearthed a giant haluchitherium skull, discovered new mammal remains, and located a potential fossil field with unknown species. A herd of wild asses chased by auto and a complete dinosaur skeletons found, signaling future extensive work.
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Peking
Asia
Roy Chapman Andrews
Mongolia
Museum of Natural History
Department of Zoology
New York Museum
Walter Granger
Paleontology
Himalayas
Kidnapped Captain to Face Bigamy Charge in Indiana
Crown Point Indiana December 15 Captain Charles Pike assistant surgeon in the Chicago Marine hospital was reportedly abducted from his bride of a month in Chicago last night. He was jailed here awaiting arraignment on a bigamy charge alleging a common law wife in Pennsylvania prior to his marriage to the daughter of Chicago attorney Louis A Hene. The first wife’s name was not released.
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Ind
Charles Pike
Chicago Marine Hospital
Indiana
Chicego
Lake Country
Abandoned Car Ties to Indiana Farm Murder Case
Cincinnati police seek occupants of a western city automobile found abandoned. They believe the vehicle may be linked to the murder of W. J. Scaliffer and his wife Susan on a Newcastle Indiana farm twelve miles from town last Tuesday.
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Cincinnati
W. J. Scaliffer
Susan
Peoers
Newcastle
Ind
Leap Year Day in Paris Celebrates the Maiden Bonnet
Paris midinettes parade the boulevards on Saint Catherine Day in search of husbands. Girls twenty five and older may wear the bonnet de Sainte Catherine while younger maidens join, dancing and calling on suitors. The day ends with banquets as the dressmakers anticipate a year of work and possible engagements.
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Paris
France
Worth
Paquin Poiret
Nurse Eva McGinnis Dead In Montreal Blaze
Miss Eva McGinnis a nurse at the Montreal General Hospital was burned to death in a fire at an apartment house. About 20 others escapemen say many in flimsy nightclothes were driven into a blizzard.
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Que
Eva McGinnis
Montreal General Hospital
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