Record of the year’s major events floods fires and riots
A sweeping year in review lists disasters and political turmoil. Key items include a deadly fire at Laurier Palace in Montreal killing 76, major earthquakes near Osaka and Kobe, floods in Mississippi and Arkansas, and Chicago mayoral election results. Also noted are naval actions in China, Sacco Vanzetti cases, Teapot Dome developments, and prominent deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurier Palace Theater
Montreal
China
Foochow
Landis
Europe poised between Bolshevism and fascism in 1927
Special Messenger writer surveys Europe's shaky democracy ten years after World War I. Bolshevism and fascism grip nations from Italy to Turkey, with Spain considering a class based parliament. Britain and France show partial parliamentary strength, while Germany and others face coalition governments and upheaval. The future hinges on the middle class's influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Europe
Spain
Prima Rivera
United States
Washington
Rivera
England
France
Germany
Animal Reactions to Aircraft Reported Near Berlin
German air pilot Polte publishes observations on animal behavior toward planes. Poultry scatter and head for fences, cows lower heads and face the machine, dogs race the aircraft, often ending in a splashy tumble. Birds of prey show confidence and disregard toward the approaching airframe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
U.2
Polte
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Tennessee Supreme Court
George Young
Catalina Island Channel
U. S. Marine
Lisbon
Portugal
Flangchow
U. S. Supreme Court
Elk Hills
Col
Thomas W. Miller
Harry Daugherty
Osaka
Kobe
Japan
Harry F. Sinclair
Senate
Teapot Dome
Shanghai
U. S
Nanking
Maj. H. O. D. Seagrave
Daytona Beach
Fla
William Hale Thompson
Chicago
Nicolo Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Rock Springs
Tex
Mississippi
St. Louis
Cairo
Ill
Arkansas
Miinois
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Poydras
Louisiana
New Orleans
Henry L. Stimson
Presi
Dent Coolidge
Woplar Bluff
Texas
Sugar Bowl
Hoover
Maniac Lambs School
Bath, Mich
Prohibition Bureau
Seymour Lowman
James Doran S
Lincolin C. Andrews
Roy Haynes
Alvan T. Fuller
Massachusetts
Soviet
Russia
President Coolidge
Geneva
Henry Ford
Palestine
Vienna
King Ferdinand of
Governor Fuller
Leonard Wood
The
Philipines
Beibert H. Gary
U. S&s. Steel Corporation
Sacco
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Ed Jackson
Indiana
John Duvall
Indianapolis
American Legion
Paris
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsy
Gene
Arnulfo Gomes
Francisco Serrano
Mexico
General Serrano
New York Yankees
Pittsburgh Pirates
Supreme Court
Harry F. Stinclair
Principessa Mafalda
Albert B. Fall
New England
Gomez
Pittsburgh
Great Lakes
Lindbergh
Mexico City
Hearst
U. S.S
Provincetown
Mass
Coast Guard
Laurier Palace
Major Seagrave
Tunacy
Dempecy
Vanacttl
Charlestown
Mesham
Serrano
Yankees
Serl
Meiland
Hegenberger
Hawaii
Bronte
Smith
Tully
Medcalf Jostin
Canada
Princess Lowenstein- Wertheim
May T—Nungesser
Colt
Chamberline
Levine
New York
Kottbus, Germany
Paul Redfern
South America
Bertaud
Hill and
Payne
Byrd
French
Atlantic
Brock and Schice
Art Goebel
Martin
Dole
Martin Jensen
Ruth Elder
George Haldeman Attem
Org
NEA Service, Inc
London
Italy
Poland
Hungary
Greece
Rumania
Bulgaria
Turkey
Massolini
Rivera Erty
Bethlen
Pilsudski
Liaptcheff
Kemal Pasha
Romania
Ion Bratianu
Michael
Bratianu
Communist Party
Moscow
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