Airmail lights up vast 1927 flight network with beacons
A NEA Service report details airmail routes and lighting system across the United States. It notes more than 6,000 miles of night lighting and 12 floodlights on the New York to Salt Lake City line, plus hundreds of beacons and intermediate fields guiding pilots. The network serves about 70 million people with several routes expanding by spring.
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NEA
Hicago
New York
Salt Lake City
Great Falls
Buffalo-Albany
New Orleans
Atlanta
National Air Transport
Air Express
Post Office
Chicago
Paul Henderson
L. D. Seymour
Red River
Texas-Oklahoma
Hortense Saunders
EW York
Isa Glenn
Schindel
Genny J. Bayard Schindel
James McNeill
Lin
Bootleg Gold Thrives in Ontario Mines Ring Loots $150000
In northern Ontario mining camps a bootleg gold trade thrives as dishonest workers steal gold ore and smuggle it to markets. Arrests of two smugglers revealed a ring that has disposed of more than 150000 dollars worth of gold in five months.
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Ontario
New Austrian Station to Rise on Freinberg
A new Austrian radio station will be erected at Idnz on the Freinberg at 1200 feet elevation. It will operate on a wavelength of 245.2 meters.
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Idnz
Freinberg
Loneliest White Man Oversees Solomon Island Cocoa Plant
A young Briton manages a coconut plantation on a Solomon Island outpost and endures delays in correspondence. his isolation highlights the era's distant colonial life. The piece notes lagging home letters and contrasts wages and currency values from the 1920s, plus quirks about imitation ostrich plumes made from turkey feathers.
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Solomon Group
Oil discovery in Queensland marks Australia entering world oil scene
An extended search aided by state geological support results in a commercial oil find at Roma on the Dearling Downs, 250 miles west of Brisbane. The Roma well yields natural gas and light crude oil. plans call for a second well and gas use for Roma heating.
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Australia
Queensland
Brisbane
Roma
Dearling Downs
Romani Corporation
Alberta
Canada
Lander Oilfields Company
Oralla
State Oil Board
Roma Corporation
Deensland
South Australia
Victoria
Glenelg River
Fifty Women Seek Seats in Parliament in Britain
Report notes 50 women candidates for the next British election, with 38 endorsed by three major parties. It highlights figures such as Mrs. Baldwin and Miss Betty, Mrs. Hilton Philipson, Lady Iveagh, Lady Cynthia Mosley, and Labour members Susan Lawrence Ellen Wilkinson and Margaret Bondfield, among others.
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Ondon
Baldwin
House of Commons
Great Britain
America
Lady Iveagh
Lady Astor
Duchess of Atholl
Education Department
Labor
Susan Lawrence
Margaret Bondeld
Ellen Wilkinson
Mrs. Pankhurst
Aristcracy
Cynthia Mosley
Oswald Mosley
Death of Express Rider Ends Long Colorful Career
Henry Avis eighty six one of the last pony express riders dies at his Kansas home. He recalled delivering Lincoln's inaugural in seven days and a wartime run that earned an $800 bonus. After disbanding the riders he sought gold at Salmon River mines then returned to settle in Kansas City via the Missouri River.
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Kansas City Times
Henry Avis
Pony Express
Kansas
Avis
The
Times
Joseph Snell
Doc
Lincoln
Salmon River
Jeff Harrington
Omaha
Kansas City
Lady Cynthia and Megan Lloyd George in Lib Liberal mix
Lady Cynthia, daughter of the late Lord Curzon and granddaughter of Levi Lester, remains a Tory lineage figure while Megan Lloyd George has recently been linked with tending to rum as a Liberal.
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Cynthia
Lord Curzon
Levi Lester
Chicago
Megan Lloyd George
Pants Robbery Bandits Haunt Chicago Thieves
A group of Chicago holdups robbed victims of valuables and trousers. Two detectives pursuing a so called pants bandit were captured by police while the real trousersless victim arrived at headquarters simultaneously.
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Chicago
Woman Lawyer Becomes Nun After Successful Legal Career
Petronilla M Joachim, a Detroit University tennis captain and top law graduate, leaves her Detroit law practice to join the Dominican order at Adrian Michigan. She resigns from Civil Air Corps leadership and many civic roles to pursue a religious vocation, with the firm continuing under her name and part of earnings aiding her mother.
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Etroit
University of Detroit
Petronilla M
Joachim
Detroit Savings Bank
Order of Dominican Nuns
Adrian
Mich
Sandusky
Athletics Aid Singer
Lewis James, a pioneer singer who performed before a microphone and a former athlete, says outdoor sports greatly aided his vocal ability and training.
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Lewis James
WCFL Reopens Monday Night Radio Amid Gentlemen's Agreement
One of the last Chicago stations to resume Monday night programs is WCFL after a period of silence on that night due to a citywide gentlemen's agreement. The move ends the broadcast quiet across several Chicago outlets on Mondays.
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Chicago
WCFL
Dime for Buggy on Iowa Highways Auctioned
A Maynard area man sells a four wheeled buggy for ten cents at a closing out sale. The crowd counters with a single dime bid and the auctioneer proclaims the sale. The buyer drives away with a fine mare hitched to the buggy on Iowa’s newly paved roads.
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Edar Rapids
Iowa
Floyd Foss
Maynard
Forty children and no deaths mark Etling family tale
Garden City Kansas January 2046 the Etling family of forty celebrates a long life with no deaths since the couple married in 189? their ten children and nineteen grandchildren include six sons and four daughters most married to farmers five sons continue farming two daughters married outside farming the family traces its roots to Germany and other nations with pride in its diverse lineage
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Garden City
Kan
Mra
Flan. H. Etling
Rem
Fantly
Ford
Ford County
Barton Wards
Etling
Ordee
United States
Kansas
Albert
Bet Fallout in Anaheim After Seantik Block Incident
In Anaheim California after a bet a group faced consequences following a Seantik block incident. Police report ongoing investigations and local authorities urge calm while the community processes the event.
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