High School Pupils See Sights of Cuba on University Run Trip
A Miami Beach instructor, Wesley Jenkins, led a group of el hi students on a Cuban study trip via the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West and then ship to Havana. The narrative recounts passport checks, the Oversea Railway bridge work, and a rough Atlantic crossing on the Northland with Cuban sights and sea sickness highlighted across the voyage.
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Cuba
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Land of Kins
Folda
Robert EB. Bee
Enchantment
Miami Beach
Florida
Beauty of the Isles
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Hodger
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Wesley Jenkins
Wellstan
Florida East To Coast
Abele
Northland
Havana Visit of Seventeen Sailors and a Turk Guide
Early morning in Havana the party learns seventeen nationalities are registered under one root. Secretary Mr Gratzel of the Marine M C A Havana provides AH Zea a ebullient young Turk as escort. He speaks English and Spanish and reveals much about Havana and Cuba as they approach the harbor. Morrow Castle looms, recalling Havana's early history and the harbor’s grandeur.
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Marine ¥. M. C. A
Havana
AH Zea
Cuba
Morrow Castle
Kavana
Havana impressions and coastal fortifications tour
The account describes sailing near Castle del Morro and Cabana fort opposite Havana, with the harbor widening into a broad bay. It notes Cuban gondolas, dense streets, thick walled houses with mahogany doors, and architecture designed to withstand tropical hurricanes during tours of Morro Castle and Cabana fort.
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Hattur
Lars
Cabana
Gulf Stream
Mathey
Marine Y. M. C. A
Havana
Visit to Prado and Havana trip notes in Cuba
The account details meals and dining customs in Cuba, bread baked in banana leaves, and the Spanish style of service. It describes churches, the National Museum with relics of the Cuban Revolution, a large Galician Club, and a cemetery on Columbia Street, plus a Cuban cigar factory tour and a reading reader. It also mentions a political note about Edgar Ervin and a visit to Obihpo Street shopping and markets in Havana.
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Cuba
National Museum
Maine
Havana
Galatian Club
Columbia Cemetery
Ulremen
University of Havana
Columbus Cathedral
Columbus
Alan
de Soto
Florida
Mississippi River
Cuban Ice Cream and Ha vana Cathedral Sightseeing
The narrator enjoys Cuban ice cream and a Cuban sandwich priced at 39 cents. A visit to the Cathedral reveals a $9,008 embankment of flowers lining Malecón Drive. A wedding is planned the next morning as a sightseeing trip through Miramar shows wide streets and large homes in Havana with rough sea spray along the route.
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Miramar
Havana
Malacoa Drive
Farm Trip and New Year's Eve in Cuba Journey
A travel diary entry describes a four hour journey through fertile land and rural Cuba. It notes a New Year’s Eve celebration on the Prado with police enforcing order, a Cunha steamer voyage with 400 passengers, rough seas causing seasickness, and a return through Key West and Miami with customs checks on baggage, including perfume inspections.
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Prado
Culxin
Cunha
Northland
Imne
Key Weat
Uncle Sam
Miami
U. S. Ay
Visiting alumnus recalls changes at Ohio University
Beloit College Dean Alderman, alumnus from the class of 1909, praises Ohio University’s growth in numbers and academics. He notes expanded departments and staff, modernized advising, and a more cooperative relation among Ohio's state universities. He mentions his nephew set to enroll next fall.
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Ohio University
Kk. B. Bryan
W. OE. Alderman
Beloit College
Beloit
Wisconsin
Alderman
King
Athens
North
Congress Street
Dean Alderman
AL AU. W
Phi Beta Kapla
Profenior EM Dunkle
Aonsis Kent
Ohio
Dean
Saucer
Youth Must Spend Remainder of Life Behind Prison Bars
NEA Service reports 13 year old Heath Hirath from Laurel Run near Ivneville Ky pleaded guilty to first degree murder after killing a classmate Luther Partin. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with eventual transfer to state penitentiary at Frankfort. Reform placement at Leameton then eventual lifelong confinement cited as outcome. Local Ky citizens consider appealing to Gary Flem Sampson for leniency.
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NEA Service
Ineville
Herb Greer
Laurel Run
Luther
Hirath
Leameton
Frankfort
Kentucky
Gary
Flem
Sampson
Steward of Byrd Expedition Buys Food for Two Years
Steward Greason orders vast supplies for 1928 and 1929 Christmas dinners for the Byrd Antarctic mission. He plans 25 tons of meat, 60 tons of groceries, 2 thousand pounds cocoa, 3 thousand pounds powdered milk, plus fresh fruits and vegetables, with daily baking and weekly roasts aboard the Samson.
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Steward
Hortense Saunders
York
Slaney Greason
Greason
South Pole
Samson
Columbese
Western Union
Graph Company
Chillicothe
Turkey
Waverly Ee| Gpoagon
Al Smith and Hoover contrasted in McClure's feature
The July McClure's article by Frazier Hunt surveys Al Smith and Herbert Hoover, noting blue eyes and cigars as shared traits but contrasting tastes, attire, and demeanor. It portrays Smith as formal yet devout and Hoover as worldlier, with both described as self-made figures from rival backgrounds.
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York
al N Smith
Herbert Hoover
Frazier Hunt
McClure’s
Governor Smith
Smith Pe
Chesen
New York
Smith
Hoover
East Eide
York Hoover
Russia
Whitejed
Czech
Friten
Tammany Hall
Claren
al Smith
Herbert Hoov
Former Head of Red Terror Bites the Dust
Bela Kut I once ruled Hungary now sits in a Vienna jail cell awaiting extradition or deportation. Once he sent dozens of men to prison and terrorized the era, but Austria now holds him on charges of violations of Austrian law.
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RED Terror Bites the
NEA
Ondon
Bela Kut I
Europe
Hungary
Vienna
Corte Fort
Himesself
Austria
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Old Morro Castle
Key West
Morro
Vegas
Etty
Omeroux
Pomeroy Bend
Edgar Ervin
Ervin
Aears County
Nvin
General Assembly
Jfo
Obihpo Street
United States
Paw Spa
Prdhive
Fieth
Geason
Francis D.coman
Johns Hopking Hospital
George Tennent Cook
Byrd
Arctic
Dunedin
New Zealand
Antartic
Greasen
Ha Beecame
Waverly Club
Herb
Smeelf
J Hoover
Kipling Twittey
Richard Rice
Chester Township
J. M. Gillilan
Shade River
United Telephone Company
Meigs County
Od Citizens Telephone Companies
Ghesteer
Clouster
George Morris
Bank of
Gallipolis
H. Griffin
Red
Milton Bronner
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