Mother Nature Tops 1927 as Record Disaster Year for Red Cross
The 1927 disaster toll rises with floods and tornadoes across multiple states. Red Cross work totals over 700,000 assisted and property losses near 1.06 billion dollars. Tornadoes in January and April devastate Indiana Ohio Arkansas and Illinois while Mississippi river floods extend relief efforts into New England and beyond.
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Mother Nature
RED Cross
Ropney Dutcher
NEA
Ashington
Navy
Mississippi
New England
Parsons
South
Middle West
Indiana
Ohio
Arkansas
Caime
Vine Pariah
Rose Hill
Miss
Rock Springs
Texas
Cross
Tlinois
Kansas
Missouri
Utah
Elise
Mississippi Valley
Merida
American Red Cross
Jugoslavia
Oldest country in world may be newest league member
A lengthy feature reports on Mesopotamia as the ancient cradle of civilization and a new potential league member. It traces 6000 years of empires from Babylon to modern Iraq, detailing irrigation, trade, and urban revival after World War I and noting Mesopotamia as a culturally rich region with Baghdad and Basra as historic centers.
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Washington
London
W Ton
Garden
Mden
Mesopotamia
Tigris
Euphrates
Iroq
Mecca
Onli
Sonore
Basa
Basra
Mosul
Ueir
Iraq
Ur Abrahcim
Canaan
Babylon
Nebuchadamegsur
Tara
Bible Istory
Bagdad
Ali Buba
Old Flintlock Rifle and Razor Once Owned by Washington
A flintlock rifle and razor once owned by General George Washington are on display in Marietta. They belong to Mrs Gustavi Walle of Letart Falls, a descendant of John Warth, an early estate holder in the Ohio River Valley. The items include Washingtons telescope and compass, with a tale tracing their journey through the Warth family to current private possession.
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Washington
Marietta
George Washington
Adtna Life Insureance Company
TaiNaly Street
Gustavi, Walle
Letarl
John Warth
Washington Bottom
West Virginia
Warth
Ohio River
Virginia
Pronger Belpre
Jackson
County
Virginie
Snow
Dof
Moses Michael
Gwen Riggs
Letart Iraits
Ohio
Defies Elite and Opens Club by Mrs Park Benjamin
Mrs Park Benjamin, wife of a New York society figure, explains why she opened a Broadway night club. She cites social standing, personal drive, and the appeal of providing entertainment and social activity as motivations amid postwar desire for excitement, money, and personal achievement.
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Park Benjamin
New York
Nora
York
Underworld
Caby
Mix Train and Plane Save Time in Travel
The North American continent shrinks as train and air schedules link. A coast-to-coast traveler can reach San Francisco from New York in 53 hours and 30 minutes, plus a little, via National Air Transport planes and trains, versus about three days by train.
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North American
New York
Francisco
Pacific
Rock Springs
National Air ‘Transport
San Francise
New
York
Chicago
Sidney
Neb
San Francisco
Many Hued Corn Colorful Breeding Advances
IDEAL Ill Nov 26 The corn of the Midwest may be transformed into rolling plains of color if farmers adopt Sconce’s discoveries. He has bred varieties into purple bronze yellow red lavender and pink cob and leaves. Sconce, a s cience author and graduate of the University of Illinois, began this work in 1902 at the Central School of the university. Some varieties are curiosities others have real economic value. The article notes Sconce named chrysanthemum corn and possited corn among the developments.
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NEA Service Ideal
Middlewest
Ria Thovaere
Ciicttral School
University of Ulineis
Sconce
Feonen
Wilson
International Institute of Agriculure
Rome
Quiet Acadian town boasts famed southern police judge
In a quiet Acadian town, Judge G A Martin, famed for his unorthodox rulings, settles a dispute over a hen with a bold public display. The judge releases the hen to its claimed home, dismissing the case amid local lore. Other items note whaling harpoons sold to Norway, noble lineage claims by a Staffordshire boy, Swiss gear wheels hiding watches, and a 1940 car forecast.
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G. A. Martin
Martin
Solomon
Diack
London
Britain
Richard Charles Eld
Seighford Hall
Staffordshire
Edward I
Fortune Buys Only Misery For Indians
Dora, Choctaw daughter of Henry Martin, inherits a government grant and faces murder and bloodshed as a love triangle with George Carlson turns deadly. Her husband, grandfather, and father are killed, her sister is jailed, and she must raise a son alone amid a family feud driven by wealth and vengeance.
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Dora
Henry Martin
Henry Marelin
George Carlton
George
Martin
George Carlson
J. Martin
Ton Bond
Lillie Marti
Drivin
Henry
Twig
Oond
Buster Cape
W. H. Minley
British writer predicts a dominant female future for society
British feature writer John Tangdon Davies argues modern industry and urban life threaten family life and shift power from men to women. He foresees women dominating arts and social institutions while men become more like convenient robots within a changing marriage dynamic, with marriage surviving as a legal contract but evolving economically.
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Hortense Saunders
NEA
New York
America
Howe
John Tangdon- Davies
Wiew Ametica
Ivatt
Davies
Barcelona
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