Convention of the Great Outdoors in California
The article notes the Society of American Vacationists promoting recreational education as tourists arrive in California by car along the National Old Trails Highway. It highlights visitors from various states, amusing misunderstandings about local landmarks, and hopes that Barstow and Southern California offer scenic, agricultural, and mineral wonders during vacation travel.
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California
Society of American
Union
Bostow
Barstow
Los Angeles
San Bernardino County
Santa Fe Station
Great West
Californian
Special programs at American Historical Revue and Expo
Plans announced for the second week of the American Historical Revue and Motion Picture Exposition in Los Angeles. Inglewood Day July 13 with queen and band. Kansas and Nebraska Day July 14 with visitor booths. Montezuma spectacle praised. Exposition runs until August 4. early July report from Tacoma notes President Harding's Alaska voyage with cabinet members and officials.
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Los Angeles
Inglewood
Kansas
Nebraska
William Gibbs McAdoo
Overseas League
Andree Lafayette
Wll
Jeanne d‘Arc
Luella Simons
Pacific Coast
Lost silver spoons in Springfield family home
On the night of five a cache of brass jardinières containing several silver spoons engraved with family names vanished. A liberal reward is offered for their return. Illinois soldiers bonus payments began as 8,000 bonus checks were mailed from the State Auditor’s office in Springfield on July 3.
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Springfield
Illinois
Russell
New Orleans Lines Up Dempsey Gibbons Bout Bid
New Orleans ready to bid up to 500000 for a Dempsey Gibbons twenty round fight. W A Coker, head of the Young Men's Gymnasium Club, awaits a reply from Richard T Burke of the state boxing commission. Coker says backing is assured and the match could draw 1600000 in New Orleans on Thanksgiving Day.
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New Orleans
W.A. Coker
Young Men's Gymnasium Club
Richard T. Burke
Louisiana State Boxing Commission
Shelby
Dembsey Gibbons
Coker
Alaska gold dredging output rises in 1922
The Interior Department via the Geological Survey reports 23 Alaska dredges operated in 1922, yielding 1,767,750 dollars from 2,186,340 cubic yards of gravel, averaging 55 cents per cubic yard. Fifteen dredges were on Seward Peninsula and the rest inland, including three near the Alaska Railroad. Dredging activity is increasing in the Territory.
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Alaska
Department of the Interior
Gological
Seward Peninsula
Alaska Railroad
Henee
Alfred H. Brooks
Territory
Gibbons May Meet Champion Labor Day
Chicago July 5 All details for a Labor Day Windsor Ontario match between heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Harry Wills have been completed according to three Eastern promoters who arrived to await manager Jack Kearns. The bout may be arranged for Tom Gibbons due to his strong fourth at Shelby Mont.
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Chicago
Windsor
Ontario
Jack Dempsey
Harry Wills
Hary Wills
Jack Kearns
Tom Gibbons
Shelby Mont
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Tacoma
Wash
Harding
United States
Henderson
Hoover
Commerce Department
Work
Interior Department
Wallace Cof
Gillett
House
Greeley
Forest Service
Nal
Bernarting National Bank
U.S
Empire
the Mojave
J. B. Gillu
H. E. Harris
R. E. Roperts
J. 8. Woop
H. H. Weta
E. L. White
Barstow. Branch
SAN Bernardino Valley Bank Commercial Savings
Dempsey-Gibbons
Gibbons
Champ
George Vick
A. P. Ring Shoe Repair
Ford
Fordson
Murphy Bros
Ladlow
Cal
Stagg P.O
Pendleton & Lazenby
Fordson Tractor
Ford Weekly
Furchube Pan
L. H. Hillis
Lincoln
Virseg ‘Sojte
Ion
Anita
Walt
Eall
Dockstader
the Paintman
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