Belgium the industrial heart of a dense European realm
Prepared by the National Geographic Society, the article paints Belgium as a compact, densely populated nation with vast industrial output and a rich medieval heritage. It highlights Ghent Mechlin Antwerp and Bruges, bell towers, canals, and a hybrid of old world charm with modern industry, noting bridges, belfries, and the Scheldt river route to the sea.
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Belgium
Paris-to-Bruges
Massachusetts
Europe
Holland
English Channel
Little Kingdom
Bruges
Malines
Mechlin
St. Rombold
Christendom
Flanders
Ghent
Roland
Charlemagne
Brussels
Mons
Scheldt
Antwerp
Rubens
van Dyck
Jordaens
Matsys
London
California News Briefs Highlight 8 Million Bridge Opening
California brief covers massive opening ceremony for the $8,000,000 bridge near Carquinez straits with governors, senators, and officials among 100,000 spectators and 50,000 parked cars. Other items note Stony Gorge dam work, Modesto airport improvements, Visalia land office move, Sierra Tavern fire, and state legal updates.
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Carquinez Straits
United States
California
No Hope in Town Described by Local Onlookers
In a Kansas City Star fragment a man from Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge recalls seeing a painter on a church steeple rope amid gawping onlookers in a crossroads store scene. A dog swap dispute arose, but the storyteller warned of consequences if the painter fell. The painter had last painted the steeple three years ago and did not fall then.
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Yiste’d’y
Gap Johnson
Rumpus Ridge
Yander
Kansas City Star
Hidden Infrared Signaling Lights Linked to Military Use
The latest use of electric lamps is covert signaling for military aims. Screened with special materials, only infrared rays are emitted, invisible to the eye. Sensitive receivers at distant points trigger buzzers and responses without any nearby person knowing the signal is being sent.
Donkeys’ Hours Regulated in English Town
The Latham St Anne’s town council enacted rules limiting donkey rides to under sixteen or under 98 pounds. Donkeys must work 9 to 1 with a lunch hour. harness removed, then work again until 6 p.m.
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England
Latham St. Anne’s Town
Rival Braves Win Bride After All Night Dance
In northern Minnesota a small Indian village hosts a wedding tied to a long bonfire dance on the lake shore. Forty dancers circled the flames as two young rivals wore themselves out, the victor earning the bride after hours of dancing.
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Minnesota
Women as the pleasant parentheses of life said Musso Lini
The Detroit News notes Musso Lini’s remark that women are agreeable parentheses of life while men were once told to be question marks. It comments on fashion and Charleston influence with women in households described as both parentheses and entire sentences.
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Belgium
Ghent
van Eyck Brothers
St. Baron’s Cathedral
Jacob van Artevelde
Oliver Minjau
St. Nicholas
Misjau
Charles V
Alameda County
Board of Supervisors
Oakland
Modesto
Frank Rossi
Rossi
Young
Earl Jensen
Sonoma
Charleston
Detroit News
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Washingeton D. C
Stony Gorge
Orland
Glenn County
Orland Colonization Project
Stony Creek
East Park
Elwood Mead
United States Commissioner of Reclamation
Dr. Mead
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Visalia
America
Sacramento
Washington
Hubert Work
Interior
Truckee
Tim O’hanrahan
West Coast Guard
Seattle
Cape Blanco
F. L. Austin
Richard McIvers
Harvard
Deer Lick Springs
Columbus Springs
Trinity County
Redding
George E. Dean
War Department
Sacramento River
Freeport
Lisbon District
Yolo
William Rutheford
Galt
Vienna
International Institute of Education
Locarno
Switzerland
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Paul Whitney
Grass Valley
Nevada County
Carnegie Institute
L. G. Belaud
Sierra Nevadas
State Board of Health
Alameda
Luther Burbank
Santa Rosa
Superior Court
Elizabeth Burbank
Cc. C. Young
Leland R. Jacobson
Frank L. Coombs
Atwater
Kent
Atwater Kent
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