No Expense Moneys For Billings Meet
Park county board of commissioners and area school boards cannot pay the railroad fares and other expenses for teachers attending the State Teachers association meeting in Billings. Attorney General S C Ford states state law allows only specified uses of school funds and prohibits payments for attendance expenses lacking explicit authorization.
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Livingston
Billings
S. C. Ford
C. S Hefferlin
Board of Commissioners
Park County
Ford
State Teachers’ Association
Solar cooker cooks food with sun powered loop device
An astronomical mirror at the Smithsonian in Washington measures sun energy and supports a solar cooker. The device uses a half cylindrical iron reflector with mirrored lining to focus heat on an oil filled loop that circulates and heats an oven, enabling cooking without fuel.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C
Governor Storrs Leads Unity Drive in Jerusalem
Col Ronald Storrs, Cambridge graduate and former governor, runs a pro Jerusalem society meetings twice weekly to unite Zionists Arabs and other leaders. He aims to steer a just path in a city split by disunion and sees himself as shaping an independent Arab kingdom. He is 38 years old.
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Jerusalem
Pontius’ Pilate
Col
Ronald Storrs
Cambridge University
Rochester College
England
Jerusale
Storrs
Searching for the Point Joke From Fishermen
John George, executive secretary of the High street M. E. church of Muncie, a Scots observer, listens to a tale of two fishermen who, unable to recall the spot of their catch, mark their boat with a notch. The crowd laughs as George finally realizes the joke about the same boat next day.
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John George
High Street M. E. Church of
George
Indianapolis News
Incendiary Bullets Described by Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star explains incendiary bullets used in war. fired from aircraft machine guns, these brass bullets are hollow to hold a barium nitrate composition. A magnesium and red lead priming charge triggers the flame, making them miniature high explosive shells unlike ordinary rifle rounds.
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Frankford Arsenal
Kansas City Star
New Grade of Rubber From Chrysothamnus Bushs
A new high grade rubber, Chrysii, vulcanizes easily and is produced by Chrysothamnus or rabbit bush. Species yield from 1.98 to 2.83 percent, one plant up to 6.57 percent. Nausea ceas species has 12 varieties with cheysil, plants reach six years, weigh four to six pounds, and grow across North America. The rubber is inside cells rather than latex, concentrating near the soil.
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North America
Hen Declares Defiance Over Mand Ornagic Puppet
A quirky line has a hen vowing to show them as she kicks a porcelain egg from the nest. The remark targets Mand ornagic Puppet and hints at a broader joke or allegory in the scene.
Obedience to natural law in gender instincts and courage
A historic medical note discusses how fear and caution are more pronounced in women, while men exhibit greater courage. Dr. Samuel Wyllis Bandler explains endocrine balance as the root of differing instincts between the sexes, shaping behavior and emotion.
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Samuel Wyllis Barndler
New York
Journal of the American Medical Association
Doctor Bandler
Genius by birth or effort in business leaders
A veteran business man recalls a six year old boy who negotiates a lantern trade by using his own judgment. The anecdote argues genius arises from spontaneous effort rather than trained schooling, comparing industrial success to Minerva springing from Zeus.
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Minerva
Zeus
Wall Street Journal
Jealous wife wrecks inn and burns wealth in Jura
A French innkeeper in a Jura village loses domestic happiness when his Austrian wife Sophie sabotages the inn. She smashes furniture, drains wine, soaks wreckage in petrol, and sets it alight. She throws banknotes onto the fire before hanging herself from a tree amid neighbor efforts to extinguish the blaze.
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Jura
America
Sophie
New York Herald
Orphan Boy Finds Box Hidden in Pantry Closet
An Indianapolis family adopted a boy from an orphanage. While helping, the child insists he knows where a box is kept. He leads the woman to the pantry closet, revealing the location of stored items from the orphanage.
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Indianapolis
Black Metal alloy stronger than steel from zinc and copper
Italian engineer discovers a new alloy of zinc and copper named Black Metal. It reportedly has the highest breaking point and elasticity, perfect homogeneity, and superior resistance to heat and chemicals. It can be cast, machined, rolled, forged, drawn and stamped and may substitute steel brass and aluminum.
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Scientific American
Ground Ice in Northern Alaska’s Can ning River Region
A US Geological Survey paper on the Canning river region of northern Alaska details the occurrence of ground ice and surveys the literature in depth. It identifies two common varieties, formed by burial of river ice by sediments and by growth at vertical wedge features.
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United States Geological Survey
Canning River
Alaska
Where She Might Shine in a Public Appearance
Fragmentary lines hint at a discussion of a daughter’s public presence and potential success as an actress or performer. The text references an impresario and a movie actress, suggesting thoughts on audition or career path. No clear names, dates, or places are evident.
No Single Power Controls League Says Council
Geneva reports that the league council refused to place permanent mandates control under a single power. Nonmandated states and four mandatories will hold the commission authority. British protests were overruled after calls for reconsideration. Continental and Berne rumors linked Major Churchill to league surveillance.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Permanent Mandates Commission
Brussels
Council
Berne
Marlborough Churchill
American Army Intelligence Service
League
U S Best Nation To Accept Armenian Mandate
Lord Robert Cecil, representing South Africa at the league of nations assembly, says the United States would be the best nation to accept the Armenian mandate and could influence Turkish nationalist Mustapha Kemal Pasha. He cites a $20 000 800 fund for military aid and notes Armenian volunteers could be recruited from neighboring states. He also predicts the assembly will strengthen the international court of justice and review current global issues, while expecting no change in delegation terms.
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Geneva
United States
Armenia
Robert Cecil
South Africa
League of Nation’s Assembly
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Robert
Lord Robert
International Court of Justice
American Negroes and world sovietism urged at Moscow meeting
John Reed urged union of American Negroes with radical international elements to advance world sovietism. He described U S race issues as terrible and proposed joint white and Black labor unions to fight Jim Crow and prejudice while promoting class solidarity amid rising Black socialist ideas. Louis Fraina also called for a coordinated foreign labor movement in the United States and South America.
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Washington
Union
Moscow
Communist Internationale
Lenine
Trotsky
John Reed
Russia
United States
Reed
America
Oin Neveth
South - America
Louis Fraina
Communist Party of ‘America
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