Auto Show Draws Big Crowd Amid Banter and Horn Fanfare
The state auto show at the State vamory and Jacoby building runs with strong exhibitor support and plenty of fanfare. Attendees praise good sportsmanship among exhibitors, staff, and management while noting the chance to own 1920 cars. Tonight and tomorrow feature Bentley’s and Speidel’s orchestras, L. A. Vernon solos, and performances by Mrs. Judith Flather and Louis C. Fenton.
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Vamory and Jacoby
Abraham
Judith Flather
Louis G. Wenton
General Observer
Toomonrow
Bentley
Speidel
Carnet
L. A. Vernon
Louis C. Fenton
Ancient China grows wheat centuries before Christ
Ancient China cultivated wheat twenty seven centuries before Christ, indicating early agricultural development and grain farming in the region long before common era records. The statement notes an early prehistoric agrarian practice highlighting the antiquity of wheat farming in East Asia.
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China
Christ
Great boom for salvage ventures in postwar seas
Wide interest in sunken ships as salvage firms form to raise hulls and recover cargoes. Britain has reclaimed over 500 of its 6,000 wrecked ships, while U S salvage firms target shallow wrecks and new diving tech to extend operations. The Lusitania and other famed wrecks spark continued fascination with sea treasure and evolving salvage methods.
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Shington
DB. C
Britain
United States
Minn 10
Imid-Ocean
Davey Jones
Locker
Shay
Captain Kidd
Sir Francis Drakes
Azores
Lusitania
Simon Lake
Mr. Tale
Germans planned raid on Gibraltar by air
A 1914 German air raid plan on Gibraltar, linked to Italian and Austrian fleets, was exposed by the Evening Standard. German entrants at a Malaga aviation show supposedly for display aimed to aid an attack, but British authorities learned of it and the venture was canceled, thwarting a submarine base dream near Gibraltar.
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London
Gibraltar
Malaga
Spain
Gibralta
Gibaliggr
Ulster Woman Calls For Arms In Ulster Crisis
A Bel fast dispatch to the Manchester Guardian reports Massereene stating Ulster will not surrender rights and will summon support from Britain and Scotland to defend Protestant faith liberty and king. She warns enemies at the gates and urges readiness to strike for Ulster.
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London
Manchester Guardian
Belfast
Soundass Massereene
Twlster
Britain
Scotland
Uister
Land of Ulster
Bolshevik Uprising Reported on Sakhalin Island
A Bolshevik uprising against Japan on Sakhalin Island is reported. Attacks hit key Japanese mining and petroleum plants. A rescue party in thirty sledges has been dispatched to the scene.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Sakhalin
Capacity figures for Exposition Memorial Auditorium in San Francisco
San Francisco officials outline the Memorial Auditorium capacity for the national Democratic convention on June 28. The main hall seats 4,500 on the floor and 4,416 in the balcony with 1,590 standing room, totaling about 10,000. The four story concrete granite building, begun in 1915 at 2 million, houses two supplementary halls and eight additional rooms for committee meetings, and is praised as a premier civic center structure with a grand organ attracting praise from residents.
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San Francisco
Exposition Memorial Auditorium
Bureau of Memorial Buildings
Ecommunity
America
Th Civic Center
Tt Lis
Denver
Oalland
Gal
St. Paul's Ac
Bridgeport Odd Fellows Plan New Building
Members of every lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Bridgeport consider plans for a new building to include lodge halls a 200 room hotel shops and an auditorium. The project would cost about one million dollars and rise about 19 stories at Wim Harrison and Golden Will streets.
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Independent Order of of Fellows
Odd Fellows
Stax
Wim, Harrison and
Golden Will
Discharged Telephone Operators Return Home
Miss Margaret Holladay of St Ford and Miss Catherine Houli of 116 Harriet Street arrived home Saturday after six months of service in Washington D C as telephone operators. Both received their honorable discharges from the government.
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Margaret Holladay
Stford
Catherine Houli
Harriet Street
Washington, D. C
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