Drive for Funds to Preserve Old Man of the Mountain Begins
The Old Man of the Mountain campaign nears its $400000 goal with about 340000 raised to protect Franconia Notch’s forest under public ownership. Contributions come from summer residents, children and workers at United Shoe Machinery Beverly, while Rev Crag notes the figure’s influence on visitors and local memory of national service.
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Manchester
Associated Press
Franconia
New
Work on U S office in Ottawa to begin in 1929
Washington Feb 19. US negotiators near finalizing a site purchase for the United States Legation in Ottawa. Officials doubt work can start before spring 1929 due to winter and relocation needs. The Ottawa site faces Parliament and Rideau Club, about 6000 square feet, six figures price, eight months for evictions, current buildings to be razed.
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Washington
Associated Press
United States
Legation
Ottawa
Bullutines Am
Rideau Club
Well Rgton Street
Jessees
Gained 28 Pounds A Real Man Now
An advertisement touts McCoy’s ironclad guarantee for Velo Tablets and Dolir bars promising weight gain for underweight men and women. It claims a thin woman gained 19 pounds in 22 days and a man gained 1 pound in six weeks, with customers assured of a full purchase price refund if minimum gains are not met. The copy urges readers to ask for McCoy’s Tablets at American drugstores.
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Peaple
Miss Albert
Roger
McCoys
McCoy
Mums
Uta Brug
Atarica Ady
Cross Word Puzzle Clues From A Historic Page
A scrambled crossword puzzle list with numbered clues spanning Egyptian goddess to geometric terms. Includes nautical, legal, musical, and scientific hints with mixed spellings and potential OCR errors.
Third empty ballot box found in Pittsburgh ward
Washington reports a third empty ballot box discovered by Waterman elections sub committee during a Pennsylvania 1926 senatorial election recount. The box from Pittsburgh's Seventh Ward Thirteenth division contained missing ballots and election records, following two earlier empty boxes in Fourth and Sixth wards.
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Washington
Waterman Elections
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Pittaburgh
Boston Educators to Meet at 68th NEA Convention
Boston will host the 68th annual convention of the National Education Association Department of Superintendence from February 25 to March 1. Nearly 10 000 educators will hear final reports from the curriculum commission led by Dr E C Broome and preliminary work on unit articulation chaired by Dr Herbert S Weet. The program features leaders including Dr Sherwood D Shankland Alvan T Fuller Lawrence Lowell James Rowland Angell and W H P Faunce among others.
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Boston
Associated Press
Department of Superintendence
National Education Association
United States
Joseph M Gwinn
San Francisco
E C Broome
Philadelphia
Broomes
Commission On the
Herbert S Weet
Rochester
Sherwood D Shankland
Washington, DC
Shankland
Ohio House of Representatives
Willoughby
Ohio
Andrews Institute For Girls
Northeastern Ohio Teachers Association
Hoston
Alvan T Fuller
Massachusetts
Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
James Rowland Angell
Yale
W H P Faunce
Brown University
A Ke, Winship
Journal of Education
Joseph Marr Gwinn
Cornelia $8
Adiar
S. D. Shankland
Civil War heroine Mrs West dies in Stratford
Mrs James S West longtime member of the Mary Clapp Wooster chapter died yesterday at the Crosby home in Stratford. A Confederate line resident in Richmond and St Petersburg Va during the war she was active in the Grand Avenue Congregational Church in New Haven. She is survived by daughter Mrs Frank B Kibdale of Detroit and son Howard West, Yale University building superintendent. Funeral tomorrow at 3 pm from Beecher Bennett and Lincoln, New Haven, burial at Evergreen Cemetery.
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James S West
Mary Clapp
Detroit Tigers Off For Training Camp
The Detroit Tigers depart for spring training in San Antonio Texas led by Manager Moriarity. The nucleus of the American League club will train in Texas while key players join en route. Conditioning work for the players is set to begin Wednesday.
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Detroit
Associated Preas
San Antonjo
Tex
Moriarlty
Texas
Mother Works Three Years to Pay Back Son Theft
In Virginia a 65 year old widow Annie Marsye repaid about $1000 to the government after her son Paul Merge confessed to embezzling post office funds. She had worked three years to cover the loss while her son, a former postmaster in Arlington, disappeared for over three years and may face extradition.
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Washington
Associated Press
Paul
Arington Va
New York
Marye
Mra
Annie C Marsye
Virginia
York
Fire damages office supply stock at Connecticut Office Supply
A rubbish fire in rear piles of boxes at 288 Fairfield Avenue damaged stock and a wall in the Connecticut Office Supply building. Firemen responded to a 12:42 PM alarm from Box 21 Fairfield Avenue and Broad Street, with damage about 9160. Origin undetermined. stock ruined but blaze extinguished. Building owned by Percy P Anderson.
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Connecticut Office Supply Company
Fairfield Avenue
Broadstreet
Percy P Anderson
Food shortage in Moscow prompts strict measures
Moscow reports severe shortages of butter eggs soap textiles with long queues and rationing. Government stores limit sales as authorities blame grain shortfalls. The resignation of agriculture commissar Smyrnovt follows a failed grain campaign while Stalin's Siberia visit aims to push farmers to send grain to markets.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Helen
Alexander Petrovitch Smyrnovt
Joseph Stalin
Siberia
Big game hunter plans knife dive to test sharks
New York big game hunter Van Campen Uelmner says he will sail to tropical waters to dive with a knife to determine if sharks will bite him. He intends to confront the ocean predator armed only with his blade in a daring exploratory hunt.
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Internale
Nae van Campen Uelmner
New York
Pritish flyer sails toward Australia from Rangoon
Captain Bert Hinkler Bri tech aviator arriving in Singapore from Rangoon Burma en route to Australia as part of a long flight.
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Singapore
Associated Press
Bert Hinkler Bri
Tech
Australia
Rangoon
Burma
A E F headstones will be all alike
Headstones for American expeditionary force members who died in France will bear only name rank and organization. The War Department ruled that no distinction for killed in action or wounds will be added. The secretary stated all men served under the same cause and deserve equal honor, whether front line or other deaths.
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Washingson
Amo Wit Press
France
Rotary Davis
War Department
Theo
Cretary
Stamford Woman Dies Sudden in Hospital
Twenty minutes after admission to Stamford hospital yesterday morning, Miss a Downey of 19 Brown Avenue died. The death, attributed to heart and kidney failure, followed immediate removal to the hospital. Dr Relph W Crane pronounced the death.
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Eing
Stamford Hiere
Mise
Downey
Brown Avenue
Miss Downey
Waneer
Schofield
Relph W Crane
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