Lunar gravity and weapons reach beyond Earth's range
An article discusses how moon conditions would alter ballistic ranges, gravity, and crater formation. It cites geophysicists from Washington and Carnegie observers, noting moon gravity could enable artillery reaching thousands of miles, with eruptions shaping larger craters and lack of erosion due to no atmosphere.
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Washington
Nox
Earth
Moon
Jules Verne
EL Wells
Dro Weed
Insauton
Pirth
Wiiskt
Carnegie Instation Committee
Mathem Tithes
Seoologists
Wriehl
Wright
New Instrument Promises Quicker Readings for Gravity Tests
A new device measures twisting of a spiral tungsten spring under Earth's attraction. It promises readings as accurate as the pendulum method but requires only a few hours to set up at a location. The standard pendulum approach is accurate but slow, needing a week or more for readings.
Paris Celebrates St Catherine Day With U S Feast
Paris marked St Catherine Day as Thanksgiving joint holiday with French and American communities. The American colony feasted with turkey and fixings, while parades and midinettes filled boulevards. Shops closed, traffic halted, and dancers filled the streets in festive attire for the annual celebration.
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Paris
ST. Catherine
U. 8
St Catherine
Catherine
Wenal
War on fertilizer trusts started in federal case
The Department of Justice will prosecute more than thirty corporations in a Baltimore federal court for forming a fertilizer trust valued at about 51 million dollars. The charges allege price fixing in fertilizer sales to farmers and cotton growers in the Middle Atlantic and southern states. Named companies include American Agricultural Chemical, Virginia Carolina Chemical, Swift and Company, Armarkurt and Company.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Baltimore
Amercan Agricultural Chemical Company
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Swift and Company
Armcaurt and Company
Middle Atlantic
Righ Widow Found Choked To Death In Seattle
Mrs Florence Monks a widow of Seattle with an estate valued at five hundred thousand dollars was strangled to death autopsy announced last night her body found behind the furnace in her home she occupied alone a sister Mrs Charles Drummong of Flushing L I is named as next of kin the Monks house was ransacked and a bodice worn by the victim was torn at a place where she usually wore a diamond sunburst
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Seattle
Wash
Florence Monks
Monks
Charles Drummong
Flushing
L. L
Pig Woman Shows Slight Improvement in Hall Mills Case
Jersey City November 2 Mrs Jane Gibson known as the Pig Woman of the Hall Mills case showed a slight improvement today though doctors fear she will eventually die from her illnesses.
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Jersey City
N. J
Jane Gibson
Hall-Mills
Iron mine bureau finds new revenue from cyanide recovery
Washington reports the Bureau of Mines proved a small withdrawal of cyanide recovery feasible from iron blast furnace bases. In tests one tenth of the gas was recovered yielding about 104 port daily, with no adverse furnace effects noted. Descriptions of unrelated art thefts and a landslide in France follow in the dispatch.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Woman urged to probe record of future mates
Baltimore Sov 25 reports a forthcoming study by Dr. Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins on hereditary respiratory weakness. The analysis follows a family of thirteen siblings with multiple pneumonias and deaths, showing distinct paternal and maternal infection tendencies that combine to lower offspring resistance to respiratory disease.
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Baltimore
Annals of Eugenics
London
Raymond Pearl
Institute For Biological Research
Johns Hopkins University
de Pearl
Peard
Faces hide true character in facial judgments study
Philadelphia dispatch reports Dr. Stuart A. Rice of the University of Pennsylvania explains a Dartmouth experiment where 258 students judged personality from nine newsphotos. Stereotypes based on hair, collars, or facial layout led to misidentifications and faulty perceptions of intelligence and craftiness.
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Philadelphia
Stuart A. Rice
University of Pennsylvania
Rice
Dartmouth College
Ruce
Seized Rum Explodes in West 47th Street Raid
New York November 25 Ten of 26 bottles of evidence seized in a raid exploded in a cabinet at West 47th Street. Lieutenants Thomas and Broadway Johnny Colina, a former actor, were showered with bootleg liqueurs. Initial reports suggested a gunman fired as the blast blew through a window.
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New York
West 47Th Street
Thomas
Ahd
Johnny' Colina
Prison Night Club Housed In Real Jail In Kansas City
Sponsors of The Battle introduce a prison themed night club in Kansas City attracting patrons with The Whiaoner's Song. Visitors wore striped attire and were served in dim cells until police moved the operation to a real jail after discovering liquor.
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New “Prison
Real
Kansas City
Whiaoner
Yale to Sponsor Non Professional Theatre Meeting
New Haven November 25 AP More than 3900 invitations have been sent for a two day conference of non professional theatre interests across the United States to be held at Yale on February 11 and 12. Professor George Pierca Baler announces the event aims to foster annual opportunities for community theatre groups schools colleges and universities to meet and share problems.
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New Haven
United States
Yale University
George Pierca Baler
Drama
School of Wine Arts
Zere
Serondiy
Yale
Germany Seeks War Guilt Probe At World Court
Germany moves to remove stigma of war guilt from Versailles by urging government to ask World Court to investigate war guilt. Resolution backed by middle parties Bavarian peasants Bavarian people and German connotations seeks inquiry with widespread support. only Socialists and Communists opposed, Extremists abstained.
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Burlin
Germany
Relesstag
World Court
Gustav Stresedann
France
Thorry
Rosemary Home To Be Dedicated In Middletown
Dedication for the new Rosemary O. Anderson home will be held at Long Hill farm Saturday afternoon. Governor John H. Trumint is expected to attend and speak, joined by Mrs. Martha P. Falconer of New York Arthur Reed Kimball of Waterbury and William W. Wilcox of Middletown. Afterward, the school buildings will be toured. the home honors Rosemary O. Anderson of New London, the first woman on the institution’s directorate. The academy is in its 58th year with 245 resident girls.
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Middletown
Rosemary O. Anderson
Long Hil Farm
John H. Trumint
Martha P. Falconer
New York
Arthur Reed Kimball
Waterbury
William W. Wlcox
London
Isadora Duncan’s Paris Home Sold at Auction
Paris reports Isadora Duncan’s Neuilly home, seized for 19 000 francs unpaid, sold at auction for 810 000 francs. The dancer asserts mortgages led to confiscation while she was in Russia. law may allow restoration upon her return. Duncan bought the property in 1908 and hosted a salon attracting many notables before the war.
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Paris
Isatori Duncan
Neuilly
Parisian
Sab Dot
Duncan
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