Seeadler Sea Raid Through Cape Horn Storms
The Seeadler crew battles Antarctic gales and British cruisers while racing toward Cape Horn. They employ disguises aboard Moewe style raiders, endure iceberg danger, and ditch lifeboats painted Seeadler to mislead pursuers as they slip into the Pacific before the chase resumes.
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Cape Horn
Leudemann
Joe
South Atlantic
South America
Cape
Pacific
Rio
Falklands
Fernando Noronha
Moewe
Glasgow
Amethyst
Rio de Janeiro
The
Magewe
Moene
Horn
Ape Horn
Antarctic
Arctic
Aus
Cape Huron
Wave Speed Differences Create Strange Sound Effects
The article explains air sound travels one mile in five seconds while radio waves move much faster, causing Big Ben’s chimes to be heard earlier via radio in London. It notes a four and a half second interval between strokes and how radio and air signals produce multiple echoes and timings for each strike.
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London
Westminster
Daventry
Big Ben
Wealth Cannot Buy the Love of Brave True Hearts
The note extols that wealth cannot purchase the coveted love and trust of people. It lauds the strenuous, selfless man who fights for what is right, earning respect and a lasting impression through courage and dedication.
Illinois PTA backs health program in Springfield session
The Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers pledged full support to the state health department’s program, focusing on safety education physical exams and diphtheria and smallpox immunization. Dr Andy Hall urged attention to social diseases and tuberculosis as well.
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Ilinois Congress of Parents and Teachers
State Department of Aealth
Congress
Springfield
Andy Hall
State Department
Hall
Rodney H. Brandon
State Department of Welfare
United States
State Council of P. T. A
Illinois race tracks collect 628628 in 1929 fees and taxes
Clarence Buck, director of agriculture, announced that six operating Illinois race tracks took in 628628 from license fees and admission taxes in 1929. The gain over 1928 stems from higher admission taxes at 20 cents, while license fees were down 3500. The report also notes blindness prevention efforts and rising industrial coal and limestone use in the region.
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Illinois
Clarence F. Buck
Illinois coal and telephony stats and state notices
Telephone statistics show Bell Corp owns 412181 stations outside Chicago while Independents hold 371107. The Illinois Coal Sales association notes a Buy Illinois Coal drive boosting production by nine million tons since 1928, claiming faster delivery and lower costs. A barred Plymouth Rock hen laid 311 eggs in 1928 29 to win a breed contest, with other hens posting gains due to better care and rations. The state plans stricter income tax filing enforcement and tax revenue from a three cent gasoline tax nears 25 million annually for road work.
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Iinois Coal Sales Association
Illinois
Illnois Coal
Association
Airs
Charles Coultas
Auburn
State Department of Agriculture
Coombs Poultry Farms
Sedgwick
Kan
Harry Wisdom
Beardstown
Clarence F. Buck
Agricultural Department
Grand ball in a music shop by talking instruments
Minna enjoys a magical concert setting as instruments plan a grand ball. The Metronome, Piano, Bass Viol, and Scales coordinate rest, dusting, and preparations while Minna plays a lullaby, and the ensemble drifts to sleep after singing.
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Minna
Puzzles from an old page tease with wordplay
A reader humor column presents riddles and puns. The playful list includes questions about money, forts, books, rivers, motives, and a goat with a scarlet cloak producing a string of homely puns and misspellings.
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Count Luckner
Lowell Thomas
Doubleday, Doran & Co
Circe
Otranto
Washington
Louis L. Emmerson
Charles S. Deneen
Otis F. Glenn
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Richard Yates
Iinois Waterway
Walter Olson
Knox County
Piatte City
Harold Holmes
Woodhull
Olson
C. Tague
Iowa
Olsen
Holmes
Elmer Willams
Joliet State Penitentiary
Illinois State Museum
Capitol
Emmerson
Barbara Tracy
Frances Summers
Milners
Andy Halt
Illinois Society For Prevention of Blindness
William G. Thon
Chicago
General Assembly
Federal Department of Commerce
Steel
Illinois-Indiana
Byllinois
J. R. Bent
Department of [Llinois Agricultural Association
Farm Bureau
Bell Company
Associated Telephone Utilities Company of
Thirtythird Division War Veterans’ Association
Walter J. Fisher
Charles Schott
Dignan
Thomas G. Burns
N. B. Clinch
Edward Rosengren
William M. Wilson
Ernest V. Dickson
Herbert E. Algeo
Cal
Charles Roth
John Plattner
Thomas Killoran
Frank C. Wood
Byron B Nelson
George J. Miller
Emmett Harrington
Ben W. Lachess
Herman Hi. Weimer
George E. Clarke
John M. Robinson
Abraham Lincoln
Yountville
Calif
Robinson
California
Charley W. Vail
Supreme Court
Harrington Quanalan
James A. Rose
Free Employment Agency
East St. Louis
Clanahan
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury Department
Paul W. Cordon
J. W. Gordon
Oquawka
Paul Samuels
State Supreme Court
Cyrus E. Dietz
Gordon
Brown, Hay & Stevens
Milinoig
Dinois
State Finance Department
Division of Highways
Ment
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