Lost Key to Moses Tongue Hinted by Sinai Inscriptions
Boston reports may hold fragments of the Sinai Inscriptions that Harvard led Mount Sinai expedition aims to solve. Professor Lake, in Cairo, notes found fragments could rewrite biblical history and link ancient languages.
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Frey Develops Lasting Colors in Freesias by Tiny Brush
Alois Frey, a plant lover and hybridizer, uses a camel hair brush to inject permanent hereditary colors into freesias. Over 25 acres near San Francisco, he has created hundreds of color blends and classified about 100 distinct varieties after years of careful pollen transfer from one flower to another.
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Trace of Prehistoric Race in Black Hills
A report from near Rapid City details Donald Crabtree’s excavation finds about a wall of stone laid in regular order with bricks of broken joints. He works with a team several miles south of Rapid City near the state game lodge where President Coolidge will summer. A second wall runs perpendicular, and the site is explored further.
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Boston Post Road House in Mourning
In Gonilford Connecticut a 1761 house on the Boston Post Road was painted black after Nicholas Larsel a French refugee learned of Louis VII of Frances death. He painted the home to mourn his king and it has remained black and now serves as a farm house.
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Unusual Quakes for Next Nine Months Seen
Anchorage Alaska readers learn of expected unusual earthquake activity worldwide over nine months. Volcanologist Thomas A Jagger of Mauna Loa Observatory plans to set stations in the Aleutian Islands and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. He will survey craters for three months to assess predictive value amid warnings from forecasters like Signor Bendani.
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Question Knots Tied by Gretna Green Smithy Landon
The divorce court nullified a marriage from Gretna Green noting no valid marriage occurred under Scottish law. Mrs May Bach alleged failure to meet 21 days residence, claiming a form of marriage in Gretna Green on April 3 1924 with William Bach a Birmingham traveler. Justice Hill held no valid marriage existed and granted the nullity.
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Golden weddings stir debate on pecking history
New York letters note twenty couples who marked golden anniversaries disagree with a claim that pecking was unknown in SU years ago. The correspondence questions an earlier statement and reflects varied memories of social norms.
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Police Aid For Motorists In South Euclid
Chief Bilkey orders every officer to assist motorists in distress. Police will help push stalled cars, fetch water for boiling radiators, bring fuel when gas runs out, and assist in towing to the nearest garage.
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Soil erosion blamed for floods experts assert
Washington experts warn soil erosion drives flood damage costing farmers 209 million dollars yearly. H W Bennett of the federal bureau of soil says drainage and forest destruction raise runoff, while surface erosion dures soil to shed water. Terraces grazing lanes and hillside trees urged to curb flood in Mississippi region.
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Lady Armstrong Sees Modern Girl As Pious
Lady Armstrong wife of the British consul general says the modern girl is more pious than predecessors after nearly twenty five years in welfare work. She voiced her views at a Catholic Girls' club communion breakfast.
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Geldert sea captains of Nova Scotia lineage rise anew
New York report profiles Dawson Geldert Archibald Geldert and their sea captain heritage. Nova Scotian brothers follow in a long line from father to grandfather, continuing a family tradition at sea.
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Illinios Glanders Declared Extinct As Indemnities Tracked
The Illinois Division of Animal Industry reports no horse condemned for glanders in the biennium ending June 30 next, while earlier years show indemnity costs of 587. five and 7475 dollars. Gasoline tax passage, court rulings, and legislative tensions fill a volatile political week with racing licenses under strict bonds.
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Bill Allows Adult Classes for Over Twenty-One at School Boards
A bill by Rep Katherine Hancock Goode and Sen Florence Fifer Bohrer passed both chambers authorizing school boards with surplus funds to establish classes for adults over twenty one. The sponsors aim to cut Illinois illiteracy, which stood at 173 397 in the 1920 census, and the measure does not authorize tax increases.
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Supreme Court upholds contempt penalties for Chicago picket case
The Supreme Court rules jail terms and fines against Harry Winnick and others for contempt of court in 1925 related to a Retail Clerks union picket. It affirms no immunity from acts despite potential Injunction Act questions. Maj. Dargue's Pan American goodwill flight visits Springfield en route to a 10 000 mile cross country tour to promote aviation and Latin American goodwill.
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Mrs E L Roberts Secures Passport to Brad ford
Mrs E L Roberts a native of England and an invalid confined to St Johns hospital has secured passports to return to her girlhood home in Bradford traveling on a cot widow of Prilmidus Roberts Martinsburg Pike county The article also notes appointments sent to the senate for chief justice A J Marity and judge B F Thomas with W Leeck named as third member of the court.
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Ottawa
Illinois House kills Wright bill on municipal lighting control
The Wright bill to place municipal lighting plants under the Illinois Commerce Commission was killed by the House after Senate approval. The ruling delays state supervision on city lights pending further action.
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