Suspension Bridge Near Grand Canyon Faces Perilous Setback
At El Tovar the Grand Canyon project aims to link the south and inaccessible north rims with a suspension bridge across the Colorado. Pack mules carry bridge material down steep trails when an accident triggers a fatal TNT mishap among eleven animals. Authorities fear delays for next season.
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Lagstaff
Ariz
el Tovar
Grand Canon
Colorado River
Gage
National Park Services
Grand Canon’ National Park
Colorado
North Rim
Canon
Homer J. Aran
War Veteran's Romance Ends In Court Guardianship
Louise E MacNichol gains guardianship of Kenneth H MacNichol a WWI veteran writer now in Belle Mead New Jersey government sanitarium The couple adopted Leone Winckel a French girl their baby born December moved to Baltimore later sent to France Leone returned demanding the child leading to mental decline for MacNichol and his admission to a sanitarium The story notes his A E F service and Stars and Stripes publication during wartime.
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Eware
N. J
France
Louise E. MacNichol
Kenneth H. MacNichol
Belle Mead, N. J
MacNichol
Leone Winckel
Leone
Baltimore
Connecticut
Stars and Stripes
Eternal Triangle Nets Love Across Atlantic
Mme Julie Vennet waits at Ellis Island for entry as 62 year old Henry George Deppe, a Palmerton contractor, travels to claim her. Their courtship began after his son, an A E F lieutenant, met Julie in France during the war and prompted a boardinghouse of promises. Immigration holds land until Deppe arrives to repeat his pledge.
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York
Mme
Julie Vennet
Ellis Island
United States
New York
Henry George Deppe
Palmerton
Steut
Deppe
America
Julie
Lieut
France
Julie Octavia Vennet
Lieut. Deppe
Mme. Julie
Woman Fights Mexican Thief in Denver Apartment
Mrs. Pear Harmon recounted to a police judge a struggle in which she barred a Mexican intruder, held his suspenders, and chased him down stairs after he grabbed a jewel box containing a diamond lavaliere belonging to her daughter. Neighbors alerted authorities and the thief was taken into custody.
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Enver
George Morales
Pear Harmon
Spring millinery show features range of hats from sailors to airy styles
A depiction of spring millinery displays a wide range of hats from practical plain sailors to airy and sheer designs. The selection includes street wear hats with soft Milan brims, bright stiff straw options, and decorative pins, wreaths, and ribbons illustrating seasonal fashion.
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Milan
Attractive Spring Blouses Highlight Versatile Styles
Fashion notes showcase satin pongee and crepe blouses with short peplums and adjustable girdles. Descriptions cover Russian inspired satin models, slip over pongee designs, and durable fabrics like linen and silk shirtings. Color guidance suggests greens and blues for red haired women with brown eyes.
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Vhoever
Summer Headgear For Baby Hats Bonnets For Warm Weather
Baby headgear for warm weather features delicate straw braid or leghorn hats and bonnets with chiffon or mull fabric. The description highlights charming rattle caps and bonnets as stylish sun protection.
Littlest powers chart the tiny states of Europe
A survey of so called littlest powers by the National Geographic Society highlights Monaco as the smallest territory with eight square miles and a population of 28 000. San Marino Andorra Liechtenstein Luxemburg and others are listed as tiny nations with unique traits. Montenegro is noted as dissolved into Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
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Monte Carlo
National Geographical Society
Theodoric the Great
Monaco
Theodoriec
Theodotic Joses
San Marino
Italy
Little Republic
Rimini
Andora
Spain
Pyrenees
France
Lichtenstein
Switzerland
Austria
Luxemburg
Rhine
Turkey
Europe
Constantinople
Montenegro
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
New Hampshire’s Early Role in Ratifying the U S Constitution
McClure notes New Hampshire secured ratification on June 11 1788, giving the needed nine states the vote to form the United States. The article traces origins of New Hampshire’s name to Captain Mason and Portsmouth, discusses colony towns, and cites the Granite State moniker and its four electoral votes.
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New Hampshire
United States
Virginia
New “Hampshire
Captain Mason
Portsmouth
Hampshire
England
Mason
Charles
Merrimac River
Rye
Dover
Boston
Anne Hutchinson
Exeter
Hampton
Massachusetts
Charles II
Newampshire
White Mountains
Granite State
Rouged Ankle Fad Captures Los Angeles Street Scene
The Los Angeles Express describes a new fashion of pink ankle rouge worn by a young woman on Second Street and Broadway. Attired with spider web hose she drew gasps from passersby as she stepped from a street car, signaling a trend that modistes predict will spread among thousands of young women.
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Milady
Second Street
Broadway
Los Angeles
Modistes
Los Angeles Express
Sedgwick Roasts Best-Seller Writer At Cambridge Tea
Ellery Sedgwick Boston editor mocks a visiting best-seller novelist at a Cambridge tea. The author boasts about his book’s success with translations into French, German, Spanish and Chinese. Sedgwick replies dryly asking why not translate it back into English.
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Ellery Sedgwick
Boston
Mr. Sedgwick
Woman Holds Key Foreign Exchange Post in Cincinnati
Miss Sophie H Hamant is the only woman among six handling a foreign exchange department in the country. She runs the department for the Cincinnati office of Guaranty Trust Company of New York, serving 135 banks merchants and manufacturers with daily exchange rate data.
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Sophie H. Hamant
Cincinnati
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
Miss Hamant
Grasshopper Plague Likely in Western Provinces
Dominion entomologist Mr. Arthur Gibson warns of a serious grasshopper plague this year in western Canada. Manitoba reports up to 3,000 grasshopper eyes per square foot with large numbers in other prairie provinces, per the Montreal Family Herald.
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Arthur Gibson
Dominion
Manitoba
Prairie Provinces
Montreal Family Herald
Virginia history and the origins of Jamestown and Virginia
The story traces Capt John Smith's role in Jamestown's survival, the 1607 settlement as America's first permanent English colony, the London Company charter, and the Virginia colony's boundaries. It notes the Old Dominion nickname, the 1619 house of burgesses, and Virginia's later states Kentucky and West Virginia with its 42 627 square miles and twelve presidential electors.
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Virginia
John Smith
Jamestown
America
James I
London Company
Old Point Comfort
England
Scotland
Ireland
Old Dominion
Elizabeth
Colonies
House of Burgesses
Kentucky
West Virginia
Misnamed Orang Utang in Malay Roots
E Alexander Powell comments on the term orang utenjong and orang utan in Scribner's Magazine, noting the Malay meanings man of the forest and man in debt while describing the forest floor in Borneo and the possible heavy animal footsteps.
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Borneo
E. Alexander Powell
Scribner's Magazine
Lovemaking and Marriage: A Harpers Magazine Quote
A quotation from Harpers Magazine argues that lovemaking spans years and that marriage often canonizes love. It posits that a bad marriage is better than none and supports marriage for all, reflecting a provocative stance on romance and union.
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Harper’s Magazine
Britain’s Coronation Stone Origins and Long Journey
The Coronation Stone, famed in England, crosses legends from Symon Brek bringing it from Spain to Ireland and then to Argyll. It later moved with Kenneth MacAlpin to Scone around 850, stayed there until 1296, when Edward I transferred it to Westminster Abbey where it rests beneath the coronation chair.
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Britain
England
Symon Brek
Spain
Ireland
Argyll
Dunstaffnage
Kenneth McAlpin
Scone
Gowry
Edward I
Westminster Abbey
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