Illinois Waterways Drive Prominent Inland Project Push
Edward W. Pickard reviews the St Louis convention focused on speeding up inland waterways. Officials including Secretary Hurley and Hoover ally advocate a rapid Illinois waterway completion to link the Great Lakes to the Mississippi, with funding requests and bridge needs at Joliet noted as prerequisites for winter work and broader river improvements.
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Mississippi Valley Association
St. Louis
Hurley
Wlinois
War Department
Hoover
Kley
Congress
Illinois
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Missouri
Sioux City
Ohio
St. Lawrence
Chicago
Philanthropist Epstein funds Chicago gallery with $1 million
Max Epstein, noted arts patron, announced at the Blackstone dinner in Chicago that he donated $1,000,000 to a university art gallery. He dismissed critics who claim virtue is forgotten as absurd and shared a quip about a woman and a mirror anecdote to illustrate expectations.
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Firest
Moscow
Soviet Union
L. K. Ramsin
Russia
Ramsin
Paris
United Press
Stalin
United States
America
Max Epstein
Chicago University
the Blackstone
Airplane Used to Plant Hawaiian Forest Program
Hawaiian foresters planted 298 650 trees in forest reserves last year per the Hawaii commission of agriculture and forestry report to the U S Forest Service. One hundred forty seven tree kinds were planted including ash oak and paper bark. California coast redwood ranked fourth with 23 392. Over 623 800 nursery grown trees were distributed for private land planting under a cooperative with the Forest Service. A larger eroded area was sown with seeds by a U S Army plane broadcasting 1 689 pounds from 2 000 feet.
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Hawaiian Commission of Agriculture and Forestry
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Commission
United States Forest Service
United States Army
Camellias In Old South Gardens Near Charleston
Camellias thrived in early Southern gardens and some of the first plants brought to America are said to still exist near Charleston South Carolina. The camellia is related to the tea plant and may have been named after a monk named Kamel or Kamellus.
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South
America
Charleston
S. C
Kamel
Kamellus
Poor Hunting on the Beach
A brief, dialogue driven fragment depicts worry over a person named T and a further comment about the “pebble on the beach” with a reply noting the beach remains largely stony, implying ongoing concern or hardship.
Radio links British colonies in imperial plans
The imperial conference in London considers building a radio broadcasting station to reach British colonies and dominions. The air service would knit the empire tighter, like a family keeping in touch with the home nation through regular communication.
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Great Britain
London
Pasadena
Chinook Trail Designated in New Hampshire
The famous sled dog Chinook from the Byrd expedition is honored in his home state. New Hampshire officially designates the Tamworth to Wonalancet road as Chinook trail, recognizing his historic role and legacy.
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New Hampshire
Tamworth
Wonalancet
Being a statesman Involves too much holding in of one's feelings
A reflective line arguing that true statesmanship requires suppressing personal emotions to appease the majority, suggesting measured restraint over public display of sentiment. The quote frames political leadership as balancing inner conviction with external expectations.
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Lytle Brown
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Elbe
France
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Holland
Seine
APAN
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Nagoka
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Maud
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Sweden
Oslo
Federal Farm
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Ture
McNary
Oregon
Farm Board
United States Supreme Court
Reynolds
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
First National Pictures, Inc
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation
Universal Film Exchanges, Inc
United Artists Corporation
Fox Film Corporation
Pathe Exchange, Inc
F. B. O. Pictures Corporation
Vitagraph, Inc
Educational Film Exchanges, Inc
Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission
Canada
Cleveland
Census Bureau
California
Florida
Michigan
New York State
Texas
Quae H. Markham
Illinois Central System
Altadena
Calif
Illinois Central
John G. Price
the Elks
McKinley
Columbus
Western Newspaper Union
Monarch Quality Foods
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Monarch, Reid, Murdoch & CO
New York
Boston
Pittsburgh
Wilkes-Barre
Tampa
Jacksonville
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Betty Crocker
All-Star
W.F. Young, Inc
Lyman St
Springfield
Masa
W.N. U
Des Moines
Ninth Ave
Mielke
New Hampton
Iowa
Srd
Seattle
Wash
Geological Club
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Kansas City
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