Tennessee River Survey Resumed
A long planned Army Engineer Corps project to study navigability flood control and water power for the Tennessee river basin resumes. It covers Virginia North Carolina and western North Carolina aims to store rainfall to steady river flow and unlock power to attract industry and support national defense.
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Natan
Corpa
Tennessee
French Broad
North Carolina
Carolina
French Broad River
Viedmoent
Virginia
Georgia
Alabama
Gmail
Mississippi
Fey
Congress
Engineer Corps
Army
Clinch
Powell Rivers
Blue Ridge
Piedmont
War Department
Washington
Barber Charles Jaschke, King Edward's Silent Courtier
London obituary notes royal barber Charles Jaschke died aged 66. From Bohemia with ten dollars, he built a famed Regent Street shop that served Edward VII and other monarchs, peers, and generals. The king admired his restraint, calling him "seen, but not heard" as he trimmed the beard and rode in royal processions.
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London
England
Charles Jaschke
Edward
Europe
Bohemia
Regent Street
Charles
Jaschke
Derby
Buckingham Palace
Sandringham
Balmoral
Prince of Wales
India
New York Public Library Faces Book Shortage and Fewer Loans
The New York Public Library reports a stock of about 20,000 fewer books than seven years ago, due to budget limits and delays in purchases. Despite this, demand remains high with readers still borrowing, though overall loans have fallen slightly.
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NEW York Public Library
Buuleg
Elres Fry
New
Boo
California Girls Marry Young, Statistics Show
A state vital statistics survey finds California brides peak at age eighteen. In 1924 there were 65,678 brides statewide, with 6,228 aged eighteen. The report notes twenty something with sixteen as another notable age, reflecting youthful marriages in the era.
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California
Sacramento
Cal
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Saya
Scientists Say Children Are Born Without Fear
Scientists at Columbia University report that fear does not enter a child's life until after age three. They argue fear is learned via association and that caution should not be taught by fear, warning against parental use of fear to control children.
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New York
Columbia University
Lfe
Marriage Ages Highlight Seventeenth Century Social Pattern
The article notes unusually young marriages with brides wed at thirteen and fourteen and some ages reported as high as seventy-one and sixty-nine. Among 34 women claiming fifty, a striking detail is Hymeu’s second marriage after 14,668 trips to the altar.
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Hymeu
Coal seam discovery north of Vancouver reported
Vancouver reports a rain of coal 525 to 625 feet thick in continuous formation with shale breaks found by A C McDougall. One find is Pat Creek 170 miles north on the Pacific Great Eastern railway about 16 miles from Peyillon station. The coal area measures about three and a half miles long by two and a half miles wide with drilling locating it. shipments hoped for next fall.
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Vancouver
A. C. McDougall
Pat Creek
Pacific Great Eastern Railway
Peyillon Station
McDougall
Prize Smell of the Circus and The Cockney Lady
In Mississippi the writer Harry Dickson uses Uncle Jim’s circus visit to Vicksburg to illuminate a keenly observed moment. Uncle Jim recalls the camels smell as the standout memory, reflecting on color and curiosity in Southern life. A separate note covers Mrs. Pat Campbell’s wit during an interview with a cockney playwright who quips about reading time without the b’s.
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Harry Dickson
Mississippi
Dickson
Sunflower County
Uncle Jim
Vicksburg
Fim
Hingling Brothers
Uncle Him
Harry
Mist’ Dickson
Jim
Pat Campbell
London
O Leary Named President of U S Chamber of Commerce
John William O Leary of Chicago has become the new president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. He is the third Chicagoan to hold the post, succeeds Harry A Wheeler and Joseph H Defreen, and holds multiple civic and business roles including vice chairman of the National Industrial Conference Board and trustee positions in several organizations. He leads the Citizens Committee to Enforce the Landis Award and heads Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church locally.
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John William O'Leary
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Mr.o'leary
Supreme Organization of the Ueftion
Harry A. Wheeler
Chamber
Joseph H. Defreen
Civi
Chamber of Commerce of
National Industrial Conference Board
Resolute
Citizen’s Committee
Landis
Great Open Religious Forum
Chicago Sunday Evening Club
Wesley Memorial Hospital
Committee of Fifteen
Chicago Crime Commission
Infant Welfare Society
Military Training Camps’ Association
Boy Scouts of America
Oakland Methodist Episcopal
Pinchot Taps Butler as Next Pennsylvania Leader
Governor Pinchot aims to pass the governorship to Gen. Smedley Butler and promote a Harrisburg policy line. He has briefed political leaders, but Butler and the Butler family show little backing and face organized opposition to the plan.
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Pinchot
Smedley Darlington Butler
Butler
Mr. Pinchot
Harrisburg
Republican Organization
Diplomatic Service Gains Profession Tone in Berlin Posting
Ambassadors and diplomats are being professionalized under Coolidge with Rogers bill reforms. Doctor Schurman, former Cornell president, moved from Peking to Berlin, seen as a capable asset in a pivotal post. Kellogg and Houghton cited in promotions, signaling shift away from paying political debts toward career officials. The Berlin posting is viewed as important given Germany relations and Schurman’s language and cultural familiarity.
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Coolidge
Kellogg
Houghton
Schurman
Peking
Berlin
Germany
Cornell University
Pity the Sorrows of John F Scopes Editorial Note
A vivid wraparound piece on John T Scopes a Tennessee high school teacher accused under the state law banning evolution teaching. It frames the case as a clash over creationism versus Darwinism with Bryan and other figures expected to comment.
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John F. Scopes
Tennessee
Rhea County
William Jennings Bryan
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Barber
Edward VII of
Great Britain
Spain
Duke of York
Ramsay
Patricia
House of Lords
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Manhattan
Kuble
Ite Meio
Thebrary
Duvet Ruouy
Brooklyn
Maur
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Delodle Ksour
The
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Ambassador Schurman
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