Akron dirigible ceremony and national farm board feuds
Mrs. Hoover christened the Akron airship for the U S Navy as trials near August or September test speeds endurance and handling. The farm board faces internal conflict between the Farmers National and Northwest Grain Association over loan policies and market control.
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Herbert Hoover
Washington
Akron
Ohio
United States Navy
Hoover
Navy Department
Akfron
Lakehurst
Federal Farm Board
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
Farmers’ Union Termine Ss Sociation of
St. Paul
Northwest Grain Association
Northwest
Bodinilon
Farmers’ National
James C. Stone
Northwest “Grain Association
Farmers’ Union Terminal
Gerald P. Ny
Farmers’ Union Terminal Association
Terminal Association
National
Blond Lady of Antwerp Dies in Berlin Insane Asylum
Bertha Heinrich once the Blond Lady of Antwerp and a leading German spy lies dying in the Wittenau asylum near Berlin. Aged two years in the institution she is a famed but dangerous figure who ran a vast spy network and caused many deaths before her addiction and fall from power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Bertha Heinrich
Les
Wittenau
Antwerp
Germany
Is Only a Citizen When He Quits Car
A Court of Appeals ruling holds a trolley conductor remains an agent of the Brookyln City Railroad until he leaves the trolley. The case of John Mack involved an injury from a conductor striking him. The company argued the conductor ceased to be its agent when he struck, becoming a private citizen, a position the court upheld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Court of Appeals
John Mack
Brooklyn City Railroad Company
John
Oil Turns 500 Into Million for Girls in San Francisco
A fortune tale unfolds as $500 dowry grows into a $1 million legacy for two sisters, Mrs. Louise Dessauer and Mrs. Cora Michaels. Court records show a 160 acre Kin gs County tract now valued at $1 million with a 50 percent interest leased to a major oil company for $3,500,000. The Nathan estate, once considered nearly worthless, now awaits royalty payments and a thriving development in Ket tleman Bills district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Louise W. Dessaver
Cora Nathan Michaels
Louis D. Nathan
Kings County
Court of Superior
Thomas PF. Graham
W. D. Kelley
Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Company
Nathan
Kettleman Bills Off
Kelley
Novel Searchlight Reads Five Miles At Night
London reports a new searchlight by W. H. Pennow capable of illuminating a newspaper five miles away. The beam stays concentrated, producing a twelve foot diameter spot at one mile, and aims to aid night aviation with potential many other uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
W. H. Pennow
Nail Swallowed by Man 28 Years Ago Removed
Elmer Snyder of Pennsylvania, a railroad track foreman, recalled swallowing a nail while making crates twenty eight years ago. Surgeons removed the rusty nail after a delicate operation at Episcopal Hospital Philadelphia, where doctors believe it drifted from the intestinal wall to lodge between ribs. Snyder recovers at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer
Edward Snorer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mr. Snyder
Episcopal Hospital
Philadelphia
Snyder
Loss of Dollar Button Triggers Man's Breakdown
In Council Bluffs Iowa Edwin T Waterman a proud umbrella owner for 51 years and keeper of a long used shoe brush suffers a nervous breakdown after misplacing a dollar button he had bought recently. He characterizes mislaid borrowed or stolen as mere words in his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Edwin T. Waterman
Blighty and Gone West in World War Speech
A wartime column notes two phrases used by Brit ish soldiers Blighty meaning home or leave and Gone West meaning death The piece links Blighty to India and the English Channel and traces Gone West to Boer era Egypt and Western sunset myths It also recounts the Issoudun aviation story of Jerry O Marie and a postwar scene with President Wilson departing France in 1931 Western Sewepaper Daleny
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France
India
Tommy
Atlante
English Channel
South Africa
England
Aviation Center
Issoudun
Hs Brother
Jerry O
Marie
Issondun
Jerry
Fiyera
Issoudon
Marie ML
Marie M
Wilson
Brest
George Washington
M. P
Wilan
Paris
Fifth Engineers
Age
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Edward W. Pickard
Mrs. Hoover
Virgins Week
Labor
Doak
Red Cross
Catalonia
Spanish Republic
Spain
Macia
A. H. Wiggin
Bank For International Settlements
Basel
Switzerland
American Federal Reserve Bank
Bank of England
Bank of France
Albert Henry Wiggin
Wiggin
Chase National Bank of New York
New York
Ambassador Sackett
Farm Board
Romania
William J. Harris
Georgia
Heeb
Thomas A. Edison
Liewellen Park
West Orange
N. J
Cveator
Howe
Edison
Hele
Kright
T. A. Edison
Dector Howe
Harles Boyd Curtis
Dominican Thepublic
el Salvador
Dominica
H. F. A. Schoenfeld
Rhode Island
Wickersham Commission
Connecticut
Milrvoukee
Gov. Roosevelt
Franklin BD. Roosevelt
State Health Department
Tago Galdston
Medical Information Bureau of
The
Academy of Medicine
Cornell Medical School
James J. Walker
New York City
Carlsbad
Overnor Murray
Oklaahoma
Texas
Harry Sinclair
Sinclair
Sinclair Company
Lindbergh
Arctic Circle
Aklavik
Point Barrow
Parker Cramer
Norway
Angmagsallk
Greenland
Copenhagen
TransAmerican Airlines
Herndon
Pangborn
Tokio
Seattle
Amy Johnson
D. R. Anthony
Missouri
Congress
Anthony
Susan B. Anthony
Onion
Great
Kings Cross
Delilah
Nemesic
Jong
Venezon
Reginald D. White
Wicker
White
Sam Francisco
Mercury
Corryton
Tenn
Bertha Mae Brooks
Samuel
Booker
Gus Booher
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