Reunion of Blue and Gray Marked at Gettysburg 75th Anniversary
The World Will Little Note not long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here. Dr. Overton H. Mennet and Gen. James M. Claypool accept invitations to Gettysburg for a June 29 to July 4 reunion. Congress funds travel and housing with 275000 dollars. President Roosevelt will dedicate a memorial with a perpetual light symbolizing freedom. 150000 veterans are expected, including 78000 Union and 70000 Confederate soldiers, gathered for the anniversary amid nationwide ceremonies.
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Union
Overton H. Mennet
Los Angeles
Grand Army of the Republic
James M. Claypool
St. Louis
United Confederate Veterans
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Uncle Sam
Congress
Roosevelt
George Meade
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Josephine Miller
Jennie Wade
Gettysbur
Pickett
Gettysburg memories and heroism amid battle scars
A patriotic reminiscence recalls the three days of action at Gettysburg with casualty totals for both sides, stories of Longstreet and Pickett, veterans like John L. Burns and Jennie Wade, and intimate moments of courage on Little Round Top and Devil's Den.
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Devil's den
Millikan Reveals Evidence on Cosmic Rays and Solar Magnetic Field
Dr Robert A Millikan and colleagues report evidence that cosmic rays arise from annihilation of common elements. Using high altitude balloons they traced energy distribution supporting the theory. The study notes abundant elements destroyed include carbon nitrogen and oxygen along with sodium silicon and aluminum. Hydrogen and perhaps helium also contribute to cosmic ray energy. The sun’s magnetic field extending into space is implicated by these findings.
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Washington
National Academy of Science
Robert A. Millikan
California Institute of Technology
Earth
Millikan
Crusher Destroys Water Hyacinth in the South
The United States army engineer corps tests a new boat named Kenny to combat water hyacinth obstructions in Southern waters. The vessel uses a forward chain conveyor to scoop plants, drops them into corrugated rollers to crush them flat, then sinks the pulped matter overboard to decay.
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New Orleans
South
United States Army Engineer Corps
Longest Single Span Girder in New York
New York Citys West Side express highway features the nations longest single span plate girder. Bridging the New York Central railroad at West One Hundred and Sixtieth Street, a 190 feet 2 inch overall girder spans 188 feet 11 inches between supports. It was built in two lengths to meet railroad and shipping clearances.
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New York
New York City
United States
New York Central Railroad
West One Hundred and Sixtieth Street
Seedless Tomatoes Grown by the Use of Chemicals
In Missouri horticulture, tomatoes are grown without seeds by blocking pollen production and applying indoleacetic acid in lanum paste. Three applications a week to ten days apart create seedless, solid meat tomatoes of normal size, weighing more due to lack of pulp.
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Columbia
Department of Horticulture
University of Missouri
Missouri
Windmill autogiro foresees wide future uses
Washington reports aviation experts predict broad adoption of the autogiro, a wingless craft developed by W. Wallace Kellett. The machine can hover, move sideways, and land almost on a dime, with potential uses in artillery spotting, naval gunfire observation, air mail, forestry work, and agricultural spraying.
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Leonard G. Engel Washington
W. Wallace Kellett
Philadelphia
Army
Navy
Senor
Juan de la Cierva
United States
Kellett
Lindberghs Glass Heart Keeps Organs Alive
Dr. Alexis Carrel announced to the American Philosophical Society that Lindberghs glass heart has been used in over 900 experiments totaling about 100000 hours to keep alive a wide range of organs from humans and animals. Hearts beat and glands secretion persisted for periods from two to thirty days across many organs.
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Philadelphia
Charles Lindbergh
Alexis Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
American Philosophical Society
Vegetable Sheep Discovered From Colombian Mountains
The United States National Herbarium adds new discoveries from the Santa Marta range in Colombia. Dr. S F Blake of the Bureau of Plant Industry reports the woolly leafed plants resembling sheep, from the aster family, with only New Zealand specimens previously known. A second plant from the same mountains is called the monk plant.
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Washington
United States National Herbarium
Smithsonian Institution
New Zealand
Santa Marta Mountains
Petain and Other Notables Highlight Paris and New York
A feature essay recalls Marshal Petain as a fit eighty two and recalls French resolve amid Europe’s tension. It also profiles wrestlers Ballot Bouted and Man Mountain Dean, plus George E Johnson’s reform efforts and Capone case history.
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York
France
Clemenceau
Joffre
Foch
Maginot
von Mackensen
Ludendorff
Hindenburg
Man Mountain Dean
Forture Roceg
Norcross
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Lewis A. Armistead
Longstreet
Pete
Meade
Cemetery Hill
Kemper
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Cushing
Confederacy
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Iron Brigade
John L. Burns
Can War
Wister
John Burns
Sirce
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Barlow
Channing Barlow
John B. Gordon
Georgia
Gordon
McClellan House
Imetsburg
Eis
First Massachusetts
Mrs. Slyder
Troy
Ohio
Fifth Wisconsin
Science Service
WNU
Space
Lindbergh
Colombian
Who’s News
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Verdun
London Daily News
He Was Born
Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain, the
Couchy A la Tour
Frank Leavitt
Leavitt
Doris Dean
Henry VIII
Boston
Rhineland
Alexandre Korda
Charles Laughton
Man Mountain
Dean
West Forty-third Street
Eorge E
Johnson
al Capone
Alcatraz
Capone
Herbert Hoover
Chicago
Senate Judicia Committee
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