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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1926
Page
9
New Iceboat With Airplane Propeller Claims 90 MPH Speed
Reports describe an iceboat designed to reach ninety miles per hour powered by an airplane propeller. Separately researchers note living bacteria found as deep as one thousand feet. Geologic surveys place South Dakota rocks at over fifteen hundred years old. An average annual soot and smoke damage is estimated at seven dollars per person in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
United States
Radio lifeboat set with water tight controls
A lifeboat radio allows passenger operation amid salt spray. Dials appear through a porthole with a water tight glove. A spiral groove dial enables true straight line frequency tuning, with a full circle for rotation. Logging is simplified. The deepest ocean depth recorded is 32,088 feet in the Pacific near the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Ocean
Philippine Islands
Shock Kite Accident Melts Nails in Shoes
Gaston Gibbs, 15, was badly burned when a high voltage wire struck his body while flying a kite two miles northeast of here. The shock knocked away three fingers and melted shoe tacks. Weldon Gibbs, 18, witnessed the incident and helped revive him before transport to a Cameron hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaston Gibbs
Here
Robert Gibbs
Weldon Gibbs
Gasam
Cameron
Success in America shows open highways for humble origin
Forbes highlights rise of Oscar Wells to American Bankers Association presidency alongside earlier leaders John H. Puelicher Walter W. Head and William D. Knox. The piece traces Wells from Missouri farm roots to Bethany College and banking in Texas before Dallas Federal Reserve governor and leading Southern bank president roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Forbes Magazine
Oscar Wells
American Bankers Association
John H. Puelicher
Milwaukee
Walter W. Head
Illinois
Association
Missouri
Omaha
Nebraska
Lad
Banking
William D. Knox
New York
Missouri River
Platte County
Platte City
Bethany College
West Virginia
Texas
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank
Birmingham
Alabama
South
Huge Growth in School Savings Across the United States
A 1924 1925 report to the American Bankers Association shows school savings rising with a $5.5 million increase in bank balances and an extra 630,066 pupils participating. Reporting systems grew from 683 in 742 districts to 1 557 districts, with deposits up to $15,961,560.72 and bank balances from $20,435,144.64 to $25,913,491.15. Since 1920, gains include 271.4 percent more schools, 278.9 percent more enrollment, 5202 percent more participants, 506.1 percent higher deposits, and 516.3 percent larger bank balances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
American Bankers Association
W. EB. Albig
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Coleman-Eplen
Chas. W. Price
Cameron, Texas
Texaco
S.R. McCown
Travis
RADIO
Rosebud
RCA
Europe
Radio Corporation of America
Hayden Lawrence
Water Company
Severa
W. F. Severn Co
Cedar Rapids, Lowa
Yoe High
Inder
Mrs
A. B. Guinn
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