MacMillan Confident Of New Polar Land Discovery
Washington dispatch reports Admiral MacMillan plans an Arctic expedition aboard Bowdoin and Peary to seek a new continent near the pole. He claims Bowdoin will run on oil by whale, seal, and walrus blubber if fuel runs short, while Peary relies on coal. Scientists from the National Geographic Society accompany the voyage to study flora and fauna of northern lands.
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Hy Lloyd Leharbas
Washington
Bowdoin
Donald Mac Bintech
National Geographic Society
Arctic
MacMillan
Wiscusact
Maine
North Pole
Peary
Admiral Peary
North
Kuito
MacMilan
Pole
Alaska
Berth Pole
United States
Tien
Discovery
Women Plan Big Part In Next War
From the New York Evening Post a look at women roles in future conflict. Julia G Silmsen, only woman major, commands the Army nurse corps and heads the Army School of Nursing. She says women will join key support roles, freeing men for combat. Major Stimson, a New Yorker, rose from Harlem Hospital to direct the Army Nurse Corps with distinguished service medals and high commendations from Pershing.
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New York Evening Post
Russia
America
Julia G. Silmsen
France
Bershing
Nuress
Major Stimson
New Yorker
Henry H. Stimmon
Manhattan
Elven
General Pershing
Army Nurse Corps
Washington
War and nursing corps leadership in postwar era
The article recounts the 1920s shift in U S military nursing with Misa Stimson becoming the first major in command of the Army Nurse Corps. It notes her dedication to training and international relief, including supervising a modern nursing school project near Paris to aid devastated France.
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Congress
Army Nurse Corps
Misa Stimson
United States Army
Stuve
France
Paris Row
Paris
Train Armenians in Housekeeping in Armenia Model Village
A model village near Alexandropol in Armenia trains orphanage students in household science. Girls learn cooking, cleaning, weaving, gardening, spinning wool, and vegetable dyeing, with capstone courses in botany, dairying, and elementary physics. Miss Puune Jordan leads the effort for the American Red Cross.
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Alexandropot
Armerican
Mies Puu- Une Jordan
Mies Puu- Une Jordan, A Tied Croas Mura
France
Armenia
Trade Board Debates Greedy Cow Question
QUESNEL, F. C. June 1 There has been much good natured discussion at the board of trade here over enforcing the pound law. After hearing opinions it was decided to protect the pound keeper from rough treatment by cow owners and let the law run its course. The chief difficulty is retaining a pound keeper as the president once filled the role but threats from cow owners led others to decline the job.
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Quesnel
F.C
Board of Trade
Notable Guests at Kanawha Hotel Gather in Charleston
A long list of visitors checked into the Kanawha hotel in Charleston yesterday. Among them are K G Beott of New York linked to Columbia Gas and Electric, former Virginian Sower president, and Charleston Industrial president. Ele accompanied by James H. Douglas of New York. Colonel Frank H. Tyree and ED Buckner of Huntington discussed cabinet fittings with state officials and the commission. others include H H Hughes Huntington P E Creese Pittsburgh Dr Ward Catlettsburg and many more from towns such as Union City Pittsburgh Cincinnati Ashland Lexington Beckley and Parkersburg.
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K. G. Beott
New York
Columbia Gas and Electric Company
Hotel Kanawha
Scote
Virginian Sower Company
Charleston Industrial Corporation
and Mirs
N. W. Chapin
Union City
E. Darrow
Cincinnati
Mary I. Mughes
Bluefield
W. Mullins
Paintsville
Morton Martin
Ashland
Conam
Ripley
Trenton
Don
Huntington
William B. Atwood
Brockton
Mags
F. G. Janutelo
Negroes Initiate Unique Church in Minneapolis
Two Black workers on the Minneapolis to Chicago pullman line plan a new church for newcomers from the South. Fuller and Jenkins lead the project under Baptist guidance, aiming to help adjust northern life and integrate religious practice. Several Black churches endorse the effort.
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Aunneapolis
Mian
Batik
Minneapolis
Gittage
Behal
Lmiyuo AU Hirst
Wuring Muyeuient
Amen Wreke
Puscor
Uda Jenkins
Vicun
St Ane Theny
Baptist
Fue Younges
Kuller
Cherca
Fuller
Rasmussen
Senkins
Puller
Jawa
Jenkins
Traptist
Air to base radio test links 9 000 feet to WLS at 110 miles
During a military show near Chicago pilots and station WLS conducted radio contact at 9000 feet over metro distance of about 110 miles. Intermittent communication suggested potential for longer range. The test, aided by Army flyers, surpassed the prior 49 mile air to land link.
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Chicago
WLS
Chanute Klald
First Time Radio Broadcast by Army Planes Claimed
Radio engineers say a new feat was successfully performed when army planes broadcast. The setup included a 0 watt master oscillator and three fiate tubes with an oseilaton, modulator, and speech amplifier plus a 5 watt amplifier. Army receivers used a tube super heterodyne while the station used a neutrodyne. A two pound lead weight held the antenna. within city limits the planes had a 5 foot wire over the elite.
Prof and wife fall from liner near Capetown at sea
A disjointed account describes Prof A C Deane and his wife falling from a fast liner about 400 miles from Capetown as crew and officers in a nearby airplane overheard conversations through earphones while a fellow passenger kept another seeker awake, averting death.
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Professon
Capetown
A. C.] Deane
England lifeboat rescue marks lone observer incident
An eyewitness description notes a sleepless passer seeing a liner halted and a couple rescued by lifeboat. The terse report accompanies a broader page on crime and misfortune, including fraud allegations and a Paris superstition dining tale.
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England
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