Hat Through 6000 Years Reveals Heads Up History
A Waring Hat Company pamphlet traces hats across six millennia from ancient Egyptian pharaohs to modern American styles. It notes hats marked freedom in Rome, distinguished leaders in the Middle Ages, and the shift to felt hats with Kossuth in 1857, ending with a contemporary practical, jaunty tilt.
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Waring Hat Manufacturing Corporation of
Yonkers
Innocent IV
France
William Penn
Greece
Bolic
United States
Kossuth
New York
America
Europe
Chaucer
Flanders
St. Clement
Napoleon Russia lesson recalled by Japanese policy talk
President Vinogradov of the anti socialist league warned in a Vladivostok speech that Japan should recall Napoleon’s Russian disaster. He commented on Japan’s decision to seize Nikolaievsk and Saghalien’s northern portion after massacres of Japanese. The Yuma irrigation canal in Arizona irrigates 100000 acres and is poised to become the world’s largest.
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Tokio
Japan
Napoleon
Russia
Vinogradov
Anti-Socialist League
National Assembly
Vladivostok
Nikolaievsk
Saghalien Island
Yuma
Ariz
New oil structure discovered by Producers & Refiners
Pro ducers and Refiners reports a new oil structure in Carbon county Wyoming near the Lost Soldier and Ferris fields. A well at 8 200 feet yields over 200 barrels daily with a light rig and gas column lifting. Leases cover 1 440 acres with Frantz and Glenrock Oil as partners. Discovery sits in section 7 26 79, with deeper testing planned as tanks are installed. Sugar can be made from nipa palm sap.
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Carbon County
Wyo
Producers and Refiners Corporation
Wildcat
Lost Soldier
Ferris
Wertz R. EB
Wertz
Producers and Ref
Wyoming
Beaume
Muddy Creek
Coast Residents May Telephone to Friends at Sea
Wireless telephone equipment will let Pacific coast residents speak with passengers and officials on ships up to 500 miles at sea. RCA announced installation on White Star Red Star Holland American and American lines with similar gear on China Mail and Admiral vessels.
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San Francisco
Cal
Coast
Wise
trans-Pacific
Radio Corporation of America
International Mercantile Marine
White Star
Red Star
Holland-American
American Lines
Arthur Isbell
Pacific Coast
The
Wireless Company
China Mail
Admiral Line
Radio Corporation
Pacific Seaboard
Corporation
Montana Crevices Emerge After California Quakes
Billings Montana August 6 Crevices widen in the earth near Acton twenty miles west of Billings as California quake shocks are felt. Officials warn railway beds may be endangered and a new line could be laid. The link between Montana geology and the seismic belt remains unproved scientifically.
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Billings Mont
California
Acton
Montana
Yellowstone Park
Japan Bargains for Merchant Marine
Tokyo reports Nippon Yusen Kaisha has ordered or bought 13 new ships totaling over 110000 tons as part of a fleet building program reaching 500000 tons. The orders come from Japanese and English dockyards and include vessels for the merchant fleet.
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Tokio
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Japan
England
Carrier Pigeons Replace Cables for Island Messages
TOKIO July 15 Pigeons will carry messages from the mainland to Hachijo island about 150 miles away as the government abandons plans to lay a cable. Machiro off Izue Prefecture, about 200 miles from Tokio, is noted for its camelia oil used in Japanese hairdressing.
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Tokio
Hachijo
Machiro
Izue
Giant Zeppelin Designed to Attack New York
Aug 5 Norwigh Germany planned a transatlantic assault with a 743 foot Zeppelins. The L-71, camouflaged black with iron cross, surrendered to Britain and rests in a hangar near Putham. Compared to Britain’s R-88 it is shorter lighter and slower by one mile per hour.
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New York
England
Norwigh
Germany
Atlantic
Boston
American
Putham
Great Britain
Broncho Buster Jim McKay Dies in Idaho
POCATELLO Idaho Aug 6 Jim McKay Bannock Indian famed broncho buster and noted rider died. He was known across the northwest for many Cheyenne Frontier contests and was a well known figure among Cheyenne people.
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Broncho Buster
Idaho
Pocatello
Ida
Jim McKay
Northwest
McKey
Cost of living in the British Isles rises sharply
The text notes living costs in the British Isles are estimated to be up 152 percent above the 1914 level, indicating a drastic postwar price increase.
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British Isles
Ollie Pecord Promotes Sheriff Candidacy With Circus Rhino
Ollie Pecord, candidate for sheriff, spent an afternoon at a circus with a horned rhinoceros. Circus folk call the rhino stupid, but Ollie argues the beast isn’t as dumb as claimed and says he will tell the world.
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Toledo
Ollie Pecord
Ollie
Lone Fireman Stays On Duty During Memphis Strike
Memphis Tennessee reports one firefighter, Leon Foltz, remained at his post while other firemen walked out. Foltz refused to strike and works alongside volunteers to fight fires.
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Memphis, Tenn
Leon Foltz
Appetite? A Boy’s Big Excursion Feast
At an Evansville outing for orphans a young colored boy consumed a remarkable assortment of treats. He ate seven ice cream cones five bottles of pop half a dozen popcorn boxes two large watermelons and pocketed other goodies.
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Evansville
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