Congressional Stances Shape 1924 Nomination Scene
Congress adjourns as Coolidge pivots to Cleveland for a Republican convention battle. Norris probes Ford and Muscle Shoals while the Senate backs a child labor amendment and the House weighs Volstead reforms. President signs a tax cut with caveats as party leaders map the campaign.
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United States
Cleveland
Republican Party
Calvin Coolidge
Farm
Coolidge
Muscle Shoals
Senate Agriculture Committee
Norris
Henry Ford
Ford
War Weeks
Gorgas
Congress
Heflin
Ladd
Smith
Harrison
Caraway
McCormick
Senate
House
Judiciary Committee
European political upheaval and uprisings ripple across nations
Remier Poincare resigns, Edouard Herriot invited to form a new ministry while Millerand stalls. Painleve rises as left bloc’s pick for president. In Germany Ebert reappoints Marx cabinet amid Dawes report talks. Romania sees peaceful peasant protest led by Averescu. Albania reports a genuine revolution led by Rezed Schalja with Scutari Skodra captured. US Navy orders readiness at Durazzo.
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Remier Poincare
France
Millerand
Edouard Herriot
Radicals
Paul Painleve
Left Bloc
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Ebert
Marx
Reichstag
Dawes
Hat
Romania
Averescu
Bucharest
Bratiano
Albania
Schalja
Scutari
Skodra
Tirana
Andrews
Durazzo
Assassin Plot Said to Target World Leaders in Hungary
Chancellor Seipel of Austria was wounded by a youth Communist. Hungarian police say the attack links a vast plot to assassinate King George V of Britain, President Millerand of France, Chancellor Marx of Germany, and other leaders. A suspect, Zetaron, of a secret anarchist group based in Lobben, Austria, was arrested for an attempted killing of Regent Horthy.
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Hancellor Seipel
Austria
George
England
Millerand
France
Marx
Germany
Zetaron
Lobben
Horthy
World encircling army aviators reach Shanghai welcome
After a pleasant stop in Japan, the world encircling airmen flew about 500 miles over the China Sea to Shanghai where they were greeted warmly. They planned to proceed to Amoy on Saturday.
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Japan
China Sea
Shanghai
Amoy
Unusual By T. T. Maxey Ashokan Reservoir Details
The Ashokan reservoir near the Catskills was built to store New York City's water. A 4,650 foot dam created a 12 mile long lake with 100 foot depth and 130 billion gallons capacity. Construction displaced 2,000 people, relocated 11 miles of railroad, built 64 miles of highways, and moved 2.5 million wagon loads of earth. The system uses gravity to deliver water through tunnels and aqueducts under rivers and streets to reach New York City mains at pressures up to 20,833,833 gallons per hour.
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Ashokan
City of
New York
Catskill
Esopus
Catskills
Hudson River
New York Harbor
Lassen Peak National Park Defined and Its Eruptive History
Lassen Peak in Shasta County is described as a dying volcano with a brief active past. The 1915 eruptions drew global interest, scattering ash, lava, and rocks within two miles and melting snow into torrents. In 1916 Congress established the national park over 124 square miles surrounding lava fields, lakes, springs, and canyons for public benefit.
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Shasta County
California
Lassen
Sierra Nevadas
Cascades
United States
Mount Lassen
Youtts
Congress
Oyster dodges fate at church festival crowd
A church festival crowd witnessed the oyster dodgeth alike the just and the unjust as people endure insomnia and disdain for telephones. The piece frames daily laborers as tireless yet distracted by modern annoyances.
Conquest of India A tale of Scindhia Perron and Thomas
A sweeping narrative tracing the rise of British power in Hindustan through the actions of Scindhia Perron and Irish king George Thomas. It covers De Boigne, Perron’s betrayal, battles at Assaye and Delhi, and the eventual fall of the Mughal imperial line leading to British rule with Arthur Wellesley later known as the Iron Duke.
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England
India
Delhi
Hindustan
Mogul
Shah Alam
Madhoji Scindhla
Scindhia
Poona
Bombay
Madhoji Scindhia
de Bolgne
Selndhin
de Boligne
de Boigne
Europe
Daulat Rao
Scindhla
George Thomas
Hariana
Hansli
Scindhisa
Perron
Harlana
Bourgulen
Thomas
Bourguien
Hanel
Ganges
Scindhra
Deccan
Napoleon
Indian Empire
France
Holkar
Sir Arthur Wellesley
Assaye
Lake
George
Arthur Wellesley
Iron Duke of Wellington
Waterloo
Too Ambitious Exam in Address to Officers
The colonel delivers an address to junior officers preparing for a final exam. He urges time for study as papers are with the printer. A quiet voice asks in the back, Who's the printer, sir.
Origin of Pep According to Mencken
H. L. Mencken author of The American Language traces pep to a shortened form of pepper. He notes pepper was not widely used in the modern sense of pep and that pep may have been a new coinage suggested by pepper rather than a direct semantic extension.
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H. L. Mencken
Morning Resolution of Kindness in a Fragment
A reflective passage urges a daily resolve to help others with a kind word and encouragement, presenting simple acts as a left-off garment for those in need and a spark for those striving within themselves.
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