Radiophone Duo Foils Robber in Romantic Radio Tale
Ted Cowles follows a distress call during Mary Johnsons radiophone concert and, with ally Dick Thompson, chases to a broadcasting station. They catch rival Wilkens attempting to steal seven thousand dollars in unregistered Liberty bonds, rescued by Marys secret signal and his pursuit ends with Wilkens captured.
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Ted Cowles
Howard Wilkens
Mary Johnson
Ted
Mary
Wilkens
Ing
Flo
Dick Thompson
Teg
Calhoun’ Street
Broadcasting Building
Wickens
Maps Airplane Route Between Washington and San Francisco
Establishment of a permanent air route will be mapped as Lieut. Paul Wilkins completes his 4 D H flight from Bolling field to the Pacific coast. The trip aims to locate landmarks and safe landing fields between here and the coast with Sergt. Leo Huckill accompanying.
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Washington
San Francisco
Paul Wilkins
Bolling Field
Pacific Coast
Whllkins
Sergt
Leo Huckill
Edward Dunn retires after 55 years in government service
Edward Dunn entered government service in 1867 as a mounted messenger under Secretary of War Stanton. After fifty five years of service he was relieved August 20. His co workers presented him with a purse filled with gold which was handed to him by Secretary Weeks.
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Edward Dunn
Stanton
Weeks
England’s Star Chamber and its Unchecked Powers
The Star Chamber was a royal tribunal in England created by Henry VII in 1486. It wielded vast authority, operated without juries, and could impose punishments short of death. Abolished in 1641 under Charles I, its name may derive from gilt ceiling stars or from Jewish bonds once stored at Westminster.
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England
Henry VII
Westminster
William I
Anxious to Please at Breakfast
A hotel breakfast story shows an irritable diner demanding his chop. The guest repeatedly asks where his food is while the waiter explains it is in the rij. The exchange captures a tense moment over service speed.
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Walter
Philadelphia
Scouts Handle Park Injuries and Wire Rescue
In Burholme park Philadelphia a field meet by Troop 182 of South Philadelphia ends with scouts aiding a woman cut by glass, a non scout boy struck by a baseball bat, and a camper with a fractured arm. Scout Manuel Scholewitz is shocked by a live wire but freed and revived by his scoutmaster. Police thank the scouts for reporting the accident and guarding the dangerous line until repair crews arrive.
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Philadelphia
Burholme Park
South Philadelphia
Pennypack Creek
Saks
Fogel
Frankford Hospital
Manuel Scholewitz
Fourth Rescue Heroic Scout Karl Hunter of Troop 14
Karl Hunter fourteen year old of Syracuse New York saved a drowning boy in Onondaga creek while a lumber filled current carried the youth downstream. He swam to safety with a secure hold and brought the boy to shore. Hunter already holds three rescues and earned the Junior Red Cross lifeguard badge last summer.
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Karl Hunter
Syracuse
N. X
Onondaga Creek
Hunter
Red Cross
Crooked Lake
Jordan
Legion Drives Posts To Sponsor Boy Scout Troops
The American Legion challenges every post to sponsor at least one Scout troop to help thousands of boys gain access to scouting. Commander in Chief Hanford MacNider praises the program as finest teaching of loyalty patriotism and citizenship for American youth.
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American Legion
America
Good Turn to Aviators Marking of Western Pennsylvania
May planned community service by Boy Scouts under B H Mulvihill of the Aero club of Pittsburgh to mark cities and towns in western Pennsylvania for aviators en route to Pittsburgh. Scouts will form large stone letters in district waste areas and whitewash them to spell out localities.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
B. H. Mulvihill
The
Aero Club of
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Illinois
Aurora
Belleau Wood
Williams J. Geary
Claudia Geary
John A. Lejeune
United States Marine Corps
Dickens
Cobham
Mr. Bryan
Columbia River
Oregon
Willam Jennings Bryan
National Council
Scouts_of America
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