Night Law School Dean Runs City’s Evening Program
Okmulgee Oklahoma hosts a night law school led by Dean W L Merwine, a working attorney, offering classes for clerks and others needing daytime income. The basement library hosts twenty six graduates who passed Oklahoma bar exams with one failure. Tuition runs fifty dollars yearly, paid in installments. the school emphasizes practicality and dedication, serving Okmulgee residents who must work while studying.
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Okmulgee
Okla
W. L. Merwine
Merwine
Severn
Okmulgee Bar
Jewell Russell
Tulsa
Dean Merwine
Okmulgee School
Oklahoma
Oho
Ohio Northern University
Ada
Columbus
Charles W. Allison
McQkinley
New Mesa Verde Coal Produces Much Wax
The United States Bureau of Mines laboratory reports extracting over three gallons of wax from one ton of Mesa Verde coal from Utah. The wax, like candle wax, came after tar was first recovered from the same coal, yielding about thirty-two gallons per ton. The bureau notes the high wax content could enable significant by product gains with minimal development.
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New Mesa Verde
Pittsburgh
Utah Center
United States Bureau of Mines Laboratory
United States
Bureau of Mines
Utah
Bureau
Spider Is Called a Harmless Fellow ininesville
C B Merrill assistant entomologist of the Florida state plant board says spiders are not poisonous. The only dangerous spider is a half inch long jet black creature with a reddish hour glass mark on its underside. It lives outdoors under loosely piled boards or firewood and may have other tricks.
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Ininesville
Fla
C. B. Merrill
Florida State Plant Board
Merrill
Plan to Utilize Power From River Shannon
Ireland launches a scheme to develop electrical power from the Shannon with a government financed project costing 25,000,000. Public access is invited to the construction site and several thousand visitors have already toured the plant with government guides. The Free State, Europe's smallest electricity user, seeks broader public interest and demand for improved facilities.
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River Shannon
Dublin
Ireland
Shannon
Free State
Iee
Europe
Winning Smile Maiden Letter Carrier Receives $1000 Gift
Thomas J. Garrity, a Mass mail carrier, was presented with a $1,000 check after delivering mail to Mrs. Bessie L. Eaton for 40 years. Eaton praised him as a fine man who always greeted her with a smile and cheer.
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Mass
Thomas J. Garrity
Bessie L. Eaton
ZOO IS HOBBY OF BULGARIAN KING
Sofia Bulgaria King Boris maintains a modern zoological garden that he and his father King Ferdinand began. The public garden houses about 300 species and 1 800 specimens gathered worldwide. Notable residents include Abyssinian lions Indian elephants and a bearded eagle pair captive only here.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Boris
Ferdinand
Royal Zoological Garden of
Sofie
Europe
Abyssinia
Senegal
Rhodesia
Royal Zoological Garden
Zoological Garden
Population of China Stationary 200 Years Peking
Gen Ho Chi kung, the nationalist mayor of Peking, leads a campaign to lift China birthrates after finding the population has remained at 400 million for two centuries. He notes the 400 million figure from Emperor Chien Lung era census and contrasts it with growth in the United States, Britain, Japan, Russia, Germany and France. He blames backward Chinese medical science for high mortality among the poor.
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China
Peking
Ho Chi-kung
Chien Lung
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
Germany
France
England Moves Five Meters in 300 Years
Paris announces new longitude reckonings showing the Paris Greenwich distance has grown by five meters over 800 years. Researchers note improved instruments could explain some of the shift, while continental drift offers another possible cause.
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England
Paris
France
Paris Observatory
Greenwich
Louis XIV
Hunter vows Africa safari to bring white rhinoceros alive
George M. Bistany, a hunter from New York, plans a trip to Africa with the bold aim of capturing a white rhinoceros alive in Sudan. He believes the feat has never been achieved before.
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New York
George M. Bistany
Hunter
Africa
Sudan
Reform in Mexico City Police Ends Oil Lantern Era
Inspector general Antonio Rios Zertuche has instituted a reform in the police department replacing oil lanterns with pocket flashlights. The change updates equipment used by officers after years of reliance on lanterns.
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Mexico City
Antonio Rios Zertuche
133 Americans Take Citizenship in Mexico Mexico City
In the last twenty years 138 Americans have given up United States citizenship to become naturalized Mexicans. Americans rank sixth among foreigners taking Mexican citizenship papers in that period with 1,147 Chinese, 628 Spaniards, 179 Syrians, 176 Germans, and 150 Japanese also naturalizing. A total of 3,262 persons became naturalized Mexicans. Blame for the low figure is placed on unstable internal conditions and an antiquated, over severe naturalization law. The government is drafting a new more lenient law.
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Mexico
Mexico City
United States
The Lieut As Well As Who Fooled Czar Paul I
Berlin reports a Russia archival tale of Paul I's era. An order clerk misspelled Lieutenants Petroff Seminoll Ivanolli as Lieut As Well As, creating a fictitious officer who was sent to Siberia and later promoted before dying as Gen As Well As. The czar pardoned the phantom, who rose through ranks and was buried with pomp.
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Berlin
Russia
Paul L
Madezur
Paul
Petroff
Seminoll
Ivanolfl
Evar
Tne Trate
Siberia
Private Citizens Aid Migratory Bird Survey
W Z O Shields in Ware Shoals captured a chimney swift with an aluminum leg band bearing numerals and sent the data to the Bureau of Biological Survey. The bird was banded a year earlier at Tallahassee Florida by Charles O Handley and HH L Stoddard, aiding studies of American bird life and highlighting voluntary citizen participation in tagging programs.
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Shoals
United States Department of Agriculture
W. Z. O’shields
O’shields
Bureau of Biological Survey
Tallahassee
Fla
Charles O. Handley
HH. L. Stoddard
America
South China Merchants Seek Trade Revival in Canton
Canton in Kwantung province hosts a conference of 800 delegates from provincial chambers of commerce calling for a coordinated push to revive trade and native industries. They urge government cooperation to curb communism, harmony with labor, and cutting foreign middlemen to restore Canton's prosperity after lean years.
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South China
Canton
China
Kwangtung
Two Classic Gardens of the World’s Witty Masters
A fragment discuss two celebrated wits who left a picture of gardens as unconfined, painting at pleasure. It notes their view of the useful part of horticulture including fruit trees and herbs, with Virgil and Alcius cited as precedents, in a Pope era Gypsy text.
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Virgil
Corvelon
New Markets for Cotton Expand Industrial Uses
The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation notes cotton has widened beyond clothing to auto tires and bodies, bagging and baling, aviation fabrics, and many other industries. Cotton’s diverse applications raise per capita consumption, with railroads, housing, and cement roads among major users. ongoing research and design improvements spur further growth.
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Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
United States
Rubber Association of American
United States Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Cotton Textile Institute
Award Left to Women The French Femina Vie Prize
The Femina Vie prize of 5,000 francs is awarded annually with the Goncourt on the same day. Offered by Femina and Vie Heureuse to the best work in French prose or poetry by any author. Jury consists entirely of French women writers.
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Goncourt
Femina
Vogue
Vie Heureuse
Beautiful Lake Como in Lombardy Italy
Italian Lake Como is celebrated as the most beautiful in Italy. It lies in Lombardy at the Bergamese Alps western foot about 30 miles north of Milan. Elevation is 60 feet, area about 5414 square miles, greatest length 42 miles, width under 8 miles, depth 164 feet. Southern part divides into Bellagio and two arms, Lake Lecco and Lake Como, with the city of Como at its end.
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Lake
Como
Lombardy
Milan
Bellaggio
Lake Lecco
Lake Como
Ants as Weather Prophets in Florida Mounds
Odd weather tale notes yellow ants in Florida that sense rain at least a day ahead. They dig grubs to the surface from underground tunnels, moving into upper mound stories before a heavy storm. Their eyeless insects’ instinct remains mysterious yet reliable.
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Florida
Science Warns Industry of Benzol Poison Peril
Science warns that benzol exposure poses a health hazard in chemical labs and manufacturing plants where benzol is used for tests and as a solvent. Substitutes are urged, especially for cleaning, and routine blood exams are advised to monitor chronic exposure effects on white blood cells.
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Washington
J. J. Bloomfield
United States Public Health Service
Quite Different Golf Joke About Scorecard
A golfing novice hands a score card to the secretary shouting Two below bogey The official points out the figures aren t bogey The novice insists to compare the scores The secretary exclaims Great Scott that is the length of the course in yards
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Scott
Islands near Nicaragua shift under three-nation accord
A three-nation agreement between the United States, Nicaragua and Colombia settles ownership of scattered western Caribbean isles and banks. The northern group includes Quito Sueno Serrana and Reneador banks with U.S. lighthouses. the middle group centers on Providencia San Andres and Santa Catalina with a sizable population. the southern group covers Great Corn and Little Corn islands leased to the United States. The islands’ location near the planned Nicaraguan canal makes them strategically important for navigation, fishing rights, and potential base sites.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Nicaragua
Colombia
Caribbean
National Geographic Society
Bulletin
Panama Canal
Cuba
Ilaju
Atlantic
Panama
Cartagena
Haiti
Honduras
Costa Rica
Niearagua
Providencia
Old Providence
St. Andrew
San Andres
Santa Catalina
Tropics
Fishermen Ski Along Dungeness Shingle
Fishermen wear carved wooden foot devices that strap to their feet allowing easy walking on the wide shingle stretches at Dungeness England. The wooden fittings stabilize steps after a period of skating or sledging and greatly ease movement.
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Dungeness
England
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Sears- Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Pirate Islands
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