Nava homing Pigeons Tear Of Distances
A navy pigeon set a 110 mile race record at 1.25 miles per minute in a National Capital Contest. At Ana costa Navy station Chief Quartermaster Henry Bubee runs a homing pigeon school pairing practical care with training for long-distance flights and color breeding. World War I armies deployed 200000 homing pigeons and many carried messages home under fire. The Open Road.
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United States Navy
A. V. Wilcox
National Capital Concourse
Navy Air Station
Anacosta
Henry Bubee
Gulls of Great Lakes Show Varied Migration Routes
William I. Lyon of the Inland Bird Association reports a study of branded Great Lakes gulls and terns, marking over 3,500 birds to learn life length, mating habits and travel patterns. Birds from the same north regions follow different winter routes, revealing diverse migratory behavior.
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Great Lakes
William I. Lyon
Inland Bird Association
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Tenant and Landlord Upset Rent Dispute
A tenant complains the neighbor pays $20 less monthly and the landlord agrees to raise the neighbor's rent by $20 to resolve the issue. The dialogue hints at potential unequal treatment and tension between tenants and management.
Turks Debate European Dress as Kemal Calls for Conformity
Frantic speculation runs through hatters after Mustapha Kemal urges immediate adoption of full European dress. Constantinople prefect caps hatter profits at 30 percent and orders departments to conform. Ismed Pasha, the prime minister, wore a soft felt hat at a cabinet meeting recently.
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Mustapha Kemal
Constantinople
Ismed Pasha
Czechoslovakia Orders American Express Engines
The minister of railways in Czechoslovakia plans to buy American railway engines to boost railroad efficiency. The engines will run at 85 mph on upgrades and 65 mph on level stretches, intended for express trains.
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Czechoslovakia
Extravagance Crime Estimated Cost to Nation
A Chicago Daily News editorial asserts that extravagance crime costs the country about 10 billion dollars yearly and argues the price is too high to justify. It frames waste as a national burden and urges reform.
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Chicago Daily News
That Day Has Gone
A reflective line from the Urbana Democrat notes how times change and speeds feel slower now. The editor recalls a past era when ten miles an hour seemed rapid and modern, contrasting past and present attitudes toward progress.
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Urbana
Rieh Wein of Gold Under Race Course at Turffontein
The Jo hannesburg Turf club at Turffon tein South Africa hosts a productive gold mine beneath its race course. Miners operate at 6 500 feet depth under the meadow where horses run. Twenty three years ago two diamond drill holes cut the reef nearly a mile and a half deep near the Turf club edge.
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Johannesburg Turf Club
Turffontein
South Africa
Turf Club
Village
Prophecy Fulfilled On The World Stage
A compact line echoes prophecy about the world as a stage and Shakespearean foresight. The brief remarks link a universal makeup theme to a sense of destiny fulfilled.
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Shakespeare
Hotel on Crusoe Island Planned by Chilean Government
The Chilean government plans a hotel on Crusoe Island and will run passenger steamers to support Crusoe enthusiasts. A Crusoe hotel already exists in Largo, Fifeshire, linked to Alexander Selkirk, the real-life castaway of Defoe’s tale, inspiring such projects.
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Crusoe’s Island
Juan Fernande
Capper
Stamp Owner in Luck Leads to Stamps Recovery
A box of soap triggered a Buffalo NY stamp recovery saga. William Seeley stored a grip believed to hold rare stamps in a safety vault, then found only shoes clothes and a soap while the stamps vanished. Investigators traced ownership, recovered stamps, suspecting two bags were swapped on a tram.
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Buffalo
N. Y
William Seeley
Battle Creek
Mich
Green roses and blue carnations promise horticultural triumph
From London comes news that a blue carnation close to perfection is on display at an autumn show of the Pie Paval Trortisulbural society. The bloom shows bluish tints and purple hints, inspiring fellow horticulturists to persevere and seek color breakthroughs in greens and blues.
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London
Pie Paval Trortisulbural Society
Enormous Fertilizer Deposits Found Near White Island
A New Zealand report claims White Island in the group holds vast deposits of valuable fertilizer estimated at 2,000,000 tons ready for shipment. The island, once priced modestly for hogsheads of rum, is now valued in the millions.
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White Island
New Zealand
Hole in pavement likely saved Nora Palmers life
Twelve year old Nora Palmer of Atlantic City swallowed a 25 cent piece which lodged in her throat. An ambulance carried Nora toward the hospital when a bump dislodged the coin and cleared the airway.
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Nora Palmer
Atlantic City
Suillmound
Nora
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