No Monopoly on Gems Says Jewelry Expert
A Cincinnati Enquirer jeweler asserts precious stones originate worldwide with India Brazil and South Africa supplying diamonds. He details color varieties for ruby emerald sapphire aquamarine and morganite noting sources including Burma Ceylon Australia Colombia and Russia and recounts historical links to Cleopatra and J P Morgan.
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Enquirer
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Brazil
South Africa
King of Burmah
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Ceylon
Mandalay
Afghanistan
Siam
Australia
Borneo
Europe
Rhine Valley
Colombia
South America
New South Wales
Serbia
Egypt
Cleopatra
Mexico
Ural Mountains
Russia
Alaska Hospital Ship to Aid Natives This Summer
A well equipped hospital ship will operate along the Yukon and its tributaries from the Canadian border to St. Michael during navigable months. The service offers emergency medical care to isolated Alaska natives and will be permanent thanks to a congressional appropriation under the Alaska division of the Bureau of Education, Interior Department.
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Yukon
Canadian
St. Michael
Alaska
Bureau of Education
Interior Department
Miami Beach Golf Course to Use 100000 Pounds Sugar Fertilizer
A developer plans to apply 100000 pounds of Cu ban raw sugar as fertilizer on greens and fairways at four Miami Beach courses. Sugar was bought at 10 cents a pound due to market surplus, cheaper than Everglades muck soil previously used.
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Miami Beach
Iverglades
Man hits horse delaying work day in New York Herald Tribune
A department manager frets about calling in a substitute as a telephone call arrives. The voice on the wire says he will be late because he just hit a horse, a quirky line from the New York Herald Tribune reflecting office chaos and a comic mishap.
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New York Herald- Tribune
English Bible Origins Tindale and Coverdale Lead
The article credits the English Bible largely to two translators Tindale and Coverdale, noting John Wycliffe’s earlier fourteenth century version as a precursor. It recounts Tindale’s bold vow to teach Scripture to a plowboy and his pursuit of Greek to English translation in Oxford Cambridge and London, with anecdotes from contemporaries.
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Tindale
Coverdale
John Wycliffe
Oxford
Wycliffe
John Purvey
William Tindale
Gloucestershire
Cambridge
Erasmus
Little Sodbury
London
Tunstall
Kansas City Times
Miniature universes teach Earth’s crowding at saturation
Dr. Raymond Pearl at Johns Hopkins demonstrates using a half pint bottle filled with fruit flies to model Earth's growth. He shows population rises slowly, then quickly, then slows to a saturation point around 5.2 billion, suggesting human growth in time may stabilize unless limits are reached.
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Raymond Pearl
Johns Hopkins University
Earth
Ile
Doctor
Presidency in Haiti Sees Repeats of Turmoil and Stabilization
The piece recalls Haiti's hazardous presidency history with 17 leaders ousted by revolution and several killed or dying violently. It notes a U.S. intervention in 1915 to establish order and reports the twenty seventh election passing without revolution or murder, aided by U.S. Marines.
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Haiti
United States
What We Talk About An Analysis of 500 Conversations
A study reported in the Journal of Comparative Psychology analyzes 500 overheard conversations in Columbus Ohio. Men discuss business most at 40 percent, sports 15 percent, and talk about other men 12 percent. Women focus on men 22 percent and clothes 19 percent.
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Columbus
Ohio
Journal of Comparative Psychology
Perfect Saleswoman Inspires Lighting Sales Force
Secretary of Labor Davis cited a Atlantic City convention anecdote about a Paint Rock housewife who persuaded a salesman to buy freckle remover jars she made herself. The tale illustrated how persuasive marketing could drive universal lighting adoption.
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Davis
National Electric Light Association
Atlantic City
Paint Rock
George
Lumpkin County Court Notifies Objections to Support Claim
Mrs. Rebecca Lance seeks a year of support from the estate of W P R Lance deceased. Appraisers filed their return. All concerned must show cause before the Lumpkin County Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in November 1926 why the application should not be granted. Dated October 5 1926 W B Townshid Ordinary.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
J. N. Satterfield
Goh, Waters, Admr
Jno. T. Couch
John T. Couch
Court of Ordinary
W. B. Townsenn
Rebecca Lance
W. P. R. Lance
W. B. Townshid
Ethel Brannon
Willie H. Hutcheson
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