Peculiar Town Names and The Postal Rules Behind Them
A look at how Peculiar, Missouri got its name after the Post Office blocked other options. The piece outlines naming rules, noting many towns share names across states, lists popular names and duplicates, and mentions foreign city borrowings such as Paris and Geneva.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Missouri
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Clinton
Chester
Arlington
Proves America Once Joined Asia Proves America Once Joined Asia
Roy Chapman Andrews of the Third Asiatic expedition reports a land connection between Asia and North America and vast fossil deposits in Mongolia. He notes discoveries of large and small dinosaur bones, a titanothere skull, and other prehistoric remains dating to millions of years ago. The team predicts many expeditions will be needed to study the finds.
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Washington
Peking
Roy Chapman Andrews
American Museum of Natural History of
New York
Asia
North America
Andrews
Central Asia
Europe
America
Mongolia
Gobi Desert
Altai Mountains
Chinese Turkestan
Charge Germans Bring Down French Airplanes
Paris reports a theory that German devices disable magnetos on aircraft in flight. French officers claim Berlin has halted cars within areas and a similar method is used on planes. Pilots may land and passengers released while cargo and aircraft are confiscated or destroyed. Germany, since January 1, regains air freedom under a treaty but blocks foreign military flights over Germany. Ruhr occupation continues weather reports are refused to aid air operations.
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Paris
Germany
Ruhr
Daughters Sue Father for Pay for Their Work
Edna Lieser, 36, and Len Lieser, 54, sue Frederick Lieser of Lafayette County Missouri for remuneration for personal services claimed since Edna reached 18. The daughters seek $10,000 plus annual pay and $21,100 as total damages. The suits are filed in Kansas City Missouri courts.
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Kansas. City
Frederick ‘Lieser
Lafayette County
Edna Lieser
Aoke
Len Lieser
Crow Awakens Friend in Time for Work
Hebe Patton a street car motorman in Dover Ohio has a pet crow that wakes him each morning at 6 by cawing at his bedroom window. Patton began caring for the bird after it fell from its nest three months ago.
Eighty Two Year Old Lieser Farm Sold After Family Claim
Frederick Lieser owned a 440 acre farm near Corder Missouri. His daughters say they were induced to stay and work with promises of payment and remembrance in the will. Lieser recently sold 220 acres of the farm and paid less than 500 dollars in cash in 1921.
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Frederick Lieser
Corder
Lieser
Skipper Found Dead At Wheel Of Japanese Vessel
The Japanese boat Fuso was overhauled by another vessel near San Diego California as its skipper Tomann was found lashed to the wheel with the engine running at full power. Physicians attributed death to heart trouble.
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San Diego
Cal
Fuso
O, Tomann
Growth of Local Indebtedness Across States Raises Alarm
The National Industrial Conference Board reports that public spending exceeds tax receipts and relies on public credit. State and local debts rise across Arizona California Idaho North Carolina and Ohio with bonds sold totaling over 1.1 billion in 1922 and aggregate long and short term securities added since 1912-18.
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UMB
United States
National Industrial Conference Board
Arizona
California
Idaho
North Carolina
Ohio
Atate
Communists alleged to fund propaganda abroad and in the U S
Washington officials claim a Russian plan to spread communism overseas includes 256 papers outside Russia with four in the United States. A document titled Secret Instructions to Commercial Representatives of Russia details aims to aid pacifist movements and incite strikes and hatred among officers, urging workers to be ready to fight.
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Russia
United States
R. M. Whitney
Washington
American Defense Society
Propaganda College
Communist Internationale
Mr. Whitney
Third Internationale
Lunacharsky
Bolshevist
Tchitcherin
Federal report urges reforms in Chicago grain futures market
The Federal Trade Commission backs daily public volume reporting of futures by grain type on the Chicago Board of Trade, bans brokers and insiders from speculating for their own account, and calls for impartial rulings on default rules. It also favors delivery flexibility to prevent squeezes and urges state or federal funding of storage capacity to aid farmers and merchants with negotiable receipts for borrowing.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Chicago
Board of Directors
Con Mission House
Prehistoric Pottery of New Mexico Noted by Smithsonian Expert
Dr. J Walter Fewkes head of the bureau of American Ethnology says prehistoric New Mexico pottery, including Mimbres Valley designs, is unexcelled in North America. The volume features naturalistic figures of humans and animals and complex geometric patterns across flood bowls and effigy vases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mimbres Valley
New Mexico
North America
J. Walter Fewkes
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Fewkes
Mimbres
Moun
Toiia
Mexico
Pueblo
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Peculiar
Troy
Salem
Madison
Marton
Manchester
Clayton
Glenwood
Kingston
Newport
Ashland
Centerville
Cleveland
Auburn
Dover
Hillsboro
Lincoln
Monroe
Oxford
Princeton
Springfield
Warren
Union
Greenville
Wilson
Belmont
Buffalo
Canton
Dayton
Burcks
Liberty
Milford
Plymouth
Burlington
Lebanon
Portland
Lexington
Jamestown
Hudson
Danville
Bane
Greenstone
Greenstown
Greenwald
New York State
Bloomburg
Bloomingdale
Blooming Grove
Bloomington
Bloomville
Horace
Jackson Height
Queens
Long Island
Luther B. Wilson
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