Navy bases in Pacific need expansion to fight war
The article notes United States naval bases are inadequate to sustain a war in the western Pacific. Pearl Harbor lacks major facilities beyond a dry dock, and Pacific coast bases would be stretched to support the fleet. The Yarks McKean report outlines a plan totaling 157 million dollars for Hawaiian, Breromerton, San Francisco, San Diego, San Pedro, the Columbia river, Port Angeles, and Keyport bases.
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Ashington
United States
Western Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Islands
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Atlantic Coast
Navy Department
Congress
Hawaiian Island
Senate
House
Yarks-McKean Board
Breromerton
Wash
San Francisco
San Diego
San Pedro
Columbia River
Port Angeles
Keyport
Housing Crisis Tops Davis Warning On Rent Gouging
Secretary of Labor Davis says TH housing with high rents is the era most serious problem facing government. He cites 500000 Chicago residents in unhealthy housing and notes rising illness and illegitimate births. Davis urges emergency rent curbs, cooperation of trades, and a shift to home building.
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Labor
Davis
Congress
Supreme Court
Chicago
Secretary of the Fine Arts Aims for Cabinet Post
The proposal for a Secretary of the Fine Arts is urged by a newly formed League of Artists. New York sculptor J Mas sey Rhino presented the idea to President Harding who asked for tangible arguments. The movement seeks constitutional wording for fine arts and a minister with portfolio to support artists and art education nationwide.
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League of Artists
J. Massey Rhino
New York
Harding
United States
House votes to set U S Army size at 150000 amid debate
In Congress the army bill was amended down from 168000 to 150000 by Byrnes, with Weeks seeking no cut below 175000. The House adjourned after a long debate as Republicans pressed for a larger force despite chaotic world conditions and a reduced next-year appropriation to 72 million.
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Washington
House
Weeks
Representative Kahn
Fish
Kahn
Byrnes
South Carolina
Congress
Clipping Sunday and Other English Time-Honored Customs
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note explains Clipping Sunday as a North Country custom where children circle the church and embrace it. It compares Mothering Sunday and Simnel Sunday with notes on Pace Egg Sunday and Nut Cracking Sunday, linking origins to biblical readings and local practices.
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England
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Goldsmith
Wakefield
Cleveland Plain Denier
Lower California Facts and Governance
The peninsula is largely mountainous and desert with minerals and towns and a population over 50,000. Since the Panama Canal opening mining activity increased. Ulloa explored in 1539 but it was once seen as an island. Connection to California found in 1842. It has a self governing system with a governor and elected legislature, though subject to Mexican federal law. Esteban Cantha is the present governor.
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Lower
California
Francesco de Ulloa
State of
Mexico
Esteban Cantha
Quicksilver Output Falls in 1918 Says USGS Data
Domestic production of quicksilver in 1918 reached 33 482 flasks of 75 pounds each valued at about 38 942 801 dollars. The 1917 output was higher, indicating a decrease in quantity for 1918 according to F L Ransome of the US Geological Survey.
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F. L. Ransome
United States Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Electrolyte in a Storage Battery
The electrolyte is a mixture of pure sulfuric acid and pure water used inside a storage battery.
Nelsons Bodyguard Lions Made From Old Naval Guns
Four majestic lions guard the Nelson monument in Trafalgar Square were forged from metals in old naval guns, matching the admiral statue’s ornate capital. The detail forms a notable colonial fascination featured in London Tit-Bits.
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Nelson
Trafalgar Square
London
Weeful Thing Delights in a Playful Quip
A humorous line imagines judges at a baby show anxious on pins and needles, then suggests they would be more useful as on runners, highlighting a witty theatrical aside about stagecraft.
Tigers Useful in Sumatra
The Paris Figaro notes Sumatra bans tiger hunting to protect plantations. Tigers curb wild boars and large rats, serving a utilitarian role. The piece dismisses political fear and frames tigers as guardians of agriculture rather than victims of outsiders.
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Sumatra
M. Clemenceau
Kipling
Paris
Figaro
He Who Does Things May Make Mistakes But He Who Does Nothing
A Birmingham Age Herald quotation notes a married man objecting to being locked with women jurors and being excused. It emphasizes proprieties and personal safety, asking what chances he would have had if he disagreed with the eleven ladies on the jury.
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Birmingham Age- Herald
Why Whitey Stayed Home From Work
A humorous reminiscence attributed to Whitey the office boy describes a day at Coney Island with a feast of peanuts hot dogs ice cream cones popcorn salt water taffy red lemon ade and a banana split. The tale ends with financial overindulgence and more peanuts as a friend treats him to a hot fudge sundae.
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Whitey
Coney
New York Sun
Fortunate Man and Uprightness Education Motto
A reflective excerpt contrasts Thackeray's view that fate is borne through early training in honor with the idea that efficiency, like culture, grows from within and cannot be imposed from outside.
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Lucky
Thackeray
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