Strengthening Panama Canal Defenses Urged by Navy
The Navy department critique from Panama Bay maneuvers outlines weaknesses in canal defenses. It calls for stronger anti bomb defenses, better separation of coast artillery, more aircraft cover, improved fleet communications, and upgraded scouting cruisers and destroyer leaders.
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Ashington
Panama Canal
Navy Department
Panama Bay
Pacific
Miraflores
Canal
Navy Approves Pacific Shore Station Building Plan
The Navy department backs a naval board's plan highlighting Pacific shore stations. Major bases receive about 111 million of 155.5 million total. Pearl Harbor gets 2 million now with 8 million yearly through 1938. Honolulu 42.5 million and San Francisco 26.5 million lead Western coast development.
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Pacific
Navy Department
Naval Board
Navy
Roosevelt
Department
Naval Base
Honolulu
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Canal Zone
San Diego
Philippines
Guam
Samoa
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Naval Air Stations
Finnallan Group
Hawaita. Matin
Great Lakes Training Camp
Unpublished Washington Letter Found After Cornwallis Surrender
The letter by George Washington dated November 18 1781, discovered in old House records and published by Secretary Weeks, thanks Robert H. Harris for congratulations on Cornwallis surrender and urges readiness for war to preserve peace. It notes Custis’s death causing family distress and is signed G Washington.
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George Washington
Cornwallis
Weeks
House of Representatives
William Tyler Page
House
Robert H. Harris
Washington
Supreme Court
Mount Vernon
York
Philadelphia
Annapolis
Great Britain
G. Washington
Strong Voices Promise a Roaring Senate Next December
Washington correspondent notes a new breed of senators arriving with bold oratorical power led by Fighting Bob La Follette and others. The piece recalls firebrand pasts like Foraker and Johnson and predicts a dramatic shift in Senate culture embracing a loud reform stance.
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Senate
Washington
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Joe Foraker
Ohio
Hiram Johnson
California
Magnavox
Johnson
Minnesota
Wildman
Brookhart
Iowa
Bob” la Follette
Wisconsin
Death Toll in Japanese Disaster Reaches 250000
Osaka dispatches report at least 250000 dead from the Japan earthquake and fire with Tokyo and Yokohama most affected. The calamity follows a Saturday quake with fires destroying 200000 homes, widespread destruction, martial law, relief offices, and international aid efforts underway.
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Osaka
Japan
Tokyo
Yokohama
Osaka Mainichi
Keiji University
Higher Technical School
Kumnamae Women’s Higher Normal School
Fist High School
Ashea
Takanawa
Aoyama
Patent Office
Board of Audit
Legation
Nicolas Temple
Shimazu Arisugwa
Tsukiji
Asakusa
Mainichi
New Japan
Laat
Nihondenski Electrical Works
Specie Bank
Yokohama Sab Re
London Maru
Tle
Tokiote
Ushirome
Asyamader
Toky
Etarva‘tion
Eifforta
Haere
Fresh White Baby Clothes With Red Cross Ball Blue
A brief ad touts Red Cross Ball Blue for fresh white baby clothes. It claims no streaks or damage and notes it is sold by all good grocers. The dialog implies a desire for freedom to marry, but the ad centers on laundry use and product quality.
Comfort for boy bathers at Madison Square
The article notes 15 to 16 boys bathe at Madison Square fully clothed to avoid police attention. They exit via a sidewalk grate at Broadway and Twenty second Street where a warm drying breeze dries their dripping clothes, a scene described by the New York Sun and Globe.
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Bailey's Beach
Rye Beach
Manhattan Beach
Coneysland
Madison Square
New York Sun
Globe
Madison
Broadway
Coming and Going Too Near to Readable Names
Two brothers mentioned in a fragmentary note, including an undertaker, are hinted at as connected to a local event. The text lacks clear context, dates, or places but implies a pair of brothers involved in activities or roles described as coming and going.
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Brown
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Milionaires
Marcus’ Alonzo Hanna
Oshima
Bonin Ielands
Coolidge
United ‘States
Bonin Islands
Enoshima
Picture Isles
Honomuku
Isoko
Eknoshima
Shanghai
Iwaki
Honjo
U. S
Black Hawk
Huron
Manila
American
Red Cross
America
Chefoo
Admiral Anderson
Far East
Stewart, Smith
Thompson
Parker
Tracy
John D. Edwards
Whipple
Darien
Calvin Coolidge
United States
Battin Sorina
Soa
Lampet
Rene Ene
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