Mediterranean Cruise Offers Wonders of Ancient Lands
The piece touts world travel from New York on Canadian Pacific liners to voyages including the Empress of Scotland and Duchess ships. It highlights Egypt Italy Spain Turkey Syria Palestine and Greece as top attractions with a 72 day Mediterranean cruise starting February 4 1929 and contrasts camel trips with luxury cars.
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United States
Seven Seas
South America
Africa
Thaises
Mediterranean
Egypt
Italy
Spain
Turkey
Syria
Palestine
Isles
Greece
Sappho
Arne
Scotland
Australia
West India
Canadian Pacific Steamships
New York
Wall Street
Dimensions of Australia
Australia lies wholly in the southern hemisphere. Its east west length reaches about 2 400 miles while north south extent runs around 1 971 miles.
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Australia
Hemisphere
INAS
China
Fengtien
Kirin
Heilungkiang
Manchuria
Kuomintang
Nanking
Chang. Hsuelviang
Chang Tso-lin
Japan
No wonder Methuselah lived so long
In the Des Moines Register a playful note suggests Methuselah’s long life was possible before cars. The writer jokes that there were no automobiles in his era, implying slower life and different pace.
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Methuselah
Des Moines Register
Learning From Patients Says Old Doctor Learned From Patients
An old doctor told me that most of his medical knowledge came from patients rather than books or schools. He also expressed strong disdain for doctors.
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B. W. Howe
Snakes as mousers in Havana stores
Havana storekeepers rely on boa snakes as rodent control instead of cats. The snakes patrol shops, chasing mice, with vendors claiming effectiveness and reduced need for conventional pest control. Local observers note a growing trend in urban commerce adopting reptiles for sanitation.
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Havana
Fools and Hope for the Perpetual Fool
An aphoristic note suggests fools vary with time and may change if they admit their folly. It argues there is hope for those not permanently foolish and hints at a path to self awareness and reform.
Washed Gold: Beach Gold Recovered from Sands
Beach gold refers to gold recovered from shorelines and washed from sands. The term describes gold particles moved by waves and tides and later collected for value.
Hoover Coolidge clash over German reparations plan
Edward W. Pickard reports on Hoover returning to Washington to confer with Coolidge on American participation in an experts conference to fix German reparations, Dawes plan reactions, and implications for allied war debts and future payments.
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Edward W. Pickard
Hoover
Washington
Coolidge
Conference of Experts
United States
Germany
Seymour Parker Gilbert
Gilbert
Parker
le Temps
Paris
France
Reich
Rhineland
von Hindenburg
Mueller
Berlin
Mellon
Cumming
Public Health Service
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
President and Mrs Coolidge's Georgia Sea Islands Trip
President and Mrs Coolidge return to Washington from a Georgia Sea Islands vacation. They visited historic sites and hunted pheasants wild turkeys and quail. They stayed with Mr and Mrs Howard E Coffin and enjoyed New Year’s at sea.
Incision Protocol Fixes Conciliation For Bolivia Paraguay
In Washington a protocol fixes submitting disputes between Bolivia and Paraguay to conciliation. A nine judge commission will consider matters and all hostilities are suspended.
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Cesemire Cage Amor Roe
Bolivia
Paraguay
Washington
Wighet
Congress Reconvenes as Kellogg Pact Ratification Sways
Congress reconvened on January 3 with debate over the fifteen cruiser bill and pressure from supporters urging ratification of the Kellogg Briand war renunciation treaty.
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Foreign Relations Committee
Hale
Naval Affairs Committee
Senate
Tihat
Dat Otiers
Tinkham
Massachusetts
House
Wilbur
United States
Great Britain
France
Congress
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