Pius XI Keeps 16 Hour Day with Busy Schedule
Rome reports Pius XI works sixteen hours daily, granting unprecedented audiences to diplomats and pilgrims amid a busy Lucharistic congress. He orders moving lunch times, replaces wall tapestries with plain walls, and surrounds himself with efficient Lombard aides while insisting on instant obedience and simple private life.
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Rome
Pius III
Leo XL
Benedicct
Pius
Pius X
Holy Father
Pius XI
Monsignor
Gonfalonieri
Venini
Milan
Benedict
Holiness
Crooks Hide Loot in Safe Deposit Vault
Two criminals confessed leading detectives to a bank safe deposit box used to hold stolen property. Abe Harris and Louis Klein pleaded guilty to possessing burglary tools and Klein agreed to open the box. The box was empty. a third man’s involvement is suspected as a possible key holder.
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New York
Abe Harris
Louis Klein
Klein
Harris
Radio Masher Peeves Lady Philadelphia
Governor Sproul recounts a letter from a furious woman who bought a radio and heard a coarse voice ask for a date at a graveyard corner near Qua ker town, with plans to take her to Atlantic City. He jokes that radio development moved faster than understanding and that action would come.
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Friends’ Graveyard
Quakertown
Atlantic City
Engineer Finds Chicks Where He Left Eggs
Groveland California engineer Tom McKenna of the Hetch Hetchy railroad found six young chickens in the engine cab 25 days after placing eggs there. He had left the eggs to hatch while away at meals and heard peeping as the chicks hatched yesterday in camp.
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Groveland, Cal
Tom McKenna
Hetch- Hetchy
McKenna
Broadcaster curb urged to stop imposing persona on world
A call to halt a controversial broadcaster from injecting his personal style into national discourse. Advocates warn the public against the lasting impact of his rhetoric and urge media regulators to action.
Sea lion takes command of seaplane on destroyer range
A 75 pound sea lion boarded Seaplane No. 3 off the Coronado Islands near San Diego and refused to leave. Under Ensign Edward Dobeck the crew tried to remove it but the animal resisted, injuring a crewman, and finally was kept in place with life preservers. The sea creature was brought to North Island to serve as a mascot for the seaplane force.
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San Diego
Cal
Coronado Islands
Edward Dobeck
North Island
Boy leaps into mother in Port Carbon fatal accident
Edward Barry eleven years old accidentally caused the death of Mrs. Alice Childs forty five by leaping into her arms at Port Carbon. Mrs Childs was seated in a rocking chair when the boy entered from the piano and jumped into her lap causing internal injuries leading to her death.
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Pottsville
Edward Barry
Alice Childs
Port Carbon
Bonar Law Plays In Tennis Tournament
British statesmen take time for sport as Bonar Law competes in a tennis tournament with the Duke of York and Lord Balfour among the contenders.
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Dent
Mr. Bonar Law
Duke of York
Lord Balfour
Woman Opera Director Emma R Steiner Leads 6000th Performance
Emma R Steiner of New York, cousin of Civil War heroine Barbara Fritchle, is renowned as the country’s only woman opera director. She has directed over 6,000 performances across 50 operas and presently serves as musical director of the Music Temple of the World.
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Emma R. Steiner
New York
Barbara Fritchle
Music Temple of the World
Veiled Prophets of a Secret Masonic Order
A modern secret society called the Mystic Order of Veiled Prophets of the Inchanted Realm claims over 100000 master Masons in good standing. It denies ties to Khreemagonry. Its ritual draws on a Persian manuscript from Teheran. Members are titled prophets with grottos as branches and a grand monarch as chief.
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America
Teheran
Cutting Off the Last Word Archeology Joke
An old joke claims archaeologists found a headless Egyptian princess in a tomb. It jokes that in some oriental households the head of the house beheads the wife after a quarrel to cut the argument short. The imagined last words are attributed to the princess.
Worth Knowing Fact Summary
Sicily and Italy are large exporters of sulphur. Ontario is the greatest nickel producer. About 45000 stitches make an ordinary suit. Minneapolis housing survey by mail carriers. Over 5000 miles of nets set nightly in English Channel during herring season. Natural gas first mentioned by Thomas Shirley in 1667. Coos county Oregon aims to exterminate coyotes paying 8 for males and 8 for females. New telephone cable laid between Scotland and Ireland linking Glasgow and Belfast. Carnegie Foundation gave 150000 toward the Isaf ye HYEMIers model city project. 80 miles from Paris, HYEMIers, destroyed in the Work.
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Italy
Ontario
Canada
Minneapolis
English Channel
Thomas Shirley
Royal Society of England
Coos County
Ore
Scotland
Ireland
Glasow
Belfast
Carnegie Foundaion
Iesa
Isaf Ye
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