Carabao as a Work Animal in Tropics Faces Insect Barriers
The article discusses tropical work animals and obstacles to industrial progress, highlighting the tsetse fly in Central Africa and other insects that irritate horses and cattle. It notes water buffalo thrives in warm moist climates and wet crops like rice, but is limited in use. It compares buffalo, Indian cattle, and Java banteng, noting size and resilience differences.
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Central
Africa
Philippines
India
Java
Mothers Find Peace Along Sunshine Wall in Paris
In the Luxemburg garden northwestern corner a sunlit wall hosts Fournier's mosaic of a winged angel over a city. Mothers sit along the wall with sleeping children, talking, sewing, and dreaming, while busts of Ingres, David, Delacroix overlook from above.
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Paris
Luxemburg Garden
Luxemburg Museum
Fournier
Ingres
David
Delacroix
London Daily Mall
Rewards Offered By Sheep Growers Association
The Madison National Forest Sheep Growers Association offers a $250 reward for the conviction of any sheep thief and a $100 reward for the conviction of any camp robber.
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Madison National Forest Sheep Growers’ Association
Banana Origins and Names Through the Ages
A Chicago Journal excerpt discusses early legends about bananas in Eden linked to good and evil, the Musa paradi sia and Musa Sapientum classifications, and the shift from apple of paradise to banana. It notes the Congo term banana and the plantain distinction, as well as Linnaeus naming Musa after Antonius Musa.
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East
W. T. Pope
United States Department of Agriculture
Linnaeus
Antonius Musa
Chicago Journal
Modern Homes Rise on Historic Franciscan Estate
An old Franciscan estate on the heights east of Manila preserves a seventeenth century church and a chapel ruin. Missionary history tells of friars who faced tortures and bled to resist apostasy as they prayed along the via crucis in the monastery courtyard. An American owner has laid out suburban home sites while keeping the chapel and church intact.
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Manila
Spain
Philip II
Japan
China
Cochinchina
Cambodia
India
Java
Moluccas
Missionary Delivered Onion Note in Cannibal Chief Plot
A missionary captured by a cannibal chief is freed on condition he carry a packet to a mountains chief. He parts with marines to deliver it, but an officer opens the packet to reveal onions and a note claiming the bearer will be delicious with them.
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Boston Transcript
Poetic Justice Quip From Lowell Thomas About an Arab Tale
The writer-lecturer Lowell Thomas recalls an Arab tale in which a thief steals a horse and sends his son to market to sell it. On the way the son is robbed and returns empty handed, prompting the father to ask how much the horse brought. The son answers it brought the price the father had paid.
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Lowell Thomas
A World Thinker The need of the hours for a world thinker
Grove Patterson argues in the Mobile Journal that society needs world thinkers who transcend small confines and survey the long road of history. He urges men with broad perspective to guide civilization through its current era.
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Grove Patterson
The
Mobile Journal
Detecting Morphia in Substances by Color Tests
The chemist can detect morphia at one twenty thousandth part of a grain. After preparing the usual residue, iodic acid causes the mixture to turn blue with starch paste if morphia is present. Alternatively chloride of zinc with heating yields a vivid green color.
Rarin to Go Is A Story Of Courtship In Alabama
An Alabama man recounts a short courtship tale featuring a darkey couple. Dialogue: Rastus initiates with Why don t you take me, she replies you ain t asked me, he retorts well now I asked you, and she confirms I have you. The vignette plays on dialect and social norms of the era.
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Alabama
Rastus
Livery Public School
Adventurous Miss O'Brien Back From Africa Pygmies
Miss O'Brien returns to St Paul after Africa trip saying pygmies are darling yet need guidance to act wild. She hoped for moving pictures and notes many American girls could train pygmies. She calls Africa rough for a man but fine for a woman.
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Miss O'Brien
St. Paul
Minn
Fountain Pens Through the Ages
A concise note tracing fountain pens from early use in 1600s travel writings to mentions in 1788 advertisements. It notes the term came into common use by then and cites a 1754 Dictionary of Arts and Sciences definition describing a silver or brass pen that holds ink and allows flow.
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London
Hoover Nomination Shapes Convention Budgets and Battles
The Republican convention centered on Hoover’s control as the platform battles unfurled over farm policy and prohibition. Radio coverage brought the proceedings to nationwide listeners, with debates over the farm board and anti alcohol enforcement dominating the agenda.
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Herbert C. Hoover
Hoover
Coolidge Delivers Broad Semiannual Economic Report
President Coolidge presents a semiannual address in Memorial Hall outlining his policy to restrain the budget cut taxes and reduce the national debt. He argues prosperity rests with the people not the government and cites stabilization as key to postwar industry gains.
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Coolidge
Memorial Hall
Washington
Former Klan aide ARL Klinck convicted in Indianapolis case
ARL Klinck once guard to D. Stephenson was found guilty by a jury in Indianapolis of being accessory in attesting a false affidavit. He faces one to three years and appealed. The Evansville oncetime policeman linked to thwarted indictments of Tom Adams Vincennes and Boyd Gurley Indianapolis after a forged affidavit to the federal grand jury.
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Arl Klinck
Stephenson
Indianapolis
Klinck
Evansville
Tom Adams
Vincennes
Boyd Gurley
Federal Grand Jury
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Standard Aircraft Corp
United States District Judge Thomas B. Thatcher of New York dismissed the federal suit in equity against Standard Aircraft Corporation to recover 2 394 438 48 dollars allegedly paid in settlement of war air contracts. A counterclaim of the defendant for an unknown matter was noted.
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NITED
Thomas B. Thatcher
New York
Standard Aircraft Corporation
Coolidge Family Season at Wisconsin Summer White House
President and Mrs. Coolidge settled for the season on the Brule River in Wisconsin after a two day vacation delay due to Mrs. Coolidge illness. White House offices moved to Superior with the President to travel as needed guarded by Fort Snelling troops near the lodge. Education costs for public school pupils rose to 102.50 in 1926 from 38.81 in 1918, while public school building expenditures peaked in 1925 at 433 million dollars and fell by 22 million in 1926 as construction outpaced wartime shortages.
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Minn
Federal Bureau of Education
League of Nations ends Geneva session without Vilna settlement
The council warned that bitterness over Lithuania and Poland remains a chief danger to European peace after failing to resolve the Vilna dispute. Leaders expect Baltic tensions to rise or ease by September, with possible action at the league’s general assembly.
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Lithuania
Poland
Council of the
League of Nations
Geneva
Vilna
League
Stewart acquitted in DC case over Continental Oil bonds
Obert W. Stewart of Standard Oil Indiana was cleared by a DC District Court jury on charges of refusing to answer Senate committee questions about Continental Oil bonds. Emmeline Pankhurst, famed suffragist, dies in London nursing home at 69 after brief illness.
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Obert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Washington
Senate
Continental Oil Company
Stewart
Emmeline Pankhurst
London
England
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