Weather Not Home Brew Says National Geographic
National Geographic notes weather is not domestically controlled but imported from Alaska and the North Pacific. Disturbances move across the continent in three or four days with highs cooling regions and lows bringing rain or snow. The bulletin hints at an odd winter and questions summer heat records.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Society
Gulf of Mexico
South Atlantic
Atlantic
Cape Thitteras
Umterial
Alaska Storm Center
Alaska
North Pacific
Aleutian Islands
Nawail
United States Sea
Weather Bureau
Society Bulletin
Uni
Ted States
Alberta
North
South Pacific
Rocky Mountains
Hadson Bay
Great Lakes
Tudson Bay
Solons Send Pages to Witness Circus
Sacramento assembly members deride circus day remarks as pages head to the big event. Frank L. Coombs leads a unanimous collection to cover pages admission, peanuts, and a festive afternoon as five boys march to the spectacle.
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Sacramento
Cal
Frank L. Coombs
Travel Frauds and Passport Swindles Target Orient Travelers
The article warns travelers of scams in the Orient and Balkans, detailing fake Serb inspectors who seize passports and demand invalid visas, with victims like Mrs. Polly losing $80. It notes refugees face costly visa schemes and frontier bribes, plus a railcar scam involving double payment and ticket collection.
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Constantinople
Orient
Balkan
J. Hf
Polly
London
Orient Gxpress
Paris
Fulfurin
Indians Mending Skulls with Stone Knives in Bolivia
New York report notes prehistoric South American tribes used trephination to treat skull wounds. Field workers for the American Museum of Natural History describe crude surgery, with stone or obsidian knives and copper tools, often covered by a gour d. No modern anesthetics. coca is used to induce insensibility.
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New York
South America
Bolivia
American Museum of Natural History
Adolph Bandelier
Americans Held in Russia After Odessa Arrival
Anna Weiser of Philadelphia reports Bolsheviks bar Americans from leaving Russia. She arrived via the Rechid Pasha at Odessa where officers from General Wrangel’s anti-Bolshevik forces were detained, with most sent to the farm workers army after questioning. French Haitian and British travellers could depart.
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Constantinople
Russia
Anna Weiser
Philadelphia
Rechid Pasha
Odessa
Prohibition Agent Arrests Moonshine Operator in Weston
Prohibition officer interrupted Dave Able during a noonday meal in Weston West Virginia and arrested him on a charge of operating a moonshine still.
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Weston
W. Va
Dave Able
Grace
Salvation Army Angel Captures Hearts of Donors
Capt. Rhoda Crawford of the Salvation Army inspires theater patrons to give generously to support the army’s work among the needy. She has been the gracious figure prompting contributions.
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Rhoda Crawford
Salvation Army
Windmill-Shaped Tree Featured in French Estate Garden
A north France estate showcases a windmill shaped four wing tree after years of careful pruning and training. The unusual garden display stands as a notable landscape sight in the region.
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France
Odd Circular House Built in 1856 in Somerville Mass
A circular three story house in Somerville Massachusetts built in 1856 by Boston merchant Enoch Robinson. The design features a smaller upper story, a circular front hall with a tubular entry, a circular library, an oval parlor, spiral stairs, five rooms radiating from the second floor entry, and a circular balcony on the top level overlooking the entry below.
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Somerville
Mass
Enoch Robinson
Boston
Largest Searchlight Shipped for Mount Tam Beacon
The General Electric Company ships a nearly three ton searchlight from Schenectady to San Francisco. It will beacon the Mount Tamalpais entrance to the Golden Gate, with a 60 inch lens and a beam visible at sea up to ten miles.
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Schenectady
N.Y
General Hleetrie Company
San Francisco
Citizens Committee
Mount Tamalpais
Golden Gate
Electric controls enable ten mile range for searchlight
Miss Catherine Chambers named court bailiff in Cleveland. The killdeer is common across America. The University of North Carolina admitted women in 1897. William Pheysey, British government wine taster, earns 7500 dollars yearly.
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Catherine Chambers
Cleveland
University of North Carolina
William Pheysey
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Anna Keiser
Forrest Adair
Scottish Rite Hospital
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Atlanta
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Madeira
Mundial
Isha of
Madeira da de Atlantic
Niagara
Horseshoe Falls
Niagara River
America
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