Hoover’s Inland Waterways Plan Advocates Major Spending
President Hoover outlined a decade long program to invest about one billion dollars in inland waterways. He called for completing the Mississippi canalization within five years, expanding intercoastal canals, stabilizing Great Lakes channels, and funding flood control for the Mississippi basin. The plan would shift from war material to peacetime infrastructure.
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Peespent Hoover
Louisville
Ohio
Mississippi
St. Lawrence
Coun
Mississippi Basin
Great Lakes
Hoover
Cincinnati
Helen Park
Madison
Ind
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
Washington
Albany
Edison Golden Jubilee Celebrated Worldwide at Greenfield
The fiftieth anniversary of Edison’s incandescent lamp was observed globally with a Greenfield Detroit area celebration led by Henry Ford. President and Mrs Hoover attended along with government officials and notable guests including Mme Curie of France.
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New York
City Bank Farmers Trust Company
Oregon
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
Hoover
Detroit
Uight
Edison
Prince of Wales
Hindenburg
Germany
Owen D. Young
Mr. Holison
Edsel
Greenfield
Edison Institute of Technology
Ford
Menlo Park
Central sales agency planned for cooperative livestock firms
Twenty nine co operative livestock sales agencies met in Chicago at the farm board chairmans call. They expect a central agency with subsidiary corporations owned by member agencies to stabilize the livestock industry. Legge urged parity between Industry and agriculture to curb rising radicalism and warned farmers may become peasantry without quick aid.
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Chicago
Legge
Farm Board
America
Lawmaker Hearings On Sugar Duties Turn To Lobbying Costs
Herbert Lakin, head of the Cuba company, testified before the Senate committee on lobbying that American interests in Cuban sugar have spent 75 000 in lobbying against higher sugar duties and maintained a Washington propaganda HQ costing 24 000 to date. He said efforts aim to be fair to all groups and that his representatives are necessary to safeguard his interests.
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Herbert ©. Lakin
New York
Cuba
Senate
Washington
Lakin
Caraway
Briand Steps Down as French Premier After Confidence Vote
Ristide Briand, premier of France, and his cabinet quit last week after the chamber of deputies rejected confidence in Briand's foreign policy by a 288 to 277 vote. Briand, serving as premier 13 times and in poor health, said he would not accept another government post. He urged postponement of debate on his policy until he could confer with allied governments and until the Hague Conference resumed for action on the international bank.
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Ristide Briand
France
Chamber of Deputies
Briand
the Hague
International Bank
Pressure in Italy and Yugoslavia prompts protest note
ECAUSH a Slovene student was executed in Pola Italy and anti Italian riots erupt in Belgrade and other Yugoslav cities. Italian representatives are threatened and insulted. Mussolini through Carlo Galli demands immediate investigation and end to press campaign against policies.
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Ecaush
Pola
Italy
Belgrade
Yugo Slavia
Mussolini
Carlo Galli
Italian Prince Humbert Engaged to Belgium’s Princess Marie Jose
Prince Humbert of Italy arrived in Brussels to seek Princess Marie Jose of Belgium’s hand. The Belgian king and queen consented, the engagement was announced, and Italy’s royal consent followed. The prince laid a wreath at Belgium’s Unknown Soldier tomb the next day and was fired upon by Italian student Fernando di Rose but remained unharmed and carried on with the ceremony.
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Humbert
Italy
Brussels
Marie-Jose
Belgium
Fernando di Rose
Afghan civil war ends with surrender of deposed king
Bachna Sakao the deposed king and 1000 followers surrender to Nadir Khan the new ruler with pledge of life spared Amanullah congratulates Nadir on the settlement and peace move reflecting a shift in Afghan leadership.
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Ivil
Afghanistan
Bachna Sakao
Nadir Khan
Amanullah
Nadir
Explosion Fire Destroys Hollywood Film Labs. One Dies
A blast and blaze leveled Consolidated Film Industries laboratories in Hollywood causing multimillion dollar losses. About 75 percent of motion picture producers used the facility. Fifty people were inside. Albert Lund died after being removed unconscious, others escaped unharmed.
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Hollywood Laboratories
Consolidated Film Industries
Albert Lund
Cattleman Diteman's Atlantic Hop and Dornier Flight
Jaban F Diteman Jr Montana cattleman and amateur aviator began a surprise flight from Harbor Grace Newfoundland to London and may have been lost in the Atlantic with a remote Greenland landing possibility. The Dornier sea plane carried 109 persons plus 150 passengers nine stowaways and ten crew on Lake Constance, flying nearly an hour at 106 mph, with a 138 mph capability. Italy Japan and Spain placed orders for similar aircraft.
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Jaban F. Diteman, JR
Montana
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
London
Italy
Japan
Spain
Convicted Union Leaders Sentenced in Aderholt Killing
Police Chief Aderholt murder case in Gastonia linked strike turmoil. Even among the Communist labor leaders tried in Charlotte, several from New York and other areas were found guilty of second degree murder and given prison terms from five to twenty years.
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Charlotte
N. C
Aderholt
Gastonia
New York
Market Crash Shocks New York Stock Exchange
The fierce bear raids produced the wildest scene the NYSE has seen as stock prices plummeted, wiping out billions in paper profits. Trading was chaotic as brokers rushed to fill orders and quotations lagged for about two hours amid similar unrest in the curb market, Chicago, and other exchanges.
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Ierce
Bears
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago
Bulls
Valuable Discovery in Tuning of Church Bells
A Kansas City Star Science Service piece explains that a bell’s harsh sound often comes from internal dissonance among its five notes. By turning and shaving the bell’s interior, makers tune strike, nominal, hum, third, and fifth to harmony, reviving a lost art of bell tuning.
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Kansas City Star
Science Service
Calculating Boy Marvels Across Ages
A Belgian boy Andre Lenoir is said to multiply two five figure numbers at age two. The phenomenon of calculating children appears instinctive, sometimes vanishing with real math knowledge. George Parker Bidder, born 1806, dazzled as a child and later became an engineer linked to Stephenson and major railway projects.
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Andre Lenoir
George Parker Bidder
Robert Stephenson
London and Birmingham
London and North-Western Railway
The
Electric Telegraph Company
Institution of Civil Engineers
Victoria Docks
Profits in Marsh Land Potential in Wetland Farming
Proper care can make marsh and wet land productive profits. Draining is common but not always successful. Wet areas can yield fish wild ducks geese and fur beavers and muskrats. They can also produce large amounts of food for waterfowl and provide hunting recreation with camera or gun.
Ontario Towns Echo British History Names
In southern Ontario a district features towns named London Stratford Waterloo and Kitchener. London sits on the Thames while Stratford honors Shakespearean lore near the Avon. The write up notes a historic naming pattern reflecting literary ties.
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Ontario
Canada
London
Thames River
Stratford
Waterloo
Kitchener
New York Times
Pet Squirrel Interrupts Kansas City Church Wedding
Perky the bride's gray squirrel leapt onto the bride's head during the Lohengrin ceremony at a Kansas City church. The groom removed the pet and casually tossed it out the window as the crowd watched in amused silence.
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Kansas City
Perky
Man Tricked by Sales Pitch in Long Island Canoe Dip
A Long Island bungalow owner visited a sporting goods store seeking a canoe. The clerk pushed a launch instead, but the buyer left with no purchase. He complained that the salesman created interest in a launch then, lacking funds, he did not buy.
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Long Island
New Orleans
Waxworks Comment Sparks Carriage Door Snub
A chatty, good-tempered man annoys fellow passengers in a dull carriage. He tries to converse but fails as silence prevails. At a stop the snubbed passenger exits and, just before the door slams, quips Waxworks, by gum.
Fortune, Foxes and the Rockefellers in Public View
A historical reflection praises John D. Rockefeller for business acumen and philanthropy while contrasting cleverness to foxlike intelligence. It condemns pessimistic critics as "second raters" and likens their debates to barbers and tennis players discussing economics and transportation.
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Barbers
Not Intelligent If Self Harm Is Repeated Yet Warned
The text argues that repeated self harm despite warnings shows lack of intelligence and condemns famous figures like Rousseau and Jazarus for failing private life tests. It asserts practical sense and fairness in vital affairs determine intelligence regardless of public achievements.
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Jean Jacques
Rousseau
Jazarus
Hin
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