Panama Canal Ten-Year Growth Stuns Washington
A National Geographic bulletin marks ten years of the Panama Canal since its 1914 opening, noting it has eclipsed Suez in traffic and will need enlargement. It highlights tolls, profits, and the canal’s large role in coastwise and international trade, with annual tolls around 65 thousand dollars daily.
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Uncle Sam
Suez Canal
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Big Ditch
National Geographic Society
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United States
Sault Ste. Marie
Viscount Bryce
Canal
Coolidge
Panama Canals
Canal Zone
Chagres
Gatun Dam
Alhajuela
Gatun ‘Oke
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Australasia
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Japan
Andes
Chile
France
China
Singapore
South Seas
Baltimore
Araby
Panama City
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Colon
Caribbean
New Gland Grafts Promised to Increase Sheep Wool
Dr Serce Voronoff, famed surgeon, told a scientific congress in Siege Belgium that gland transplantation could raise wool yield in sheep. He noted the operation won’t work on all sheep but may create a special breed from select descendants. Experiments reportedly ongoing on 3000 sheep in Algeria and on goats.
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Siege
Belgium
Serce Voronoff
Algeria
New Georgetown Seismograph Enhances quake records
Georgetown University Seismological Observatory adds the Galitzin vertical seismograph, a unique instrument in this hemisphere with magnetic registration and photographic recording. The device promises more frequent quake reporting, improving interpretation of Earth's shaking. Father Francis A. Tondorf aims to raise annual detections from around 4 to 110 to 200–400.
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Washington
Georgetown University Selemological Observatory
Atlantic
Doctor Sleberg
Jena
Georgetown
Francis A. Tondorf
Georgetown Observatory
Healy
Father Tondorf
International Seismological Society
United States
Golden State Statue of Mineral Wealth for California Capitol
A granite statue titled Mineral Wealth by sculptor Edward Fields Sanford Jr. will be among four stone figures destined for the California state capitol in Sacramento. The piece highlights mineral resources and forms part of a series planned to adorn the capitol.
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California State Capitol
Sacramento
Edward Fields Sanford, Jr
Standing Room Only Puts "Pep" in the Turk
Constantinople. Emine Bey the new prefect orders no chairs in offices except those used by officials. The aim is to curb officials delaying business by hosting visitors with coffee and long talks.
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Constantinople
Emine Bey
Wealthy Sir Lemuel Kelly Founded New Town in Ulste
Sir Lemuel Kelly a wealthy mine owner created Newtownkelly Ulster railway sidings and mining town. He prospected coal, sunk two deep shafts, built overhead equipment and laid a line. Colliers from Cumberland and Scotland settled there, making it a major Irish commercial venture.
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Belfast
Newtownkelly
Lemuel Kelly
Ireland
Elote
Cumberland
Scothand
Turtle carvings reveal 1684 dating near Woerner mill
A fragmentary 1684 turtle carving was found at the Woerner place near Kessel with the inscription Joseph and Woerner and May 11 1684. Edward Smith reports the same turtle was found previously by Kee about 60 yards away this week.
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Aek
Woerner
Kessel
Joseph
Indian Legends Explain Squirrels Wings and Birds
Seneca myth explains why woodchucks lost tails and bullfrogs lost teeth as a lesson in caution and virtue. The flying squirrels gained a blanket for gliding, while wolves and herons shape the tale's moral. New York Times calls these bedtime tales of real American fairy lore priceless.
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Woodchuck
New York Times
Penury and the perils of campaign spending
A Western politician derides frugality in campaigning while recounting a fable about a candidate who bought cheap cigars for supporters. The tale ends with the candidate learning that his backers fell ill from the cigars the night before the election, and his prospects looked bleak on election day.
New York Opens Part-Time Vocational School Program
Vocational guidance and education for citizenship aim the part-time school. Minors aged 14 to 18 not in regular high school must attend four days weekly from 9 to 5. The school monitors progress when placed in work and provides related instruction if the employer does not. Many employers now run part-time or apprentice schools.
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New York
Founding of Rome Legend and early Roman history
Founding of Rome legend made Romulus the founder of Rome and the Palatine. The period from 753 B C to 500 B C is mainly myth with only broad concepts of Rome’s beginnings. Authentic records date from the destruction of the city by the Gauls.
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Romulus
Rome
The
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Tiber
Poppyseed Bread Misunderstood as Gunpowder
Sallie, a buxom worker, refused bread at lunch claiming it was gunpowder. Her employer laughed as she explained her southern memory of gunpowder fed to soldiers to spur punishment, concluding she thought the bread contained powder to make her work.
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Sallie
Indianapolis News
Schwab Admonishes Persistence in Yonkers Recital
Charles M Schwab delivered a pointed lecture in Yonkers warning that constant shifting from one pursuit to another betrays effort. He urged listeners to see undertakings through and compared inaction to a rolling stone that tumbles downhill.
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Charles M. Schwab
Yonkers
Mr. Schwab
Mary Succeeds Mary Succeeds Main Street
Ozark Missourians prize a stubborn backbone and bold ambitions as Alice Curtice Moyer Wing, an Ozark author and entrepreneur, recalls a life spanning abolitionist roots, suffrage work, and pioneering roles. She eyes Congress after 1924 while reflecting on early hardship and advocacy.
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Missouri
Alice Curtlee Moyer-Wing
Small Alice
Ozarks
Hills
Ozark
Hill Country
United States
Hyden
State Industrial Inspection Department
One Lawyer's Work by Florence Monahan Letter
Florence Monahan, superintendent of the Minnesota State Reformatory for Women at Shakopee, describes her background as a teacher and lawyer, her work with delinquent women, staff composition, and views on the League of Women Voters. She notes average population around sixty inmates over eighteen, with ages near thirty, and ongoing service on state boards of both the League and suffrage groups.
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Florence Monahan
State Reformatory For Women
Shakopee
Minu
State Board of Control
Reformatory For Women
Board of Control
League of Women Voters
Fairy Tale Voices From a Zoo Menagerie Night
A quirky collection of talking animals from a zoo narrate their traits and origins. The Gavial, Tawny Frog-Mouht, Rhinoceros, Land Lizards, Python and Slow Loris describe their noses, mouths, skin, diets, and origins from India and New South Wales. The tone blends whimsy with curious self descriptions.
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Thia House
New South Wales
Tam
India
Miss Ithino
Iife
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