Coins of Ancient City Rumored in Berkeley Hills
Prof Oliver M Washburn of UC excavates six copper coins found by Chester K Prost in a canyon near Berkeley California. He deems them undoubted antiquity, suggesting an ancient city may lie hidden there and prompting interest in excavations to uncover early continental history.
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Oliver M. Washburn
Berkeley
Cal
University of California
Washburn
Department of
Elasgical Archeology
Chester K. Prost
Dunkdland
Fad Eontu
Grey Victim of Fortunes and Tragedy in Memoir Plans
Sir Edward Grey, former foreign secretary and now Viscount Grey, plans a memoir volume. His life has been punctuated by tragedy including the death of his wife in a hermancy accident and the loss of his brother and Hepa, heir to the title, in Africa and the war. Grey remains retiring as he learns to read by touch while his family title risks ending with no direct heir.
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Grey
Edward Grey
Viscount Grey of
Palleden
Vic
Sir Edward Grey
Ac Tion
Africa
Hepa
Foreign Office
Geoy
le Genie
Tri Moro
Leonardo
Secrets Revealed in Sleep Talk Says Dr Coplans
In a letter to the British Medical Journal Dr E Coplans notes sleep talking is common among patients in a military hospital with about 60 percent speaking during sleep. He cites a Scotsman who sang Abide With Me at 1 20 am and says sleep talkers answer questions, risking disclosure of secrets.
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Dr. E. Coplans
Donter Coplans
Philippines poised to become newsprint exporter
A forestry bureau report says the Philippines can supply domestic newsprint and export sizable quantities. Rich raw materials such as bamboo and cogon and tala hib grasses are high quality and cheap, potentially eliminating a 2 million import bill for paper.
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Philippines
Bureau of Forestry
The Higher Culture Exchange
A fragment shows a speaker praising a daughter as well educated, with a heated retort about propriety and reading books that parents would be ashamed to be seen with. The dialogue hints at class and moral expectations in a domestic scene.
Iris Flower Changes Hands on Busy City Street
An elderly Black man on a crowded city street admires an iris bouquet. A generous woman offers to buy it for a Salvation Army girl collecting coins, and the blossom passes from man to beneficiary before the quiet scene ends with both recipients smiling.
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Ife
Min
Hin
Salvation Arwy
Darky
Hartford Conant
Greencastle Notes On Burial Of 14YearOld Glenn Carrington
The body of Glenn Carrington age 14 killed in Harlem Mont was brought to Greencastle Sunday and taken to his mother Mrs Ethel Carrington Putnamville for burial. Burial was at 4 pm Sunday. Other notes mention local visits and events including DePauw student enlistment in the army plans, school institute dates, church gatherings, and community outings.
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Glenn Carrington
Harlem
Mont
Greencastle
Ethel Carrington
Putnamville
Montana
J. D. Boswell
Wallace Welch
Standard Heating Company
Lebanon
William Welch
Welch
DePauw
Deceptive Furniture Claims Highlighted by London Chronicle
A London Chronicle item reports on hasty manufacture of new bedroom suites with questionable quality. Dealers cite two grade offerings and warn that cheaper stock may reveal unlikely marks under varnish while pricier lines claim deeper staining and better wood.
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London Chronicle
Mountaineers Eat Freely Despite High Living Costs
A Columbus man visiting Tennessee mountaineers stayed overnight and through the next day. He was asked to pay $1 for lodging and three large meals. The head of the household questioned the charge. Each meal fed five men, and the mountaineers grow their own food, reducing purchases despite inflation.
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Tennessee
Columbus Dispatch
Felt and Cloth From Spun Glass in Italy
Il Sele in Milan reports experiments in Venice and Murano by Signor Luigi Bisgate producing felt and cloth from spun glass. A new society named Vitrum forms with large plants in Naples to manufacture spun glass felt and cloth as insulators for storage batteries.
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Il Sele
Milan
Venice
Murano
Signor Luigi Bisgate
Vitrum
Naples
Quarrels of Wien and Wives Spark Curious Military Fantasies
Fragmentary text describes objections to married life and hints at Leonardo da Vinci plans for armored cars and aircraft. It notes historical speculation on propulsive ideas and a later parallel with armored concepts emerging four centuries after his death.
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Wien
Notice to return package from Busby's store
A caller requests the return of a package picked up at Busby's store containing crochet thread sewing thread and needles. Please bring it back to the store.
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Busby's
Equally Enlightened On Fish Trade Data
The piece argues fish dealers lack expertise on life histories and migration of fish. It compares their certainty about laws to cotton merchants' knowledge, noting that stored fish are the final product and livelihood depends on catch rather than technical biology. It suggests skepticism toward dealer testimony on migrations and spawning.
New Affliction. Father suffers chestnut on lungs
A North Vernon man stopped a boy and asked about his father who had not been seen for days. The boy said his father had chestnuts on his lungs. The man checked and found the father had a mild lung congestion.
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North Vernon
Indianapolis News
Wanted Cook Job Ad Hit Herald Office
WANTED cook. Call at Herald office 31. FOUND automobile crank. Owner may have by calling at Herald and paying advertising charges.
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Cook
Herald Office
Herald
Britain's Old Warships Ordered for War Use
The British Navy decrees enlistment of 170 ships for service, including nine battleships such as Africa Dominion Hindustan Duncan Fy mouth Albemarle Canopus Jupiter Redoubtable. By 1930s dating these vessels span 1897 to 1909, with Redoubtable on sale as outdated when war began and later fitted for bombardment of the Belgian coast.
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New York Post
Too Suggestive. Sandy Pikes and Critty George Aboard
Sandy Pikes tells Critty George they left a wayside cottage soon. he notes the Indy and the Suns, while she compares the clouds to bars of steel, signaling a quick departure from the scene.
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Sandy Pikes
Critty George
de Indy
Wise Man Juror-Y and the Birds Debate
Quasi dialogue notes a juror nicknamed Wise Man debating with others about a crowded flock. The exchange shows confusion and requests for rest as the group aims to finish quickly.
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Trndianapolis
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