Bruges Resumes Odd Celebration After War Pause
Bruges Belgium restages the Most Precious Blood procession marking its return after World War I. The article notes Bruges as a medieval Flemish city with canals, the Zwin harbor, U boat nest sites in WWI, Gothic Notre Dame and St Sauveur, and the Golden Fleece order linked to wool trade prominence.
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Bruges
Belgium
Europe
Washington, D. C
National Geographic Society
Venice
Italy
Flanders
Zwyn
Ghent
North Sea
Zebrugge
Sea Ciunal
Zebrugge Mole
Jerusalem
Joseph of
Order of the Golden Fleece
Shanghai Still Grows Amid Hard Times Construction Pulse
In 1922 Shanghai erected new buildings valued at 15 926 000 taels, a drop from about 5 000 000 taels the year before. The public works commissioner reports 5 487 new structures, including 4 267 Chinese houses and 84 foreigner buildings.
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Shanghai
Commissioner of Public Works
Two Rooms in Big Tree At Mount Adams Orchard
A plan proposes two large rooms and a spiral staircase 256 feet high built inside a giant fir tree owned by Mount Adams Orchard Co in Klickitat County Washington. The tree eight feet from the growth point measures 89 feet in circumference.
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Mount Adams Orchard Company
Klickitat County
Wash
Flood of business in post offices continues nationwide
May 1928 postal receipts from 50 cities totaled $24,901,601.15, up 11.29 percent over May 1922 and about 26 percent over 1921. Los Angeles led gains at 26.71 percent. Chicago posted the largest dollar increase at $541,419.50, with New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Detroit following in size. Fort Worth was the sole city reporting a decrease.
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Post Office Department
Los Angeles
Cal
Fort Worth
Tex
Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Edison to Hire MIT Graduate Despite Mathematical Fancies
Thomas A. Edison watches his son Thomas Miller Edison receive an MIT degree in Cambridge. Edison snubs the usual tests, offering a job at the Holson plant if the son’s mathematics stays practical. He jokes his son must avoid Einsteinlike math to be useful.
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Thomas A. Eason
Cambridge
Mass
Thomas Miller Edison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edison
Holson
Tam
Lost Filipino Tribe Found Near Luzon Sierra Madre
About 5,000 head hunters were discovered on Luzon by Jose San Victores director of the bureau of non Christian tribes during an east coast Sierra Madre exploration. The nomadic people, seemingly a branch of the Hongets, live in semi agricultural isolation and a census is planned.
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Luzon
Jose San Victores
Bureau of non-Christian Tribes
Sierra Madre Range
Tayubas
Missing link kept in vault may soon be shown to world
A fossil known as the Java man missing link could be exhibited as Dr Eugene Dubois has refused to release it from his Haarlem vault. Dr Henry Fairfield Osborn leads a push to open the safe containing skull bone teeth and thighbone, with scientists weighing brain size and upright walking facts.
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Eugene Dubois
Doctor Dubois
Trinil
Java
Continents
British Association For the Advancement of
Europe
Haarlem
J. H. McGregor
Columbia University
McGregor
William K. Gregory
Department of Comparative Anatomy
Piltdown
Heidelberg
Bull Battle Halts Auto On Sacramento Mountain Road
Albert Waltenspiel, a Southern Pacific clerk in Sacramento, drives toward Jackson when a bull blocks the road. The animal charges, plunges horn into the radiator, and the car loses coolant before the bull retreats. The auto is in the repair shop and Waltenspiel is jumpy at every bellow.
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California Auto
Albert Waltenspiel
Southern Pacific Roundhouse
Sacramento
Cal
Waltenspiel
Jackson
Burglar Test Drives Security at Berlin Jeweler
A Potsdamer Platz jeweler advertised for an expert burglar to test his new shop. Berlin detectives supplied a man who quickly breached a safeguarded bar and gained entry within an hour. The expert then advised on alarms and safety devices and was kept on regularly to audit construction under the proprietor.
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Berlin
Potsdamer Platz
Rooms for DePauw students urged in Greencastle appeal
University authorities seek Greencastle residents to rent rooms to DePauw students. Respondents should send full name, address, phone, number and type of rooms, monthly rates for one or two students, and other details to W Henry McLean. Aim is to list local lodging offering simple, comfortable, reasonably priced options to help students work through college.
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Greencastle
de Vauw University
W. Henry McLean
DePauw
Tent rooms to men students communicate with St Henry St
Assistant to the President states tail information about tent rooms for male students and how to communicate with W Henry St.
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W. Henry St
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