Trans Atlantic line authorized and ships to Dublin
A new steamship company is authorized to establish a trans Atlantic line with Dublin as a base. Japan vows a flight from Japan to Hawaii next year per Hawaii Shimpo. Eight skeletons found at St Johns hospital Lichfield England believed over 700 years old.
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Dublin
Civitan
Japan
Hawaii
St. John’s Hospital
Lich@eld
Staffs
England
Dublin, Ireland
Canada
Italian engineer unveils bread fumes alcohol method
An Italian engineer named Andrusianis claims to extract alcohol from bread baking fumes. Using an apparatus built in a Berlin bakery, he says about a pint and a half can be drawn from 220 pounds of bread. The process uses waste products and could save Germany millions on fuel and food, potentially impacting bootlegging in the United States. A separate note reports a large meteor fall north of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with fragments collected for study and no reported damage.
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Andrusianis
Berlin
Germany
North Dakota
Sioux Falls
N.D
Stenographers Rise in London Business Ranks
London reports show two female stenographers stepping into commercial careers. Lady Constance Howard, long a secretary to the manager, has joined a well known firm as stenographer and secretary, with others similarly progressing in the business world.
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London
Constance Howard
Pattern Sales Note From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Public notice announces patterns ordered by mail from the Winnipeg newspaper union at 175 McDermot Ave. Readers are instructed to send 20 cents in coin or stamps and wrap coins carefully.
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Winipeg Newerpaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Grasshoppers as Palatable Food Across Cultures
A speaker argues grasshoppers are fit for human consumption and camel feed. Description covers preparation from removal of body parts to boiling or stewing, drying and powdering, and serving in dough or milk. Notes camels and wives of the prophets sharing grasshoppers, and the caliph Omar’s remark about wanting them to eat.
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Calif
Britain backs disarmament and arbitration at league talk
Lord Robert Cecil, British delegate, urged treating aggressive war as an international crime and supported preparing a general disarmament conference. Britain reaffirmed devotion to arbitration and backed league aims. Assembly adopted resolutions for preparatory study, regional security pacts, and council reviews of progress and arbitration systems.
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Lord Robert Cecil
League of Nations Assembly
Britain
Council of the League
Courageous Woman Explores Tibet and China Reach
Madame David, a frail yet bold traveler, spent two years in a 13000 foot mountain cavern and fourteen years in inaccessible China and Tibet. She crossed to Lhassa with her adopted Tibetan son after facing repeated barriers and lived two months in the forbidden city. She studied Tibetan language in a monastery and believes she was the first foreigner to depart undetected.
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Madame David
Paris
China
Tibet
Forbidden
Lhassa
Forbidden City
Channel plait straight-line frock with jogot adornment
A fashion note describes a straight-line frock featuring a channel plait and a distinctive jogot embellishment. The crepe de chine upper with a moulded back yoke and gathered front shows long tight sleeves and trimmed front opening. Sizes 36 to 44. fabric yardages given. book price and copy price listed.
Amundsen Plans Polar Flight In Non rigid Dirigible
Ronald Amundsen, who failed in a recent air attempt on the North Pole, plans another expedition toward the pole using a non rigid dirigible. He argues lighter than air craft may succeed in polar conditions, drawing on Spitzbergen flights and MacMillan expedition experience.
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Ronald Amundsen
North Pole
Amundsen
Spitzbergen
Shenandoah
Navy Department
Ohio
Detroit Free Press
Submarine tractor enables divers to work undersea
A watertight two passenger submarine car mounted on a tractor lets divers explore river and sea beds at depth beyond 200 feet. Weighing eighteen tons, it has a motor and viewports, allows exit to enter wrecks, and can be lowered from a ship or operate under its own power. Recently used to salvage wrecks in Long Island Sound.
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Boys’ Life
Long Island Sound
Exiled Land Owners From Poland Frontier Deported to Siberia
Hundreds of former land owners are being sent to exile in Siberia under an old decree of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Exiles are to select homesteads in Siberia, with districts near the Polish border pressuring thousands. In Gomel district fifty names were added to a proposed list of 125 families. departure delayed after harvest. Nearby, 115 families were picked, including owners of 40000 and 5000 acres. a widow avoided deportation by marrying a soldier.
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Union of Socialist Soviet Republic
Siberia
Soviet Republic
Gomel
Providing Fuel For Motors
In 1900 crude oil output stood at 63 million barrels, while gasoline reached 7 million. This year production may exceed 1 billion crude barrels and 250 million gasoline barrels. Oil industry investment rises to about 8 billion dollars, with U.S. gasoline consumption near 7 billion gallons worth 1.4 billion dollars at 20 cents per gallon.
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United States
Thrift Magazine
Young Brooklyn Poet Nathalia Crane Gains London Society Invite
Nathalia Crane, 12 year old Brooklyn poet, author of The Janitor's Boy, receives an invitation to join the Society of Authors Playwrights and Composers in London. The honor follows rapid sale of her first edition in England after just three weeks.
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Nathalia Crane
Brooklyn
New York
England
London
Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers
France to Enter Horses at Toronto Royal Winter Fair
Paris reports the French government accepts invitation to compete in light horse events at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto in November. Premier Painleve orders elimination contests at Saumur cavalry school to select seven officers, with the first three to Toronto and then New York. Belgium plans to send three officers and mounts to Toronto and New York shows.
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Paris
Toronto i
Painleve
Saumur
Toronto
New York
Kipling, Kiwi Dish and the Cost of Living Quip
A Kipling remark recalls eating kiwi in New Zealand and surviving the meal. The piece adds a wry line about the cost of living resembling an evening gown that seems to descend but does not.
Crossword Puzzle Clue Grid From 1 Across to 72 Across
A misaligned puzzle list with many clues and partial answers for across and down. The fragment includes definitions for godly engaged marry get up child Scots girl let go how etc and scattered entries like printer units and chemical terms, suggesting a full crossword with multiple languages and partial answers.
Tiny plane breaks speed record at Curtiss Field
Lieut. Al Williams piloted a small single seat craft to 302.3 mph on an enclosed cockpit test at Curtiss Field Long Island. The flight over a kilometer course exceeded the prior French record by 24.3 mph but was not officially recognized, as the run did not meet the three kilometer standard required for record approval. The aircraft measures 20 feet long 32 feet wide and rises eight feet at the highest point powered by a 619 horsepower Curtis motor.
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al Willams
Curtiss Field
Long Island
Curtis
Bennett
Washington
Williams
Curtiss Field Long Island
Beardmore Gold Field Worth Prospecting
The Beardmore gold field near Fort William draws a cautious provincial geologist report. It notes interest and several summer townships saw gold rushes, but the low grade ore without sulphide makes profitable mining unlikely despite samples reaching as high as 38.50 dollars per ton.
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Beardmore
Fort William
Charles McCrea
Improper English Warning Signs Near Schools Questioned
Blenheim Ontario editor denholm criticizes school area warning signs as ungrammatical. He cites signs like School-Go Slow and urges correct phrasing such as Go Slowly or School Zone. He notes public placards should use proper language and brevity.
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Denholm
Blenheim
Ont
News-Tribune
Great Britain
Plan Forest Reserve Near Mile 142 Hudson Bay Railway
Survey work underway to establish a Do minion forest reserve of several thousand acres in the clay belt at Mile 142. The plan includes conservation of existing timber and a reforestation program with new species such as jack pine cedar and hemlock. A man makes more good resolutions when te's broke than it any other time.
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Dominion
Hudson's Bay Railway
Buddism Lecture Tickets Sought by Club Leaders
A club chairman asks Mrs Croecus to reserve tickets for Prof Pundit's Budd ism lectures while the other woman expresses her love of flowers and offers compliments.
Wonderful Surgical Work Rebuilding Faces of Mutilated Soldiers
Dr. Alex Sandison details Ministry of Pensions facial surgery cases as reported in Lancet. Since March 1920 at Slicup Hospital, 2,944 facial operations restored form for soldiers once doomed to life as living dead.
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Ministry of Pensions
Lancet
Alex Sandison
Ministry
Patloner
Slicup Hospital
Edmonton business men canvass for 16000 dollars publicity funds
Twenty Edmonton business men began a final canvass for funds to support the publicity drive organized by the local board of trade. The goal is 16000 dollars, which, once raised, would bring total signed subscriptions to 34000 dollars, enabling the campaign to proceed.
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Edmonton
Board of Trade
United States
Alberta
Still Physical Marvel Anthony McKinley Holds Crown at 83
Anthony McKinley aged 83 of Castle Street, Bailycastle, claims to be the best weight-lifter at his age. He lifted a 20 pound weight 312 times with his left hand in 4% minutes and 376 times with the right in 2 minutes 46 seconds. He walks 20 miles daily and can stand on his head, a former world weight-lifting champion who astonishes onlookers.
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Anthony McKinley
Castle Street
Bailycastle
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Women’s Suffrage Party
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Tynemouth
Townsend
Terete Et Owes
Grasshopper
Robert Cecil
League
Clipse
Lirie da Merny
Pole
English Authors’ Society
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Royal Winter Fair
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New Zealand
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