Name and Gem Field Crisis in Namaqualand Clash
Capetown reports 200 police rushed by bus to Namaqualand's diamond fields amid clashes as drought driven desperation pushes residents to demand opening 64 state diggings. Port Nolloth meeting attendee 2060 urged government action by Friday or risk rushed diggings and potential violence. Local assembly member traveled to press ministers on mines and justice amid fears of serious outbreak.
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Capetown
Diamond Fields
Namaqualand
Port Nolloth
Govern Aredtiktow
House of Assembly
Yort Nolath
Cow Tree Milk Prompts Talk of Dairy Use and Gum
Samuel J. Record of the Field Museum reports returning from Central America with a sample of milk from the cow tree. The milk resembles cow’s milk in taste and appearance and suggests a possible dairy use, though he notes chewing gum manufacture could be more profitable.
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Chicago
Samuel J. Record
Field Museum
Central America
Finn
Record
Stage coach driver Joseph Woods dies at 73 in La Grande
Joseph Clarence Woods, 73, longtime La Grande resident and one of the last surviving early western stage coach drivers, died today. He piloted the coach that carried President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding at the 1923 Oregon Trail celebration in Meacham and earlier drove stages in Colorado and New Mexico.
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la Grande
Ore
Joseph Clarence Woods
Woods
Warren G. Harding
Meacham
Colorado
New Mexico
Penn College Fire Forces Students to Flee in Reading
A blaze in the chapel of the new Albright college building in Reading, Pennsylvania, caused about $20,000 in damage. The fire sent many students fleeing with only their clothes and burned all belongings of 13 delegates to the Pennsylvania State Ideation association, which was to meet there tomorrow.
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Reading
New Albright College
Pennsylvana State Idecation Association
Byrd and Wilkins Prepare Antarctic Air Adventure
American explorer Richard Byrd leads a 1 million dollar Antarctic expedition from Bay of Whales aiming for a first air reach of the South Pole. Sir George Wilkins plans rival polar flights from Deception Island as both men seek historic aerial milestones in the Ross Ice Shelf region.
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Richard 3. Byrd
Antarctic
Byrd
Land of Silence
Science Song
Bay of Whales
South Pole
Ace
Ross
South American
Antarctica
Sir George Wubert Wilkins
Amundsen
Scott
Wilkins
Ius
Deception Island
Weddell
Mia Stillman Abandons Nonstop Roosevelt Flight Plan
New York reports that Mia Stillman will not undertake a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field to the Panama Canal this week aboard the North Star. Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Oliver C. Le Bouvellier will pilot, with refueling at midair planned. Mrs. Stillman’s surgery prevents her joining the journey.
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New York
Pope Pug Praises Great University Tome
Pope Pua praises the Catholic University of America in Washington D C for advancing Catholic youth education and spiritual growth. He notes Leo XII’s earlier letter and asserts the university’s importance and dignity, urging private support to ensure it matches other institutions.
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American Episcopacy
Iahops
America
Cathole University of America
Washington, D. C
Leo XII
Cardinal Gibbons
Washington University
Washington
Record of barroom patron’s sandwich feat and arrest in St Louis
Patron eats 14 sandwiches in a vain bid to spare Walter Benwell the bartender from arrest. Prohibition agents Dillon and Berd interrupt as the patron offers two one dollar bills and declares he will buy sandwiches. Bartender and associates also consume drinks and later the group is detained on a refused warrant.
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St. Louis
Walter Benwell
James Thton
Carol Berd
Uwe Kant Wleley
Willon
This Must Have Been a Really Hot Film
An explosion in the cutting room at Universal Pictures in Los Angeles today damaged film and a small building with losses around 10000 dollars. Positive prints were destroyed but the negative was saved. Firefighters on the lot stopped the blaze from spreading and saved most equipment. No injuries reported.
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Los Angeles
Universal Moving Picture Studio
Los Angeles Bank Looter Sentenced to Four Years
James R. O Neil, former teller at Hirst National Trust and Savings Bank, pleaded guilty to stealing 176000 in Liberty bonds. He was sentenced to four years in federal penitentiary at McNeil Island after a federal court appearance. O Neil was arrested in New Orleans weeks earlier following an Aworycars Searels pursuit.
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Los Angeles
James BR. O'Neil
The
Hirst National Trust and Savings Bank
McNeil Island
O'Neil
New Orleans
New Plan for Raging Submarine Rescue Tested at Charlestown Yard
Boston inventor Henry Lotz demonstrated a highly buoyant pontoon and rescue hook system to Charlestown navy yard officers. The device, designed to raise damaged submarines without divers, features controllable compartments and steel pontoons attached to the hull. Tests were planned to verify surface ascent using air lines and weighted buoys.
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Boston
Charlestown Navy Yard
Henry Lotz
Lotz
Mir
Baby Boy Lives After Toy Stuck in Throat
An 18 month old boy from Asc WV swallowed a small toy causing a throat obstruction. He was brought to the hospital for an operation and has since faced pneumonia with severe illness, doctors reporting critical condition but noting some recovery progress.
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Frank Hrobka
Asc
W. Va
Mottoraydto
Physicana
Noted Texas Ranger of Civil War Era Dies
Smithville Texas Dec 246 AP John W Foil 93 member of Terry's Texas Rangers organized during the Creek War will be buried here Thursday. He died Christmas night.
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Smithville
Texas
John W. Foil
Terry's
Texas Rangers
Governor of Chihuahua among smashup victims
El Paso reports two dead and several injured after a derailment near Ojinaga and Chihuahua on the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient line. Governor Marcelo Caraveo of Chihuahua is listed among the injured in the wreck attributed to a deranged man.
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Chihuahua
el Paso
Tex
Marcelo Caraveo
Kansas City
Ojinaga
el Continental
Francisco Rodrigues
Manuel Cand
Marcelo Caraved
Chaves K. Sugches Fransko
Jose Almeida Manuel
Rivero Mier
Kragrisco Uortolero
Chihuaha State Supreme Court
Liborio Siljas
Rattroul
Maid of 1215 Heroine of Fire
Vernai Utah December 20 A woman’s infant saved by Maury Colfer age 12 after fire struck Talwin Collier home. He carried the baby out then returned to rescue mother. home destroyed and others injured. Several officials named with injuries and a bridge fire reported. incident details continue.
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Coll
Ware
Hones
Wiley
Annayers
Afghan revolt subsiding as evacuees reach safety
Twenty more women and children reach Peshawar by British planes from Kabul while Afghan leaders report the revolt waning. Dispatches say Khoogyant territory has submitted to the government and insurgents are being pursued by allied troops as authorities claim the uprising is diminishing.
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Peshawar
India
Kabul
Afghanistan
Paris
Tec
Kabw
Trlhg
Mehimond Tribeamen
Imsal
Uabad
Atarad
Klan
Sparkharwood
Old man of 101 dies catching a toy balloon
Dubdugue, Dec. 25 API John G. Strelan, aged 101, died here today after falling while trying to catch a toy balloon released by his grandson. Strelan had given the balloon to the boy on Christmas.
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Dubdugue
Town
John G. Strelan
Strelan
Fire sweeps campus of Southern College Blue Mountain
A brisk wind sparked a blaze at Blue Mountain College in Mississippi, a Baptist girls school. The flames destroyed campus buildings and leveled two nearby houses. President Dr. L. Ty Lowrey estimated total damage at $100,000. No injuries were reported.
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Blue Mountain
Blue Mountain College
L. Ty, Lowrey
Eskimo Girl Sacrificed Life To Save 75 At Alaska School
Ayna Yukluk, 22, an Eskimo and cook at the U S education bureau industrial school in Billingsham Western Alaska, died after a gasoline explosion while filling a lamp. She opened a door and threw out a blazing can, saving 75 girls as Olga Powers and Mary Riley woke and fought the flames with extinguishers.
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Seattle
Waal
Nee
Ayna Yukluk
United States Bureau of Education
Billingham
Sondwestern
Alaska
St Cook
Als
Olga Powers
Mary Riley
Mine Disaster in Sunland North Carolina Leaves Four Dead
Two prisoners hired for mine work and seven others injured when a mine shaft failed, trapping workers in Sunland. The victims, state convicts, were toiling in the Cal mine when the incident occurred, with several injured and the death toll rising.
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North Carolina
Sunland
N.C
Daring Voyageurs Ride Perilous Sea Quest Aboard Small Craft
Glenn Whyile and Hessie Haley Ulsde were attacked by cavermen after an attempt to span the taps in the Grand Teangun of the Colorate in a small boat. Mrs Hyde's parents live in Warkersburg West Virginia. She formerly attended school in Pittsburgh.
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Glenn Whyile
Hessie Haley Ulsde
Cavermen
Hyde
Warkersburg
Wo Va
Scholtin
SESSION ON FARM BILL PRESSED AS HOOVER NEARS HOME
Washington dispatch reports Herbert Hoover’s return from a South American tour will bring a rush to address a farm bill in Congress. A special session to tackle the farm problem is debated with support for timing before March 4 and opposition urging action soon.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Capitol Hill
Congress
Report on Hyde missing remains unresolved sighting
Phoenix dispatch reports a sighting of Mr and Mrs Glenn Hyde near the Grand Canyon by canyon plane pilots, later rejected as erroneous. The missing Colorado River adventurers are believed dead, while five other explorers guided by a boat party continue searching the river depths. Footprints near the riverbank sparked a brief search, but evidence pointed to other members.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Glenn Hyde
Grand Canyon
Cinsen
Hyde
Sid Vinby Criven
King George Still Not Out of Danger Despite Slow Progress
London reports a continued illness with a medical bulletin noting slow general and local progress. Lord Dawson of Penn Sir Stanley Mewett and Sir Hugh Rigby left consultations after 45 minutes, with Sir Stanley staying near Buckingham Palace for the night as the patient remains under care.
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London
Des
George
Agai
Lord Dawson of
Penn
Stanley Mewett
Hugh Rigby
Stanley
Buckingham Palace
River ice tragedy claims three children in Massachusetts
Three children, two girls and one boy, daughters and son of Mrs. Anna Grometski of Tonsatonic, drowned after breaking through ice on the Housatonic River in Great Barrington. The bodies were recovered.
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Great Barrington
Mass
Anna Grometski
Thrift sermons accompany returning gifts in Seattle
Moritz Thomsen of Seattle, a wealthy businessman, has each Christmas gift returned by customers and uses the returns to send thrift sermons. His thrift project employs over 700 people and aims to instill savings values as a social gift this season.
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Seattle
Moritz Thomsen
Wiese Iterests
Thomsen
President and Mrs Cooddres Visit Sunny Isle Island
Cal is on Sunny Isle off the Georgia coast for a mid winter vacation. The President and Mrs Goolidga arrived after an overnight train from Washington and a drive along the coast to St Simon Island. They then traveled by yacht Zapala for a two hour tour, enjoying hunting and fishing during Christmas week.
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Cal
Sunny Isle
Coast of
Georgia
Sapete Inland
API
Cooddres
Howard J. Coffin
Baxpela Island
Mra. Goolidga
Iton
Wrumawick
Goorgia
St. Simon Island
Gapelo
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Gillon
Mage Teny
Jearen
Southern College
Hoover
Hydes
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