Persistence of dirigible progress amid high costs and risk
The article argues dirigibles endure as a persistent aviation interest despite high construction and maintenance costs, with national or corporate backing needed. It notes Graf Zeppelin’s landings, Count Zeppelin’s legacy, and the potential for lighter-than-air craft to join air travel alongside airplanes in time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graf Zeppelin
France
Count Zeppelin
Atlantic
Earth
The Liberalities of Yellow Journal In Campus Debate
The Yellow Journal at the University faces suppression after an edition deemed scurrilous prompts calls to curb press freedom. A harsh harpoon of a campus publication is cited as evidence, urging faculty intervention and elimination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellow Journal
Designing Move Against Free Press Reported Again
A communication from George B. Craven of Trinity claims he has fallen heir to a diamond mine in Back Creek township and offers details of the proposal. The document suggests continued maneuvers aimed at free press freedoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Craven
Trinity
Back Creek Township
Newspaper rejects buyout over real estate price
A high profile bid to acquire the paper is rebuffed as the offer is tied to purchasing prime real estate. The text states a price of 2 098 000 dollars excluding real estate and 2 500 000 dollars with cash for the entire package. The paper accuses the move of aiming to curb press freedom and vows to resist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
Federal Trade Commission
Jailing of Capone in Philadelphia Ends Gang Leader’s Peace Effort
Capone pleads guilty to carrying a weapon and is jailed in Philadelphia within hours of his Atlantic City conference. A year in prison could alter gang dynamics, though experts question public benefit of any peace effort amid Chicago racketeering.
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Capone
Chicago
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Letter from Loray villager rails at strike leadership
J A Mulwee writes to Gastonia Gazette denouncing strike organizers as un American and recounts a bizarre scene with two striker gangs, Communist bosses and Gazette dispatches. He claims decades of self reliance and mocks Beal Pershing Co while signaling hostility to the labor movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loray Mill
Gastonia
Gazette
Beal, Pershing & Co
J. A. Mulwee
Leviathan's Westbound Crossing Clears Surplus Liquor
A crew on the Leviathan is tasked with disposing surplus liquor before the ship docks in New York on its westbound voyage. The assigned man faces a demanding job but will not need to pen a magazine tale about hard work winning success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Riot at Des Moines University raises questions on youth energy
The author notes a Des Moines University riot led to temporary closure and police involvement. While troubling, the piece argues it signals youthful energy and engagement, contrasting it with a generally placid American college culture and suggesting such upheavals may reflect broader national vitality rather than decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines University
Des Moines
The Bitter Still Lingers
The piece argues that despite American prosperity and mass production, welfare and housing crises rise. It cites New York City’s Welfare Council data showing lodging house registrations increasing from 69 in 1920 to 672 in early 1926, suggesting hardship amid prosperity. It notes possible causes and notes the economic theory of reduced manufacturing demand.
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Welfare Council of
New York City
New York
Nightclubs Offer Refuge for Worn Government Agents
Government agents seek late hours in nightclubs, finding relief from duties after long shifts. The piece notes venues across the city where agents unwind, highlighting a pattern of afterhours social spots preferred by officials.
United States and Democracy Over Table Debates
The United States expresses democracy through conflicts over seat allocations and influence at shared tables. Political rhetoric centers on who sits where and how power is distributed among allies and rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Dance marathons add new feats and quirky sideshows
Dance marathons this year include flagpole sitters chair rockers and handcuffed auto drivers. Program planners dream of adding coffee drinkers sum chew ers robots and peanut pushers to complete the zoo of acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pyle
Beaver Dam Peninsula State Game Refuge Established
In Raleigh on May 18 Charles H Ingland state game warden announced a new wildlife refuge named Beaver Dam Peninsula State Game Refuge. It covers about 1100 acres in Montgomery County’s northwest corner with a lease of game rights donated by Tallassee Power Company. The peninsula is bounded by Badin Lake on three sides and spans 1200 feet at its upper end.
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Raleigh
Charles H.ingland
Beaver Dam Peninsula
North Carolina
Montgomery County
State Department of Conservation and Development
Tallassee Power Company
Badin Lake
Capone to be moved as police guard tightens around
Al Capone missed a Chicago bound train after a Philadelphia arrest. He said rumors of a peace pact were false and claimed a truce existed. Capone will be moved from Moyamensing to Holmesburg prison today under heavy guard amid fears of renewed gang violence.
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Capone
Moyamensing
Holmesburg
Chicago
Cline
Bernard Lenisch
Holmesburg Prison
Motors of Graf Zeppelin falter again amid speculation
Four of the Graf Zeppelin engines faltered early in its trans Atlantic project prompting officials to withhold comment while Dornier director Oesterle and Zeppelin constructor Dr. Ludwig Duerr voiced perplexity at the duplicate motor failures. Meanwhile nine men arrested as alleged stowaways awaited strict questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friedrichshafen
Graf
Graf Zeppelin
Zeppelin Corporation
Gpan
Oesterle
Dornier Airplane Works
Ludwig Duerr
Zeppelin
Baybach
Death toll in clinic blast rises to 122 with 50 in hospital
Pearse cited a clinic safety report suggesting separate storage and ventilation upgrades but remained unsure. Officials announced 122 names on the death list, with 50 hospitalized, after updating casualties by removing three Cleveland victims. Ben Jones, 30, a professional football player, died after tonsil surgery as blasts struck. He survived a window rescue before dying from gas poisoning.
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Pearse
Eclinic Today
Cleveland
Ben Jones
Grove City
Near East relief cited as great stride by assembly
Dr. Magill of Richmond reports substantial progress in Near East relief aiding southern youths 16 and 17 to earn livelihoods through education. Dr. Vance of Nashville presents Protestant relief in Europe findings. A committee on ministers correspondence courses is endorsed with caveats about demand and seminary provision. A letter from R. A. Dunn of Charlotte closes the union reports.
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Board of Trustees
General Assembly
Dunn
Morris
Macon
Cincinnati
State Church
Free Church In
Scotland
William L. Frierson
Chattanooga
United States
R. E. Magill
Richmond
Val
Assembly
Europe
J. I. Vance
Nashville
R. T. Gillespie
Atlanta
R. A. Dunn
Charlotte, N. C
First Hearing On Strike Pickets At Local Rayon Plants
Moreland reported an explosion but guardsmen found no blast trace. The strikers began picketing after operations resumed with limited force at American Bemberg and Glanzstoff Rayon plants, shut since April 15 by a 5 000 worker strike. Magistrate Little set a morning decision to interpret Tennessee picketing law.
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Moreland
Bemberg
Glanzstoff
Tennessee
Little
Graf Zeppelin Motor Failure Sparks Sabotage Doubts
May 18 report from Friedrichshafen states German motor experts will conduct thorough tests on the Graf Zeppelin engines that failed shortly after departing for the United States on the second trans Atlantic voyage. Officials and engineers reject sabotage theories, stressing detailed examination before conclusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friedrichshafen
Germany
United States
Hans Stiefel
Maybach
Fullertons Questioned In Huntington Case
Dorothy G Fullerton and her husband Hugh Fullerton were questioned by Hartford detective Edward Hickey in Greenfield Massachusetts as part of an inquiry into the death of Harvard student Walter Treadway Huntington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fullertons
Greenfield
Mass
Dorothy G. Fullerton
New York
Hugh Fullerton
Edward Hickey
Hartford
Conn
Walter Treadway Huntington
Harvard
Private collection of ship models bought by Sir James Caird
Southampton reports Sir James Caird, shipowner, purchased a private collection of old ship models long shown in Mercury's Museum for 150000 dollars. Some models are said to have belonged to Samuel Pepys, the diarist.
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Southampton
England
Mercury
James Caird
Samuel Pepys
Birmingham Music School Embeds Instruments in Speech
A Birmingham school experiment uses musical instruments to teach speech patterns with sharps and flats in students vocal terms, replacing voices with instrumental sounds to illustrate pitch and tone in language.
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Birmingham
Ala
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Charlotte News
al Capone
Pennsylvania
Searfare al
George
Bugs) Moran
Moran
Cyers
Elizabethton
Mount High
W. C. Boyd
Mothwurf
Washington
A. M. Mothwurf
American Glanzstaff
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Senate Manufacturers Committee
Mr. Mothwurf
Presbyterians
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