Mussolini Returns to Naples in Triumphant Parade
Benito Mussolini was greeted by about a million people in Naples as he landed aboard the Aurora. Italian fleet fired a 19 gun salute, bells and cheers rang out, while guards sealed streets and sewers were searched for explosives. He met Cardinal Ascalesi marking a public reconciliation between church and state and outlined plans for the tenth year of Fascism, warning of tougher times yet affirming Italian strength.
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John Evans NA
Italy
Benito Mussolini
I Duce
Rome
Aurora
Naples
Cardinal Ascalesi
Mussolini
Europe
Panama Canal Gatun Locks Opened With Mrs Abels Pressing Button
An interview recalls the 1913 Gatun locks opening at Panama as the Atlantic waters entered Gatun Lake to form the canal. Mrs. John C. Abels, present at the event, pressed the gates while crowds cheered the moment. Colonel George Goethals and President Wilson featured in the historic unveiling of the waterway.
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Maine
T. R
George Washington Goethals
Panama Canal
Lindbergh
al Capone
John C. Abels
Gatun Lock
Gatun
Abels
Panama
Parola
Peninsula
Leria
Combee
Atlantic Ocean
Gatun Lake
Penama Canal
Gatun Locks
Chagres
Colonel Goethals
Wilson
Washington
Atlantic
Pacific
John C. Abedis
Panama's rise from pest holes to sanitarian progress
The narrative credits Colonel Gorge and medical officers with driving out disease carrying insects, notably the stegomia, through sanitation reforms on the Isthmus. It celebrates American administration transforming Panama City and Colon from pest holes into clean, well-paved, sanitary cities, ending Yellow Fever and Chagres fever threats.
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Gorgue
Panama
Panama City
Isthmus
Europe
North America
France
America
Paname
Tropics
Colon
Maynard and Tarzan the horse star in Range Law
Ken Maynard's western drama Range Law features Tarzan the horse, who studies between scenes with Maynard as his trainer. The Broadhurst Theater will show the film Friday and Saturday, with Hank Harris performing rope tricks and whip cracking as a guest. The note ends with a curious remark about glow worms and X rays.
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Tarzan
Ken Maynard
Tiffany
Broadhurst Theater
Maynard
Ken
Alf
Hank Harris
Mr. Harris
World Peace Sought by Methodist Conference
Methodist communicants worldwide were urged to press leaders for world peace at the Ecumenical conference in Atlanta. The ten day gathering ends with Hoover’s radio address and Curtis’s in person speech, adopting a resolution tying disarmament to the Versailles treaty and Geneva talks while expressing sympathy for German Methodists and leaders in China amid floods.
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Glenn Ramsey
Atlanta
Hoover
Washington
Charles Curtis
Geneva
Versailles
Chaiis Kai- Shek
China
Chinese Christian Council
C. Ensor Walters
London
Walters
Otto Melle
Frankfort
Germany
Conference debated modifying laws on conscientious objectors
Reports from four study meetings were read, including a call for the conference to record support for changing laws denying citizenship to conscientious objectors. The proposal won applause as part of a broader discussion on war participation. A fatal self experiment with a rubber mask used to administer oxygen and gas is linked to the death of Dr. Gilbert Blurton, found recently in West Bridgford, England.
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Gilbert Blurton
West Bridgford
England
Plan for Newcastle chemical plant to make liquid fuel from coal
A proposed facility near Newcastle Australia seeks to produce chemicals and a liquid fuel from coal. The project aims to supply chemical products and a fuel suitable for various uses, advancing local industry and energy diversification.
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Newcastle
Australia
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Gatin Locks
Schecine
Schwab Tailoring Company
North Main
BOSCH
Piedmont Radio Company
Bosch Radio Telephone
Maynard Mgunt
Oxford
National Bellas Hess Co
South Main Street
High Point, N.C
Just
Bordens
Percale
Ion Cambric
Rayon
Sateen Binding
Patr
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