Russia Invites Ten To Attend Genoa Conference
The Allied supreme council approved a British proposal for an international conference in Genoa early March with Russia invited. The plan includes U S participation via George Harvey as official observer and requires Russia to-acknowledge past governments and a pledge to refrain from aggression. Britain’s cabinet endorses a mutual aid pact with France in case of German aggression.
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Cannes
Russia
Supreme Council
Muskie
Germany
Genoa
Italy
United States
Great Britain
George Harvey
Thore
Gove
Kruscha
Nanly
Sre
France
London
Briand
Lloyd George
Chinese Japanese negotiations end over Shantung talks
Washington dispatch reports that Chinese observers state the Chinese will resist any direct talks with Pekin on Shantung. The Shanghai style talks were adjourned sine die after China rejected a Japanese counter offer for a railway loan plan and alternative cash payment terms.
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Washington, D. C
Pekin
Shantung
Kiao-chow-Tsunanfu
China
Ambassador Harvey Hurt In Cannes Auto Crash
American ambassador to Great Britain George Harvey narrowly escaped death in Cannes when his car’s axle broke. He was thrown onto the road and later treated at his hotel in a dazed state. Richard Crane escaped uninjured while Wickham Steed suffered bruises and shock. Delegates to the allied supreme council sent sympathy.
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Cannes
George Harvey
Great Britain
Richard Crane
Czecho-Slovakia
Wickham Steed
London Times
Harvey
Crane
Mr. Steed
Allied Supreme Council
Newberry Denies Guilt In Senate Ouster Defense
Senator Newberry of Michigan asserted his innocence on the senate floor during ouster proceedings led by Henry Ford. He denied knowledge of the collection and use of a large campaign fund spent in his behalf.
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Washington
D. C
Newberry
Michigan
Senate
Henry Ford
Men Grow More Handsome Say Prominent Figures
Sir William Orpen claims men are becoming more handsome daily, with faces changing to a "scientific" form. Professor Arthur Keith notes evidence of facial changes in Britain over the last century or two, while Orpen says men are moving toward a strong, silent ideal and possibly resembling partners in life.
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William Orpen
Wen
North Chine Herald
Arthur Keith
Ioyal College of Surgeons
Muncun
College
Great Britain
Interio
Islands
Hhs
Keith
Jinitts
Dave
Sir William
Peter
Radium Water Dips At Isle Of Pines Lure Visitors
Advert says profitable wells offer radium water dips on Isles of Pines near Cuba with Santa Fe and Santa Barbara sites. Wells are shallow holes surrounded by fences. treatment costs 5 per dip or 50 daily for lodging with dips. Immersion lasts moments. skin reddens and hair may turn green.
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Isle of Pines
Cuba
Santa Fe
Santa Barbara
Oil Prospecting in Australia Yields Hints of Mineral Oil
A Melbourne dispatch says five applications have been made for the 50000 pound reward offered by the federal government for oil in payable quantities in Australia. In Western Australia 50 samples from the Kimberley region were sent to the geological department for analysis. Minister for Mines J Scaddan reports some analyses show mineral oil resembling material found in Sumatra, but no definite large deposits are yet identified.
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Australia
Melourne
Christian Elence Monitor
Western Australia
Kimberley
Geological Department
J. Scaddan
Sumatra
Education In Hawaii Reveals Diverse Public School System
Vaughan Mac Quaghey, territorial superintendent, praises Hawaii as having a beautiful and significant schoolyard. The public system serves 42,000 children across multiple races with 1,300 teachers and 167 schools. It now oversees 175 foreign language schools with 20,000 pupils and includes several specialized technical schools. Sixty private schools exist besides the University of Hawaii at Honolulu.
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Vaughan Mac Quaghey
Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruction
Hawaii
University of Hawaii At
Honolulu
New York Evening Post
A Modified Attitude In a Witty Exchange
Miss Cayenne replies she might marry a drinker now. She jokes about bootleg material circulating and becoming a widow unless he reforms, reflecting a sharp, humorous tone.
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Miss Cayenne
Not His Habit Villager’s Warning To Tourist
A lively exchange in Tit-Bita with a villager directing a perspiring tourist to the Red Lion saloon and the tourist resisting the instruction, emphasizing local color and humor.
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Red Lion
Central church hosts first in history telephone central
In Pueblo Colorado after the flood the First Baptist church offered its basement as a temporary telephone central. Installers set up a switchboard and telegraph instruments enabling crucial communication with the outside world while Pastor Frank K. Eden’s sermons mingled with Morse code in the background.
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Diegster
Pueblo
Colo
Ita
Lool
Frank KE. Eden
First Baptist Church
Railroads Give Up Sand Dams Move Tracks To Higher Ground
Two railroads along the Columbia River near Wallula Washington abandoned efforts to keep their track beds free of windblown sand. They will relocate to the bluff tops after months of horse and scraper work as flood season deposits and receding waters leave large sand dunes. A nearby farm lost a 400 head sheep shed and an orchard was buried under the shifting sand.
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Lane County
Astoria
Columbia River District
State Water Board
North Canal Company
Bend
C. KB. Copple
Hood River
D. Tancred
Kent
Waah
Portland
Orpheum
Washington
Oregon
Columbia Rive
Wallula
Columbia
H. KR. Ostrom
Eric Johnson
Growing Demand for Peanuts Across Nations
The article notes rising American appetite for peanuts in forms from snacks to butter and oil while domestic farmers lag in supply. It highlights international peanut trade with China Japan India and Spain exporting shelled peanuts and oil mills. Kobe Osaka Shanghai are major markets alongside Petersburg Virginia. The piece foresees a bright future for peanuts globally.
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China
Japan
Kobe
Osaka
Shanghai
Petersburg
Virginia
India
Spain
Parson Offers Suit to Local Colored Man
A southern clergyman recalls finding a job for a long unemployed Black man and delivering a used suit. The man’s wife thanks the clergyman but says the husband won’t wear parson’s clothes, asking instead for a similarly sized item valued at 400k at It.
You All as a College Speech Institution at Goucher
Prof Annette B Hopkins of Goucher College asserts that eradicating regional speech requires early training and more than four years of college. She notes that once a student is past seventeen or eighteen, lasting change is unlikely, making you all an ingrained part of Goucher speech.
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Annette B. Hopkins
Goucher College
Hopkins
Goucher
New York Evening Post
Too Dangerous
A fragmentary exchange notes insistence on sending children to school despite danger and fear of law enforcement, with quotes attributed to a vicar and Mrs Craddock in a Tit-Bits style snippet.
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