Kamchatka Volcano Eruption Described by Reporter
Frederick McCormick, a Tokyo correspondent, witnessed a Kamchatka eruption where rocks larger than ships were hurled into the sky. He reported a soaring smoke column, a 514 degree water heat, and widespread seismic activity affecting ships and compasses, noting about sixty five Kamchatka volcanoes with twenty active.
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Tokyo
Kamchatka
Frederick McCormick
Japan Advertiser
McCormick
Hakodate
Japan
Holkaido
Kurile
Hokkaido
Aleutians
Kamehatka
Kronoteky Peninsula
Semischik
Karimskaya
Kronotsky Bay
Commandorsky Islands
Usat Kamchatka
Sweden
Kaomehatka
Birds and elephants figures haunt Leacock and Wyndham
Manchester notes quote Professor Stephen Leacock saying he goes to the “200” in London to study birds at dawn. George Wyndham, in Gatty biography, states he visits the birds and elephants after a fortnight in the House of Commons, detesting half measures and seeking calm.
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Manchester
England
London
Stephen Leacock
Lady Glenconner
CG. T. Gatty
George Wyndham
Wyndham
House of Commons
Kitty Adopts Kitten Embedding With Piggish Family
Middlemarch farmer reports a strange maternal bond as a Utter adopted half grown kitten nurses with piglets and sleeps beside them. The kitten refuses cow’s milk and now stays with the sow and her litter. In Frankfort Kentucky Pike County mountaineer Frank Pike escaped Rock Castle camp to return home to feed his family, then surrendered to authorities. He was sentenced in spring 1818 to 15 years for murder.
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Kitty
St. Thomas
Canada
Frankfort
Eke
Anderson
Pike County
Rock Castle
State Reformatory
Study Becomes Expedition for Sleeping Sickness in Africa
An expedition by Tropical Diseases Association plans a two and a half year on the spot study of sleeping sickness in Uganda and Congo with four physicians and two veterinary scientists. It aims to avoid mass vaccination, seek government support, and extend to Rhodesia and Sudan amid Africa’s big outbreak. The effort targets treatment rather than transmission, marking a coordinated field investigation across centers in Africa.
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Claha
Africa
Guondon
Tropical Diseases Prevention Association
Uganda
Belgian Congo
Rhodesia
Sudan
West Africa
Congo
Divorce of Lady Churchill Reveals Gifted Mortgage
New York court papers disclose a 250000 mortgage on the Manhattan club was a gift from Jennie Jerome's father to George Charles Spencer Churchill and Thomas M Foote. Trustees held the mortgage and paid 10000 rent to Lady Churchill and her husband during her life. Principal to be divided between Winston Churchill and John Strange Spencer Churchill after her death.
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New York
Lady Randolph Churchill
Jennie Jerome
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Supreme Court
Mullan
Manhattan Club
East-Twenty-sixth Streets
George Charles Spencer Churchill
Marquis of
Blandford
Duke of Marlborough
Thomas M. Foote
Lady Churchill
Winston Spencer Churchill
John Strange Spencer Churchill
Saved From Death as TB Death Rate Drops in 1920
New York reports the tuberculosis death rate fell to 114 per 100 000, marking a saving of over 80000 lives this year. The National Tuberculosis Association cites a decline from 192 per 100 000 in 1905 to 100 in 1910 and 114 in 1920, with a brief rise in 1917 and 1918 and a sharp drop in 1919.
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New York
United States Bureau of the Census
National Tuberculosis Association
Calgary Captain Says He Shot Largest Wild Duck in Canada
Calgary sportsman Captain Alexander Martin reportedly bagged the biggest wild duck near Morrin Alberta. Measurements include 81 3/4 inches from bill to feet and 1 1/2 inches wing span, with chest around 17 inches. The bird is being mounted. Cheyenne Wyoming reports the story. In related news, Canada’s game commission blocked permits to kill 100 antelope for two years, allowing 50 bull moose permits.
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Calgary
Canada
Alexander Martin
Great Britain
Morrin
Alta
Captain Martin
Cheyenne
Wyo
State Game and Fish Commission
Virginia Boy, 7 Arrested as Horse Thief
Roanoke reports seven year old Val Russell Smith arrested on horse stealing. He was turned over to probation officer L. E. Watson. Claim cited as the youngest offender in 20 years in the area.
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Virginia Boy
Roanoke
Val Russell Smith
L. E. Watson
Device records heart beat on steel wire for later playbacks
Washington reports a new device that records the sound of a human breath or heartbeat on a steel wire for accurate reproduction later. The system uses a telephone transmitter and stethoscope to generate current from the heart beat, magnetizes a steel wire telegraph system, and stores varying sounds on a wire spool for clinical instruction.
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Washington
Bureau of Standards
Army Medical Service
Planes to Find Lost Herring Off English Coast
Washington reports seaplanes used as a last measure to locate herring off England's east coast. Absence of usual shoals from the North Sea alarms coastal fishing towns. Explosions in mine fields may have destroyed spawn while extreme temperatures last winter and summer kept herring near the sea bottom.
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska
Aleutian
North Sea
Washington
England
Department of Commerce
Butler
London
Tramp Flyer Riddick Bails on Alaska Trapping Flight Plan
Washington reports that Merril K. Riddick son of a Montana Congressman renounced flying in a run down craft to please his father. He then planned a Seattle start for a trapping expedition to Alaska. A letter said his boat was wrecked and he swam ashore.
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Washington
Merrill K. Riddick
Riddick
Montana
Avistor of
America
Alaska
Seattle
Harvard Reveals Two Kinds Of Lead In Matter Study
Harvard chemists over thirty five years determine atomic weights for forty elements and expose two kinds of lead. Radium mineral lead weighs 200.1 while ordinary lead is 207.8, suggesting possible mixtures and new questions about matter composition.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Theodore W. Richards
Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory
Europe
Lake Superior
Jaxter
Prof. Richards
W. D. Harkins
Chicago
W. Aston
England
Arkansas Farmer Buried With Pets in Humble Burial
Edward Leth a Walnut Sidge Arkansas farmer requested his dog two chickens and a mule be buried with him. A physician administered anesthetics to the animals and they were placed in a simple box with their master. The tale remains a mournful memory.
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Edward Leth
Walnut Sidge
Ark
Bolsheviks See English Rise as Foreign Language in Moscow
Russian officials increasingly use English in the bolshevist foreign office and across departments. Fourteen thousand Russians and naturalized Americans with Russian roots returned home after revolution openings, aided by the language shift. Many exiles carry Western training and hold key government roles, favoring America as a partner and model for Russia’s vast modernization. English language schools flourish in Moscow while English books and markets grow popular.
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Moscow
Russia
Cmme
Siberian
America
Great Britain
United States
Prana
Poland
Rumania
Germany
Veteran Deserter Haley Goes to Prison in War Debts Case
In Leavenworth an overseas veteran Hare ry W Haley, penniless, is imprisoned under a War Department order after five months of a six month sentence for desertion. He served with Thomas G Jones and the nun who bore him, while with the American Expeditionary Forces in Praca. A fellow named Jones aided Haley's escape from the debt he felt he owes. Junek, reportedly married, is sought by federal authorities for not being the real offender. Haley was released from the barracks without usual fare and compensation.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Harery W. Haley
Mberly
War Department
Han
Apo
Thomas G. Jones
Paddy
Praca
Ainley
Jones
Junek
Canada
Haley
Parisian Carved Cats Adorn Modern Salon
A fragment describes Parisian carved cats in dark wood with polished surfaces used as a salon accessory. The piece notes a feline motif on a rich cushion, implying fashionable decoration and a lavish, contemporary Parisian setting.
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Paris
Paris Salon
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