Americans to Attend First World Marionette Congress
Paris hosts the first world marionette congress in October with delegates from Europe and America. Topics include using Punch and Judy in schools for geography and history, new marionette mechanisms, and American innovations in historical costuming scenery and travel. Czecho Slovakia and Russia provide strong representation with detailed classroom puppet programs.
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United Press
Paris
Europe
America
Czecho-Slovakia
United States
Russia
Leon Bogatstrev
Georgia
Ukraine
Czecho- Slovakia
Congress
Harvard Students Find Alberta Mountains Older Than Alps
Harvard University summer geology school completed a five week study in Jasper Park Maligne Lake Alberta. Professor Kirtley F Mather led twenty two students who concluded the Maligne mountains are older geologically than the Alps. They faced questions about glaciers during the work.
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Ba Times
Jasper Park
Alberta
Harvard University Summer School of Geology
Maligne Lake
Kirtley F. Mather
Labor Bodies Have No Official Program Monday
Thousands of Indianapolis residents plan a long weekend with no official Labor Day activities. The state fair opens Saturday and will draw crowds while highways to resorts attract many more. Picnics reunions and family gatherings fill city parks as stores and banks close for the holiday Monday.
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Indianapolis
Central Labor Union
Indiana
De Pinedo Quits Air Post
Francisco de Pinedo resigns as chief of staff of the Italian air force in Rome with General Giuseppe Valle expected to succeed him as head of the air service.
U S Urged to Break Radium Price Control
Washington reports say a Belgian syndicate controls world radium supply and prices. Representative Edward T. Taylor of Colorado seeks congressional action to study domestic production using Colorado carnotite ore to reduce reliance on Belgian and German sources, aiding science and public health.
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Washington
Colorado
Utah
United States Bureau of Mines
Edward T. Taylor
Congress
Taylor
Bureau Off Mines
America
Union Miniere du Haut
American Scientific
Government should not foster radium production in America
A policy stance urges the government to avoid promoting radium production within the United States and to ensure a secure supply from other sources. It argues against state-led industrial push and warns of risks to national interests.
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America
Bad Year on Actors
Berlin reports 1300 actors unemployed as government and firms seek odd jobs for them. Departments store groups hire actors as sales staff and secretaries while others place them as stenographers and clerks. Gold production in 1927 totaled 15,000,000 pounds.
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Berlin
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Alabama
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U.S
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Denver
Moore
Belgium
West Africa
West German Africa
Buescher
Band Instruments
Pearson Piano Co
N. Pennsylvania
SF Ietcher Trust Banks
Vitamont
Miller’s
Old Trusty
Everitt’s Seed Stores
Charles Koehring
Virginia Ave
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Chicago Jewelry Co
East
Washington ST
Jennie Courthonse
Richman
Richman’s
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Richman Brothers Company
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