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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1927
Page
2
A Geneva announcement says Palestine will be fully electrified within five years with contracts signed. Planes include lighting and industry, irrigation from Jordan water, and a electric railway up Mt Carmel. Fifteen hundred workers to labor for the five year project.
Answers printed on page seven cover trivia topics from Eli Whitney to Canberra. Notable items include the invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney, helium use, William Sydney Porter, the 19th Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt’s marriages, the Capitol dome, U.S. area, the tin wedding, Canberra, Byrd and Floyd Bennett, and lists of names associated with the questions.
The Atwater Kent Foundation launches a nationwide talent search for undiscovered young voices. Auditions proceed from community to state to national levels, with prizes from 5 000 to 250 and total awards of 17 500, including music school tuition. Entrants must be under 25, not professionally tied, intend a musical career, and unbound by contracts.
Prof. H. E. Birdsong, head of Butler University's journalism department, resigns to take charge of Temple University's journalism program in Philadelphia. He will assume duties in September after a European journalism tour as instructor for Minnesota University. Previously he taught at Wisconsin University and served on the Kansas City Star editorial staff.
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