Easter Island a Puzzle of Ancient Statues and Missing History
The article describes Easter Island as a land of massive carved statues formed from single stone blocks. It notes the mysterious origins and unfamiliar writing, the mismatch between quarry size and statue weight, and the gap in knowledge about the original inhabitants. A Dutch explorer named it Pas ter Island on Easter Sunday 1772.
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Easter Island
Pacific
Waster Island
Paster Island
Odd Bits From Far Lands And Times
The piece surveys diverse customs and facts. It notes oil paper umbrellas in Korea costing about ten cents and that Mohammedans avoid silk. It mentions Egypt requiring multilingual telephone operators and Parisian tailors issuing dog fashion plates. It covers Persia lacking distilleries and native wine use, lakes in the Tyrolean Alps shrinking, horseshoes as lucky emblems, sleep recovery in fifteen days after two lost nights, and dwarfs living near a century while giants die young.
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Egypt
Persia
Tyrolese
Alps
England
The Best Plaster for a Lame Back
A flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Liniment bound on the back often relieves pain more effectively than a plaster and costs far less.
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Chamberlain
Distinguished Canadian Bar Association Meet in Winnipeg
Winnipeg hosts the annual Canadian Bar Association gathering with judges and lawyers from Britain and the United States. Sir James Atkins presides as Viscount Finlay gives the annual address. Jacob M. Dickinson attends representing the American Bar Association. Topics include Administration of Justice Legal Ethics Legal Education Insurance and Model Policy Forms Ultra Vires in Common Law.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Bar Association
Dominion Bench
Great Britain
United States
James Atkins
Manitoba
Viscount Finlay
Lord Finlay
England
Privy Council
American Bar Association
Jacob M. Dickinson
Chicago
Social Calendar Story Telling Hour Aides Thursday
Mrs. M. P. Cullinan hosts a Story Telling Hour at her home at 5 PM Thursday with Mrs. Violet S. Oberfeldt Society Editor coordinating local social events and phone contacts 70 and 43 listed for arrangements.
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Violet S. Oberfeldt
M. P. Cullinan
Hills of memory and travel dots this town page
Three Hills and a hill in England are evoked with playing fields and elm trees. Flanders is described as a hill of slain shells and ghosts. A hill in Jewry is noted with three crosses and a dying figure.
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England
Flanders
Everard Owens
Poe
Wandering stranger offered supper table misfit tale
A tired working woman challenges a wanderer to earn a supper by offering him a chance to see a man endure a full meal without finding fault. The wanderer responds with a bold claim he can show such an opportunity, and the woman invites him to enter and set the table.
Remarkable Transport of Massive Gas Tank in Portland
A 800 ton gas container, 70 feet in diameter and 75 feet tall, was moved 3 miles in Portland Oregon. It was raised 15 feet and rolled 4 blocks to a dock, loaded onto barges, towed 3 miles to a shipyard, raised 26 feet, moved 2000 feet across new ground, crossed a railroad, and placed on a new foundation. The operation took 71 days to complete.
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Switzerland
England
Montana
Portland
Money Makers Ad Prompt Promises Big Returns
A Times Want Ad piece touts lucrative money making opportunities with promises of high returns and quick profits, urging readers to invest or enroll.
Parade, Birthday and Meetings Highlight Today’s Events
ASDAFY Park plans a revived parade after years of war disruption. Samuel Cox, aged 100, marks his centennial in Lyng Massachusetts. Bar Association opens in Winnipeg with lawyers from across America. Cattlemen’s carnival draws expert ropers and frontier sports from a dozen states in Garden City Kansas for three days. Fairbanks family reunion gathers at the Dedham Massachusetts homestead. Wisconsin meeting at Madison discusses a state purchasing agent to save funds for the commonwealths.
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Asdafy Park
Samuel Cox
United States
Lyng
Mass
America
Canadian Bar Association
Winnipeg
Eiders
Garden City
Kas
Fairbanks
Dedham
New England
Wisconsin
American Commonwealths
Madison
Women and work fades into a wide range of matters
A compilation notes women’s status abroad and in the United States including ratios of women to men in the Falkland Islands, a Kansas clubwomen campaign for good roads, Miss Margaret Robinson becoming Dallas hospitals director at 2700 dollars yearly, Korea’s rule on widows, California minimum wages for women in canneries laundries and fruit, the limited admission of women to the Order of the Garter, the Ladies of the Maccabees as a large insurance society, a push at the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World meeting in New Orleans to admit women to full membership, and Oregon minimum wages for women workers with varying rates by industry.
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Falkland Islands
Kansas
Margaret Robinson
Dallas
Korea
California
Order of the Garter
Ladies of the Maccabees
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
New Orleans
Oregon
Carry Off of Easy Money Ends in Hat Stash
A discharged soldier and his young wife shopped in Washington. The husband, exhausted, rested in a department store lobby and dozed off with his hat in hand. On the wife’s return she found a dollar and a half left in his hat.
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Washington
Laredo Welcome Homer Wohringer To Prime Primrose Butter
Mr H Wohringer formerly of Norton Kansas arrives in Laredo with his wife to lead the ice cream and butter operations of Consumers Ice Company. The firm will produce a specialty butter under the Primrose trade name prized by Laredo residents.
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H. #. Wohringer
Norton
Kansas
Consumers Ice Company
Laredo
Deny statements by Carrancistas on Mexican oil laws
The American association of petroleum producers in Mexico replies to Carranza cabinet statements arguing Mexico may seize foreign oil properties. They say the Mexicans quoted a French authority incorrectly and note April 1918 State Department protests, with France England and Holland sharing concern that Mexico cannot confiscate oil interests.
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Associated Presse
Washington
American Association of Producers of Petroleum
Mexico
State Department
Carranza
France
England
Holland
Governor Grants Extradition in Washington Jail Break Case
Austin Aug. 27 Governor Hobby granted extradition to Washington of D C Delmas recently pardoned for his WW II record after escaping from Texas penitentiary Delmas is sought in Washington for jail breaking while held for alleged forgery.
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Austin
Texas
Hobby
Washington
D. C
Delmas
Prohibition Shapes New Jersey Gubernatorial Battle
In New Jersey the gubernatorial race heats up over liquor policy. Four aspirants seek the Republican and Democratic nominations with prohibition as a central issue. Voters split by region, Republicans eye shifts after a 30 to 30 legislature balance prior to the federal amendment.
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Trenton
N. 2
New Jersey
New York
Philadelphia
Who Won the War According to Allied Nations
A London Daily Mail editorial credits France for delaying the foe and leading early combat, Belgium for sacrifice, Italy for aid, the United States for timely entry and key victories at Chateau Thierry and the Argonne, and Britain with its dominions for steadfast support and endurance.
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France
Belgium
Italy
United States
Russia
Chateau Thierry
Hindenburg Line
Argonne
Dominions
London Daily Mail
Newport Horse Show Opens With Record Attendance
The Newport horse show at the Casino opened today drawing a record crowd. The three day event features many prominent exhibitors and a large field of show and race horses. Proceeds benefit soldiers blinded in battle.
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Newport
R. 1
California Strikes Shut Down Rail Service Coast to Coast
San Francisco reports widespread railway strike action halting all passenger transport with embargo orders in effect and no ticket sales for the present. In Los Angeles representatives of four railroad brotherhoods await President Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers orders to return to work immediately and will meet to decide next steps.
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San Francisco
Associated Press
Cal
California
Los Angeles
Stone
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Baker Explains Army Officer Retention Request
Secretary Baker asserted in a letter to House Military Affairs Chair Kahn that the public needs a swift move to full efficiency. He detailed why he sought authority to retain up to 18,000 commissioned officers in the army through June 30 next year.
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Associated Press
Washington
Baker
Kahn
House Military Affairs Committee
Haker
Congress
Engineer Killed in Rock Island Limited Crash near Tucumeerl
AP dispatch from Dalhart Texas reports engineer Ford and fireman Mathews died when the eastbound Golden State Limited overturned near Tucumeerl New Mexico today. An unidentified postal clerk was seriously injured. passengers were unhurt.
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Hy Associated Press
Dalhart
Texas
Ford
Mathews
Golden State Limited
Rock Island Railroad
Tucumeerl
New Mexico
Eastern States Exposition to host cost of living congress
Springfield Massachusetts August 27 cost of living issues to be addressed at the first all eastern lower cost of living congress at the Eastern States Exposition next month. The event will feature farm agencies from northeastern states and representatives from farm and food groups labor groups and industrial centers. Delegates will seek methods to reduce living costs through scientific farm management better marketing and fair profits for eastern producers.
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Springfield
Mass
Massachusetts Commission On Necessaries of Life
Eastern States Farm and Food Foundation League
New England
President Wilson Prep for Pacific Coast Trip
President Wilson will start his Pacific Coast trip within two weeks to view the Pacific Fleet. Secretary Tumulty said the voyage may last about 26 days and could include a San Francisco visit on September 15 to review fleet units. The itinerary should be finished soon as the president prioritizes the trip before the peace treaty reaches the Senate.
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Associated Preas
Washington
Wilson
Pacific Coast
Tumulty
Ume
Pacific
San Francisco
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Haimhausen Named German Ambassador to United States
Berlin reports former German embassy counsellor Dr Haniel von Haimhausen selected as ambassador to the United States. In Washington officials say the U S will not receive him or others tied to the Bernstorff era. Also note Dr Paul Reinach, American minister to China, has resigned with no public reasons given.
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Berlin
Haniel von Haimhausen
Washington
United States
Haimhausen
Bernstorff
Miniater Reinsch
Paul Reinach
China
Wilson
Reinseh
Honolulu
Minister Reinsch Resigns Over Ill Health
Washington dispatch notes Minister Reinsch has resigned due to ill health, effective immediately, ending his tenure and duties in the diplomatic post.
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Washington
Reinsch
Extradition Request For Bela Kun Aimed At Austria
Hungary has demanded the extradition of Bela Kun and his associates from the new Austrian foreign office, according to a Vienna despatch.
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Basle
Bela Kun
Hungary
Vienna
Bolsheviki Capture Pskov and Advances Reported
Moscow issues official statement claiming Bolsheviki capture Pskov southwest of Petrograd and successes on the Volga in General Denikin territory. Kamishin, 120 miles southwest of Saratov, reported captured with continuing southward movement.
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London
Pskov
Petrograd
Moscow
Volga
Denikine
Kamishin
Saratov
Oldest Mason Samuel Cox to Observed100th Birthday in Lynn
Samuel Cox, the oldest Mason in the United States, will mark his hundredth birth day today at his Lynn home. Born in Marblehead, he sailed as a young man and endured hardships on fishing schooners before settling in Lynn to work in shoe factories well past age eighty.
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Lignn
Mass
Samuel Cox
United States
Mr. Cox
Marblehead
Lynn
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