Aliens Flow Into Russian Cities as Tourism Looms
Moscow and Petrograd see a rising foreign presence as travel loosens postwar barriers. More than 1,000 visitors arrived in Petrograd in June, with business travelers dominating. Hotels remain scarce in Moscow, yet trains from Warsaw and Riga improve comfort. provincial hotels still face issues with insects and limited accommodations.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Petrograd
Rewspaper
Russia
Petrograd i
Warsaw
Riga
Berlin
Vienna
Fascisti Organize Party in Roumania Under Dictatorship Trust
A Fascist party modeled on Italy forms in Bucharest, vowing to restore order through dictatorship. It demands expulsion of foreigners, claiming 2,000,000 noncitizens worsen housing and security.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Fascismo
Deaf Congregation to Get Permanent Chicago Church
Chicago's 2000 strong deaf community will worship in a new City Temple as the old First Church site is cleared. The deaf mission holds weekly services with sign language, illustrated lectures, readings, plays, and hymns, with study groups and biweekly meetings at Hartzell Center. Since 1889 Chicago has hosted deaf work, expanding to three state schools in 50 cities.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Silent Church
New City
Phillip J. Hasenstab
Deaf Mission
First
Constance F. Hasenstab
Hartzell Center
Hasenstab
State School For the Deaf
Jacksonville
State Printing Plant Rushes School Books in August
Topeka Kan Aug 4 Presses at the state printing plant run at full capacity turning out the state eighth million school texts annually. The plant supplies all books for public schools and many state departments and institutions. Price lists show an average 7.25 percent rise with many titles increased. Editors explain higher prices reflect current paper and labor costs and revised editions rather than higher production costs. The state plant estimates saving consumers about 200000 annually, with dealers allowed a 15 percent gross margin.
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Topeka
Kan
Associated Press
State Text Book Commission
Capitol Square
EB. E. Kelley
Bert Walker
Keiley
Call and Kents
Waterloo Mecca for Tourists Shifts to War Cemeteries
Waterloo once Belgiums top tourist site draws crowds no more as World War I devastated Flanders. Visitors now seek battlefield cemeteries at Nieuport Dixmude Ypres and the Yser while Waterloo towns inns close and guides fade away. The great war ended Waterloos era and left desolate streets for living memory.
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Waterloo
Flanders Fields
Nieuport
Dixmude
Ypres
Yser
Belgium
Flanders
Cotton growth doubles NSW cotton acreage forecast for next year
Sydney, Aug 2. Experiments in cotton raising in New South Wales have more than doubled the acreage anticipated for next year. Northern Australia shows better growing conditions, yielding higher grades and prolific plants with up to 920 bolls per plant. NSW estimates 35,000 acres next year as English spinners seek Empire cotton. Independent mills in Australia may grow with domestic production.
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Sydney
N.S. W
New South Wales
Itme
North Australian
Bonatbo
Australia
Coal Probe Hearing Set in Pittsburg Case
The Industrial Court will hear its probe into Jackson Walker Coal and Mining Company contracts on August 13 in Pittsburg. About seventeen firms with $500,000 invested in coal leases employ 1,200 miners, with many mines closed due to lack of market. The inquiry focuses on lease provisions and restrains of trade, while Sanita Fe Railroad interests through Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal & Mining Co. may be affected. The move aims to spur employment in coal fields after a governor’s conference failed to produce results.
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Pittsburg
Kin
Jackson- Walker Coal & Mining Company
Jackson- Walker Company
Sanita Fe Railroad
Cherokee & Pittsburg Coal & Mining Co
Jackson-Walker Company
Santa Fe
Davis
Bernhardt Home Sold at Belle-Isle Estate Auction
Paris reports the late Sarah Bernhardt finally sold her Belle-Isle country house off Brittany. The property includes a farm a fort and a rocky shore. A buyer agreed at 350 000 francs about 20000 dollars and plans to convert the home into a summer hotel with a band and dancing on the First floor before the season ends. The Palais port triad mayor had hoped for municipal acquisition.
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Paris
Sarah. Bernhardt
Belle-Isle
Brittany
Palais
Port Triad
Divorces in Canada Remain Very Low in 1922
Ottawa reports Canada still shows strong family loyalty with only 644 divorces granted in 1922 or about 0.6 percent of marriages. Divorces per 106000 people stood at seven, while U.S. figures were 112 per 100000. BC led decrees with 138, Alberta 129, Manitoba 87, PEI had none since 1868.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Dominion
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Unitei
British
Columbia
Alperta
Manitoba
Prince Edward Island
Canada’s 1922 auto output tops 101000 units
Canada produced 101,007 automobiles in 1922, up 53 percent from 1921, with total production valued at 81,056,429 dollars and capital invested at 13,381,084. Wages reached 13,831,084 and 7,384 people were employed in the industry. Most cars are sold domestically, with expanding exports to South America, the UK, Australia, and more.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
South America
United Kingdom
Australia
South Africa
Mexico
Norway
Swede
Netherlands
United States
Prairie
Equipment Careage Gaps Shown in Yearlong Record
A fragmentary report notes only 450 instruments have been cared for since the year's start, highlighting ongoing trouble with equipment upkeep and possible backlog in maintenance. The incomplete text hints at systemic gaps in handling and servicing gear.
Ship fish across desert to supply markets
Mullet, abundant in the Gulf of California near the Colorado river delta, are being shipped alive in tank trucks across 125 miles of arid desert from Mexicali to be reshipped by express to fish markets nationwide. Sea bass, weighing from mid shipments, are also mentioned in transit.
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Mexicali
Lower
Cal
Gulf of California
Colorado River
Prolific Gulf of California Fishes Cited by Fishermen
Fishermen with wide experience say the Gulf of California on the Lower California side is the most prolific region for all kinds of fish and shellfish along the entire west coast of the Pacific Ocean. They note weights of 125 to 200 pounds for some catches and 200 to 500 pounds for turtle tip specimens, highlighting season expectations.
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Gulf of California
California
Pacific Ocean
ALASKANS ARE DYING OUT
Anchorage report warns that full blooded natives along Alaska's southwestern coast will be scarce in a few decades. Charles Coach, who has studied the area, says intermarriage with white men rises as natives seek better providers and social prospects. Only educated natives with steady earnings can win favorable marriages.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Associated Press
Charles Coach
Cook Inlet
Coach
Crater to be named for King Victor Emmanuel II
A new Etna crater will be named after King Victor Emmanuel II. Signor Mussolini is reported as the Italian premier naming the feature during events at Rome on August 4.
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Rome
Mount Etna
Victor Emmanuel II
Signor Mussolini
Mier
Berlin to turn Zeppelin shed into film studio
Strange Setting Berlin Aug 4 movie actors will work in the large Staaken Zeppelin shed. The idle war building is slated for conversion into a film studio as production activity nears.
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Berlin
Staaken
French Inventor Claims Radio Interference Eliminated
French inventor Yves Marree says a new device eliminates jamming and stray signals in wireless telegraphy while printing received messages. Tests near Port Jefferson LI and a noisy London office allegedly produced clear, inked transcripts with far less power, potentially replacing large high power stations with multiple low power ones.
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Lonnon
Associated Press
Yves Marree
M. Marree
Port Jefferson
Long Island
London
United States
M. ‘Marree
Wonders of Crater Lake Described by Harry Hutchings
Harry Hutchings reports from Crater Lake describing a vast 36 mile circumference crater with 2000 feet deep lake, 11 2 miles high walls, floating rocks and petrified trees visible through field glasses. He recalls the snow, mosquitoes, and a motorcycle journey from Roseburg covering 200 miles in 84 1/2 hours.
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Harry Hutchings
Lawrence
Crater Lake
Mr. Hutchings
Rook
Antre
Specis
Christ
Jeremiah
Roseburg
Air Ambulance Feat in Western Australia
An air service value for isolated settlers was shown when a plane carrying an urgent surgical case was blown 30 miles off course by a westerly gale but landed the patient at Cararvon in seven hours.
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Perth
Australia
Cararvon
Lutheran convention to convene at Eisenach August
Forty American delegates join international Lutheran church congress to be held August 19 to 25 in Eisenach Thuringia within the Startburg castle area. Sweden, Norway, Russia and England send multiple representatives along with Denmark Estonia the Far East and Czecho Slovakia delegations.
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Eisenach
Thuringia
Associated Press
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Blinguient
Startburg
Ierhin Luther
Sweden
Norway
Russia
England
Denmark
Esthenia
Far East
Czecho-Slovakia
Freckle Bleaching Mix Promises Skin Brightening
A sensational home remedy claims two lemons mixed with Orchard White creates a potent cream to bleach freckles and tan. Readers are advised to apply the fragrant mixture daily to the face neck arms and hands for a hoped for clear youthful skin.
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Payer
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Ayer
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