Australia Has Fish That Cry in Northwest Australia
Explorer Captain Charles Bertrand Alexander reports vast unexplored lands in northwest Australia. The British government plans 11 million pounds for steamships and cattle trade, with Australia contributing five million. He describes ebony forests, cypress pine, and unusual platybus fish that climbs trees and moans. Broome hosts aborigines using traditional tools. pearl exports support a large local industry with Malay and Japanese fishermen. The coastline from Cape Londonderry to Exmouth spans over 1000 miles with rich pearl potential.
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New York
Great Northwest
Australia
Charles Bertrand Alexander
Pearl Chierchant
Broome
Western Australia
San Francisco
Alexander
Derby
Elm‘berleys
Cape Londonderry
Exmouth Guile
Steam Heats Building With Kilauēa Crater Outlet
Steam from Kilauēa crater heats the Hawaiian National Park Commission building on EBule Island. Vapor vents at 120 degrees, travels 40 feet through conduits, maintaining a steady 70 degree indoor temperature in winter.
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Ebule
Island of Hawaii
Kilauéh
Hawaiian National Park Commission
Hundred Mile Beach Pearl Trade and Dangers Report
The account notes Broome as a major source of mother of pearl for New York button makers. It cites oysters yielding rare tiearls with $15,000 and $8,500 sales in London and hints at dumps for divers in depths of 80 to 42 feet. It mentions a shift from London to local handling since 1916 and warns white men away from Wever-Never land without a well-armed party.
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Broome
New York
Tiearls
London
Woman Seeks State Help To Control Snakes On Wyoming Farm
Mrs. Huston Sowers of a nearby farm describes a severe snake problem with many rattlers on her land. She appeals for a state snake hunter as the Biologic Survey promises to consider action after years of rattlesnake claims.
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Huston Sowers
Grubstake ruling affirms $10,000 loan to miner
In a Portland case Henry Embola funded John Tuppela’s Alaska mining venture, later deemed a grubstake not usury. The Supreme Court upheld $10,000 payment as an investment risk shared with Tuppela, affirming judgment for the sum despite earlier claims.
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Olympia, Walsh
Henry Embola
John Tuppela
Enbola
Puppela
Alaska
U S Food Law Enforcement Faces Heavy Task
The Bureau of Chemistry reports 1450 prosecutions and seizures in fiscal year 1923 as misbranding and adulteration remain major issues. Butter enforcement gains from a new 80 percent butterfat standard, with 64 butter adulteration seizures and 17 prosecutions, including a Jersey City firm found shipping coconut oil adulterants. An English inventor unveils a coal cutting machine weighing 105 pounds.
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Washington
Publc
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Chemistry
Jersey City
NLOTL
Philadelphia
Fim
Bride Gets $50 000 on Her Wedding Day
Blanche Phillips of 580 West Eng Avenue is set to receive 50000 on her wedding day from the estate of her father Isaac J Phillips who died November 22. The will also provides that after five years she will receive an additional 100000.
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New York
Blanche Phillips
West Eng Avenue
Isaac J. Phillips
Phillips
Toke
Woman Swallows Pins Laughing at Joke in Lorain
In Lorain Ohio Mrs Albert Buell choked on two pins while laughing at a joke. Physicians removed one pin but the other remains imbedded in her throat. Doctors fear an operation may be needed to remove the stuck pin.
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Albert Buell
Buell
Duel Echoes Feud Returns To Wyoming With Gunfire
In northeastern Wyoming near Sylvester McConaughy and Fred Hickey over disputed ranges a gun duel left McConaughy with the loss of his right thumb and facial wounds while Hickey escaped, with Raymond Hickey killed by McConaughy’s pursuer. A local doctor and deputy sheriff arrived. no arrests were reported.
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Wyom
Wyoming
Sylvester McConaughy
Fred Hickey
Foe
McConaughy
Lyndon Painter
Hickey
Raymond
Painter
Raymond Rickey
Samaritan
Hulett
G. Hurtt
McConuusky
Court's Decision Leaves Man With an Extra Wife
Fred G. Cox of Cincinnati holds two wives after Ohio higher courts declined to intervene in Hamilton County cases. The Common Pleas court granted a divorce from Martlee Cox on Nov 6, 1919, but no entry was made. in June 1920 an entry denying the divorce was added. Cox had remarried, and efforts to set aside the latest action failed. He wed his second wife, Miss Nannie Gill, in Maysville, Kentucky.
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Columbus
Fred G. Cox
Cincinnati
State Supreme Court
Hamilton County
Common Pleas Court
Cox
Martlee Cox
Nannie Gill
Maysville, Ky
Three Inch Shell Found Embedded in Astoria Roof
A three inch shell was found embedded in the roof of Thomas H. Elliott’s home at 656 Second Avenue Astoria. Elliott seeks damages from the artilleryman and wants him jailed before another shell is planted. Police also seek answers as the shell’s nonexplosion and origin remain mysteries in the incident.
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New York
Thomas H. Elliott
Second Avenue
Astoria
Child Labor Amendment Push Aims at Farm Work Standards
federal proposal seeks minimum ages and maximum hours for child labor on farms. states vary. only Ohio bans teen farm work outright with limited exceptions. bureau findings show more children six to sixteen leaving school to work on family and hired farms across multiple states.
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Ashington
Congress
Supreme Court
Nebraska
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Children's Bureau
California
Children's, Bureau
Ilinois
Michigan
North Dakota
Colorado
Texas
Maryland
Virginia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Connecticut
Comptroller Dawes Urges National Bank Preservation
Comptroller H. M. Dawes in his annual report urges preservation of the national banking system, arguing it deserves attention and should be protected from encroachment by other banks. He warns against abolishing the office of the comptroller while noting risks from branch banking and calls for independent federal supervision.
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Enry M. Dawes
Congress
Red Flag Over White House Aims Cited By Soviet Edict
President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes publicized a Soviet instruction to the Workers Party of America calling for more intensive revolutionary work and the eventual raising of the Red flag over the White House. The State Department emphasized the closeness of the Soviet regime to the Communist International and warned against subversive influence in the United States.
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Workers’ Party of Amer- Acta
White House
Coolidge
Hughes
America
Zinoviev
Communist International
Petrograd Soviet
Workers’ Party of America
Communist’ Organization
United States
Department of Justice
Russia
Soviet
Red Organization
State Department
Communist Party
Steklov
Rus
Sian Communist Party
Tzvesky
Soviet Russia
Worker's Party “of America
United States of North America
War Prisoners Released by Coolidge Amnesty Act
President Coolidge commuting the sentences of all remaining IWW war law violators freed 31 prisoners at Leavenworth. Among them two Chicago convicts from 1919 and nine others linked to William D. Haywood. A special clemency committee led by Newton D. Baker, Gen. Harbord, and Bishop Bren recommended amnesty. Civil liberties groups and several lawmakers welcomed the decision as allies had released prisoners abroad.
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Coolidge
Leavenworth
Kan
Kansas City
T. Ww. W
Chicago
William D
Bill
Gaylwood
Sacramento
Newton D
Taker
James G. Harbord
Charles A. Bren
Episcopal Church
Army Chaplain Service
American Civil Liberties Teague
Barah
Rep
Idaho
Congress
United States
C. J. Bourg
Harry Lloyd
Charles Hf. McKinnon
James P. Thompson
Alexander Cournos
Burt Lorton
James Rowan
Biz Bill Haywood
Russia
Reis
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