Unearth Big Indian Mounds in Florida
Smithsonian ethnology chief Dr J Welter Fewkes reports on Fla shell heaps near St Petersburg and Charlotte Harbor. Excavations on Weedon’s Island reveal shell dippers and grinding stones showing agriculture alongside fishing. Evidence suggests three Indian types from sea fishing to historic Caloosa lineage and affinities with West Indian cultures.
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Washington
J. Welter Fewkes
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Florida
E. M. Billett
St. Petersburg
Fla
Weeden
de Soto
Narvaez
Charlotte Harbor
Frank Cushing
Bureau of American Enathnology
Rey-Marto
Harr
Caxamba
Elliott
Porpoise Point
Gulf
Lossman's Key
Caloosa
Needle Suit Worth Half Billion Marks in Kiel Case
A Kiel court battle over ownership of a priceless needle has moved to a higher tribunal due to a law restricting district judges from ruling on cases involving items over 500 million marks. The needle now valued at 1 billion paper marks prompts a neighbor dispute the woman vows to pursue for a favorable outcome.
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Kiel
Germany
Holstein
California
Golden State
Illinois Fruit Exchange
Centralia
Champion diver Leavitt held on fraud charge in Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin Leavitt a champion diver and president of the Leavitt Lusitania Salvage Company was arrested in Philadelphia and held on bail on a fraud charge arising from selling stock to a widow. The company claimed a Chile expedition would precede salvaging ten million dollars in specie from the Lusitania wreck.
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Benjamin Franklin Leavitt
Leavitt Lusitania Salvage Company
Philadelphia
Chile
Lusitania
Canadian Hall of Fame to honor Dominion builders on Parliament Hill
A Canadian Hall of Fame is planned for Parliament Hill Ottawa to honor national heroes and benefactors. The memorial tower and a special chamber will display the names of Canadas 50 000 expeditionary forces and memory walls will overlook the Lovers Walk. Prime Minister Mackenzie King backs the project and commissions will select early honorees including Laurier MacDonald Osler and Champlain.
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Lane
Wilson
Army of
Congress
National, Park Service
Thomas George Shaughnessy
Milwaukee
Canada
United States
John Dickinson Sherman
Dominion of Canada
Ottawa
National Pantheon
Dnd
Arthur
Bourinot
Prince of Wales
House of Commons
Senate
Flanders
St Julian
Confederation
Reading Rom
Parliament Hill
Dominion
India
Africa
Canadian Hall of Fame
Ters
W. L. A Mackenzie-King
London
Westminster Abbey
Wilfred “Campbell
Wead
Wilfred Laurier
John MacDonald
Edward Blake
Sir William, Osler
Davey McGee
John R. Booth
William MacDougall
James J.hill
Wellington County
Ontario
Franklin K. Lane
Prince Edward Island
Galute
Salmon Pack of 1923 in Grays Harbor County
A 1923 report by Deputy Fisheries Inspector J B Stetson shows 24,708 cases packed by Grays Harbor firms. Chums supplied 30,408 cases, blues or quinaults 19,983, cohoes 3,506, and chinooks 751.
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Hoquiam Wash
Salton
Grays Harbor County
Wisheries
J. B.stetson
X Ray Pictures Are Taken of Mummies
The Field Museum director D C Davies with Victor X ray corporation reveals X ray studies of mummies from Peru Egypt and other sites. Images show age sex and injury details from the buried remains and even preserve exhibition value. Plans include more Egyptian material vessels rock formations and moving pictures of the process.
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Chicago
Othes
D.C. Davies
Field Museum of Natural History
Victor X-ray Corporation
Woman buys horse to pension him in Portland Oregon
Abs. Bessie M Sweety purchases Bruce the horse from a public auction fearing improper care by the new owner. She arranges return to city barns, agrees to pay feed and care costs until a farm home is found.
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Portland
Ore
Bruce
Bessie M. Sweety
Chick quarrel ends in miner's death at Lafferty
A neighborhood dispute over chickens in Lafferty, Ohio led to the shooting death of Michael Kindem, a miner. He was attacked by Guy Adeto and Dominic Spanish during the fight and was later slain by Adeto.
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Miner
Lafferty
Michael Kindem
Laffferty
Guy Adeto
Dominic Spanish
Adeto
Narrow escape after train runs over two teens in Greenup
Miss Roth Craycraft fifteen years old and her chum Leona Thompson fifteen were walking on railroad tracks to a prayer meeting when a freight train struck them. Thompson was thrown clear with minor injuries while Craycraft was dragged beneath the cars. Seventeen cars passed over her leaving her severely injured but alive. She was taken to a hospital after extensive surgery and is expected to recover. The engineer did not know of the accident until reaching a distant station.
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Greenup
Miss Roth Craycraft
Miss Craycraft
Leona Thompson
Rairoad
Miss Thompson
Revival of Rural Industries in London
The village blacksmith saddler wheelwright and other traditional English trades suffer from changed life and advancing machinery. To revive and develop these industries an Industrial Industries intelligence bureau was formed and urged adoption of modern machinery.
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London
Tural Industries Intelligence Bureau
No Time for Ceremony in San Francisco Warehouse Incident
A bustling warehouse south of Market Street witnessed Sam Long nearly crushed by a high burlap-laden truck. An observing Chinese helper warned of danger in a sing song tongue, prompting Sam to leap clear. The tale then shifts to a joke about golf scoring told by a French caddie, contrasting English numeral mispronunciations with a quip about seven versus nine.
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Sam Long
Market Street
San Francisco
Ialkee Methan
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