Plan for Pension Building to be Civil War Museum
A proposal urges turning the Pension Building in Washington into a museum of the Civil War era. It calls for war materiel exhibits, models, paintings, and relics to attract visitors as veterans thin. The plan links to the building’s history, including the 1883 cornerstone and 1885 transfer of pension operations.
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Plan Museum of Civil War
Washington
Bustiog
Daniel F. Bakeman
Freedom
Alana Yeats
Wax Montis
wag.Eather S. Damon
Plymouth Union
Hiram Cronk
Ava
N. Y
Pens Sons
Congress
Casper Buber
Ior
Pension Pa |Teau
Bounty Offered to Kill Flies by Yekima Women Club
Washington state community offers five cents for each two ounce bottle of dead flies collected by school children in summer campaign. Flies, yellow jackets and bees plague orchards and workers in the fruit industry as ripe packinghouse fruit attracts pests.
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Yekima
Wash
Ftes
Yellow Jackets
Eclipses Forecast From 1925 To 1928 At Naval Observatory
Capt W S Eichelberger leads a Washington study at the United States Naval Observatory outlining solar and lunar eclipses from 1925 through 1928. Annular solar eclipse appears July 2021 with limited U S visibility. lunar partials on August 4. total lunar and solar eclipses forecast across continents with multiple coastwide observability.
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Washington
United States Naval Observatory
W. S. Eichelberger
United States
Pacific
Africa
Iadian Ocean
Naval Observatory
Sumatra
Central
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Asia
Mexico
Avia
Honolulu
Manila
Samoa
Eichelberger
Afried
South Africa
South America
North
Hemisphere
Woman Invents Color Organ by Mrs Mary Hallock Greenewelt
A female inventor, pianist Mary Hallock Greenewelt, has devised an electric light color organ after fifteen years of study. The device, unlike a regular organ, produces color synchronized with music and operates as an electric light instrument.
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Mary Hallock Greenewelt
New Rush To Gold Fields In British Columbia
Wrangell Alaska reports a rush to northwestern British Columbia as a river stretch reopens. Three boatloads of prospectors head toward Telegraph and Dease Lake near Cassiar Creek with 160 tons of gear. Many are seasoned sourdoughs awaiting the Cassiar discovery while Canadian and American customs coordinate crossings.
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Alaska
Stikine
Telegraph
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Deage Lake
New Gold Territory
F. W. J. Reed
le Sith
Whittler
Juneau
F. J. VanDewall
Skagway
T. Mason
J. E. Miller
Victoria
Cuasstar
Oscar Sither
Gassler
Cassiar Creek
Europe Opens Roads to American Tourists
Europe welcomes American motorists with eased travel and permanent international driving certificates. An international road traffic conference in Paris next fall will propose driver and car certificates valid twelve months. Standardized road signs will aid interstate touring, making cross border trips safer and more convenient for visitors with cars and money.
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Geneva
Europe
Thief Withdraws from Church Pocketbooks in York
While Union Lutheran Church members prayed, a thief crept into the lecture room below and stole three pocketbooks from coats. About $2 in money was taken. Police investigate the break in and seek clues on the second floor of the church in York.
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York
Union Lutheran Church
News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers
Representative Free of California departs Washington to study Alaska fishing conditions with aims to propose fishing and trapping legislation at the next session. Army uniform reforms and budget cuts draw attention as officials study impacts. Bayfield County Wisconsin 414 acres gainable for homestead entry on July 35 amid WWI era headlines. Memorial Day address at Arlington emphasizes defending the nation’s principles. Across assorted items, a mix of bank robberies, mining dangers, car crashes, notable deaths, aviation feats, and political notes populate the week’s brief roundup.
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California
Washington
Alaska
Congress
Interior Department
Washington Just
Bayfield County
Wisconsin
Teena Baring
Iowa News Notes Include Municipal Water Plant Start and Masons
Iowa reports detail Des Moines water mains project costing about 250000, plus annual department council sessions of 1 C O F at Clear Lake park. Masons convene in Davenport June 9 expecting over 1000 members. reports cover scholarships, radio plans, bank liquidations, and oil drilling leases near Hamburg.
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Iowa State Bureau of Investigation
Des Moines
Department Council
Patriarchs Militant
Clear Leake
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Davenport
Order
Mary Talbott
Brooklyn
Ames Faculty Women’s Club
Federal Department of Labor
Towa
Omaha
Mag. Son
Greenfiid
Hawarden
Eunice Horton
Louis G. Lasher
John Hammill
Iowa National Guard
Des Aloines
L. A. Andrew
Gtumwa
John Hammil
Andrew
Iowa State Banker’s Association
Shenandoah
Methodist Church
Iowa National Bible Training School
Towa of Colwell
Northeastern Iowa Power Company of
West Union
University of Town
Rock Island Rocky Mountain Limited
Igowa
Imperial Council
Shriners
Los Angeles
R. W. Dunlop
Washington, D.C
Lee County Farm Bureau
County Pig Club
Donnells
Yale University
Cheney
Floyd Shelton Datt
Griswold
Bishop Museum
Harry Stephen Ladd
Iowa City
Iowa Packing Company
Swift & Co
Hamburg
Philadelphia
A. B. Donaldson
German Baptist Churches
Burnington
National Aeronautic
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