Harvard Fogg Museum to Send China Exploration Party
The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard plans an eight month preliminary expedition to central and western China led by Lang von Warner to survey Sung dynasty kiln sites, Buddhist grottoes from the 5th and 6th centuries, and to photograph and measure monuments. If feasible, future excavations await Chinese government approval.
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Cambridge
Mass
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard
China
Langvon Warner
Pennsylvania Museum
Duncan McDougall
William McDougall
Warner
Fogg Museum
Manchuria
Europe
America
Oldest Farmer Claim Shapes Buncombe Indiana Legend
George Elkins of Buncombe Indiana proclaims he is the oldest farmer in America at ninety eight. He remains active in farm work and plowing and recalls presidential dates and names with good memory. He credits longevity to keeping coal and not worrying and avoids alcohol and smoking since sixty.
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George Elkins
Buncombe
Indiana
United States
Mr. Elkins
Bacon's Essays Sell for $2200 in London Auction
A perfect copy of the latest edition of Bacon's Essays was sold in London for 2200 dollars. The volume had previously changed hands for two cents.
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Bacon
London
May Lift Skirts Despite Collision, Judge Rules
Judge Follette in Los Angeles states skirts may be lifted on muddy streets without law interference. Belen Holt allegedly lifted her skirts while crossing, causing two motor trucks to crash as drivers forgot their path.
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Judge Follette
Los Angeles
Cal
Belen Holt
Stole a 75 Cent Ride Pays Christian Letter to Pennsylvanian
Cincinnati man John RB Marker recounts riding a Pennsylvania train years ago from Columbia City to Fort Wayne on a freight and returning as a passenger. He now sends 75 cents to A. B. Shaw, Pennsylvanian general passenger agent, stating his Christian life and renewal. He hopes the letter inspires others to seek the Holy Ghost and fire as the power of God.
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John RB. Marker
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Company
A. B. Shaw
Pennsylvania Co
Marker
Columbia City
Fort Wayne
Molokai Leprosy Colony Reports 399 Inhabitants
The Molokai leper colony on Kalaupapa notes 399 residents including 283 males and 146 females from various nationalities. A visiting legislator’s son lies ill as a tearful show of family sorrow. A nursery nearby shows ten healthy babies ages two weeks to five months, with no disease detected in the children despite parental affliction.
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Morena
Women Turn To Engineering In Britain Inspiring Careers
London American women seek professional paths as English women increasingly pursue engineering, medicine, law and related fields once closed to them. Victoria Drummond, grand daughter of Lord Amherst, becomes chief engineer aboard a large ocean liner and may seek a sea captain license.
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London
Victoria Drummond
Tabor
England
Miss Drummond
Lord Amherst
Hackney
Bt le
Viney
Berii-Gerhard Flauptmann Stops Auction of 1860 Letters
Germanys leading poet Flauptmann won a temporary injunction to halt the sale of letters written by Lim to Otto Brahm in 1860. The letters were being auctioned by a Berlin antique dealer as autographs.
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Berii
Gerhard Flauptmann
Germany
Lim
Otto Brahm
Flauptmann
Berlin
Chicago Wife Reneges on $25 Reward for Missing Husband
Mrs. Morris Hirschfield of Chicago offered a $25 reward to locate her husband missing three weeks. In domestic relations court she later withdrew the reward, saying no man is worth $25. She received 20 or more calls claiming he was alive with an affair, which she investigated and found true.
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Morris Hirschfield
Chicago
Lost Armenian Baby Identified by Scars
A Turkish brand on a boy rescued by Near East relief workers led to his identification and reunion with his mother in California. The boy was stolen in 1915 near Mardin during Armenian deportations, later passed through multiple hands, and the brand helped immigration officials confirm his identity and grant entry to reunite with Mrs. Torosian.
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Dinubs
Cal
California
Turkey
Jed
Hanks
B. Toro‘sian
Mardin
Caroline McAfee
Kansas City
Syria
Ind
Paid to Keep “Jinx” Away Extortion Case in Court
Mrs. Ester Helfeint paid $500 to Angelina Ca Tumhutz, a New York gypsy queen accused of extortion. Helfeint testified that a warning said her husband and ten children would die unless more money was supplied. The gypsy allegedly burned the money after taking it, while the woman appeared in court with a baby strapped to her back seeking release on bail.
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New York
Ester Helfeint
New York City
Angelina Ca Tumhutz
Hufeint
King s Statue 5200 Years Old Unearthed in Mesopotamia
A diorite statue of Ennantum king of Lagash, dating to 8200 B C, was found at Ur of the Chaldees during a joint University of Pennsylvania and British Museum excavation of the Ziggurat gate. The find signals a rare early Mesopotamian artifact unearthed by a major expedition.
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Philadelphia
Mesopotamia
University of Pennsylvania
British Museum
Ennantum
Lagash
Portrait of State's Attorney Crowe Leads Northwestern Mystery
State's Attorney Robert J. Crowe of Cook County Tilmots personally directs the Mount case at Northwestern University Evanston IL. He investigates murder manslaughter and possible self infliction as theories. University President Scott offers 10000 for information leading to indictment conviction or Mount's return alive.
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Robert J. Crowe
Cook County
Tilmots
Leighton Mount
Northwestern University
Evanston
Scott
University
Woman dubbed financial wizard faces forging charges in Schwab note case
Myrtle E B Hayes indicted on forging Charles M Schwab's name to a 2500 note amid claims of a 3 million fraud. Bankers say Schwab backed her for up to 1 15 million in two agreements dated 1922 and Bethlehem Steel chairman testified she forged his name. Schwab returned from Europe after the note surfaced and confronted Hayes who admitted the forgery.
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Miyrtle B. Hayes
New York
Cassie Chadwick
J. Schwab
America
Pigeon Cove
Albert T. Graf
Los Angeles
Beck Named to English Bar Amid Barrister Uproar
J M Beck has been admitted to the English bar at Gray s Inn amid protest from four English Inns of Court. Critics say a foreign lawyer bypassed standard three year entry requirements and the barrier that a solicitor cannot also practice as a barrister. Beck will argue a U S case before the Privy Council in London in July.
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Gray's Inn Bench
James M. Beck
United States
Inns of Court
London
Beck
Mr. Beck
Lerstofere
Privy Council
Bar
American Women Seek Peace Plan In European Tour
Mrs Maud Wood Park head of the National League of Women Voters leads a Rome congress delegation with Mrs Gifford Pinchot and Mrs James Morrisson of Illinois. Carrie Chapman Catt presided and declined reelection. The tour will visit Italy France England and Germany to gauge European leaders on women peacemaking. The league aims to learn how American women can best aid world peace.
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Maud Wood Park
National League of Women Voters
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Rome
America
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
James Morrisson
Ilinois
Carrie Chapmen Catt
Alliance
Italy
France
England
Germany
League
Stort
Europe
Olf
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman's Party
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Gil
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Britain
Gypsy
Honey
Washington
War Department
Indianapolis
Albert Erhart
Worcester
Erickart
John de Temple
Hudson River
Werbert Haggerty
de Temple
Crowe, Scott and the
Woman “Financial Wizard
Gotham
J. M Beck
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