Prohibition and War Debates Highlight Busy Week
Washington reports show a 50 percent cut in Veterans' Bureau staff across seven districts. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes plans new enforcement, while crops worth 63 million on reclamation projects are noted. Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington honor Col Charles Young and others, with various political and international notes shaping a turbulent week.
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Veterans’ Bureau
Hines i
Washington
Wab
Interior Department
Reclamation Service
Prohibition
Haynes
Governors’ Conference
Frances Meredith
Marshalltown
Federal District Court
Henry Kirchner
People’s Savings Bank
Garrison
State Board of Education
Children’s’ Hospital
State University Medical College
Iowa City
Carrie M. Palmer
Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
H. G. Crocker
Kellyfield
Texas
Detroit
Northwood
Ethel Toye
tSill College of Osteopathy
R.N. Holsaple
Des Moines Council
Des Moines Automobile Club
White Way No
West Union
Group Four
Atlantic
Cass County
Winifred B. Robb
Polk County
John A. Backman
Des Moines
Sheriff Park
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Centerville
Appanoose
Orient
Shenandoah
J. P. Kenea
Clarinda
Zenith camera at Yale maps north pole drift
Yale University's Zenith camera, perfected by Prof. Frank Schlesinger, enables precise measurements of the Earth's north pole drift by photographing stars near the zenith. The device automates plate exposure and timing to capture star paths, locating the pole within two feet and aiding global astronomical observations.
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New Haven
Conn
Frank Schlesinger
Yale University Observatory
George Airy
Schlesinger
Yale
Pole
North Pole
Equator
New Zealand
South Africa
Liners and Reindeer Carry Mail to Alaska
The Alaskan Talk Service stands alone in postal deliveries using every transport type. Ocean liners carry mail to Seward and on to interior points, with reindeer and other vessels aiding the route along Alaska’s waterways.
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Alaska
Seattle
Wash
Seward
Modern Solomon Lets Dog Pick His Owner
In a New York court Mrs Ann O Connor claimed the Pomeranian was hers while Mrs Frose Cohen said the dog bore the Cohen name. After each woman called the dog the Pom chose Mrs Cohen and the magistrate allowed her to keep it.
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Solomon
New York City
Ann O’connor
Frose Cohen
Cohen
Sweetser
Mail Routes Through Alaska and the Hard Winter Task
Up to date mail transports move to Nenana and Nome with dog teams river steamers and reindeer aiding. Seaplanes will soon serve coast towns. Seattle departures reach Seward then Nenana 300 miles inland in nine days. Despite ice snow rapids glaciers and storms mail carriers maintain steady deliveries.
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Nenana
Nome
St. Michael
Golivia
Seattle
Interior Alaska
Seward
Hla
Prehistoric Bone Harpoons Authenticated in England
Reports in the Anthropological Journal confirm two bone harpoons found beneath peat at Holderness Yorkshire as Maglemose age dating 10 000 to 20 000 years B C. Independent experts and Prof Sir W Dawkins support their authenticity noting similarities to Esthonia examples and a Bethune find in France.
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London
British Isles
Manchester
Holderness
Yorkshire
Maglemose
Denmark
B.C
North Sea
Scotland
Dogger Bank
Leslie Armstrong
Sheffield
Hull
British Association
Sheppard
Hull Museum
Kunda
Esthonia
W. Boyd Dawkins
Bethune
France
W. Moffitt
Atwick
Oban
MacArthur Cave
Prizes for babies in Papua as birth bonus policy
In Papua, Col. J. B. P. Murray explains a government baby bonus program giving five nights to native mothers plus extra for additional children. Officials aim to deter birth control advocates, promote large families, and modernize a once idle, warlike population through farming, roads, and taxation.
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London
Papua
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Col
J. B. P. Murray
South Sea Protectorates
Colonel Murray
South Seas
Young Man Cannot Love Older Wife in Divorce Case
In Los Angeles Mrs. Mary A. Randolph eighty seven tells Judge Burnell she is old enough for romance. The court grants divorce to her from Wesley Barry Randolph forty seven after the judge asserts the facts.
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Los Angeles
Mary A. Randolph
Iowa Farm News and Local Notes Roundup
A broad survey of rural life and city affairs features farmers building a community garage near Neils and a 20 000 dollar city engine purchase in Spencer. It notes school honors, endowment goals, farm prices, gas lines, and travel to a tuberculosis meeting, with obituaries and legal notices sprinkled through the region.
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Neils
Clarinda
Simpson College
Linn County
Dee
Charles H. Bandy
Fatebarh
India
Spencer
Linden
Des Moines
National Tuberculosis Association
Santa Barbara
Cal
Merle Rawson
Lioux City
G. B. Blades
Defiance
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Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
New York
James A. Webb
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Tommy Milton
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Indianapolis
Hartz
Murphy
Wiliam M. Johnston
California
W. Washer
Belgium
St Cloud
Uoltlat
James A. Cox
Canton News
Canton
Loretta Thompson
Brooklyn
Dominick Lee
Albany
Cuvillier
Crows Nest Pass
al- Berta
Old Man River
Fort Berthold Agency
North Dakota
Butte, Mont
Beaver Valley
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Neb
Burlington Railway
Edmund Heller
Field Museum of Chicago
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White House
Tuckahoe
Forestry School
University of Washington
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Seattle Dispatch
Supreme Court of Alabama
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W. A. Decker
Louisville
George W. Snyder
Mary
Murphysboro, Ill
Snyder
Federal Hospital Board
Hines
Dwight, DL
York
Chamber of Deputies
Poincare
Watchow
Sun Yat Sen
Tokyo
Siberian
Mabel Russell
Capt
Hilton Philipson
House of Commons
Northumberland
England
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Spanish Foreign Legion
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Holy Trinity
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Tsao Chuang
Robert A. Allen
United States Army
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Leo Rogers
Mark Bristol
Constantinople
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Berlin
Germany
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Ohio
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