National Parks and the Road to a Big Summer Drive
A lengthy 1925 feature extols a 25 percent rise in family auto travel with over 10 million Americans expected to be on the road. It highlights Rocky Mountain and Canadian parks, the value of national park systems, and Dr. Charles Walcott’s conservation advocacy, urging careful driving and fire safety to protect natural beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John’ ‘Dickinson
Chicago
New York
Washington
East Estes Park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Colorado Rockies
National Park
Park
Sam of Longs Beak
Estes
Mercury
Omaha
St Louis
Ana
Ama
Tainbownes
Continental Divide
Longs Peak
Ring of
the Rockies
Charles D. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Nate
Doctor Watcott
Thes “American Association For the
Canada
North America
Congress of the States
Dominion of Canada
United States
Cith
Palisades Interstate Park
Hudson
New - Jersey
New York State
Bear Mountain
Anthony
Peekskill
B. H. Harriman
How Far Did George Go
A white man Ferguson tricks a Black man George Titus into spending a night in a haunted house where a Black woman was killed. Ferguson locks doors, then George vanishes, reappearing after a long pursuit covered in dirt and fatigue. Ferguson scolds him for not reporting, and George responds with terse defiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Ferguson
George Titus
Ming
Clay Street
George Gallant
House of Tragedy
Oath Seeking Lobster Stirs Kensington Street Scene
A strolling lobster startled a downtown business man near Kensington road in Grosse Pointe as he hurried to a street car. The man insisted it was a real lobster, describing its devious escape from a delivery wagon and its strange green shade while staff and readers debated the odd sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kensington Road
Grosse Pointe
Korean Women Described As Attractive In Oriental Lands
A passage praising Korean women as the most attractive of their sex describes them as well built vigorous natural and graceful in their movements. The excerpt emphasizes physical appearance and poise reflecting era stereotypes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
Going and Coming: Debate on Greatest Writers Among Scholars
Two scholars a Frenchman and an Italian argued over literary greatness. The Italian claimed Dante as the greatest writer though he said Dante went to hell. A preacher proclaimed Baudelaire vastly greater than Dante, asserting Baudelaire came from hell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bach
Dante
The
Italien
Bahl
Baudelaire
Hell
Debt talks move toward formal adjustments with nine debtor nations
Washington reports nine wartime debt nations face concrete talks on loans after Britain Hungary Finland Lithuania and Poland completed funding deals with the debt commission. France Italy Belgium Greece Romania Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia Estonia Latvia are urged to follow, while Russia Armenia and Siberia are not in the current push. Officials say no hard demand is issued, but diplomatic exchanges press for a definite basis to discuss postwar debts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
United States
Great Britain
Hungary
Finland
Lithuania
Poland
Debt Commission
Act of Congress
France
Italy
Belgium
Greece
Rumania
Czechoslovakia
Kingdom of the Serbs
Yugoslavia
Esthenia
Latvia
Russia
Armenia
Siberia
Reforming Navy Deserters at Portsmouth Prison Proposed
Secretary Wilbur seeks to turn naval prisons into reformatories, designating Portsmouth as a reformitory for deserters. He, with Rear Admiral Latimer, visited Portsmouth and ran a humane experiment asking 150 deserters to write why they joined and why they left the Navy, to guide future policy and classification of inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayala
Portsmouth
N. E
Navi
Wilbur
Juan L. Latimer
Navy
Naval Service
Navy Department
Naval Prison
Paris Island
D. C
Naval
John A. Lejeune
Marine Corps
Mare Island
Cal
Latimer
Cavite
San Quentin
Atlanta
Economic Problems to Be Solved by U S Representatives
Delegates at the thirteenth annual Chamber of Commerce session in Washington hear President Richard F. Grant call for continued fundamental thinking and action by business to solve U S economic issues. He urges tax cuts, banking reform, a permanent merchant marine policy, rail labor dispute safeguards, and coordinated agriculture and industry to stabilize prices and production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Washington Auditorium
Richard F. Grant
Grant
International Chamber of Commerce
Education in Our National Parks as Lab and Playground
National parks are becoming educational recreational centers offering field laboratories and outdoor playgrounds. Yellowstone and Yosemite illustrate geophysical study and nature guides. Yosemite’s Field School offers university level courses. A Rocky Mountain camping ground project and a broad park road reconstruction program aim to boost access and safety for millions visiting 19 parks and 31 monuments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone
Yosemite
American Legion
Rocky Mountain National Park
Colorado
Department of the Interior
Congress
National Park
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WiLo
Irvin
Cobb
Detroit News
Uncle Sam
U.S
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