World Population and Large Cities by Continent and Country
A 1922 census summary shows 1.804 billion people worldwide with about 40 million in the eighteen mega cities of over a million residents. New York tops city populations, followed by London and Berlin, with Europe leading in number of large cities and Asia surpassing North America in large urban centers.
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Berlin
New York
London
Europe
Paris
Glasgow
Vienna
Moscow
England
Germany
Italy
France
Russia
Asia
North America
Shanghai
Rankau
Calcutta
Bombay
Tokyo
Osaka
United States
Chicago
Philadelphia
Mexico City
South America
Brazil
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
Australia
Robin Family Saves Nest With String Flag Flagged
In Topeka Kansas Mr and Mrs Joseph Davies of 415 Buchanan Street saved a family of 100 percent American robins in two pear trees in their back yard. A neighboring robin and husband searched for nesting material and wove a flag into their nest. A loose fragment waved in the breeze attracting attention.
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Robin
Topeka
Kan
Joseph Davies
Buchanan Street
Craigdarroch Estate in Scotland For Sale Historic Grounds
Edinburgh listing offers Craignarroch estate in Drumfriesshire for sale. The 2,700 acre historic property has been in the Fergusson family since around 1395 and includes Craigdarroch mansion once home to Annie Laurie. Annie Laurie married Alexander Fergusson. she died in 1761 and is buried at Craigdarroch. The site preserves the legendary whistle linked to Burns.
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Annie Laurie
Scotland
Edinburgh
Craignarroch
Drumifriesshire
Fergussons
Craigdarroch
Alexander Fergusson
Craigdscroch
Robert Burns
Denmark
Husband's Radio Set Dragged Into Court
Mrs Emma E Meypether of New York sues her husband George Afaypether a wholesale druggist for separation naming the radio set as a co respondent. She says he keeps late hours listening to concerts and disturbs her sleep causing quarrels.
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Emma E. Meypether
New York City
George Afaypether
Champion of Bacchus Outlasts Dane in Maxiellion Tussle
At the festivity kickoff the whistle was placed on the table and the loser must seize it as triumph. The Dane endured three days and nights of fierce competition and was finally toppled by the Laur ies of Maxiellion, leaving the Scandinavian defeated under the table.
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Bacchus
Maxiellion
Titled Woman Praises Sahara Desert Sheiks
London. Lady Dorothy Mills writes to the Daily Chronicle praising Sahara sheiks as handsome, bloodthirsty aristocrats. She depicts men as aristo crats of the sand and describes veiled features and striking eyes. She also comments on women among richer classes being valued by weight and subjected to fattening.
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London
Sahara
Dorothy Mills
Daily Chronicle
Sand
Dorothy
Eye hazards in factories and industrial blindness linked
Eye hazards in factories contribute about 16 percent of industrial blind cases, with roughly 15,000 people nationwide affected. An investigation into industrial eye injuries conducted last year by an unnamed agency sheds light on the risks workers face in occupational settings.
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New York
Eye protection urged in national factory study
The national committee for the prevention of blindness reports widespread eye hazards across all states and industries. It notes many plants lack protective gear, workers keep goggles hidden, and hazards from implements cause eye injuries every two and a half minutes. It calls for legislation, education, and prevention services, urging hazard elimination at the source and better eye examinations for workers.
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National Committee For the Prevention
Unon
Firea
Inca quipu reveals ancient arithmetic system
Lima Peru A new discovery by Francisco Loaysa shows the Inca used a decimal based arithmetic with a master quipu 16 yards long and 100 knots. Colored sections and silver beads encode odd and even numbers enabling rapid calculations in subtraction multiplication and division.
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Lima
Peru
Francisco Loaysa
Cajamarca
New World
Loaysa
Royal Statisticians Guarded Master Cards In Reserve
Fragments indicate special master cards were kept aside not for daily use but likely for royal statisticians. The text suggests a cautious, ceremonial handling of these items, implying their importance beyond routine records.
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Ered
Royal Statisticians
Canadian Lacrosse Tutors Wanted in U S
Intercollegiate lacrosse in the United States is a monopoly closed to Canadians. Most coaches at leading American lacrosse contests are natives of the Dominion. Harvard and St John’s are noted as few American instructors among Canadian tutors.
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United States
Dominion
Harvard
St. John's Ccollege
Baseball Player Trades and Team Moves Across Leagues
Reports show multiple players sold or released to teams in the International and American associations, Southern and Texas leagues, with several club changes noted. Conn faced star Connie Mack’s Quaker squad, with Cy Perkins hailed as one of the league’s best catchers.
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Byrd Lynn
Reading
New York Americans
John White
New Orleans
Shreveport Club
Connie Mack
Cy Perkins
Soviet campaign claims progress on Muslim women in Near East
Communist workers report impact in modernizing Moslem women. After nearly two years of missionary work, Adjerhijan alone has 22 000 women organized in industrial activity. Female Mohammedan workshops have been set up across Turkestan, Bokhara, and beyond to reframe women’s roles. In early Greece gloves were used to handle hot food due to lack of tableware.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Near East
Communist
Adjerhijan
Turkestan
Bokhara
Earl
Greece
Better Sport Manners at College Games Campaign
Rosmelyn Berry, graduate manager at Cornell University, seeks undergraduates' support to curb criticism of umpires and players at baseball and lacrosse games. His campaign promotes better manners and discourages razzing and selling of taunts.
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Rosmelyn Berry
Cornell University
Wind Tricks End In Twenty-First Hole Golf Match
Ralph Sweet of Binghamton and William Hager of Roselle played a windy Pinehurst match that stretched to 21 holes. Hager holed out on the ninth with a gust lifting his ball into the cup, giving him the hole and forcing extra play to decide the result.
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Pinehurst
N. C
Ralph Sweet
Binghamton
William Hager
Roselle
N. Jhnger
Sweet
Centre College Coach Shadoan Named Valparaiso Athletic Director
William P. Shadoan of Centre College Kentucky is appointed athletic director and coach at Valparaiso University effective September 1. A former standout on the Centre College football team he also served as an army officer and played a leading role in army athletics.
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William P. Shadoan
Centre College
Kentucky
Valparaiso University
Sporting Squibs and Notes From Various Sports Hints
A collection of brief sports items mentions Yankee golfers at Springfield college tennis with Hoh and Chang, horse racing purses totaling nine million dollars, and Jess Willard and Jim Jeffries. It notes the Colombes stadium seating sixty thousand for Paris Olympic games and hints at Chariie Paddock’s nimble footwork. Red Exton of Bellevue is elected captain of Washington and Jefferson basketball for next season.
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Colombes
Chariie
Starry D
Red”) Exton
Bellevue
Washington and Jefferson
New York Tops U.S. Golf Course Counts
New York leads national golf course totals with 214 courses, followed by Illinois 130, Pennsylvania 112, and Massachusetts 108. The nation has 1,834 courses including 690 eighteen hole and 1,140 nine hole venues, with golf property valued at about 145 million dollars.
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New York
United States
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Essentials of a Successful Pitcher by Carl Lundgren
An instructional piece by Carl Lundgren, University of Illinois coach, outlining core pitcher traits. It stresses physical strength endurance and arm, plus top priority on control. Details delivery stance winding up arm action and grip for fast and curve balls with emphasis on body arm coordination and wrist snap.
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Carl Lundgren
University of Uinois
Warrey
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