Craters of the Moon National Monument described in detail
A report details the creation of Craters of the Moon National Monument by President Coolidge on May 2, its volcanic landscape in Idaho. It highlights lava flows, the Blue Dragon Flow, amphitheater cave features, and the area’s vast extent, attracting future tourism potential and dramatic natural imagery.
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Washington
United States
Coolidge
Idaho
America
Lincoln” Highway
Carey
Aniles de
R. Wwain Bert
Snake-river Plains
Lava Des Rt
President Coolidge
Craters of the Moon National Monument
Yellowstone National Park
Limbert
Bridge of Tears
Hens Use Whistle to Nab Chicknapping Suspect
In Chanute Kansas a thief was arrested after hens trained to answer a “mess call” led investigators to a poultry dealer. W L Markham offered to whistle test in a pen of several hundred chickens triggering twenty four hens to signal. The dealer recalled the motor number of the seller, and the man was bound over to district court after pleading not guilty.
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Kan
Iola
Chanute
W. L. Markham
Remarkable Woman Beulah Henry the Lady Edison
Beulah Louise Henry known as the Lady Edison, former Memphis resident now in New York, runs three corporations in manufacturing and marketing. She designs hats and crafts, holds 83 patents, and lives with her mother in a New York apartment. Garret P Serviss praises her rare gift to translate vibratory impressions between forms.
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Beulah Louise Henry
Memphis, Tenn
New York
Holden
North, Carolina
Edison
Garrett P.’ Serviss
Autograph Flintlock Linked to Crusoe Sold at Auction
An old flintlock musket claimed as the authentic weapon carried by Alexander Selkirk during his years on Juan Fernandez Island sold at auction for £250 in London. The item was advertised as Crusoe’s famous firearm associated with Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe narrative.
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Gain
Crusoe
London
Robinson
Monument to Valor at Sea Proposed in Nation's Capital
A new sea valor monument in Washington DC aims to honor mariners who braved dangerous voyages and deaths at sea. The bronze memorial near the Potomac would rise among national sculptures, funded by public subscription and costing around 500000 dollars or more.
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Washington
America
Potomac
Virginia
Arlington National Cemetery
Underground Chicago Loop keeps freight moving beneath streets
A Chicago corporation built an extensive underground tunnel network in the Loop to move freight. The system carries about 611000 tons of freight and 219000 wagonloads of excavated material yearly, with 62 miles of tunnels, 140 interchanges, 652 intersections, and 1254 switches. It employs 570 workers and uses 132 electric motors and 3000 cars to transport loads up to six tons.
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Chicago
Mile Square
Loop
State and
Asadison
The World's Largest Building and Its Massive Chicago Structure
The article chronicles Chicago's Furniture Mart touted as the world’s largest building at the time. It spans 16 stories on a full block 240 by 467 feet, with 1 250 000 square feet across 29 acres and 20 000 000 cubic feet of space. Construction used 90 000 barrels of cement and 5 500 tons of steel among vast materials, costing about 10 million dollars.
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America
General Motors
Detroit
Chicago
Furniture Mart
Lake Michigan
Colossat
A Thing Well Done Quote by Emereon
A short excerpt extols honest work whether fine or coarse and asserts that work done to one’s own approval earns reward in both senses. It emphasizes perseverance despite defeats and declares the reward is simply having completed the task.
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Emereon
Andrews Plans Largest World Expedition to Mongolia
Roy Chapman Andrews, former explorer, sails from New York to Peking to organize a massive American Museum of Natural History expedition into Mongolia and Central Asia. The team will include 200 camels, trucks, coolies, fossil hunters, and leading American scientists to seek remains of early humans in the Gobi and Altai regions.
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Roy Chapman Andrews
New York
Peking
Mongolia
Central Asia
American Museum ‘of Natural History
Andrews
God Desert
Altal Mountains
Anudra
Harry Faclfeld Osborn
Museum
Pepper Proposes New Way of Peace in World Court
Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania seeks Senate approval for the United States to join the World Court with reservations to stay separate from the League of Nations. The foreign relations committee reports the plan would align the U S with 48 states while keeping the nation free of League obligations.
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Pepper
Pennsylvania
Senate
United States
World Court
League of Nations
Foreign Relations Committee
Harding
Coolidge
América
League
Committee On Foreign Relations
Madden May Be Next Speaker of the House
Chicago Representative Martin B Madden is discussed as a potential next speaker with Illinois Republicans endorsing him as a candidate. Madden, in his tenth term and longtime appropriations chair, has not announced his intentions while other leaders such as Longworth Burton Cooper Graham and Tilson are also named as aspirants.
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Madden
Len
Martin B. Madden
Chicago
Gillett
Massachusetts
Illinois
Britten
Briden
Tinois
Joe’ Cannon
Jim’ Mann
House of Representatives
Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Longworth
Ohio
Burton
Cooper
Wisconsin
Graham
Pennsylvania
Tilson
Connecticut
Norris Denies Kiss In Ford Muscle Shoals Controversy
Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska faced a charged moment during hearings on the Ford Muscle Shoals bill after Mrs. Edmondson from Decatur Alabama testified that Norris kissed her as a bribe, which he denied calling the account a falsehood and a blackmail plot.
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United States
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Senate Agricultural Committee
Berlin
Alabama
E. A. Edmondson
Decatur
Ala
Ford
Mrs. Edmondson
Senator Norris
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Mark
Morial
West Part
Bradley
Fiske
Navy
Marine Memorial Association
Admiral Fiske
Walter F. Firth
William Tellowes Morgan, Jr
Lone M Graham
Robert M.thompson
Edward A. Simpson
Ray OC. Shepherd
Herbert N. Davison
New York City
Wilbur
The
Theodore Roosevelt
Leigh C. Palmer
Emergency Fleet Corporation
John A Lejeune
Marine Corps
William S. Benson
U. S. Nw
Shipping Board
Harry Payne Whitney
Buffalo Bill" Cody
Cody
Buffalo Bill American Association
Jane Cody Garlow
Colonel Cody
T. T. Maxey
Underground Railroad
Gobi Desert
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