Stowaway’s London Crossing Shows Easy Immigration Bypass
Raymond La Raviere, a Chicago man, stowed aboard the Olympic in New York then walked into London after a seven day Atlantic voyage. He hid in a third class stateroom, swapped into crew clothes for meals, jumped a Southampton gate, and walked to London. He was jailed at Wormwood Scrubs, later released by the home secretary, with American consulars unable to confirm citizenship without a birth certificate from Chicago.
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Kew Gardens
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Bow Street
Brixton
Home Office
Sir Herbert Samuel
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300 Year Old Bean Sprouts Found in San Antonio Museum
A large white bean from Grand Quivira ruins near Santa Fe is believed 800 years old and has sprouted into a living stalk at White Memorial Museum in San Antonio. Found 70 feet from surface ruins 100 miles south of Santa Fe NM by Franciscans, the seed was soaked five hours on March 19 and within two weeks produced a six inch stalk.
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Texas
Grand Quivira
White Memorial Museum
Santa Fe
N. M
Tabira
Elgin Claims Oil Free Car Breaks Dry Tune Record
In Elgin a car driven 818.7 miles in 12 hours 35 minutes with no oil in the crankcase allegedly set a world record. Mayor Myron M. Lehman and local businessmen watched as oil was drained at start and the motor hood padlocked. Mileage was certified by city and state officials. two connecting rod bearings burned out, the engine otherwise intact. The test used a concentrated lubricant compound claimed to form a self lubricating film and reserve beneath bearings.
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Drytun
Myron M. Lehman
New Yorker Owns Goose That Lays 11 Inch Egg
Peggy J., owned by Afrs, J. F. Goundry, raises a goose named Peggy famed for huge eggs. One egg mixed with two quarts of milk yields custard for the family. Peggy’s production cycles vary with the seasons, laying a ten ounce double yolked egg on alternate days and measuring 11 inches around before returning to normal daily eggs in hot weather.
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French fortress ruins unearthed near Argonne memorial
Excavations on Montalucon peak in Bar le Duc uncover foundations of a medieval fortress built by Godefroy de Bouillon in 1076. An American memorial for 1512 U S soldiers killed in September 1918 is planned, with a reinforced concrete monument faced in Burgundy stone rising 200 feet. Nations and scholars coordinate under the ministry of fine arts to study galleries, stairways, rooms, and burned wheat remains from 1636. Dedication set for this summer, pending further digs.
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Ministry of Fine Arts
Ganon Almond
Savant
Meuse
Spain Abandons Death Penalty Under New Regime
In Madrid the death penalty has fallen out of favor as Spain moves to a new constitutional era. Justice Minister Alvaro de Albornoz commuted a killer’s sentence to life imprisonment, while the Cortes Constituyentes rejected a radical proposal to revive capital punishment for robbers. The timing follows a Madrid bank holdup worth about $4,000, which the socialist majority also opposed.
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Alvaro de Albornoz
Cortes Constituyentes
Radical Party
Scotch Clans Sign 200 Year Feud Truce
The Campbells and the MacLeans, rival Scottish clans for two centuries, announce a truce in a telegram from the duke of Argyll to Col. Sir Fitzroy MacLean on the occasion of Colonel MacLean’s ninety seventh birthday at Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull.
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Sead
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Sir Fitzroy MacLean
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Mull
Twins Celebrate Eightieth Birthday at Bristol Ferry
Mrs A Gore Trueman and Mrs George Martin, twins, recently celebrated their eightieth birthday at Bristol Ferry. They were married in a double ceremony six years ago and each is the mother of two children.
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A. Gore Trueman
George
Martin
American Academy of Humor Proposed by a 19th Century Observer
F. E. Collier argues for an American Academy of Humor to elevate the craft amid a shift toward technology and mechanism. He recalls a past era of poets and humorists like Twain, Ward, Ade, and Longfellow, warning that modern humor may lack depth and urging a cultivated institution to revive American wit.
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Academy of Humor
American Academy of Humor
Mark Twain
Bob Burdette
Bill Nye
Shakespeare
Dante
Charles XII
Napoleon
Shelley
Keats
Tennyson
Bryant
Lonstellow
Artemus Ward
Twain
Nee, Burdette
George Ade
George Fitch
Ideal Dwelling Place for the Simple Life in Loneliest English Village
The loneliest English village, dating to 1066, is described as an ideal simple life site with six spellings of its name Wiseton etc, one motorcycle two trees and one inn. It lacks electric light gas water shop telephone village green and meeting hall and shares two policemen with neighboring villages.
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Wiston
Wissington
Wisson
Wisseen
Wiseton
Whiston
Ancient System Revived At Greenwich House Workshops
The Greenwich House in New York revives medieval crafts with stone cutting wood carving cabinet making and bronze work under a five hundred year apprenticeship. About 80 to 40 students of foreign parentage mainly Italian from poor families study to counteract machine made art.
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Greenwich House
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