Every City Has Its Own Voice and Quiet Havana Echoes
A travel note surveys Latin American capitals, contrasting Havana with other cities’ sounds. Havana’s street chorus centers on taxi horns while Havana’s visitors hear a mellow chant from street vendors. Lima, Arequipa, Callao, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, and Santiago are described by their distinct sonic identities from bells and whistles to grinding donkey carts and market cries.
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New York
Vimes
Buvana
Havana
Buenos Aires
South America
Arequipa
Lima
Callao
la Paz
Bolivia
Veru
Washington
Paris
Montevideo
Madrid
Rio de Janeiro
Lisbon
Santiago
Santa Lucia
New York Prize Baby Named Perfect Baby at Health Show
Charles O'Donnel Jr aged ten months won New York's perfect baby title at the annual health show. Measurements cited include weight 21 pounds height 28 inches chest 20 inches abdomen 19 inches thigh 12 inches calf 9 inches and ankle 6 inches.
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Charles O'Donnel, Jr
New York
Charles
Population exceeds one million in Sydney area
The Sydney region within ten miles of the city now surpasses one million residents. The year-end estimate stands at 1,050,000, while the actual metropolis population is reported as 930,000.
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Greater Sydney
Sydney
Glasgow to Be Slumless City and Shipbuilding Giant
Glasgow plans to wipe out slum districts and provide municipally owned homes in the suburbs. A National Geographic bulletin notes Glasgow’s inland yet dominant shipbuilding, its large port on the Clyde, and its extensive municipally run services including water, gas, street lighting, electric plants, tramways, baths, lodgings, markets, libraries, parks, and family homes.
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Washington
D. C
Glasgow
Scotland
National Geographic Society
Bulletin
New York
Great Britain
London
Calcutta
Bombay
Seca
Clyde
James Wait
Glasgow University
Robert Fulton
Hudson
Europe
Stone Ink Slats From Sung Dynasty Stone Ink Slabs
Chinese schoolboy and scholar seek stone ink slabs carved with fish in ponds and water gardens. Slabs from a ngfu stone vary in shape and size, some squares, rounds, or oblongs. A Sung dynasty stone is said to keep ink wet for a full month.
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Ngfu
Dying Amid Wealth in Washington Gypsy Camp
A physician reports a gypsy family two blocks from the White House living in abject poverty with a dying infant in a single crowded room. The eight occupants sleep on silken comforts, while gold necklaces flash. attempts to hospitalize the child were blocked by contagious disease wards. The father offers money for hospital care as the family plans a Florida winter move.
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Washington
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Englishmen Spin Coin for Chance to Woo Girl
A young English girl traveled to Capetown to marry her fiancé but felt no love for him. 150 unmarried Englishmen proposed a coin toss to decide her fate with marriage to one of them if she guessed wrong. She lost the bet, later chose a man from the group, and wed him while her former fiancé served as sroomsman.
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Capetown
South Africa
Sroomsman
Fragments Describe Family’s Harrowing Home Conditions
An injured baby’s doctor notes the pitiable living conditions of a Miami family. He stabilizes the child, then reports to the Visiting Nurse society about the household dust and cramped stairs. Helpers escort the family outside where the air is purer.
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Miami
Florida
Bolt Fails to Rouse Baby in Gretna Fire Tragedy
A lightning strike hit the home of Mr and Mrs J R Herring in Gretna at Fin Light ning. It burned a hole in the floor near the kiddie koop where their three year old infant slept through the blaze and was not awakened.
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Gretna, Fin
J. R. Herring
New Anaesthetic Revealed Minimizes Pneumonia Risk
Discovery of an ethylene based anaesthetic by Dr A B Luckhardt and J P Carter claims to reduce lung abscess and pneumonia risk linked with nitrous oxide. It supposedly avoids heart impact, allows immediate recovery with oxygen, and outperforms ether and chloroform. Dr D B Phemister endorses its success after trials beginning in 1908.
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A. B. Luckhardt
University of Chicago
J. P. Carter
D. B. Phemister
Presbyterian Hospital
Road Will Be Joy to Autoists From War Dept Interest
The Spanish Trail highway from Jacksonville Florida to Los Angeles California gains priority as a federal aid project for the marsh section from New Orleans through Louisiana to the Mississippi coast. War department eyeing the road for military use, with heavy construction and bridges to withstand gulf storms. Florida segment progresses with broad concrete highway from Jacksonville to Pensacola, running parallel to Seaboard Air Line and Louisville & Nashville routes.
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New Orleans
Jacksonville
Fla
Los Angeles
Cal
Gulf Coast
United States
Weeks
New Orleans Association of Commerce
War Department
Department of Agriculture
Louisiana Marshes
Mississippi Coast
Lake Ponchartrain
Baton Rouge
Florida
Pensacola
Seaboard Air Line Railway
River Junction
Louisville & Nashville
Prefers Prison to Wife Man Says in Court
Stephen Charak told the court he would endure thirty days in jail rather than six years with his wife. He faced charges of assaulting his wife after Chamak beat her when she did not welcome him home from jail.
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New York
Stephen Charak
Chamak
Social Athletics. Ambitious vaulting keeps husband on the jump
In a local note from the Bea ton Transcript, a woman's athletic ambition is highlighted as a social bluff and household dynamic is playfully framed. The snippet suggests competitive spirit and marital tension framed by vaulter imagery.
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War Eagle
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Joli Mitchcom
California
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