Daniel Boone Sesquicentennial Celebration Planned in Kentucky
The article outlines a five day Boone Family reunion in Lexington in June 1925 to honor Daniel Boone, with events at Boonesboro and the University of Kentucky. Governors, kin, and local officials promote wreaths, a bust in New York, and Pioneer Sunday services, tracing Boone’s voyage from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and the Transylvania settlement.
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John Dickinson Sherman
United States
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Blue Grass
Seaboard
Booskes
Legion
Lexington
Boone Family
Wiliam Boone Douglass
Washington, D. C
Boone Family “Association
William
Jason Fields
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Boone Family Association
Atlantic
Boonesboro
Transylvania
Boone Wilderness
Theodore Roosevelt
Alleghentea
Pacific
Frankfort
New York University
Governor Fields
Boone
Pioneer Boone
Governor Field
Transylvania University
Lafayette
West
Winchester
University of Kentucky
James Randolph Spraker
Buffalo
Daniel
George
Mary (Maugridge) Boone
Douglass
George Boone
Exeter
England
Pennsylvania
Society of Friends
Quakers
Elis
Squire
Sarah Morgan
Reading
St. Charles County
Missouri
Eyesight trends in children from Snelfer test
Data from 9,249 children shows normal vision rises with age while minor defects fall. Markedly defective sight increases with age. Overall 6 percent normal, 27 percent moderately defective, and 10 percent poor. Boys slightly lead girls in normal eyesight but exceed in very poor vision.
Offended Woman Sheds Six Months of Borrowed Items
In Kansas City a woman in a red hat and green coat and another in plaid stockings discuss Martha, overheard on a Northeast car. They wonder why Martha is upset, noting she returned every item she borrowed over the past six months. The exchange reveals familiar social friction in a light, humorous exchange from the Times.
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Kansas City
Judd to Resume Pueblo Bonito Excavations This Summer
Dr. Neil M. Judd, curator at the National Museum, leads a National Geographic Society sponsored expedition to Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon New Mexico to determine how long the great four story apartment house housed up to 2 500 people stood or was built and to compare the two distinct cultures seen in the artifacts. He aims to date abandonment, compare cultural objects, assess occupation length, study prehistoric agriculture, and locate an ancient water channel while noting no link to Old World civilizations. The site spans about three and a half acres with 400 to 900 rooms.
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Washington
America
Neil M. Judd
United States National Museum
National Geographic Society
Doctor Judd
Chaco Canyon
N. M
National Museum
Southwest
Central America
Pueblo Bonito
United States
Preblo Bonito
Culuilco
Valley
Mexico
Puebla Bonito
Yucatan
Guatemala
Nile
Egypt
Precious Metals in a Great Battle for Supremacy
Washington reports a National Geographic bulletin on a platinum rush in Transvaal South Africa as a world power struggle with gold. It notes gold’s enduring dominance, platinum’s lab use, different melting and stretching facts, and shifts in mining. prices given for platinum at 117 per ounce, radium at 70,000 per gram, iridium at 375 per ounce.
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Washington
Transvaal
South Africa
National Geographic Society
Orient
Russia
Matinnny
Rome Tackles Reckless Driving With Street Reg Changes
Rome introduces traffic regulation innovations to curb reckless driving amid narrow sidewalks and busy arteries. The Corso Umberto and Via Condotti feature minimal sidewalks while Piazza di Spagna lacks one entirely. Luxury taxicabs race through streets as pedestrians dodge danger. Authorities push for swift action to improve safety.
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Rome
New York
London
Paris
Corso Umberto
Via Condotti
Bond Street
Piazza di Spagna
Romne
One in Fifty Thousand Wins Success in Movieland
Hollywood figures from Screen Service Bureaus show that over five years more than 100000 aspirants entered moviemaking, but only six or seven earned screen credits and two became stars. The data note most top actors had stage experience and warn that beauty or image alone without talent fails in filmdom.
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Hollywood
Cal
Screen Service Bureaus
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North Carolina
Rebecca
St. Louis
Boonesborough Aptill
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Henderson
Transylvania Company
Cumberland Gap
Boonesborough
Harrodsburg
Boiling Spring
St. Asa
Louisiana Purchase
Ninsrod
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
George Rogers Clark
Kit Carson
Fark Boonesborough
Stanford EB. Moses
Naval Air Squadron
Navy
Chemical Laboratories
Pialinun
Army Air Service
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