Pointed Paragraphs and Odd Facts Across Nations
Collects brief curiosities and statements from varied places: Tron resists rusting in airless water, Scotland Yard’s police count reduced, gold trowels for a bank cornerstone, Japan’s tosa fowl tail feathers reaching eighteen feet, New York hosting over eight thousand printing firms, Washington D C a long roses plot, a new process yielding gasoline from natural gas, and a Warsaw monument honoring U S aid to Poland.
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Scotland Yard
Japan
New York City
Washington
D. C
Warsaw
United. States
Poland
Fosdick to Face Presbyterian Assembly Over Sermons
Rev L S Mudge clerk of the assembly says Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick of New York First Presbyterian will be summoned to Indianapolis in May to either confirm the Presbyterian confession or resign. Fosdick formerly led a Baptist church and has preached against conforming to the faith.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
First Presbyterian Church of
New York
Presbyterian General Assembly
Indianapolis
Presbyterian ‘Church
L. S. Mudge
Fosdick
Fourflushers and Life Inference Text
Fragmentary text notes some people are agnostic only about religion while asserting knowledge in other areas. The piece explores selective certainty and skepticism across belief domains.
Poem of Peace statue photographed in New York by Marcos Coll
Spanish sculptor Marcos Coll brings his marble group The Poem of Peace to New York for the first American trip. He cites Wilsons 14 points as inspiration and says the figures symbolize American beauty and spirit with the woman and man in balanced, composite form.
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Toew York
Senor Marcos Coll
France
Senor Coll
America
Atlantic
Wilson
Poles Honor Pershing for World War Service
General John J. Pershing receives Polish honors Virtuti Militari and Polonia Restituta for World War I service. The awards are presented by Dr. Wrojbiewski, Poland's new minister to the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Pershing
Mili‘tari
Polonia Restituta
Wrojbiewski
Poland
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
Marshall Herald
Pictorial News Review
Mea
Rw Ae Sa
BS Ag
Washington Navy Yard
Post Office Department
Garfield Hospital
Johnny
Paris
Betty Allen
L. M. McBride
Childen
Pershing
Mrs. Shipstead
Henrick Shipstead
Minnesota
Weston
Birs. Shipstead
St. Paul
L. W. Teller
WW. S. Fairbank
Bureau ‘of, Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Frank
B. ‘Béatty
St. MO
Crut Growers
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