World volcano Mt Katmai tops active list
The article notes Mt Katmai in Alaska as the world’s largest active volcano while reporting American, Japanese, and Chinese population shifts. It mentions Danzig adding by products plants for benzol and fuel briquets at its municipal gas works and cites various trades in the economy. It also records plans for 2000 mile radio stations in Central America capitals and a Panama City installation.
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Mt. Katmai
Alaska
United States
Danzig
Anerle
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
Elty
Miss Elliott Sues Elevator Owner for 25000 Damages
Miss Charlotte Elliott of St Paul Minn sues the owner of a large apartment building for 25000 damages claiming an elevator crash altered her personality. She alleges she has developed melancholia irritability and a withdrawn social life causing a permanent quarrel with her fiancé.
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Charlotte Elliott
St. Paw
Minn
Miss Ellicott
Million-Dollar Legs In Paris To New York Photo
A photographer captured a famed dancer described by friends as possessing “million-dollar legs” arriving in New York after months of touring Paris. The image highlights her celebrated legs and public fascination with her legs and appearance.
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Paris
Spolley
New York
Shawl of Tragedy Tells a Desert Tale of Silver
A moonbeam shawl of sterling silver links, once made for an Egyptian captive princess, travels from Port Said to San Francisco. The doomed princess tried to flee with her lover but was killed by guards. Bandits seized the shawl from the lover, who died in the desert. it later surfaced in an Egyptian bazaar and was bought by Miss Ruthelma Stevens as a gift. Now worn by a modern princess during oriental dances in the United States.
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Ruthelma Stevens
San Francisco
Cal
Port Said
Miss Stevens
Egypt
Ekathelma
Man Lived in Box on Japanese Steamer From San Francisco to Honolulu
Ira Colyer Sparks of Penu Indiana lived five days in a wooden box aboard a Japanese steamer bound from San Francisco to Honolulu. He survived on tipped food and water and carried fifteen dollars and carpenter tools. Sparks shipped the box as freight with himself inside and faced customs questions on arrival in Honolulu.
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Ira Colyer Sparks
Penu
Ind
San Francisco
Honolulu
Sparks
Pot
Bill
Grant
Radio to Prevent Mine Disasters Through Underground Station
Radio to control miners in Sierra Madre tunnels will be directed this winter by the resident engineer from an underground broadcasting station. The scheme would guide 500 men at work in shafts and atopes, signaling and coordinating movements from a central point in California.
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Sierra
Madre
Toountains
California
Condensations of World Events and Local Highlights
In northern Italy negotiations and a Naples note appear amid broader World War era snippets. Sixty thousand women join the Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs network linked to School for Girls in Kokura Japan, funded by a Baptist board, reflecting postwar social reorganization. French pension office claims reach 2,500,000 with 712 00 granted, illustrating wartime aid distribution.
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Italy
Nyet
Naples
Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs
Sa’ School For
Kokura
Japan
Southern, Baptist’ Board
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Los Angeles
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John Barton Payne
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Edgar
Prochoik
Bicknell
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Constantine
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