Boeing builds tri motor air mail planes to move 250000 letters
Boeing Aircraft Company announces a fleet of twelve 16 passenger tri motor transports designed as exclusive mail carriers with a 3 ton capacity and space for clerks. The craft feature a 191.5 foot cabin, 89 foot wingspan, year round night flying gear, and a radio telephone to assist postal clerks aboard.
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Seattls
Boeing Airplane Company
Trie
Oecasion
Boeing Company
Bose Office
Oakland
Post Office Department
Boeing
Automakers Seek High Diplomatic Posts in a Shifting Era
A New York Times piece notes the automobile industry's rise to prominence and its push to place industry leaders like John H. Willys in diplomatic roles. It traces past ambassadors from steel and rail to trade magnates, and suggests film and other industries may follow as industry wealth gains political clout.
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Public Service
Diplomatic Corps
John H. Willys
Toledo
Wastingion
Madrid
Constantinople
Rowe
Tokic
Speculstons
Torshoeld
Detroit
Cleveland
Willys
Robert T. Linecoln
Pullman Palace Car Company
Chicago
Ira Nelson Morris
Robert S. McCormick
St. Petersburg
Warsaw
Nat
Hollywood
Herlin
London
Missing shovels prompt street excavation inquiry
In Life, a street excavation inquiry notes a contractor, a former Sureeen, and three missing Fetin shovels. The terse report highlights concern over equipment lacking from the site.
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Spences
Heuristic Method Described as Problem Solving Tool
Fragmentary text shows a child riddle about cannibals and parents leading to a definition of heuristic. The passage mentions deriving method from theory and describes a problem solving approach that tests ideas to reach conclusions.
Headstones for Veterans Stand 18 Inches Above Ground
Fragmentary notes describe headstones for Civil War and Spanish American War veterans set above the ground. The text mentions a town event on Thursday and an item labeled as a cleaner, with references to a man returning and a cemetery scene.
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Regincury
Williams helper recalls mistress’s move with car trip
A witness recounts how after the mistress placed her in trusted care, the car journey covered the distance in three days and the traveler arrived with assistance from friends.
British Tommies Enjoy Rhine Retreat in Weisbaden
British soldiers occupy the Rhine resort city of Weisbaden for ten years, enjoying gardens, casinos, and English subtitles at theaters. Officers restrict dancing. troops use hotels as billets while merchants prosper from tourism boosted by the occupation. Municipal finances suffer yet tourism remains a lifeline.
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Whisbaden
Tommy Atkins
Rhine
Suidnor Sporls
Tommy Fets
Phineland
Tommy
Rhineland
Aldershot
India
Egypt
Africa
Jerry
Ruineland
Weisbaden
Weishaden
Sen
Hame Ena
Tim
Frankfort
War Office
Flanders Field
Brighton
Cowes
Black Pool
Hohenzollern
Esiser
Jives Chen
Wiliam Thwaites
Germany
Police
Herr Frotzheim
Paris
Riviera
BM Tilden
Berlin
Zwangsstadt
Time magazine outline of Labour Party and salaries in parliament
The fragment discusses Labour MPs and parliamentary salaries, noting a tradition of gentlemanly governance under the Baldwin government and Ramsay MacDonald. It mentions a salary of 22 shillings and references economic concerns and industrial issues in Britain.
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Labor Party
Irs
Parl
Niner
M. P.s
Britain
Staines Baldwin
Igbor
Ramsay MacDona
Hoover Move to Aid Child Health Fulfills Pledge
President Hoover proposes a national child health upbuilding program and forms a committee of health experts to prepare for a White House conference within a year. Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur will direct the conference work, with Dr Harry Barnerd as executive secretary and numerous prominent figures invited to serve.
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Washington
Hétle House
West Branch
Berbert Hoover
America
Presidentia
Atd
Sw Ming
United States
White House
Ray Lyman Wilebur
Harry =. Barnerd
Indiana
Crumbine
American Child Health Association
Hoover
Hugh F. Cumming
United States Publc Health Service
Grace Abbott
Children’s Bureau
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Lee EK. Frankel
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Henry Breckinridge
Lewis F. Slade
New York
Wiliam F. Snow
National Health Association
Raymond Robins
Baily Burritt
W. F. King
Theodore Roosevelt
Sir Arthur
Lady Newsholme
England
Exploded Still Threatens Montana Forest Area
A To gallon site 10 miles east of Warm Springs exploded endangering virgin timber in Montana. One other still blast sent the structure 160 feet, and a nearby house burned before rangers and ranchers stopped the blaze.
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Butte
Mont
Warm Springs
Rangers
Tancher
US Minister in Pekin May Delay Washington Visit
J V A Macn Murray US minister to China at Pekin may postpone his planned trip to Washington if the China Russia breach remains unhealed. The note highlights strain from non recognition of Soviet Russia and possible diplomatic friction affecting ties with China.
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United States
Soviet Russia
J. V. A. Macn Murray
U. S
China
Pekin
Washington, D.C
International
Wewareeh
Swope Joins National Civ Bank Board Historic Cross-Field Directorship
Swope president of General Electric becomes a director of the National Civ Bank of New York, marking his first outside electric field engagement. He resumes collaboration with Charles E. Mitchell, bank chairman, a partnership rooted thirty years ago when Mitchell aided Western Electric in Chicago as Swone led the St. Louis office.
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Serard Swope
General Electric Company
National Civ Bank of
New York
Charles E. Mitchell
Mitchell
Western Freetric Company
Chicago
Swone
St. Louis
Transatlantic Air Routes Expand Across Cities and Regions
An early look at a growing air network shows Masic Dowager and protégés moving between Atlanta Washington and New York while routes extend to the Pacific Gulf and north toward Detroit Cleveland and Chicago. The piece notes hesitancy to adopt new transport but mentions jets returning to earlier paths as lines spread.
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iSi
Pacific
Gulf
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Suffeln
Grea Ae
Weil
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Wash
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Commons
the Treasury
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