Norge Deflated and Shipped After Polar Flight
Amundsen and Ellsworth conclude the first top of the world expedition from Spitzbergen to Alaska. The Italian airship Norge is being dismantled for shipment south by steamer. the flight covered 6300 kilometers in 71 hours with open water near the North Pole.
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Rome
Raold Amundsen
Lincoln Ellsworth
King’s Bay
Spitzbergen
Alaska
United States
Norge
Teller
Here
Point Barrow
Amundsen
Wisting
North
South Poles
South Pole
Nome
Amundsen-Ellsworth
Associated Press
North Pole
Ellsworth
Peary
Byrd
Pole
Umberto Nobile
Mussolini
Point Bartow
Bering Straits
Hjalmar Aliiser-Larsen
Arctic
Amundsen-Ellaworth
Arives
Spitsbergen
Hunter Kills Grizzly Bear With a Knife in Idaho
Boise reports Jim McCann a woodsman fought off a grizzly near the Salmon River with a knife after the bear attacked from behind. He sustained a torn right arm and severe bruising but survived. A note to his brother described the life threatening encounter and victory.
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Boise
Idaho
Jim McCann
McCann
Salmcn River
William
Bill
Victor
Bomb explodes at U S Embassy in Buenos Aires
A bomb exploded in front of the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires. No injuries, slight material damage, a door left hole and several windows shattered. Police opened an investigation as only servants were in the building at the time.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Drill at Notch No 1 well slows under shale
At noon today the Notch No 1 well drill was down 9 770 feet with the bit still hammering through shale. The 100 feet of five and three sixteenths inch casing ordered last week arrived this morning.
Germany to hold June referendum on confiscation without indemnity
Berlin May 17 The Marx cabinet announces a national referendum will be held June 20 on confiscation without indemnification of the property of the former German ruling dynasty.
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Berlin
Marx
Dorace
Gasoline Fire Injures Family in Ottawa Car Crash
In Ottawa on May 16 a touring car with three adults and eight children caught fire from burning gasoline. Mrs Joseph Pelow and her four year old daughter Josephine were seriously burned but improving. the mother is not in grave danger. Three other passengers suffered burns though less severe.
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Ottawa
Joseph Pelow
Josephine
May Wheat Shows Strength Amid Light Offers and Quiet Trade
May wheat strengthened as exporters made small purchases while Chicago quotations fell slightly. May price held at 1.52, July 1.483 4, and October 1.303 4, with May premium widening to three cents over regular. Coarse grains trading remained dull with weak demand. cash wheat demand came from shippers for contract grades, while lower grades and export business remained quiet.
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Chiicapo
ILA Cory Still Holds Her Lead In Popularity Contest
ILA Cory maintains a slight bid in the Agricultural Society Popularity Contest as Winnie Bruce Nora Northam gain on Saturday night. Viva Cox the Redel candidate got a good start as residents rally to Viva with a complete count due Wednesday morning and publication that night. Baby Contest entries open at Chamber headquarters with Peter Underwood and son Peter James highlighted. prize list includes fifty dollars in cash and a silver cup. Conklin Garret's All Canadian Shows prepare to roll into town with a tented city occupying two acres and employing one hundred fifty. Richard S Bell 80, longtime newspaperman and former editor of the Belleville Intelligencer, dies in Kingston.
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Ha Cory Si
Chamber of Copenerea
Peter Underwood
Peter James
Conk- In & Gnerret
Conklin & Garrett
North America
Great General Strike Costs About a Billion Dollars
London reports the last embers of the general strike dieing down with miners possibly staying out until a settlement. Government estimates place costs below the 1921 coal strike level around £200,000,000 and implicate budget readjustments. A national police testimonial fund has collected 38,000 pounds as Home Secretary Joynson Hicks praises police service during the crisis.
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London
Winston Churchill
Treasury
Home Secretary
William Joynson Hicks
William Mitchell-Thoemson
Tremler Paldwin
Crops In Southern Alberta Doing Well This Spring
Lethbridge May 17 The Herald reports strong progress in Southern Alberta fields. Wheat seeding is complete except where delayed by cutworms or weed control. Corn planting leads in activity with acreage up from last year. Sugar beets and alfalfa seedings advance while moisture remains favorable across the region.
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Lethbridge
the Herald
Alberta
Vote On the Budget Set for Tomorrow Evening
Ottawa May 17 The budget vote in the house is set for tomorrow evening with Rt Hon Arthur Meighen and Premier Mackenzie King scheduled to speak. An effort is to clear the slate today to reserve tomorrow for the two leaders to present final arguments and close the debate.
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Ottawa
Can
Arthur Meighen
W. Ll. Mackenzie King
League reorganization favors quicker non permanent seats
Geneva reports draft commission plan to cut non permanent members of the League to nine and elect them at once. Spain and Brazil may gain temporary status sooner, potentially by the opening of the assembly, with early September consideration for permanent seats.
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Geneva
Spain
Brazil
League of Nations
Cornell
Connell
League of Nation Etreles
Brasil
California motorists make 2110 mile trip in seven days
A pair of California motorists traveled 2110 miles in seven days, routing via Spokane. They logged a best day of 890 miles, spent a night at Grassy Fake, and arrived in Medicine Hat for breakfast before continuing toward Craik Saak.
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California
Los Angeles
Spokane
Grassy Fake
Medicine Hat
Craik
Saak
Pilsudski Seeks Power After Coup in Poland
Dispatches from Warsaw report Marshal Pilsudski demanded power to prorogue for one year and called for court martial of retiring government members. The socialist central committee seeks punishment for corruption in the Witos cabinet. Casualties from the coup exceed previous counts with about 500 killed and 1000 wounded, civilians including women and children among the victims.
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Vienna
Deepatches
Warsaw
Pilsudski
Socialist Party
Poland
Pilaudeki
Éor
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Hunter
U. S
Buenos Ayres
Roth
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Greenland
Plichit Ends
Wiyaliam Fulton
C.P.R
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Ila Cory
Redcliff
Viva Cox
Richard S. Bell
Kingston
The
Belleville Intelligencer
Commission
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INET
First Church OF Christ, Scientist
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Christian Science
John Randall Dunn
Q.S.B
Boston
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Mother Church
Massachusetts
C.F. Hall
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