Progress In The Air Amazing Achievements In Few Years
Air travel expands rapidly as planes push beyond 200 miles per hour. The Pan American Clipper marks a new Pacific route from California toward the Orient while British officials travel to extend airmail networks. Airplanes connect remote Quebec settlements and deliver mail and doctors, signaling a future of wider global flight.
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Kitty Hawk
Post
Atlantic
Brazil
California
Orient
Seven Seas
Globe
Pacific
Brish Postal Service
Frederic Williamson
London
Edward Campbell
Canada
England
British Empire
Quebec
Buffalo Courier-Express
Island of Formosa A history of conquest and change
The island of Formosa now known as Taiwan has a turbulent history with Portuguese discovery in 1590, Dutch expulsion by Koxinga, and later control by Japan after the Sino-Japanese War. Located off Fukien, it has rice and sugar growing lands, camphor forests, and small coal and petroleum resources. Its population includes Chinese natives, Japanese settlers, and aboriginal head hunters who occasionally clash with authorities.
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Formosa
Koxinga
China
Commodore Perry
Japan
United States
Fukien
Taiwan
Detroit Free Press
Queen of Holland Buys Entire Flower Basket in The Hague
On a wintry night at The Hague a flower seller stood beside his basket as passengers hurried by. An automobile stopped. the driver bought the whole basket, and the gracious passenger in the car was the Queen of Holland.
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the Hague
Holland
Cadet Faces Nighttime Grabber Behind You
A dark night encounter tests a cadet as a stranger clamps two arms around him from behind and hinders his rifle. He must decide how to respond and regain control.
Josie De Mott Robison The World’s Greatest Equestrienne
A white haired woman in a Madison Square Garden box watches the circus. Josie De Mott Robison is recalled as the famed equestrienne dating back to the Eighties. She rode with Barnum, earned praise from royalty, and received a silvered laurel from President Porfirio Diaz. Now she teaches social riding on Long Island and at Traphagen School of Fashion in New York City.
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Madison Square Garden
New York
Ninth Avenue
Josie de Mott
Robinson
Barnum
London
Mexico City
Porfirio Diaz
Long Island
Traphagen School of Fashion
Broadway
Glands Power Personality Not Sole Cause Says McGill Study
McGill University researchers Dr Hector Mortimer and Dr J S L Browne report the anterior pituitary gland as the chief controller of normal skull development in mammals and link cranial malformations to pituitary disturbances. They say glands provide the drive but do not create personality, explaining variance between genius and pauper in talents.
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McGill University
Hector Mortimer
J. S. L. Browne
Department of Biochemistry
McGill
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
One Thing He Forgot A Plain Shave Request
A displeased sergeant orders only a plain shave in a barber chair. He rejects haircuts, shampoos, rum, witch hazel, hair tonic, hot towels, face massages, manicurist services, bootbrush, brushing, or any assistance. The barber complies with lather and simple shave.
Clever Dog Shopper Saved in Blackpool Court Case
Miss Kathleen Hutchinson faced a summons for keeping a cross bred dog without a license as her canine helper did her shopping. A London solicitor defended her for free. a canine association offered to pay any fine and the chief constable paid costs after the case was dismissed. Miss Hutchinson said she starved herself to provide for her dog.
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Kathleen Hutchinson
Blackpool
London
Miss Hutchinson
When Lord Derby Met a Poacher on His Land
The News of the World recalls a morning encounter where Lord Derby asks a poacher about land ownership. Each generation prompts the same question about lineage, ending with a defiant threat to fight over the land, leaving the outcome unrecorded.
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Lord Derby
Normandie Liner Draws France’s Elite for Maiden Voyage
The Normandie, nearing completion at St Nazaire, is slated to sail to New York soon. American director Henri Morin de Lindays says the vessel has become a major French institution. Weekend visitors reach 10 000 cars. The ship includes a 300 seat theater a 100 seat chapel a large swimming pool a winter garden and two penthouse suites the first ever to sail. Mme Paul Le Brun wife of France’s president joins other notables with maiden voyage reservations.
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Normandie
St. Nazaire
New York
Henri Morin de Lindays
Paris
France
Mme
Paul le Brun
Fish still find new routes across seas and channels
M Le Danois, head of France’s sea fishing bureau, notes some fish still travel via routes long used by ancestors. French scientists tracing the Rhine estuary found it off the Shetland Islands, and the Forth once fed the Rhine.
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England
France
British Isles
North Sea
Britain
M. le Danois
Scientific Bureau
Rhine
Shetland Islands
Gardens In high rise terraces echo ancient garden toil
The New York Times notes Rockefeller Center terrace gardens use 3000 tons of soil and 100 trees with 100000 gallons of water daily. Despite luxury, upkeep mirrors ancient irrigation battles from Mesopotamia to the Andean terraces, stressing human labor and concern. Water, soil, and air challenges frame urban gardening as an enduring quest.
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Rockefeller Centre
Mesopotamian
Iran
Mediterranean Basin
South America
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
RCA
Manhattan
Nineveh
Tyre
New York Times
Declared A Masterpiece Young Denver Janitor Makes Quilt
Johnny Baskett a 23 year old navy veteran and former professional boxer working as a high school janitor in Denver produced an original quilt design. He started in 1932 during Christmas time and spent over two years perfecting the piece featuring three colored parrots. Local quilt experts call it a masterpiece and praise Baskett for his originality.
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Denver
Johnny Baskett
Johnny
Wall of Cadiz Faces Demolition to Expand City
Historians in Cadiz Spain mourn the loss of the last stretch of the ancient city wall over 2000 years old. The Puerta de Tierra gate remains as a remnant of Roman construction later restored in the thirteenth century.
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Cadiz
Spain
Puerta de Tierra
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