Trans Atlantic line authorized in Dublin and other world notices
Dublin authorizes a steamship firm to start a new trans Atlantic service. Japan to Hawaii flight planned by Japanese airmen. Eight skeletons unearthed at St John’s Hospital Europe. Irish Free State Air Force commandant Thomas Maloney dies in Curragh crash. Blacksod Bay eyed as a trans Atlantic port. Japan grants law practice to women if passed by diet. Hartlepool plans lighthouse with only two builders. German law limits taxes on visitors. Britain to restore near prompt telephonic links with Holland. Belgium pays 23262 for war horse purchases. French Germany trade up in 1925 first seven months. Mrs Louisa Mallandaine dies at 95 in Victoria.
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Dublin
Ireland
Blacksod Bay
Canada
Empire
Women's Suffrage Party
Hartlepool
England
New Alcohol From Bread Fumes Sparks Global Debate
An Italian engineer Andrusiani claims alcohol can be drawn from bread baking fumes. His Berlin-built apparatus recovers about a pint and a half from 220 pounds of bread, potentially saving fuel and food. Germans foresee US impact on beverage and industry. A separate report notes a large meteor fell north of Sioux Falls, ND, scattering fragments and lightly affecting local water works.
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Andrusiani
Ile
Berlin
North Dakota
Sioux Falls
City Water Works
Stenographers Rise in London Business Ranks
London reports that title typists have entered business life with success. The latest entrant is Lady Constance Howard who recently joined a well known firm as stenographer and secretary to the manager, signaling a growing commercial role for women in the city.
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London
Constance Howard
How To Order Patterns From Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Instructions from the Winnipeg newspaper union provide ordering by sending a 20 cent coin or stamps to 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg. Readers are directed to wrap coins carefully and include name town in their request.
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Winipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Grasshoppers as Food Mentioned by Historic Texts
A historical excerpt discusses using grasshoppers as human food and for camels, noting preparation methods including drying and grinding into dough or powder. It cites references to camel liking, cultural eating practices, and a remark attributed to the Calif Omar about wanting grasshoppers to eat.
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Calif
British delegate backs general disarmament conference
Lord Robert Cecil urged preparation for a general disarmament conference and a system of conciliation and arbitration. He called aggressive warfare an international crime and reaffirmed Britain's commitment to arbitral principles as the League of Nations Assembly adopted resolutions for preparatory study, regional pacts, and evaluation of security progress and arbitration mechanisms.
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Lord Robert Cecil
League of Nations Assembly
Britain
Council of the League
Courageous Woman Explores Forbidden Tibetan Realms
Madame David spent two years in a 13000 foot mountain cavern and crossed into Lhasse with her Tibetan adopted son. She had fourteen years in inaccessible China Tibet regions and studied Tibetan language in a monastery. They faced a 16600 foot barrier and left the city undiscovered after two months beggars.
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Madame David
Paris
China
Tibet
Forbidden City
Lhasse
Eclipse Fashions Arrives with Channel Plait Frock
The article describes a straight-one tailored frock with a channel plait silhouette and jabot adornment. It notes crepe de chine fabric, a back yoke, slightly flared cuffs, long tight sleeves, and front button trim. Sizes 36 to 44 inches with material yardage and pricing for pattern book.
Providing Fuel For Motors
In 1966 crude oil production may exceed 1 billion barrels while gasoline output could top 250 million barrels. Oil industry investment stands around 8 billion dollars, up from 1.6 billion fifteen years prior. U S gasoline consumption may reach 7 hundred million gallons, costing about 1.4 billion dollars.
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Germany
United States
Honor For Young Poet Nathalia Crane From Brooklyn
The 12 year old poet Nathalia Crane of Brooklyn has a first poetry book The Janitor's Loy running to seven New York editions and two in England. She received an invitation from London to join the Society of Authors Playwrights and Composers. Membership in this society is a rare honor for Americans and comes as the first edition in England is exhausted after only three weeks on sale.
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Nathalia Crane
Brooklyn
Loy
New York
England
London
Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers
France to Enter Horses at Toronto Royal Winter Fair
Paris announces France will compete in light horse events at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto this November. Premier Painleve orders elimination contests at Saumur to select seven officers, sending the top three to Toronto and then to the New York show. Belgium plans to send three officers and mounts to Peronto and New York events.
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Paris
Toronto
Painleve
Saumur
New York
Peronto
Kipling recounts eating kiwi in New Zealand visit
In a dialogue with a New Zealander, Rudyard Kipling confessed he had eaten a kiwi during a trip "down under." He survived the meal, a nod to his digestive prowess. A quoted remark compares the cost of flying to an evening gown that seems ready to descend but does not.
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New Zealand
Rudyard Kipling
Dominion
Down Under
Amundsen Eyes Lighter-Than-Air Pole Flight Plan
Ronald Authern planning an unrigid dirigible attempt to reach the North Pole from Spitzbergen area described as first of its kind. His aim follows failed heavy aircraft tries and the aborted Shenandoah polar project, with the Shenandoah later reassigned to other duties amid unpredictable aerial conditions.
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Amundsen
Pole
Ronald Authern
North Pole
San
An Laan
Don Arundsen
Spitzbergen
Navy Department
Ohio
Detroit Free Press
Submarine Tractor For Divers
A watertight submarine car for divers operates at depths of 200 feet or more. Mounted on a tractor and weighing eighteen tons, the steel cylinder carries two passengers with portholes for all‑around views. An electric motor enables movement along riverbeds or seabeds, and compartments allow divers to exit into sunken wrecks, with recent salvaging work in Long Island Sound.
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Boys’ Life
Long Island Sound
Exiled landowners sent to Siberia amid Soviet decree
The Soviet Union orders hundreds of former landowners into exile with homesteads in Siberia and other regions. In Gomel district fifty names were added to a list of 125 families destined for exile, delayed until harvest. Nearby a 115-family batch includes large landowners, including a widow who avoided deportation by marrying a soldier.
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Union of Socialist Soviet Republic
Siberia
Soviet Republic
Gomel
Improper English Warning Signs Near Schools Criticized
Denholm of the Bienheim News-Tribune laments ungrammatical road signs by schools across the country. He cites "School-Go Slow" as common and urges correct phrasing like "Go Slowly" and "School Zone" or "School-Caution" to set proper standards for public language. Also noted is a Jonesboro Ind incident where bathing girls used telephone wires for their wet garments, disrupting service.
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Denholm
Bienheim
Ont
News-Tribune
Great Britain
Jonesboro
Ind
Do minion forest reserve survey near mile 142
Survey work is under way to establish a Do minion forest reserve of several thousand acres in the clay belt at Mile 142 of the Hudson's Bay Railway. The plan envisions conserving existing timber and creating a reforestation system experimenting with jack pine cedar and hemlock.
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Dominion
Hudson's Bay Railway
Crossword Puzzle String Scramble and Clues
A jumble of crossword clues with mismatched letters and garbled numbers. Readers face a fragmented puzzle list including animal, plant, and object words, plus illegible entries and odd spellings.
Tiny Aeroplane Sets Speed Record At Curtiss Field
Navy aviator Lieut. Al Williams piloted a tiny enclosed cockpit craft over a five eighths mile course at Cur tiss Field Long Island achieving 362.3 miles per hour exceeding the previous record by 24.3 mph though not officially recognized due to course length. The craft measures 20 by 22 feet and uses a 619 horsepower Curtis engine as part of a series of trials to test compliance with government speed requirements.
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al Williams
Cur- Was Field
Long Island
Curtis
Bennett
Washington
Williams
Beardmore Gold Field Prospecting Report Issued
The Beardmore gold field near Fort William is deemed worthy of further prospecting and development by provincIal geologist report to Hon. Charles McCrea. While not a rich high grade deposit, indications exist with outcroppings and quartz samples up to 58.50 per ton, hindered by low grade and lack of sulphide.
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Dgeardmore
Fort William
Charles McCrea
Wonderful Surgical Work Rebuilding Faces of Mutilated Soldiers
Dr Alexander Sandison details the ministry of pensions facial surgery program in the Lancet. Since March 1920 at Sidmouth Hospital, 2 944 facial operations have been performed, transforming jaws and faces from pulp to form and saving patients from a living death.
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Ministry of Pensions
Lancet
Alex. Sandison
Try
Sheer &Enius
Ministry
Mapeh
Sideno Hospital
Edmonton businessmen launch final canvass for publicity funds
Thirty Edmonton businessmen begin a final canvass using prospect ecards and lists to raise 16000 dollars for a publicity drive planned by the local board of trade. With 54900 dollars already subscribed, the finance plan aims to support the settler promotion from the United States to Central Alberta.
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Edmonton
Board of Trade
United States
Alberta
Ballycastle youth claims world weightlifting title
Anthony McKinley of Castle Street Ballycastle aged three claims to be the best weight lifter for his age. In front of a crowd he lifted 26 pounds with his left hand 212 times in 3 minutes and 370 times with his right hand in 2 minutes 46 seconds. He walks 20 miles daily and can stand on his head, a claim that echoes his past as a world weight lifting champion.
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Anthony McKinley
Castle Street
Ballycastle
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Trans Atlantic
Wilton
Japan
Hawaii
Hawaii Shimpo
St. John’s Hospital
Lichfield
Staffs
Thomas Maloney
Irish Free State Air Force
Curragh
Hotland
Bank of Montreal
Belgium
France
Louisa Mallandaine
British Columbia
Victoria
Tynemouth
Columbia
Townsend
Alcohol
Paetteracnese
Robert Cecil
League
Clipse
Fashions
Serny
English Authors’ Society
Royal Winter Fair
Kipling
Ocean
America
South
Weary
Civil
Isd
Isi
Curtiss Field
Beardmore
Iain
U.S
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