Balloons and fiesta mingle in La Perouse visit to California
In the presidio scene, Governor Pedro Fages and La Perouse share a lively farewell amid vineyards, fruit palaces, and a balloon ascent. The eventary crowd, including Augustias and Eulalia, witness the miracle as the balloon rises and returns, marking a festive yet uneasy frontier moment.
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la Perouse
la Gobernadora
Augustias
Fages
Pedro
Lima
California
el Conde
Future Japanese Soldiers Learn to Die for the Emperor
A London Spectator essay portrays Japanese training that begins at age six with marching and war songs and moral indoctrination centered on loyalty to family, nation, and the emperor. It claims many students answer their dearest wish is to die for the beloved emperor.
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Willard Price
London Spectator
Bushido
Early Jazz Bands and the Rise of Dixieland Fame
By 1915 New Orleans groups played what was then called jazz. Joseph Gorham took Brown's Band from Dixieland to Chicago where it gained fame. Bert Kelly popularized the term jazz bands for his orchestras. Brown's Band entered New York in 1916. In 1917 the Dixieland Jazz Band from New Orleans recorded Livery Stable Blues, with Jim Europe introducing it to Eurana as an AEF bandmaster.
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la Perouse
Dagelet
Augustias
Presidio
Chichi
Angustias
Indizuela
New Orleans
Joseph Gorham
Chicago
Brown
Dixieland
Bert Kelly
New York
Jim Europe
Eurana
U S Tars First on the Cantonsland Boston
Boston lawyer Horace Guild recounts Capt Andrew Wing and 32 crewmen’s 1852 1854 Canton Island shipwreck ordeal. They rowed 4000 miles from Canton to Tahti to Tinian Guam and Hong Kong before returning to the United States.
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Boston
United States
mid-Pacific
Great Britain
Canton Island
Andrew Johnson Wing
Horace Guild
Cap’n Wing
New Bedford
Canton
North Atlantic
Pacific
Guild
Tahiti
Cape Horn
Pacific Ocean
William B. Carroll
Wing
Tinian Island
Ladrones
Tinian
Guam
Captain Wing
Hong Kong
Ancient 4000 B.C. Chessmen Discovered in Irak Site
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania museum and the American School of Oriental Research in Bagdad uncovered 6,000-year-old terra cotta chessmen at Tepe Gawra in northern Irak. The pieces, human-shaped and related to early chess forms, date to the el Obeid period and suggest chesslike diversion among prehistoric Mesopotamians.
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Philadelphia
Irak
University of Pennsylvania Museum
American School of Oriental Research
Bagdad
Tepe Gawra
Mesopotamia
E. A. Speiser
Chemist Foresees Era of Bright New Colors
Terre Haute chemist Herbert L. Wampner told the ninety fifth meeting of the American Chemical Society that a revolutionary lacquer process will bring bright new colors to automobiles furniture and women's shoes. He predicted a one third cut in lacquer application costs and easy color changes for cars and homes with durable long lasting finishes.
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Dallas
Texas
Herbert L. Wampner
Terre Haute
Ind
Wampner
American Chemical Society
Mayor of Hell Arrives in New York Amid Fame
Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, Norway, is photographed as reporters quiz him on his arrival in New York. Hell, a railway junction near Trondheim, gained global notice after American tourists discovered it. The name derives from Norse Helvete meaning slope, not a direct parallel to the English Hell.
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Lorentz Stenvig
Hell
Norway
New York
Tronheim
Helvete
America Aids Declassed Jews Through ORT Effort
New York reports American help to Central Europe Jews via ORT federation. Over 400 schools train Jews in 20 trades, funding totaling more than $10,000,000 in five years. A drive seeks $450,000 to expand this philanthropy amid regional need.
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America
New York
Europe
ORT Federation
United States
Cat Sent to Jail After Attacking Tot in Marion
A gray cat is jailed in Marion city custody after a warrant labels it vicious and a menace for injuring three year old Joan Keck in an eye assault. Police consider next steps in handling the case.
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Marion
Ohio
Marion City
Joan Keck
Pedestrian Safety Lesson Taught by State Patrol
Pueblo Colorado patrolmen now instruct pedestrians to walk facing traffic when on highways, as part of road safety duties in the area.
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Pueblo
Colo
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Don Pedro
Count de la Perouse
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Senor el Conde
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Reine de
Louis XVI
Mission Carmelo
Fray Lasuen
Santa Barbara
Palacio
Pedro Fages
Dean Pedro
Philadelphia Zoo
U. S. Tars
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