Ambassador Bridge claims world’s largest suspension status
Detroit reports the Ambassador Bridge spanning the Detroit river to Canada will be the largest suspension bridge upon completion next year at an estimated cost of 20 million dollars. Ceremonies marked first contact with Canadian soil as crews prepare the two main cables and terminals, with officials from Detroit and nearby Ontario cities witnessing the project’s scale.
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Detroit River
Canada
Ambassador Bridge
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Windsor
Sandwich
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Riverside
la Salle
Tecumseh
Walkerville
United States
Philadelphia-Camden
Hudson River
Upper Manhattan
Palisades
Jersey Shore
Two Alligators Make Home Under Downtown Store
Oklahoma City reports two alligators living beneath the downtown cleaning shop of Oscar Grace. Grace fought to remove them, tearing holes in floors and digging crevices to reach the reptiles. He suffers scratches and nerves from their gnawing backs as he seeks to place them in a glass tank.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oscar Grace
Grace
Rabbi’s Flock Strays to Wireless Prayers in Tours
In Tours France Rabbi M Sommer faces a drifting Jewish community and plans to broadcast prayers by radio He argues for radio religion in a Jewish religious journal as a bold modern solution to declining attendance.
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Rabbi
Tours
France
M. Sommer
Reunion of New Orleans mother and son after 49 years
Mary Ann Tiernan Moonan, 82, and her Dublin barrister son George A Moonan meet for first time since age seven. Moonan sails to Ireland to join her after years of mail rearing and hopeful reunions.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Atlantic
Mary Ann Tiernan Moonan
George A. Moonan
Dublin
Ireland
Moonan
Moenar
Old
Sea's Salt Plant Yields Six Billion Tons a Year
The Caspian Sea region hosts a natural evaporation plant on the Gulf of Kara-Bougaz in Leningrad USSR producing Glauber's salt. Summer high water temperatures keep salts dissolved while winter cooling causes Glauber's salt to crystallize first, settling at the bottom and washing ashore.
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Caspian Sea
Sun
Gulf of
Kara-Bougaz
Caspian
Gulf
Glauber
Navy Plane Scoops Up Gold in Nicaragua
Navy pilots report a forced landing near the La Paz mine in Nicaragua. Corporal Cole recovered about $100 in gold ore from the explorer plane’s pan as rescuers airlifted the marooned crew back to Managua with the gold as evidence.
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Nicaragua
Washington
Navy Department
Howard
Marine Corps
la Paz
Cole
Managua
Expedition plants flag on Mount Baker summit
The Chicago Geographical Society expedition to the Mountains of the Moon planted the American British and Explorers' Club flag on Mount Baker summit on August 26. The ascent and descent endured severe hardship with snow storms most of the way.
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Fort Portal
Uganda
Africa
Chicago Geographical Society
Mountains of the Moon
Explorers’ Club
Mount Baker
Bees Take Over Westwood Business District For Hours
A swarm of bees occupied the principal corner of Westwood New Jersey delaying commerce for two hours. Dr F C Young fled his car as bees refused to leave his vehicle. Stores closed and shoppers fled while an anonymous local expert trapped the swarm with a hive nets and a smokepot.
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F. C. Young
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