Bryan Returns to Washington for Funeral Rites
William Jennings Bryan returned to Washington for final religious services before a long rest in Potomac riverside hills among the nation’s soldier dead. About 2000 people per hour viewed the casket at the church as Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo led services. The cemetery burial honored his Spanish-American War leadership with a semi military service as flags flew at half staff nationwide by Coolidge’s order.
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William Jennings Bryan
Washington
Potomac Hills
Joseph R. Sizoo
New York State
Nebraska
Bryan
District of Columbia
Coolidge
Washington News Roundup Silent on Coal Strike Fire Sale to Ford
Shipping board authorized by Attorney General to sell 200 vessels for scrap to Henry Ford for 81,706,000 as urged by President Palmer of the Fleet Corporation. Also reports on coal wage talks, tax plans, Arctic expedition danger, Edison R. Scott experiments, Ku Klux Klan parade canceled, and various political and international notes from Washington.
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the Shipping Board
Sargent
Henry Ford
President Palmer
The
Fleet Corporation
Ford
Ku Knux
Earthquake a Day Keeps Kilauea Gay
A 1924 report by L W Denis Norton for the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association details Kilauea activity. Notable events include April quakes, ground subsidence, a new saltwater lagoon, Halemaumau pit collapse, explosive eruptions from May to July, ash clouds, mud rains, lava resurgence in July, quiet August, strong August and September earthquakes, ongoing avalanching, and a May fatality of a Tiawanian observer near the pit.
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Honolulu
Kilauea
Hawaii
L. W. Denis- Norton
Hawaiian Volcano Research Association
Puna
Halemaumian
Kilmuen
Iwilmen
Halemaumau Pit
Halemaumau
Kau
Hilo
Vanity Ruling Passion of Noted German Crook
Bernard Pulkowsky, a convict, prized his personal attire so highly that when a new charge arose before his sentence ended he escaped to buy clothes and later returned to court in sartorial splendor. He asked for an absence to shop, was refused, left a note about decency, and still appeared at the proper time in prison clothes not.
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Berlin
Bernard Pulkowsky
Pulkowsky
Bandit Plies Trade While Studying to Become Cop
Los Angeles detectives say George A. Mullet twenty four worked as a payroller while training as a patrolman. He was arrested in the Hollywood district before receiving his diploma and booked as a robbery suspect.
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Bandit
Cop
Los Angeles
Cal
George Alet
Hollywood
Mullet
Nees
Hollywood Hills
Letter on Way for 37 Years
Haakon Bader of Tacoma born in Norway 1888 received a letter mailed from his birthplace after 37 years of wandering. The missive crossed five nations, followed his seafaring life to Cardiff Buenos Aires and Danish consulate, and finally returned to Tacoma via Buenos Aires then Tavoma friends.
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Tacoma
Wash
Haakon Bader
Norway
Bader
Kengero
Cardiff
Wales
Buenos Aires
Bauder
Alaska
Bacer
Tavoma
War Vet Picture Bride Must Wed in Bermuda
War veteran John Alexizakes of Billings Montana and his Greek bride Theodora Gtaraganas faced red tape as U S officials arranged their wedding location. A bureaucratic snafu sent the couple from New York toward possible nuptials in Bermuda, with plans shifting between Canada and American soil. The tale highlights tangled legal steps delaying the marriage.
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Bermuda
New York
John Alexizakes
Billings
Mont
Theodora Gtaraganas
Greece
United States
Tsan
Mr. AL
Demme
Canada
John
Amar
Els
Samment
Ancient Sumerians Version of Creation
Readable fragments recount Sumerian creation myths with Anu and Anunna, a drought before cereals and livestock, and the ascent of civilization. The story notes gods, harvests, and the gods interceding to allow Earth’s inhabitants to spread. It links Mesopotamian tales to broader Near Eastern religion and early agriculture.
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Nea
Cercala
Wild
Heaven
Earth
Iowa State News Highlights in Early September 1925
Iowa news briefs report Woodbury county pig club members progress, Grinnell Savings Bank reopening, Governor Hammill speaking at the state fair on Old Soldiers' day, school tax reductions for Sioux City, Camp Dodge encampment plans, and broad notes on county buses, road funding, cooperative efforts, and agricultural developments across Iowa. The roundup mentions canneries, oats yields, highway progress, real estate, butter entries, corn planting, and labor conditions. It also covers dairy, honey, horticulture tours, taxation disparities, and proposed tax reforms.
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Woodbury County
Grinnell Savings Bank
Hammill
Sioux City
National Guard
Camp Dodge
Estherville
Des Moines
Alva McKeig
Harlan
Towa
Bank ofAmerica
New York City
State Board of Control
Linn County
J. A. Reed
Thresher
Polk County
Missouri
Iowa
Indianapolis
Cedar Falls Canning Company
Myron Rogers
Chalons-Sur-Marne
Chicago
New York
Chalons
France
Trades and Labor Temple
United States Cavalry
Fort Des Moines
Iowa State
Heo
Hoos
State Horticultural Society
United States
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Chattanooga (Tenn
President Coolidge
Bureau of Mines
Congress
Madden of
Illneis
Appropriations Committee
Madden
Tinois
Melville Bay
MacMillan
Navy Department
Edwin R. Scott
San Francisco
Scott
Treasury
Mellon
Mr. Mellon
Treasury Department
Wilmington
Katherine Thompson Wood
Osborne C. Wood
Georgia
Hoase of Representatives
Lucien C. Warner
Young Men’s Christian Association
Santa Barbara
Tampa, Fla
Norman Wein
Norman Kulley
George Kelly
Rio Grande River
Paso
Texas
Ku Klux Klan
Dayton
Ohio
Fort Tilden
N. J
Johnson Hargood
Connecticut State Board of Health
Supreme Court of Errors
George H. Ketcham
Toledo
Harry Cooper
Tenison
Dallas
Walter Hagen
Florida
Walter Camp
Yale
Tulsa
Oklo
Harry Greb
Pittsburgh
Otis Bryant
Baron Hayashi
Chamberlain
London
Joseph Caillaux
Sweden
Haus
House of Commons
Labor Party
Amundsen
Italan
Hongkong
Mukden
Morgan Palmer
Harvey J. Howard
Ruhr
Germany
Essen
Stanley
Faye
Tacoma, Wash
Philadelphia
Dunsun
Lor
Tre Gada
Ralazion
Artory
Candiana
Iowa State News
United ‘States _Department
Agriculture
Rantine
Leetle
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