Busy reader week cuts with vague notes on multiple items
A rushed digest notes a $100000 donation to the Library of Congress trust fund and April 1925 trade gains with Europe, plus a bird protection proposal by the Agriculture Department. It mentions fishing trip by Representative Free to Alaska, Belgian ambassador meeting, radio hobbyists free to transmit pictures, and several military and legal items including court decisions and memorial day events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free
California
Washington
Alaska
Congress
Notable births and high society notices from Kentucky and beyond
Dr W L Vickers reports attending the birth of twins by Mrs Coles Summers and Mrs Dillard Dawes in Franklin Kentucky. Other items note Enoch Lewis White's Paris death, Senator La Follette's illness, Isabel Rockefeller's engagement to Eric Lincoln Jr, Jacqueline Logan's Las Vegas wedding, and Thomas Marshall's death in Washington. Additional items cover H E Gary's hospital diet, Mayo Clinic consultations, Cairo murder verdicts, Nicaragua industrial law, Marines in Shanghai, and foreign affairs developments in Mexico and Morocco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
W. L. Vickers
Franklin
Coles Summers
Dillard Dawes
Azizia Named Hottest Place On Earth In 1918 Record
Washington bulletin from National Geographic notes Azizia in Italian Tripoli as the world's hottest place after surpassing the Death Valley record of 184.1 F set on July 10, 1918. The report details Azizia’s desert village profile, strategic WWII era ties, and the Jebel Ghari an pass nearby with Roman ruins, contrasting green and barren seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Azizia
Tripoli
National Geographic Society
Death Valley
Greenland Ranch
Mediterranean
Trnlians
Sahara Plateau
Jebel
Gharian
Simla
Yank Squirrels Thrive in English Forests
London reports gray squirrels, imported from the United States, have established themselves in Regent's Park and spread into forests up to 25 miles north of London. They mingle with visitors, take food from children, and have become popular in British parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
British Isles
Regent's Park
Prisoner seeks release over no commutation request
Vuco Perovich, convicted of murder in Alaska in 1905 and sentenced to hang, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. He asks the federal court for freedom arguing he did not seek a commutation and should not be kept under life terms. The request drew the attention of the Department of Justice at Leavenworth penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Leavenworth
Department of Justice
Vuco, Perovich
Alaska
South Has Fine Old Silverware
Charleston residents admire a notable collection of rare silverware loaned by old families. Items include a 1658 Cromwell-era coffee urn owned by the Pinckney family, a 1672 tankard with Wilson arms, a 1691 cream pitcher, a 1758 Paul Revere porringer, and a 1740 St Thomas parish chalice. An authority says Charleston has one of the handsomest mystique silver groups in the United States outside New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
S. C
John's Island
Wilson
London
Paul Revere
King Charles
St. Thomas
Episcopal Church
South Carolina
United States
New York City
Nevada Pueblo Seat of Ancient Indian Culture
Dr M R Harington, in charge of excavations at the buried city of Nevada, argues the site Pueblo Grande de Nevada was built by ancestors of Pueblo Indians from New Mexico and Arizona. The ruins stretch along the Muddy river in the Moapa valley, suggesting Pueblo culture as its birth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Talcott Willams
Columbia University
Ion Perdicaris
Chiselhurst
England
Verdicaris
Raisuli
Raisull
Roosevelt
Perdicaris
Nevada
Pueblo
St. Thomas
Nev
M. R. Harington
New Mexico
Arizona
Pueblo Grande de Nevada
Muddy River
Monpa
Hamington
Pueblo Grande
Arisona
Hushlo
Gerae
Gideons State Convention to Meet in Mason City
Iowa state news reports Gideons will hold their annual convention in Mason City from June 19 to 21. Other items include a fire destroying Osage’s hemp mill, Cedar Rapids voting 800000 in bonds for a city hall and coliseum, and various local developments across Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gideons
Mason City
Mississippi River
Osage
Cedar Rapids
Memorial Coliseum
Elk Horn
Harlan
Poweshiek County
Ringneck
Grinnell
Iowa
Christian Scientists
State University of Iowa
Mary Wright
Centerville
Louie Jorgenson
Grundy County
Jorgensen
State Fish and Game Department
Clive
Grand View Park
Des Moines
Hawarden
Eunice Horton
Louis G. Lasher
John Hammill
Iowa National Guard
L. A. Andrew
Otumwa
Andrew
Iowa State Banker’s Association
Iowa National Bible Training School
Colwell
Donnells
Yale University
Cheney
Floyd Shelton Daft
Griswold
Bishop Museum
Harry Stephen Ladd
Iowa City
Iowa Packing Company
Swift & Co
Also Mentioned on This Page
Library of Congress Trust Fund
Washington Dispatch
Europe
Department of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Islet
Colidge
Brussels
Hoover
Joseph E. Kuhn
Vancouver Barracks
Wash
William S. Graves
Fort Hamilton
N. C
Supreme Court of the United States
Maple Flooring Manufacturers’ Association
Cement Manufacturers’ Protective Association
McReynols
Oregon
Minneapolis
Arlington National Cemetery
Coolidge
Donaghey
Ohio
Columbus
President Coolidge
E. J. Sailstad
Dorothy Anderson
Sunshine Girl
Oshkosh
Wis
Fond du Lac
Naval Academy
William G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Cleveland
Beverley Bayne Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Los Angeles
Francis X. Bushman
Santa Fe
Oklahoma City
Harry Segal
Charles Phil Rosenberg
Charles Duncan
Segal
Arthur Frazier
France
Lopez-Frazier
Enoch Lewis White
Woodrow Wilson
Paris
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Percy A. Rockefeller
Greenwich, Conn
Isabel Rockefeller
Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr
Jacqueline Logan
Ralph James Gillespie
Houston
Texas
Cal
Ernest du Pont
Wilmington
Del
Anne Thompson
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Thomas Riley Marshall
Indiana
E. H. Gary
Employees’ Hospital of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Birmingham
Ala
K. M. Landis
Mrs. Landis
Rochester, Minn
Chicago
Mayo Clinic
Cairo
Lee Stack
Congress of
Nicaragua
Shanghai
Cunningham
Peking
Lfe
Schoenfeld
Mexico City
Foreign Office
Cornelio Izaguirre
Luther Thorp
Tampico
Morocco
Hebrew University In
Palestine
Hebrew University
Abraham Isaac Kook
Azizin
South
Belgium
Iowa State News
Boone
North Western Railroad
Blue Valley Creamery Institute
Omaha
Musson
Greenfild
Hamburg
Philadelphia
A. B. Donaldson
University of Iowa
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