Ed Columbia Defends Self in Portland Lunch Room Fight
Edgar Columbia, longshoreman in Local 861, faced a drunken rival in a Portland Maine all night lunch room. After taunts and a threatened blow with a spiked seat, Colubia struck the attacker squarely in the jaw, ending the danger as onlookers watched amid cold winter odds.
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Canada
Mexico
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Maine
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Local 861
India Street
Ed Columbia
Mammoth Cheese Presentation to Roosevelt Featured Child
Dorothy Jean Jadin, five, dressed in 1800s fashion ties a large red white and blue bow on a 1250 pound Wisconsin cheese offered to President Roosevelt.
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Dorothy Jean Jadin
Wisconsin
Coffee origin traced to Ethiopia in early history
A Indianapolis News writer notes that Ethiopia is likely the original home of the coffee tree, with wild trees found in virgin forests and Arabs first discovering it in the Ethiopian province of Kaffa about 1,000 years ago. Coffee berry usage began as a food, later fermented into wine, and spread to Yemen and beyond.
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Ethiopia
Rts
Africa
Ndianapolis
Yemen
Kafa
New FHA appoints Howard L. Smith as chief architect
Howard L. Smith of New York is named chief architect of the Federal Housing Administration. He will oversee a surge of thousands of new FHA structures and carry significant responsibility for their appearance and quality.
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New Yorker
New Fha
Howard L. Smith
New York
Archi
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Burns in Portobello and a Jersey guide
A traveler aboard a Edinburgh to Portobello train encounters a former New Jersey resident who accompanies him to Burns country. The Portobello expert performs a chaotic Burns interpretation, quoting many verses with heavy Scottish accents, while the narrator notes the guide’s poor grasp and the crowd’s antics. A Jersey man even offers a prize for perfect translations, leading to comic chaos and threats of reprisals.
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Pitlochry
New Jersey
Scotland
Portobello
Burns
Burts
Nouthne
WNU
China Clipper Travel Concept Delights Pacific Voyage
An illustrated travel feature outlines a new air service to China aboard the China Clipper. Passengers sail from San Francisco in a comfortable compartment with dinner beneath the stars, then fly daylight to Honolulu Wake Island Midway Guam and Singapore style stops before arriving in China. W L Van Disen and Kinsel Sayre present the Cosmopolitan travel vision.
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San Francisco
Eastern Pacific
Honolulu Harbor
Midway Islands
Pacific
Guam
Inneheon
Him
W. L. van Disen
Kinsel Sayre
Cosmopolitan
California Condors Sighted Near Santa Maria In 1900s Record
A California condor sighting near Sisquaeh ranch at Branch Canyon head, about miles east of Santa Maria, marks a notable scientific event. An amateur photographer among observers used modern equipment to capture the rare birds, part of a species once nearly extinct in California.
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Branch Canyon
Santa Maria
California
Ie Tou
Andés
Ty Coumon
Chile
Los Angeles Times
Liquid Laxatives Prove Best For Constipation Relief
No upset stomachs or uncooperative children with constipation. A measured liquid laxative like Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin lets dose be adjusted for age and need until bowels operate naturally. Hospitals and doctors favor liquid forms for easy dosage.
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Secord
Good Habit Some women are well informed
A fragment notes that some men search a dictionary for words while observing that there are women who are well informed and engaged in knowledge seeking.
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