Hobbies Of The Great And Near Great
Senator George W Norris leads the independent bloc and heads the agriculture committee while fighting for minority relief and government ownership. He reads Dickens for moral insight, drives his own car, plans a Canadian electric power tour, and defends his beliefs against socialism. He smokes, dresses simply in black bow ties, loves boiled ham and cabbage, and tunes radio for church services on Sundays.
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Minority Rights Advocates Champion the Weak in Senate Debate
Senator Royal S. Copeland argues the majority has many voices and that safeguarding minorities is a thankless yet rewarding task in public service. He frames minority protection as a civic duty and a quest for conscience.
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Five City Wards Without Cows in Lawrence County
County figures show only five tax districts with no cattle. New Castle wards one and two and Ellwood City wards one to three reported zero cows, while other wards had cattle. Slippery Rock Township held 679 head valued at $27,030, and total county cattle numbered 8,265 with value about $291,057.
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New Castle
Ellwood City
Slippery Rock
Lawrence County
Crossword Puzzle Scribbles and Jumbled Code
A dense string of letters numbers and fragments forms a crossword style puzzle with many unreadable tokens and scrambled words. The readable elements include scattered names and patterns suggesting a complex word game layout rather than a conventional news item.
Weather At Etah Halts Polar Plane Flight
Bad weather at Etah Greenland base of the MacMillan Arctic expedition prevents flight and scientific work. Commander Byrd reports ongoing ice fog and storms. National Geographic Society orders Donald MacMillan to abandon this year’s air exploration and return to the United States after studies along Greenland and Labrador coasts.
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International News Service
Washington
Etah
Greenland
Comdr
Byrd
Navy Department
National Geographic Society
Donald MacMillan
United States
Labrador
Two Boys Die After Touching High Tension Wire
Wilkesbarre Pa Aug 21 Two twelve year old boys Frank Sapuda and Lawrence Gazembam of Brookside section were electrocuted near the Pettebone Collery of the Glendale Coal company Kingston. They worked on a truck farm and were swinging on a guide wire when they touched the high tension line.
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International News Service
Wilkesbarre
Pettebone Collery
Glendale Coal Company
Kingston
Frank Sapuda
Lawrence Gazembam
Brookside
McGee Put in Charge of Carnegie Trust Liquidation
Harrisburg August 21 William Lewis McGee of Philadelphia was named special deputy secretary of banking to oversee the liquidation of the Carnegie Trust Company. Governor Pinchot also appointed William D. Gordon as special deputy secretary for building and loan investigations. Both will earn $6,000 yearly.
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International News Service
Harrisburg
Carnegie Trust Company
William Lewis McGee
Philadelphia
Pinchot
William D. Gordon
Soviet Airplane Industry Flourishes
Soviet aviators have flown over the Hindu Kush to Kabul delivering four Soviet made airplanes to the Afghan government. In a sign of ties, Afghanistan has sent twenty young noblemen to study Soviet aviation.
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International News Service
Moscow
Kabul
Afganistan
Memorial meeting for William Jennings Bryan in Stockholm
Representatives from thirty countries will join a memorial meeting for William Jennings Bryan in Stockholm on August 24. The event occurs during the International Near East Association’s annual congress. Bryan served on the association’s executive committee.
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International News Service
Stockholm
William Jennings Bryan
International Near East Association
Near East
Bryan
International Organization
Alsatian Wolf Dog Terror To Evildoers
The Alsatian wolf dog, a pure bred blend of Wurtemberg sheepdog and central German sheepdog, became a prominent public interest. Used by German police as a criminal hunter, the breed served valuably in war efforts and, after the armistice, British officers formed a dog club naming it the Alsatian wolf dog, a description adopted worldwide.
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Wurtemberg
Germany
Rockefeller Institute Honors Russian Woman
In Moscow on August 21 a Russian scientist, Miss Rakitskaya, an assistant in the Academy Smelianitski Lenin grade, became the first to receive a Rockefeller Institute bene faction. She was awarded a year’s scholarship to study agricultural bacteriology at the Experimental Agricultural Station in New Jersey.
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Moscow
Rockefeller Institute
Rakitskaya
Smelianitski
Leningrade
New Jersey
Fourth of July fireworks blaze injure many
The American Museum of Safety and the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness report 111 killed and 1,030 injured nationwide from fireworks this Fourth of July. Many victims suffer eye injuries, disfigurement, deafness, or loss of speech.
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American Museum of Safety
National Committee For the Prevention of
Sinclair Leads Red Writers at 1926 Congress
MOSCOW August 21 Upton Sinclair will be the American icon of the International Congress of Red Writers to be held here in 1926. He is the chief delegate on the congress list of American writers invited. From France is invited Henri Barbusse and from Germany Erich Mu...
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International News Service
Moscow
Upton Sinclair
France
Henri Barbusse
Germany
Erich Muhsam
Running Across Word Puzzle Clues
Across clues cover name in picture, secret watching, part of foot, city near San Francisco, Civil War president nickname, egg and milk delicacy. Down clues yield ocean, ordered language letters, steam road, biblical you, and father alias.
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California
San Francisco
American Colony In Shanghai Largest Expat Group
Shanghai hosts the largest American resident community outside the United States with 3,418 permanent Americans and 614 more in the Shanghai Consular District, per a Chinese government census. The city’s foreign population totals 43,251, including major contingents of Russians, British, Japanese, French, Germans and others.
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Bert L. Kuhn
International News Service
Shanghai
China
Shangai
America
United States
Paris
Bureau of Economic Information
Hermit Waves Sword Sentenced To Prison
Tokyo August 21 a wild‑looking man in Amagasaki wore a two‑foot samurai sword on the street. Police arrested him he said he lived two years as a mountain hermit and forgot sword wearing was forbidden. He will serve one year in prison. The International Typographical reports an active member.
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Tokyo
Amagasaki
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