Food And Powder Chief Items In Navy Maneuvers
Navy cost reports show food and powder as the main expenses in Hawaii maneuvers. A broadside from the fleet cost over 163000 dollars and a full Atlantic Pacific fleet broadside exceeded 456000 dollars. Mammoth Appetite II fed the fleet for 17,075 dollars daily for three meals with 234320 pounds of food daily and 45 cents per man.
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Copeland C. Burg
International Mews Service
Los Angeles
Hawaii
Navy
America
Pacific
Uncle Sam
School Children Have Poor Sight Across U S
Indianapolis July 27 One child in eleven in urban public schools and one in seven in rural districts in the United States has defective vision hindering studies. A joint committee of the National Education Association and the American Medical Association, with the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, presented the study.
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Indianapolis
United States
National Education Association
Joint Committee On Health Problems In Education
American Medical Association
National Committee For the Prevention of
Travel aid worker meets last minute infant aid
At Rock Island station the Travelers' Aid rep received a frantic message to fetch a nipple bottle and Nestle's food for a six month old on a train. Less than half an hour later Train No. 7 arrived and the conductor handed the items to a worried mother who had forgotten enough baby food.
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International News Service
Des Moines
Travelers’ Aid
Rock Island Station
Nestle
No. 7
New Blood Test Claims Race and Sex Identification
Soviet researcher Dr. Manouloff reports a chemical method to determine race and sex from bloodstains. He cites 1 362 experiments with 100 percent sex accuracy and 93 percent race accuracy, noting faster oxidation in Jewish blood and mixed-heritage samples.
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International News Service
OSCOW
Manouloff
Soviet Union
Manoyloff
Britain Fails To Check Gain Of Unemployed
London reports June unemployment climbs to 1,247,300 in Britain with 971,000 men, 213,000 women, 34,000 boys and 28,100 girls idle. Prime Minister Baldwin calls unemployment the country’s crucial problem while government doles persist and unions plan an unemployment Sunday amid protests.
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David M. Church
International News Service
London
Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
MacDonald Labor
British Isles
Britain
Mammoth Saber Tooth Find Reported Near Culican Mexico
Reports from Nogales say a large field of bones and a mammoth tusk weighing about 20 pounds were unearthed in asphalt beds south of Culican Sinaloa. Senor Laziola has sent bones to Mexico City’s National Museum. researchers seek funding to expand excavations and study prehistoric mammals including saber tooth tigers and dinosaurs.
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George Powell
Nogales
Sonora
Mexico
Culican
Sinaloa
la Brea
California
Los Angeles
Senor Laziola
Freight car pushed by John Whitman in New York
John Whitman pushed a 35000 pound freight car unaided in New York City about 30 feet, an incident reported on May 30, 1891.
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John Whitman
New York City
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