Plane To Hunt In South Seas By Francis J. Ford
Explorer and film producer Francis J. Ford plans a six month voyage to the South Seas aboard a tramp steamer. He will use an airplane and radio to film cannibals and wild animals for travelogue and educational films. Ford will visit Hawaii Samoa Fiji New Hebrides Solomon Islands New Guinea and Borneo with a native servant carrier boys and soldiers.
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International News Service
Los Angeles
Cal
Francis J. Ford
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South Sea Islands
San Francisco
Honolulu
Pango-Pango
Hawaii
Samoa
Fiji Islands
New Hebrides
Solomon Islands
New Guinea
Borneo
Hollywood
United States
Would Establish Immigration Station At All Ship Ports
Internal News Service W Sainay reports on a movement led by Commissioner General of Immigration W W Husband to require steamship lines to run immigration stations at major ports. If adopted, Ellis Island and Angel Island would be closed, along with stations in Philadelphia Boston Seattle and New Orleans, saving about 1 million dollars annually in maintenance costs.
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W. Sainay
W. Whusband
Ellis Island
New York Harbor
Angel Island
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Boston
Seattle
New Orleans
Unemployed Marry to Get Increased Dole
London reports that some of England's unemployed wed to gain higher dole payments as the workless couple can live more cheaply. Brides may also contribute to income, but the trend ignores the servant shortage as employed girls quit good jobs for marriages with unemployed men.
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London
England
Sailing voyage to cross Atlantic in a tiny Austrian yacht
Captain Joseph Blasse of the former Austrian navy with two companions will sail from Hamburg at month end for New York in a 14 metre yacht built on Lake Constance. Public subscription funded the craft with Einslein planning lectures in America about Austria as a tourist country after arrival.
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International News Service
Vienna
Joseph Blasse
Hamburg
New York
Lake Constance
America
Einsleintends
Austria
Fireproofing by Bureau of Standards Tests Big Structures
A test brick building in the United States serves as an arson and fireproofing study site. Scientists measure heat resistance of materials as furnaces elevate temperatures. Data guide construction of fireproof tall buildings. The piece ends with an unrelated anecdote about Cinderella and arrests in Canton not clearly connected.
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Fie
Wonder Laboratory
Bureau of Standards
Ling Walla
Walla
Prince Turns Knight of Road in Polish Mystery
International News Service reports in 500th Bend on June 22 that Dola Puscal believed her prince would rescue her but discovers he is the knight of the road. The fragment suggests a mistaken romance and a dramatic reversal of trust amid a transport-themed tale.
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Knight OF Road
London Air Defense War Game Rehearsal Planned
London authorities announce a major air defense exercise to test London in wartime. A large-scale camp on the West Coast will simulate operations and defense plans for the coming summer.
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London
Great fleet plan for a night air strike defense of London
The text outlines a large air assault with battle planes and air scouts breaking through unobserved. Day and night attacks would keep defenders alert, with anti aircraft guns and travel searchlights offering strong resistance. Territorial forces would provide the defense, acting on active service rather than requiring mobilization. It then shifts to Biblical Gaza and ancient olive trees near Jaffa, mentioning Samson and legends of mechanical clocks.
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London
Gaza
Al-Mintar
Samson
Jaffa
Guan
Entertaining the Carpenter Household Humor Piece
Elsa aims to entertain a carpenter and probes his family, joking about numbers of siblings. The text then notes nail making history, describing that nails were largely handmade into the 19th century, with France slow to adopt evolving methods and early use of wire for lighter nails before 1840.
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England
France
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