Confucius Tomb Dispute Rocks Chufou Province
In Chufou, Shan tung, a quarrel between two brothers over Confucius tomb upkeep funds has erupted. Kung Ling-hsu, a poor guardian receiving 2000 gold annually, argues the family should pay more, while the younger brother, guardian of the high-born Duke Kung Te-cheng, cannot spare funds. Soldiers guard the tomb on half pay as weeds grow on the mound outside the city walls.
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Confucius
Chufou
Shantung Province
K’ung Ling-hsu
K’ung
K’ung Te-cheng
Flags origin traced through centuries to national symbols
This article traces flag origins from ancient standards of Egyptians Persians and Romans to Saracen banners in the middle ages. It notes the imperial Constantine flag of purple silk and explains Flag Day June 14 commemorates the Continental Congress adoption in 1777, later popularized by educator George Bolch in 1889.
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Constantine
Continental Congress
George Bolch
New York
Detroit News
Crotonites Lose as Baptists Win 18 to 14
A game between the Croton M. E. church team and Crotonites was cancelled then a team picked up from spectators won 18 to 14. The official report comes via a communication to this office.
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Baptists
Croton M. E.'s
Crotonites
Only Woman Director of Opera Emma R Steiner
Emma R Steiner the only woman in America to conduct opera was born in Baltimore Maryland. She has conducted fifty operas over thirty years and early in the 1890s went to Nome Alaska as the first white woman to reach the tin fields at York 100 miles north of Nome. She is now musical director of the Music Temple of the World in New York City.
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Emma R. Steiner
Barbara Frietchie
America
Baltimore
Nome
Alaska
Tin Fields
York
Music Temple of the World
New York City
Gladiolus a fine perennial cut flower and garden standout
Gladiolus, also called sword lilies, is praised as a premier cut flower best used indoors after a first bloom opens on the lower spike. Growers are urged to plant bulbs in rich soil with weekly liquid manure, water regularly, and space plantings from four to six inches deep for a continuous late season supply.
New Breed Of Fowls Made To Order
A Beltsville Maryland poultry project yields a new breed named the Lamona after nine years of selective crossing. The bird combines white plumage and large white eggs with meat-friendly size and yellow skin, differentiating it from Leghorns and Dorkings by eye whiteness and a red ear lobe as a breed mark.
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Beltsville
Journal of Heredity
Plymouth Rock
Boston
New York
Scrap Tobaccos Sale Ad Promises Two For Ninety Cents
Classified advertisement lists scrap tobaccos with a price of two for 90 cents per dozen. The fragment mentions assorted tones like 47c 98c 55c 18c and a line reading 75s ee ee, indicating pricing or catalog codes.
Telegraph Wires Transmit Trans-Atlantic Messages at Chatham
An eight mile cross country antenna at RCA Chatham Cape Cod receives Trans Atlantic wireless from England France Germany and Norway. Fifteen messages have been received simultaneously using four receivers, with no interference, thanks to paired wires on glass insulators.
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England
France
Germany
Norway
Radio Corporation of America
Chatham
Cape Cod
Mass
Lehigh Valley Secures Twenty Strikebreakers
Hazleton Pa June 30 The joint protective board of the Rail road Brotherhood of Carmen of America meets at President Matthews office to arrange compliance with a strike order due tomorrow if Chicago conference fails to cancel. Lehigh Valley railroad reports 20 strike breakers arrived at Ashmore engine plant with more planned if needed.
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International News Service
Hazleton
Joint Protective Board
Railroad Brotherhood of Carmen of America
Lehigh Valley Railroad System
Thomas H. Matthews
Chicago
Brotherhood
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Ashmore
Delano
Weatherly
Island of Treasure in Pacific Near Costa Rica
A desolate Pacific island several miles off the Panama coast is five miles long and two wide, formed by ancient upheaval. It rises with bare volcanic rock and deep ravines, covered by dense tropical vegetation and damp undergrowth, lying nominally under Costa Rican claim.
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Cocos Island
Leslie’s
Costa Rica
Cocos
Miss Jane Sands
Miss Sands
Christian Hemmick
New York
Washington
Pacific
Panama Canal
Passing Of Aviation Dog Brings Gloom To Fliers In Washington
Washington June 380 Deep gloom has settled over Bolling Field as Sir Toby Hufler the Bull Terrier mascot and aviator returns to the air station. Sir Toby trained with the mapping squadron and wore a safety belt during flights. He vanished during a cross country period, leaving his unit hopeful for a safe return.
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Washington
International News Service
Bolling Field
Army Air Station
Toby Hufler
Toby
Army Aviation
Rochester
N. Y
Hiram Maxim
Hartford
Conn
World Geography Mixes Size and Culture Across Nations
The piece compares areas like Brazil to Europe and Palestine to Vermont, notes Japan’s rugged terrain leaves little cultivable land, and reports Ecuador’s Tunguragua eruption with ash reaching Quito. It also describes cultural meanings of kissing in Japan West Africa New Hebrides and Basutoland.
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Brazil
Europe
Palestine
Vermont
Japan
West African
New Hebrides
Basutos
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Nature
Wampole’s Oil
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Dewitt
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Robert Burns
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Eternany
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Pittsburgh
Iron
Lake Erie
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Quito
Switzerland
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