American City to Be Built in Heart of Paris
Paris report notes Americans plan a dormitory within Cite Universitaire near Parc Montsouris to host 150 students with half reserved for French. Project aims to foster exchange between nations and deepen campus life in the French capital. In St Nazaire a monument to French American wartime brotherhood starts, funded by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, featuring an American soldier and eagle overlooking the Loire. Also: Venlo reports a butterfly epidemic darkening street lamps. locals ferment them as bait for fishermen.
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Alice Langelier
International News Service
Paris
Cite Universitaire
Parc Montsouris
St. Nazaire
Harry Payne Whitney
Loire
France
Venlo
Meuse
Large Brittany turtle caught weighs seven hundred pounds
A monster turtle weighing seven hundred pounds was recently caught on the Brittany coast. It measures six and a half feet from tip to tail and is the largest seen in the area for some time. The shell is planned for display on an exhibit barge as an aquarium. A special report on the creature was given at a French Academy of Science meeting.
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Brittany
French Academy of Science
Lost and Found at Paris Police Trims Storage Time
Paris police reduce holding periods at the Lost and Found to six months for most items and three months for perishables like clothing. Shoes leather and wood items including crutches and umbrellas now stay only six months. Among oddities are a stuffed deer and a funeral wreath marked Eternal Regrets found in Pantin street car.
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Paris
Siberian soil freezes 65 feet deep
A note about permafrost in Siberia where ground remains frozen hundreds of feet below the surface. It mentions the impossibility of digging for worms at 66 feet and hints at extreme conditions shaping local life and activity.
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Siberia
London Plans Royal Home Welcome For Edward Prince Of Wales
London dispatch outlines grand homecoming for Edward Prince of Wales after a six month world tour. He is due to arrive at Portsmouth aboard HMS Repulse, greet from the Duke of York, then travel to London for a royal reception. A rest period and hunting trip in Wales or the Highlands is planned, with expectations of marriage discussions and announcements.
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Highlands
Scotland
Charles A
Duke of York
Prince
Portsmouth
Guard of Honor
London
North
American Prospectors Rush To Gold Fields
American prospectors are among the first arrivals at newly found gold fields in the Tchukot Anadyr region on the Bering Straits coast opposite Alaska. Many entered without passports along the unguarded northern coast, with the fields said to rival the Aldan river in quality.
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International
Moscow
Tchukot-Anadyr
Bering Straits
Alaska
Aldan
Handsome aluminum griddle offered with pancake flour deal
A large 11% inch griddle with anchored handle is advertised for 1.69 after buying Pillsbury Pancake Flour. If grocer lacks stock, mail 1.69 with both addresses to receive the griddle postpaid.
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Pillsbury’s
Canada Flour Exports To 53 Countries Reach Over 10 Million Barrels
Ottawa report shows 53 nations bought 10,169,692 barrels of Canadian flour in the year ending Aug 1 with July shipments at 815,337 barrels. UK led July purchases at 219,255 barrels, Germany second at 193,040, and the US only 101 barrels. Exports of Canadian wheat totaled 13,097,288 bushels in July, with the UK taking about 90 percent and the US 99,468 bushels. Prospects see larger grain exports due to a bumper crop. Canada’s wheat surplus expected to be the largest. Also notes a Wellsburg streetcar issue and a theft by students, and a municipal tax failure leading to trains stopping at city limits.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Dominion
United Kingdom
Germany
Britain
United States
Stolen Street Car Found Line Resumes Service
In Bethany West Virginia on October 9 the Wellsburg Bethany street car line resumed after theft halted service for days. Sheriff Robert Lowe and deputies recovered the single car three street blocks from the line end, undamaged, and hauled it back to the track where regular schedules continued. Bethany has no police force.
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Bethany
W. Va
Wellsburg
May Be Showers In Washington Baseball World Series
Cool slightly cloudy weather was on tap for the third game in Washington. At 6:30 a.m. the sky was clear but forecasts warned of possible light showers later in the day affecting the standings and attendance.
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Washington
Woman Divorces Same Husband Twice In Eight Years
In Fitchburg Massachusetts Edith E Bartholomew of Leominster wins a probate court decree of divorce from Carl E Bartholomew of Providence Rhode Island for desertion. The couple married in 1909 and were remarried in 1918 after an earlier divorce. The husband vanished after January 1922 leaving the wife with custody of their 15 year old son Curtis.
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International Mews Service
Fitchburg
Mass
Edith E. Bartholomew
Leominster
Carl E. Bartholomew
Providence
R. I
Bartholomew
Curtis
Harry Atwood
Weather delays edge of world series trip in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh reporters note showers in Pittsburgh on October 9 as the Pirates and Senators prepare to travel to Washington for the world series. The U. S. Weather Bureau forecast rain for Wednesday and Thursday, delaying any games if scheduled, but the forecast held off until the team reached Washington.
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Pittsburgh
Pirates
Senators
Washington
U. S. Weather Bureau
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