Russia Builds Arctic Port on Lena River in Siberia
Along the Lena River at Vitim and Yakutsk in eastern Siberia the Soviet government plans a northern port to unlock Arctic navigation. The project would link Lena's minerals, timber, and furs to world trade, with icebound waters and a vast delta shaping the strategic gateway.
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Washington, D. C
Siberia
Asia
Lena
Arctic
National Geographic Society
Ntussilan
Orient
Arctic Sea
Baikal Mountains
Vitim
Taiga
Arctic Circle
Turkestan
Yakutsk
Clock 1 in Deserted Cabin Runs Eight Years
Placerville Calif an eight day clock in a vacant mining cabin has kept running for eight years. After the mining company abandoned works in 1927 a sign Please wind the clock drew visitors who used the cabin as overnight quarters. Fishermen and hunters maintain it while Ed Ramsey travels from three and a half miles away to wind it each week in winter.
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Placerville
Calif
Ed Ramsey
Paris area to host new steel building with airplane field
Architect M. Leon-Joseph Madeline designs an Issy les Moulineaux site on the Seine for a twelve acre steel era structure. The roof rests on four walls with cantilever arches, an onboard airfield, lagoons for hydroplanes, and extensive surrounding grounds. It aims to boost commercial aviation near transport links and existing airplane industry facilities.
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Paris
Issyres-Moulineux
Seine River
M. Leon-Joseph Madeline
Committee of Distinguished Architects
Issy-les-Moulineaux
Only White House Dog Gets District Tag No 1
President Roosevelt has a brass tag No 1 for his dog Winks the English setter at the White House. Winks is about a year old and the only dog there. Secret service guard Gus H Gennerich owns a pit bull named Pal not included in the tag.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Winks
White House
Gus H. Gennerich
Secret Service Guard
President Receives Single Dog License at White House Kennels
The White House kennels now hold one dog license marked No. 1 brought by Chaphnam M Towers, district tax collector. Last year the kennels included Major the German shepherd Meggie the Scottie and a collie pup owned by Mrs Anna Curtis Dall’s children, all banished for biting.
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White House
Chaphnam M. Towers
Major
Meggie
Roosevelt
Anna Curtis Dall
Winks
Ohio Man Granted Permit to Kill Robins
Dumontsville, Ohio resident D. L. Swarts says he has the only federal permit to kill robins, claiming the birds threaten his fruit crops. He keeps a bird haven at home where doves, starlings, wrens and cardinals also feed, and plans to act when fruit ripens. Swarts cites several hundred dollars in annual losses due to robins.
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Dumontsville
Ohio
D. L. Swarts
Swart
Swarts
Wild life ethics and manners from archibald rutledge
A reflective piece notes wild animals display courtesy and restraint, sharing a code of behavior that contrasts with human vanity. It cites archibald rutledge and imagines birds and mammals living in harmony, offering a civility lesson for civilized readers.
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Archibald Rutledge
Bell Syndicate
WNN Service
Island Made by Beavers on Crescent Lake
Yellowstone park rangers observe beavers building and enlarging a floating island on Crescent Lake. Scientists note the island likely forms from rushes and beaver cuttings bound by plant growth over years, as beavers add new cuttings to anchor it, though the island remains loosely attached to the lake bottom.
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Crescent Lake
Yellowstone National Park
Out of His Depth on Labrador Boundaries and Hospitals
The piece quotes Sir Wilfrid Grenfell noting Labrador is mostly south of Scotland's latitude with three of five hospitals located south of London. It recalls an impassioned preacher calling Labrador a land bounded by the Arctic to the east, the St Lawrence to the south, and Hudson Strait to the north.
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Labrador
Wilfrid Grenfell
Scotland
London
Sir Wilfrid
Arctic Ocean
St. Lawrence
Hudson’s Straits
Kansas City Star
Postum Free Week Offer From Postum Company
Read the offer in this paper. The Postum Company will send a full week's supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it.
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Postum Company
Postum
Harvard display shows giant family tree of mammals
A floor projection at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology forms a massive family tree of mammals from human line to the platypus. Colors and branching illustrate zoological orders dividing into suborders and families, tracing links from primitive forms to great apes and humans through the blue stem.
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Harvard ,Museum of Comparative Zoology
Cambridge
Mass
New York Times
Glass eye hidden during Northern hospital operation
During a major operation at a Northern hospital in Liverpool a young doctor checked eye response under anesthesia and found no contraction or dilation. The patient was revived in alarm and it was revealed the eye was artificial.
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Northern Hospital
Liverpool
England
Camay Contest Seeks Why It Is Best Beauty Soap
Readers invited to submit a 100 word explanation of why Camay is the best beauty soap, attach three wrappers, sign the entry, and include name and dealer address. First prize is 1000 dollars a year for life starting Christmas 1934, with option of a 10000 lump sum. entries limited to nonemployees and families of affiliates.
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Camay
Procter & Gamble
Union Central Life Insurance Co
Dept. A. P. O
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ene
United States
Expert Finds Flowers Keep Better in Copper
New York floriculturist John Rats ek of the New York State College of Agriculture found copper containers extend the life of cut flowers. He tested snapdragons stocks roses primroses and other blooms and observed their life span lengthened by one to three days as copper kills bacteria that cause decay.
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New York
John Ratsek
New York State College of Agriculture
London man wins doughnut duel by eating 100
Derek Eyles of Welling borough wagered he could eat 50 doughnuts in one sitting. He finished the first 50 and then ordered 50 more, consuming them at a rate of one doughnut per minute.
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London
Derek Eyles
Wellingborough
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Weasel Feather
George Bullchild
Theodore Roosevelt
National Republican Club
Belgrade
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Mustafa Bashitch
Brisha Kasapovich
Bosnia
Banovitch
Rasna
Raymond Knight and
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Chicago
Great Northern Hotel
Jackson Blvd
Dearborn
Quincy Sts
Earl L. Thornton
Pete
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Woman’s Home Companion
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Good Houses Keeping Magazine
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WEAF
NBC
Barry McKinley
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