Nicaragua Canal Project Becomes U S Military Quest
The article traces the long quest for an interoceanic canal from Nicaragua, noting 1914 Panama success and renewed U S interest in a Nicaragua route. It describes Maj Dan Sultan’s engineers surveying jungle terrain, logistical challenges, and strategic reasons including defense and reduced transit time.
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Panama Canal
United States
Nicaragua
Dan I. Sultan
Oxford
Miss
Pacific
Atlantic
Panama
Sultan
Columbus
Balboa
Cortez
Constantinople
India
Orient
American
Great Oceans
West Indies
Tehuantepec
Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron
Darien
Philip II
Philip
Philip III
Gulf of Darien
Atrato
England
Caledonia Bay
Great Britain
East India
Spain
Republic of Central America
Aaron H. Palmer
John Bailey
Bailey
San Juan
Greytown
Jackson
Congress
New York City
Aaron Clark
New Granada
Colombia
Central America
Europe
van Buren
New Ireland tribe studied by Dr Powdermaker minus religion
Dr Alortense Powdermaker reports on a Melanesian tribe near New Guinea living without religion. They practice totemic moieties eagle and hawk, taboo relations, polygamy or polyandry, and celebrate births marriages and deaths with long rituals.
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New York
New Ireland
New Guinea
Pacific Ocean
American Museum of Natural History
Alortense Powdermaker
Doctor Powdermaker
Australian National Research Council
National Research Council of
United States
Mandate
Australia
Estranged Mate Finds Fortune Hidden by Wife
Thomas Lonergam, grieving husband of a recently dead woman, discovers 35000 in securities and cash hidden in her cottage basement. The will dated before their ten month marriage names seven children as heirs. Lonergam plans to contest for his share.
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St. Louis
Thomas Lonergam
Lonergam
Human Ostrich Is Given Six Months in Prison
London. William Richard Jones received a six months jail term after swallowing dangerous objects including necktie pins washers buttons and a safety pin. He was treated at Kettering hospital where surgeons removed items from his stomach and he swallowed more during treatment before sentencing at Stafford prison.
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London
William Richard Jones
Kettering Hospital
Stafford
Pneumonia Cure Claimed From Electric Treatment
Authorities at St Elizabeth's hospital announce an electrical treatment for lobar and bronchial pneumonia as nearly a specific cure after 200 tests. Medical authorities compare the discovery to smallpox vaccination and say it could save thousands of lives yearly.
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Washington
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Flying Proves Safer Than Motoring in U. S
Transportation by air at the Naval Air Station in San Diego shows far fewer crashes than road travel. In 16 months the station recorded 21 automobile accidents and 16 motorcycle crashes, versus only 2 airplane crashes, with one automobile fatality and one aviation fatality.
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Washington
Naval Air Station
San Diego
Calif
Cure Lightens After Twelve Hours Using High Frequency Current
Scientists at the government hospital for the insane report a cure in virtually all cases when treatment is begun within twelve hours of infection. After twelve hours the success rate remains high. The method uses a high frequency current of about 1.5 million alternations per second with tinfoil electrodes on chest and back to heat the body interior and effect the cure.
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United States
Nicaragua
Senate
Panama
Panama Canal
George W. Goethals
France
Ger
United States Army
Fort DuPont
Dela
Twenty-ninth Engineers
Fort Humphreys
Canal
Army Engineers
Greytown
Atlantic
Brito
Pacific
Government Hospital
Drops Bundle With 52 Ears in Railway Car
Warsaw reports a package of 52 ears found on a seat by a railway conductor causing nationwide shock. After days no missing ears were claimed until a middle aged man appeared at the police station admitting the bundle were rubber ear specimens he carried as an anatomical demonstrator.
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Warsaw
Poland
Stretching the food dollar by efficient buying
American families stay well fed in the current low mood period due to strategic buying of food essentials by housewives. A bulletin from the American Research foundation notes mothers solve the problem by seeking real value in foods used at meals.
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Chicago
American Research Foundation
Bangor Man Lost Leg in Fremont Train Incident
James Bath, 61, of Bangor Maine, was found beside a Fremont Ohio railroad track after a passing train severed his wooden leg. He was unharmed apart from the loss and voiced distress over the injury, while the rest of him remained uninjured.
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Fremont
Ohio
James Bath
Bangor
Maine
Lungs Save Lives of 3 Photographers on Sub Rescue Test
New London, Conn. Three motion picture photographers were saved by the submarine escape device called the lungs during an experiment on the S-4 submersible. Lieut. C. B. Momsen directed the test as engineers and sailors adjusted the apparatus and brought the submarine to the surface after exposure to chlorine gas.
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New London
Conn
C. B. Momsen
Provincetown
Mass
Momsen
City Man Sees It Likely Money in Raising Chickens
A city dweller asserts that the belief in profits from poultry farming is strong and widespread, noting a firm conviction about chicken-raising bringing substantial money.
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Arkansas Gazette
Robin's Eggs Only Toll in Railroad Collision
Hugoton Kansas J L Hodges a veteran engineer on the Kansas Oklahoma railroad stopped his train at a station to look at a robin s nest on the engine while officials in a motor scooter failed to see the train had halted because of weed overgrowth and struck the engine head on. The only casualties were robin s eggs knocked from the engine by the impact
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Hugoton
San
J. L. Hodges
Kansas-Oklahoma
Deers First Trip to Civilization Ends in Tragedy
A young buck deer ventured into civilization in Troy New York and was struck by an auto after leaping fences and appearing in a yard. The animal died at the scene and no one knows its origin or destination.
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Troy
N. Y
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Granada
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Elmo Scott Watson
Republic of
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Bay of
Vaca de Monte
Mexico
California
Union
Oregon
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Col
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Philadelphia
San Juan River
J. J. Abert
W. Turnbull
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Gen
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C. P. Patterson
Coast Survey
Daniel Ammen
Bureau of Navigation
United States Navy
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Suez Canal
Gulf of Limon
Bay of Panama
de Lesseps
Western Newspaper Union
Zajor Dan Lf
Sultai
Grey Town Harbor
AL Cranada
U. S
Norway
Hoffman Philip
Washington, D. C
Persia
U.S
U. S. S. Arkansas
Kiel Harbor
Schleswig-Holstein
W. T. Cluverius
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Robin
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