World’s Best Crime Chaser Bayle Redefines Detection
Edmond Bayle, a small quiet chemist and chief of Paris police tech bureau, dominates French crime work with chemistry and photography. He stresses material traces over psychology, using spectroscopes, microscopes, and dozens of ray machines to solve cases, while acknowledging gloves fail to hide fingerprints.
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Partis
France
Edmond Bayle
Palais de Justice
Alphone Bertillion
Doctor Bayle
Paris
Republic
Police Department
New York City
Bayle
Radio Delights Isolated People Reach Through Wireless
In Grand Marais Minnesota a community wireless receiver, funded by local subscription, brings together diverse residents from Scandinavian to Indian to enjoy a single singing voice. A skeptical Indian tests belief but stays enthralled as the crowd gathers by the fire to listen to the mysterious box.
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Duluth
Minn
Grand Marais
Lake Superior
Nebraska News in Brief From Across the State
Wide range of notices from Nebraska includes West Point paving plans and an Omaha millers’ meeting, postmaster shifts at Ansley, hunting accidents in Beatrice and Sprague, a transmission line near Doris, and new English instructor at Wymore. Also reported are land sales near Blair, alien language classes in Scottsbluff, tax proposals by the Nebraska Taxpayers League, a cigarette tax bill by Rep. Ed Smith, a Kearney Holstein sale, and various civic and sporting items.
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West Point
State Millers’ Association
Omaha
Wilber Alexander
Ansley
C. W. Harris
Oliver Register
Beatrice
Doris
Dana College
Blair
Axel Axelson
Scottsbluff
Nebraska Taxpayers’ League
Ed Smith
Nebraska
Kearney
Charles D. Robinson
D. B Cropsey
Columbus Patton
George Washington
Patton
C. H. Green
Fremont
Nebraska Florists’ Association
Charles Pass
North Platte
Grover C. May
York
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union
Omaha Grain Exchange
National Cooperative Company
Horace W. George
Globe Trotter
Custer County
San Francisco
Orient
George
Platte River
Elm Creek
United States
Beatrice Montgomery
Creighton University
Nebraska State Historical Society
Lincoln
H. B. Lowrey
Michael Shine
W. EE. Hardy
James’ ¥. Hansen
Rudolph Kasper
Ravenna
Central Nebraska Poultry Association
Eva van Hautan
Delta Sigma Delta
Geneva
Chicago
University College of Medicine
Dean Cutter
Arthur Dizon
Keya Paha
Vern Stark
Ord
Clarks
Central City
Orchard
Graff
State Board of Agriculture
Richard Dressen
Walworth
Norman Walt
Walt
Walt Homse
J. N. Campbell
Nebraska Millers’ Association
Eddward Noyes
Valley
Douglas County Corn Club
University College of Agriculture
Union Pacific
Masonic Hall
Collins Dry Goods
Republican City
Henrietta Owens
Royal Neighbors of America
Beatrice Hospital
Graf
Shubert
A. C. Hasenyager
Pawnee City
Lodgepole Valley
Cheyenne County
Lodgepole Creek
H. J. McLaughlin
Doniphan
Midwest and
Iowa Concrete Association
Cherry County
Boardman Valley
Valentine
J. W. Steinhart
Nebraska City
Nebraska Manufacturers Association
Thomas Remmers
Filler
Virginia
David Neill
U. of N. Agricultural College
Josiah Miner
Friend
State Historical Society
Dutch Colonial House Design Attracts Home Builders
A feature on Dutch Colonial home design highlights charm and appeal. William A. Radford offers expert advice to readers, detailing a six room plan with a central hall, sun porch, large living room, rear porch, built in kitchen features, and brick exterior.
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William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Ill
Early marriages fail as Kansas City Burch family splits
In Kansas City Kansas, the Burch family story challenges early matrimony. Goldie 13 and John 16 wed young. Goldie seeks a divorce while John sues for separation. Telessie 15 and Pearl 14 found happiness, but the pattern harms younger siblings' plans.
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Kansas City
Kan
Burch
Burel
Goldie
John
Michael
Rhoda
Jerry Hines
Flossie
Pearl
Evades Poorhouse by Dying in Patchogue
Joseph Vercento aged 106 dies before a visit by Suffolk county overseer of the poor to move him and his 96 year old wife to the almshouse. The family had faced years of poverty with son Joseph Jr. supporting them on small wages and local charity volunteers offering further aid.
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Patchogue
L. 1
Joseph Vercento
Suffolk County Almshouse
Joseph Vercento, Jr
West Hempstead
A. ©. Still
Vercento
Still
Moslems Invited to Adopt Rebuilding of Constantinople
The Constantinople correspondent of the London Daily Mail reports Gen Rafet Pasha, governor of the city, invited about one hundred wealthy Moslems to visit and propose that each adopt a portion of the rebuilding effort in Constantinople.
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London
Constantinople
Rafet Pasha
London Daily Mail
John assigns fault to wife's kin for marital troubles
A man named John blames his wife's relatives for the problems in his marriage, while his wife continues to live with her husband despite the strain.
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John
Seedless Fameuse Apple Discovered at Abbotsford
At the Quebec fall meeting of the Pomological and Fruit Growing Society the Abbotsford seedless and careless Fameuse apple variety was announced. Prof. I C Sears of the Massachusetts College of Agriculture examined the fruit and deemed its repeatable production possible by grafts. The discovery was accidental and the exhibitor did not know of its development.
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Montreal
Que
Quebec
Abbotsford
I. C. Sears
Massachusetts College of Agriculture
Castor Oil Punishment Claimed for Communist Chiefs
Reports from Ventimiglia state Communist leaders at San Remo Pigna and Alassio were arrested by Fascisti who forced them to swallow a strong dose of castor oil before release.
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Nice
Italy
Ventimiglia
Eclaireur de
San Remo
Pigna
Alassio
Fascisti
Rich Men Agree to Rebuild Asia Minor Village
A war ruins reconstruction plan sees wealthy financiers pledge support to restore an Asia Minor village. The project aims to revive homes and livelihoods, signaling postwar recovery efforts in the region.
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Asia Minor
Goose raids hit 51 Hanover villages during Christmas
A gang of goose thieves raided 51 villages in the State of Hanover just before Christmas. Hundreds of geese have disappeared as a result. A combined police and civilian effort is now tracing the culprits.
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Berlin
Hanover
Fox Scent Abilities Noted In Animal Study
A fox's keen sense of smell can detect a human from about a quarter mile away. Researchers highlight the Fox's tracking ability and its implications for wildlife monitoring.
Stevenson’s Roads as Civilizing Gifts to Future Generations
The text recalls Robert Louis Stevenson urging Samoan chiefs to build roads, sow fields, plant trees, and educate children for the common good. He emphasizes roads endure, attract traffic, enable repairs, and may last for generations, inspiring future descendants to remember and bless the builders.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Tusitala
Beaver and the Deer Scarcity Explained by Beavers
B H Jones of Stratton a noted guide offers a reason for deer scarcity in once plentiful areas. He attributes it to beavers building dams that flood swamps kill evergreens and push deer from their winter homes. Portland Press Herald reports.
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B. H. Jones
Stratton
Portland Press-Herald
River Po's Sediment Converts Seaport to Inland Town
The Po River in Italy carries heavy sediment causing land to shift inland rapidly. A town once a seaport is now nearly twenty miles from the current shoreline, illustrating dramatic geographic change over time.
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Italy
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Arsere Lupin
Rafe
Community Wireless
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O. B. Barker
Brush, Colo
Wymore
George W. Norris, of
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Echal
FRONT
Trinity
Trinity College
Hartford
Conn
Stimpson Hubbard
Brooklyn
N. Y
William S. Hubbard
R. B. Ogilby
Burches
Long Island
Stevenson
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