Singapore the British Empire's Key Naval Base in the Orient
National Geographic sketches Singapore as a strategic hub guarding British sea power in the East. The article notes Singapore as a free port handling global trade, with docks expanding for battleships, a multiethnic population, and a history rooted in Raffles founding and the 1819 free trade treaty.
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Singapore
United States Navy
Orient
United States
Great Britain
Gibraltar
Old City
Raffles Hotel
Raffles Square
Stamford Raffles
Netherlands
Indies
Raffles
Sultan Husain
India
Singhapura
China
Do Not Congratulate Bride Etiquette Reminder
A guest notes etiquette requires avoiding congratulating the bride while instead offering best wishes to the groom. The piece emphasizes careful social grace and proper form in wedding congratulations.
Navy weighs use of 18 inch guns in future ships
Washington speculation grows that the United States might equip battleships with an 18 inch gun. Officials note the weapon exists on paper, with tests of efficiency ongoing, though its mass and recoil would require heavier turrets and sacrifice of other armament.
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NAVY
Washington
United States
Colorado
West Virginia
Maryland
California
Tennessee
Arizona
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Nevada
General Custer Sleigh to Join Fort Leavenworth Museum
General Custer sleigh will become part of a Fort Leavenworth museum display illustrating Middle West growth. The collection includes pre Civil War coaches prairie schooners and relics housed in the red brick sutler store building. Lincoln carriage sleighs of Custer Miles and a Grant era carriage are among items.
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Germany
Austria
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Middle West
Post Exchange
F. Gilbreath
Command and General Staff School
Charles M. Bundel
War Department
President Lincoln
George A. Custer
Nelson A. Miles
President Grant
Coins Found Buried During Aberdeen Foundation Dig
A workman excavating for a house foundation in Aberdeen uncovered a jar containing 200 silver pennies from the reign of Henry III. The coins are believed to have been buried by a merchant during fears of an Edward I invasion.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Henry III
Edward I
Rail Passes Valued at 22 Million Dollars Annually
The Interstate Commerce Commission estimates railroads give about 22 million dollars worth of free passes each year. In the first half of 1937 large railroads issued 3,204,968 passes, totaling 601 million passenger miles and worth 11,333,734 dollars. Free rides thus represent roughly 5.36 percent of passenger revenues.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Former Emperor Selassie Struggles with Heat and Housing
London reports Haile Selassie former emperor of Abyssinia is too poor to heat his Bath Somersetshire home. He lives with 22 family members and servants in an 18 room house lacking central heating, using two feeble fires in his study and nursery. He hopes to reduce size and board out servants as income is nonexistent.
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London
Haile Selassie
Abyssinia
Bath
Somersetshire
Hailie Selassie
Selassie
Telephone Panhandler Harvests Riches in Quebec
A Quebec woman posing as a charity worker bilked money coal clothing and fur from donors over several weeks by contacting philanthropists and providing her own address while claiming to aid a worthy destitute family.
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Quebec
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Chinese Boat Colony
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Straits Settlements
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Morocco
Java
Australia
Canada
Africa
Japan
Philippines
Europe
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Siam
Sir Stamford Raffles
Hitler
Hitler Youth Organization of
Vienna
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Kurt Schuschnigg
Czechoslovakia
Edouard Benes
Center
Lights of
L. L. Stevenson
George M. Cohan
West Fifty Second Street
Austin Marshall
Marshall
University of Pennsylvania
Joralemon
Austin
American Legion
Bill
University of Texas
Michael
Mickey) MacDougall
Mickey
Phillips Lord
Bob Stanley
Stanley
Mroczek
Barnum and Bailey
Stanley Mroczek
Nino Martini
The
Opera and Screen
America
Anne Stacke Crozier
Dallas
Texas
Sydney Porter
O. Henry
Wilfred Pelletier
Metropolitan Opera
Bell Syndicate
WNU
General Custer
Telephone Panhandler
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