Lost Pueblo Grande City Unearthed In Nevada Excavations
Archaeologists led by M. R. Harrington uncover a vast ancient Pueblo Grande in Nevada eight miles wide and thirty five miles long dating 2000 to 2500 years. The giants buried under house floors. artifacts include shell jewelry pottery and early gambling dice.
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St. Thomas
Nev
Cleopatra
Mark Antony
Nevada
Pueblo Grande
Greece
Museum of the American Indian
M. R. Harrington
America
Mr. Harrington
Hemisphere
Harrington
Tut
New York
Heye
Smokeless City Realization Through University Experiments
University of Illinois researchers led by Prof. B. W. Parr report progress on a semi commercial smokeless fuel process. Car bonized Illinois coal yields coke and valuable by products such as rich gas tar light oils and ammonia. Experiments at the engineering experiment station involve domestic furnaces and a local gas to test practicality.
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Urbana
University of Illinois
8. W. Parr
Parr
Illinois
Engineering Experiment Station
T. E. Layng
Department of Chemistry
Fuel
Enduring Brilliance: Alderson Fry Overcomes Loss at Marshall College
Alderson Fry, twenty, a top Marshall College student at Princeton West Virginia, has averaged ten hours of sleep weekly for five years after losing his feet in a railroad accident. He remains alert, leads college life as a swimming team member, cheerleader, and college paper manager.
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Alderson Fry
Marshall College
Princeton
W. Va
Fry
Cross W ord Puzzle Adapted for Japanese Kana System
A Tokyo born English daily printed American cross word puzzles for foreigners, then Robert Alexander adapted the concept to Japanese Kata Kana. The puzzle uses forty six kana phonetic characters, simpler than Chinese characters, and could be solved by Japanese without English if adopted by local papers.
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Japan
Tokyo
Robert Alexander
Acid Shampoo Burns Young Woman in Columbus Parlor
Miss Irma Wagner of 587 Hamlet Street is hospitalized at Mercy with severe burns after a beauty parlor employee accidentally poured acid instead of shampoo during a head treatment. Hospital attaches report the incident occurred during a shampoo procedure.
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Columbus
Ohio
Irma Wagner
Hamlet Street
Mercy Hospital
Dock to Malta for service of major ships
A job has been found for the former German floating dock which has berthed in the Mersey since delivery under the peace treaty. The Admiralty will send it to Malta to service the capital ships of the Mediterranean fleet.
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London
England
Mersey
Admiralty
Malta
Monster Cat Banger Maine Record
A Maine cat owned by Mrs. Lillian Dodge is believed to be one of the largest in New England. The animal has been in the family for six years and weighs 30 pounds.
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Banger
Maine
Lillian Dodge
New England
Child Brides in the United States Revealed by Study
The Russell Sage Foundation reports that over 667000 people in the U S are or have been married under sixteen years old. It cites laws allowing marriage at 12 for girls and fourteen for boys in many states and notes public apathy and weak age evidence in license offices.
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New York
United States
Foundation
Mary F. Richmond
Miss Richmond
Fred S. Hall
Leagues of Women
Honor Memory of Last of Hawaii's Royal Line
The birthplace of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, last titular Hawaii monarch member and long serving territorial delegate, will be restored to its state from fifty years ago and opened as a weekend vacation spot for the Order of Kamehameha. At Kuwalu, Koloa, Kaul Island the site preserves a wide eighty foot stone seating area once used for royal dances and games.
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Honolulu
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole
Hawaii
Congress
Order of Kamehameha
Kuwalu
Koloa
Kaul
Yanks Find Tomb Older Than Tut's
Harvard Egyptologist Dr. George A Reisner and Alan Rowe report a new Giza tomb dated to about 3000 B C making it 1700 years older than Tutankhamun’s. The tomb near Cheops pyramid contains an alabaster sarcophagus with Nebu Seneru inscriptions and gold fittings.
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Tut
Boston
George A. Reisner
Harvard
Harvard university-Boston Museum of
Reisner
Harvard-Boston
Giza
Seneferu
Cheops
Nebu-Seneferu
Rubber Thrives in Philippines Says Agriculture Agent
Manila reports A W Prautch, from the Department of Agriculture, concludes Para rubber trees will flourish in Luzon’s typhoon belt after an extended trip through Camarines and Albay. He notes 40 000 seeds from Singapore, many large trees, and shows rubber withstands strong winds, thriving where abaca grows.
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Manila
Luzon
A. W. Prautch
Department of Agriculture
Alimy
Camsyines Sur
Para
Singapore
Philippine Islands
Camarines
Albay
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Europe
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New Mexico
Herbert Barnett
Wichita
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BE. S. Edgerton
Illinois University
U.S
Sage Foundation
PH. EE
Louise Wise Lewis
Henry M. Flagler
Lawrence Lewis
Heller
Edmund Heller
Mammal Division
The
Field Museum
Chicago
Belgian Congo
Ituri
Professor Heller
Philippines
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