Pan American Road Nearer to Realization
Congress appropriated 1,000,000 to enable U S cooperation with Latin American nations on surveying and constructing the Pan American highway. An additional 75,000 funds reconnaissance surveys in Central and South America as the project moves toward a Alaska to Argentina link.
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Washington
Congress
United States
Americas
Central
South America
Asia
Danube
Europe
America
Rio Grande
Panama
National Geographic Society
Alaska
Argentina
Latin America
Mexico
Nada
Costa Rica
el Salvador
Guatemala
Colombia
Ecuador
Brazil
Central America
Hot Springs Girl Prodigy Janet Grant Invited to Washington
Janet Grant eight of Hot Springs Ark hailed as a child prodigy has been invited to appear in recital in Washington by the International Art Forum. She began music at four and a half playing Beethoven and at five mastered Bach. She plays both violin and piano with remarkable technique.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Janet Grant
Washington
International Art Forum
Janet
South American road surveys to guide future development
Adequate highways linking with current short water hauls will remedy deficiencies in a region dominated by agriculture and lumbering with undeveloped forests and mining potential. With funds from Congress, a location survey up to Panama and a reconnaissance survey to Argentina will be conducted to guide future road-building programs across the continent.
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Congress
Panama
Argentina
South America
Finishes His Fiftieth Reading of the Bible in Yonkers
Dr. William Woodward osteopath and bookseller marks his fiftieth reading of the Bible and seventy seventh birthday in New York. He began in 1873 as a Newton Theological student and has read from cover to cover multiple times, sometimes in as few as 18 days.
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New York
William Woodward
Yonkers
Doctor Woodward
Newton Theological Institution
New York City
Woodward
The
Charleston News
Encyclopedia Americana
Prehistoric House Sites Along Missouri Studied
Lincoln Nebraska experts led by Dr. Earl H. Bell from the University of Nebraska along with five assistants spend two and a half months near Wynot Nebraska to study seventy five ancient habitation remains. They seek clues to tribal origins of Prairie roving peoples centuries before Europeans arrived. Bell found the sites on an un plowed bluff overlooking the Missouri river where depressions are two to three feet deep and as wide as sixty feet.
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Lincoln
Neb
Midwest
Earl H. Bell
University of Nebraska
Wynot
Doctor Bell
Missouri River
California Silver Mine Turns to Gold at Kelly Mine
Randsburg California reports the Kelly silver mine, after a decade of silver output totaling 16 million dollars, is now yielding gold ore valued at 30 to 600 dollars a ton. General manager H F Royer notes the transition marks a rare achievement in the United States. The mine began in 1919 after years of exploration on rich silver outcrops. The first ore shipment prompted doubt from the smelter company regarding its value.
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Randsburg
Calif
United States
Kelly
H. F. Royer
Richest Silver Ore Shipment Fueled by Cheap Capital
The ore shipped averaged 300 to 500 dollars per ton, with a shaft yielding 300 thousand dollars as the richest ore sent to smelters. This development was funded entirely by 2500 dollars of outside capital and the mine itself.
Government decree restricts gold sales to state bank
The government orders all gold mined in Brazil to be bought by Banco do Brazil for the national treasury, at market quotation. Miners must file monthly memos on extraction and stock. private sales are forbidden and violators face heavy fines and imprisonment.
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Rio de Janeiro
Banco Do Brazil
World Trade Rises in 1933 Reports Geneva League
League of Nations statistics show world trade improved in 1933 after a low mood. Volume edged up from 1932 as raw materials rose about 8 percent and manufactured goods slightly under 2 percent. Foodstuff trade fell 8 percent due to higher self sufficiency.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Parts of Ancient Motor Aid Farm Work in Temple Texas
Frank Beverly a Killeen farmer uses auto parts as windmill and machinery on his Texas farm. A generator charges six batteries powering home outhouses lights. Belts drive washing machine, a saw, and a threshing machine from the motor based windmill.
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Temple
Texas
Frank Beverly
Beverly
Junior Champion Jed Haas Jr Wins Western Junior Title
Jed Haas Jr of New Orleans is pictured with the trophy after winning the western junior amateur golf tournament at the Hinsdale Club in Chicago.
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Jed Haas, Jr
New Orleans
Hinsdale Club
Chicago
Water on an Oasis
Water in an oasis is a spring at the surface that makes desert flora possible. The oasis’s presence enables grass and plants to grow where otherwise nothing would.
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Oasis
Desert
First Adhesive Stamps Sold in New York 1847
The first adhesive postage stamps in the United States went on sale at the New York post office on July 1, 1847. Sting rays of South America lurk in mud and sting fishermen who accidentally tread on them.
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New York
South America
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Central American
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Caribbean
Stratosphere Records
Albert W. Stevens
London
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California
Endeavor
T. O. M. Sopwith
Newport
R. I
Reichswehr
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Staten Island
United States Army Reserve
Miller Field
Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Stanford University
Otis Barton
William Beebe
Nonesuch Island
Bermudas
el Centro
Imperial Valley
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