Nevada camps revive as gold rush spreads across state
Nevada mining towns from Virginia City to Goldfield see renewed gold output as silver prices fall. Fireball camp in Pershing county yields ore samples of 257 ounces of gold and 128 ounces of silver per ton. Mentions scossas Rabb it Hole finds and round mountain as thriving camps with worker totals.
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Nev
Nevada
Virginia City
Tonopah
Goldfield
Fireball Camp
Pershing County
Charley
Jim Scossa
Rabbit Hole
Lovelock
Ants Nest Blocked San Diego Phone Service
Secretary Allan Perry of the city planning commission found ants had built a nest around the telephone bell and clapper, stopping all ringing as frustration grew over missed calls in San Diego.
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San Diego
Calif
Allan Perry
City Planning Commission
Trio of Indian Tribes End Centuries-Old Feud at Powwow
Seminole chief Chili Fish and Sac and Fox chieftains met at a Great Plains powwow in Seminole Oklahoma where more than 5000 Indians gathered to bid for peace. Ambushes and bitterness from the feud faded as the two tribes shared bread at the barbecue spits.
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Okla
Shrinking Soldier's Home Patient Suffers Rare Ailment
Nine years at the Sawtelle Soldier's Home see Joe Mayott shrink from five seven to four feet nine inches due to osteitis deformans. A former heavy timber carpenter who fought in Panama and the Philippines, he now knits scarves and recalls building a town in Chili.
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Joseph
Joe
Chili
Air Transport Head Named President of United Airlines
P. G. Johnson of Seattle has been named president of the newly formed United Airlines created by the merger of National Air Transport Boeing Air Transport Pacific Air Transport and Varney Airlines. The merged firms operate about 120 planes and fly roughly twelve million miles yearly while handling about 60 percent of the nation's air mail.
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P. G. Johnson
Seattle
Wash
United Airlines
National Air Transport
Boeing Air Transport
Pacific Air Transport
Varney Airlines
First Rocket Airdrome Opens Near Berlin
The world’s first rocket airdrome near Berlin opens on a mile and a half square tract with laboratories and workshops. It serves as an experimental station where engineers test flight methods to enable mail to America within six hours.
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Berlin
Amerea
First Flight At 103 In Autogiro Flight
Miss Mary C Hartman of Philadelphia flew in the cockpit of an autogiro plane for her first airplane flight. She celebrated her 103rd birthday by going aloft in this new type commercial plane flown by Guy Miller.
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Mary C. Hartman
Philadelphia
Guy Miller
Scotchman Sets New Municipal Election Expense Record
Inglis Milton, candidate in Glasgow park ward, reports expenses of 2.16 pounds in the recent election. He says no election address was published and no public meetings held. Milton polled 246 votes. Victor D. Warren won the seat with a 3,502 vote margin. Warren’s expense records are not yet public.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Inglis Milton
Park
Milton
Victor D. Warren
Warren
Russian Nurses Debating Flag Delays Year Book
Plans for a 1931 year book for nurses at the American hospital of Paris stalled as White Russian students could not agree on which Russian flag to display. With Swedish American and Canadian flags already included, organizers postponed printing until a flag choice is resolved.
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Paris
France
Russia
Lenin and
Trotzky
Egyptian envoy Sidarouss Pasha at Washington legation
Sesostris Sidarouss Pasha, newly named Egyptian minister to the United States, is photographed at his desk in the Washington legation awaiting official duties.
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Sesostris Sidarouss Pasha
United States
Legation
Washington
Mounties Get New Leader Maj. Gen. MacBrien Takes Command
Maj. Gen. J. H. MacBrien, once Canada’s chief of staff, has assumed command of the North West Mounted Police. He began his military career as a constable in the Mounties.
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J. H. MacBrien
Canada
Northwest Mounted Police
Mounties
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