Turkey Plans On Big Farms
Constantinople reports the Turkish republic is embarking on large scale agriculture. Reforms end feudal landholding and taxes, distribute land to peasants, and establish 18 agricultural schools. President Kemal runs an experimental farm near Angora as the drive for tobacco, cotton, sugar, and wheat intensifies.
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Constantinople
Bureau of Education
Europe
America
Department of “Agriculture
Turkey
Kemal
Angora
Patrolmen Rescue Woman From Icy Hudson River
A 55 year old woman Mary Regan leaped from the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western ferry slip into the Hudson river. An unidentified young man dove to save her. Patrolmen Morrison and Young extended a ladder and hauled both to shore. The rescuer vanished before identification. Regan was taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.
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New York
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Twenty-third Street
Hudson River
Young
Morrison
Mary Regan
Bellevue Hospital
Hair Loss Strikes Young Men in Kittanning Pa
In Kittanning Pennsylvania a strange illness is rapidly causing baldness among young men. Local doctors reported at a meeting that they had received over 800 treatment applications from men aged nineteen to thirty in the past two weeks.
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Kittanning
Faithful animals freed after 13 days in mine tomb
In Bellaire Ohio three horses and a mule were rescued after 13 days buried in the Webb mine while rescuers recovered nine miners killed in an explosion. The animals endured without food or water and were brought outside for fresh air and nourishment amid town rejoicing.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Webb
Likin Tax in China Seen as Modern Dragon of Trade
National Geographic bulletin notes the likin tax as China's major barrier to foreign trade. It traces likin to 1850, its use to fund regional armies, and calls for abolition in exchange for freer Chinese tariffs, warning of provincial officials exploiting transit levies.
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Washington
China
Bulletin
The
National Geographic Society
D. C
United States
Union
Peking
George Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Franklin
Philadelphia
Shanghai
Soochow
New York-Philadelphia
New York
Hoboken
Newark
Elizabeth
New Brunswick
Princeton
Trenton
Germany
Indians Break Rule as Utes Mourn Sullivan Death
Durango Colorado reports attorney Barry Sullivan a Harvard graduate and longtime lawyer to the Ute tribes and his wife died in a car crash near Durango. The Ute tribes held an unprecedented public funeral in full war regalia, attending both services and gravesides.
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Durango
Colo
Barry Sullivan
Marvard Law
Colorado
Sullivan
Utah
Stray Dog Discovers Oil in Abandoned Well
In Muskogee Oklahoma on the Katherine Lee Oil company lease a stray dog sparked a discovery by uncovering a 10 inch casing full of oil in a well that had been plugged for 11 years. W R Sommerville said the well contains 1425 feet of oil and will be equipped for pumping. The dog disappeared with a promised reward.
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Muskogee
Okla
Katherine Lee Oil Company
W. R. Sommerville
Ocean film hunter probes Florida coral grottos underwater
Dr. Paul Bartsch of the United States National Museum filmed hundreds of feet of submarine life off the Florida coast using a waterproof camera. He spent hours 20 feet below the surface, noting abundant coral and small organisms feeding in shallow depths. He plans deeper dives with a new camera to capture slow moving fish. Sharks appear but are deemed harmless. he faced a barracuda threat but later secured footage of two circling barracudas.
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Washington
Paul Bartsch
United States National Museum
Florida
Doctor Bartsch
Horse in Roosevelt Statue Draws Mixed Criticism in Portland
Oswald West, ex governor and horse enthusiast, criticizes Roosevelt statue mount as ill chosen though not unartistic. Support comes from horse experts like Natt McDougall of the Portland Hunt Club who find the five gaited horse unsuitable for Roosevelt’s strenuous horsemanship.
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Portland
Ore
Oswald West
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Waldo Coe
A. Phimister Proctor
West
Roosevelt
Soldier Lives Only by Being Cut Into Pieces
In Lausanne a hospital team slowly dismembers Albert Froideaux forty six a former French Foreign Legion soldier to save his life Symmetric gangrene has cost him fingers toes hands feet legs and arms He clings to life though doctors deem the disease incurable and say he will live until his vital organs are attacked.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Albert Froideaux
French Foreign Legion
Artificial Fog Used to Shield Crops from Frost
A fog developed by Scandinavian scientist Prof. A. V. Jernberg, once for military use, is tested in Norway to protect crops from frost. The American Chemical Society received word from a correspondent in Horten. Brick manufacturers also consider using the fog in drying houses to combat frost damage.
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New York
A. V. Jernberg
Norway
American Chemical Society
Horten
Cody diamond said to belong to Buffalo Bill vanishes in Colorado
The Cody diamond once said to be a gift from a European monarch to Col. William F. Cody disappeared from a Greeley setting. An appraisal by S. J. Loney, county treasurer’s office collector, found the six and one half carat gem to be only a glass substitute. The gem had been kept in a bank safety deposit box since Cody Boal, nephew of Buffalo Bill, pledged it as loan security years ago.
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Cody Boal
America Has No National Dance Says National Geographic
A Washington National Geographic bulletin notes there is no universally recognized national dance in America and surveys global dances from Virginia reel to polka, tarantella, and Indian nautch, linking early Egyptian star dances to Greek chorus and Roman heritage.
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America
Washington
National Geographic Society
Bulletin
Hawaii
Egypt
Livingstone
Africa
Naples
Dances Through History From Turmoil to Turf
A survey traces origins of dances from tarantula cures to morra based guessing and notes the Turkish whirling dervishes once practiced before bans. It covers Irish jigs hornpipes Ceylon devils dances and animal mimicking steps from Australia Africa and the Americas with sword and ceremonial dances testing guest nerve.
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Asia Minor
England
Ireland
Britain
Ceylon
Turkey
Africa
Fiji Islands
East Africa
Hosta
Lived Happily Until He Inherited Money
In Suffolk Probate Court Edith M. Piper sues Fred W. Piper for separate support claiming they lived happily after their 1904 marriage until 1920 when he inherited 180 494 dollars on his father’s death. She says his inheritance altered their life and he cut her charges in 1922, leaving her in need.
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Boston
Suffolk
Dolan
Edith M. Piper
Fred W. Piper
Piper
California
Delinquency Prevention Clinics Show School Progress
A Commonwealth Fund report highlights child guidance clinics in Philadelphia and Cleveland plus demonstrations in five other cities. It notes clinics in St. Louis Dallas Minneapolis St Paul Los Angeles Memphis and Richmond offering physical psychological and psychiatric exams and welfare support to help difficult children become happier more normal students.
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New York
Joint Committee On
National Committee For Mental Hygiene
Philadelphia
Cleveland
St. Louis
Dallas
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Los Angeles
Memphis
Richmond
Wooster College Lets Old Time Dancing Return
The faculty of Wooster College ends years of opposition and permits the old time dancing style on campus.
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Wooster
Ohio
Wooster College
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Jack Hill
Peter Horn
Kanawake Reservation
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Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Commonwealth Fund
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