Touring World With Corn Crop
The National Geographic bulletin explains corn’s global meaning and varieties from maize to pop corn. It covers corn’s status as a grass, its role in agriculture worldwide, and notes on Kaffir corn broom corn and Burmese uses for corn husks in cheroot wrapping.
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Washington
United States
America
D. C
National Geographic Society
England
New World
Asia
Europe
New Zealand
Portugal
Spain
France
Italy
Yugoslavia
Rumania
Burma
Aurora Powers Telegraphs From Pittsfield to Springfield
Electricity from the aurora borealis lit the night sky over Pittsfield and sent telegraphs fifty miles to Springfield without any battery use.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Springfield
Paris Patents Sought For New Steps By Masters
Paris reports that prominent French dancing masters are pursuing patents for innovative dance steps. The initiative hints at formalizing new movements and expanding stage technique, with likeliest impact on modern dance and ballroom repertoires.
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Paris
Unique Monument Honors Declaration Signing Near Park Street Church
A 13 foot high monument on Boston Common commemorates the Declaration of Independence. One side bears a bronze bas-relief by John F. Paramino after Trumbull, showing colonial representatives pledging their lives fortunes and sacred honor. The opposite side copies the original declaration with signatures.
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Park Street Church
Boston Common
John F. Paramino
Trumbull
Gas Danger Forces Defiant Tenants Out London
Courts uphold government in displacing tenants of 16 adjoining houses near a gas factory at St Helen's Lancashire. War Office conducts poison gas experiments and owns both factory and houses. Tenants refused to move fearing accommodation loss. court ruled rent restriction act did not bind government actions.
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London
St. Helen’s
Lancashire
War Office
Vanderbilt Bills Newport on Dead Hens
William Vanderbilt collected $30 from the city of Newport under a colonial law for 15 hens killed by a dog at Oakland farm in Portsmouth. Newport's aldermen approved the payment, continuing a statute Newport lawmakers have long sought to repeal.
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Newport
R. I
Rhode Island
William H. Vanderbilt
Oakland Farm
Portsmouth
General Assembly
Vanderbilt
Board of Aldermen
Exaggeration of Indian Attacks in West Is Debunked
Historian Prof Archer Hulbert argues fiction overstated Indian assaults on immigrant trains along the Oregon Trail. He maps six major trails and notes that natural dangers and terrain, not Native attacks, caused most hardships for pioneers between 1842 and 1850.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Oregon Trail
Archer H. Hulbert
Commission On Western History
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Carson River
Nevada
Oregon
End
Novelists Punished in Madrid For Obscene Books
Alvaror Retan and Juan Caballero, noted novelists, were fined jailed and deprived of civil rights for 11 years over books deemed offensive to modesty. Authorities in Madrid cited offenses against public morals and ordered confiscation of the works involved.
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Madrid
Alvaror Retan
Juan Caballero
To Beautify "Bat" Rochester Minn Bat Nelson
Rochester notes Bat Nelson aims to beautify the city park with volunteers and local groups. The effort centers on landscaping cleanup and community pride during spring cleanup drives.
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Rochester
Minn
Nelson
Turtle Farm of a Doughboy Aims for High End Tastes
Hans Johnson, a World War I doughboy from Fertile Iowa, started a turtle farm after a Monte Carlo dining experience showed wealthy patrons would pay large sums for turtle broth. By 1920 he released 500 snapping turtles and created a hybrid stock aimed at supplying eggs, breeding stock, oil, and high end hotel tables. Today about 20,000 turtles occupy ten acres of boggy river bottom, with minimal infrastructure and three stone dams marking his ponds.
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Fertile
Iowa
Europe
Hans Johnson
America
Johnson
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Monte Carlo
Grande Cafe
Casino
Flute Audience Drowns Berlin Opera in Whistling Parade
In Berlin the audience at the Prussian state opera house used hollow keys as whistles to vent dissatisfaction during a jazz classical symphony by English composer Lord Berner. The noise eclipsed the performance and drew protests from cultural observers.
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Berlin
Lord Berner
Inventor Claims Scratch Resistant Aluminum Alloys
Berlin reports B Jirotka a German electrical engineer demonstrates a method for alloying aluminum with over a dozen metals. The alloys reportedly resist scratches and have built in color and finish for automobile bodies. Metals bonded include copper manganese cobalt zinc lead chromium tin gold silver and nickel.
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Berlin
B. Jirotka
Gershan Institute of Chemical Technology
Herr Jirotka
Clever Dog Chinook Aids Owner in Derby Tragedy
In Portland Maine Chinook the clever dog woke his master Arthur T Walden by tugging at the bedclothes. The dog’s son Koltag a teammate in a dog derby was found strangling from a tangling chain at the stables.
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Portland
Maine
Chinook
Arthur T. Walden
Walden
Koltag
Belfort City Hopes to Boost Births With Payments
Belfort city council aims to raise the birth rate by offering 300 francs on the birth of the third child and 100 francs for each subsequent birth. The plan seeks to encourage larger families in the community.
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Belfort
France
Judge Uses Movie Film to Decide Custody
In Detroit Judge Vin cent M. Brennan considered whether to award a three year old girl to her natural mother Julia Przybyla or foster mother Irene Goosen. He planned to use a moving picture of their reactions to determine which claimant showed the most grief and thus obtain custody, with the child to be placed in an institution. Goosen cried as she embraced the child. Przybyla showed no reaction.
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Detroit
Mich
Vincent M. Brennan
Brennan
Julia Przbyla
Irene
Irene Goosen
Przybyla
Triplets Thrive on Spaghetti in N J Family
Fourteen month old triplets Frances Jake and Fanny Ferrells shown healthy and gaining weight after doctors doubted they would live. Frances and Jake walk, Fanny learns to walk with weight as a handicap. New York visit with uncle and aunt Costa.
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Hoboken
N. J
Fanny
Frances
Jake Ferrett
Jake
Frank Ferrers
New York City
Calvatore Costa
Lower Manhattan
Must Keep Her Hair Mrs Morris Wallach Faces Dilemma
Mrs Morris Wallach of New York City may have the longest hair in the eastern states and wishes to bob it to ease care. Her husband, Mr Wallach, opposes cutting the hair, valuing its length and appearance.
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Morris Wallach
New York City
Mr. Wallach
Luther's Birth Cottage Becomes Church Property
A Lisleben cottage where Martin Luther was born in 1483, long kept by the city with Prussian funds since 1817, has been transferred to the Evangelical church. The city also votes to rename Eisleben to Lutherstadt to honor the birthplace and preserve the historic site.
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Berlin
Lisleben
Martin Luther
Evangelical Church
Lutherstadt
Eisleben
Diet Tests to Find Teeth Decay Cause
Johns Hopkins specialists in Baltimore are conducting experiments that may influence breakfast habits nationwide. Dr. Clarence J. Grieves reports diet as a major decay factor but the essential chemical or agency triggering enamel breakdown remains unknown.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins
Clarence J. Grieves
Crowns and Jewels Draw Massive Crowds in Soviet Display
Moscow reports thousands of workers and peasants visiting the Soviet trade union house to view the crown jewels of the Romanoffs, now public property in the Soviet Republic. The $250 million collection, guarded by soldiers, includes the imperial crown, Alexandra’s coronet, the Orloff scepter, and the Shah diamond. Admission is $1 for the public, 25 cents for union members.
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Moscow
Club of the Nobles
Alexandra
Orloff
Cannibals Discuss Proper Methods to Cook a Man
London reports Sir Hubert Murray governor of Papua has published Papua of Today revealing cannibal cooking views. A Papuan witness argues cooking on hot stones with leaves yields tender meat, contrasting with open fire. Sir Hubert, brother of Sir Gilbert Murray, is cited.
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London
Sir Hubert Murray
Papua
Australia
Hubert
Jasi Jasi
Sir Hubert
Gilbert Murray
Daughter of Midgets to Be Normal Size
Norma Louise Fox, three days old, born by Caesarean at the Osteopathic Sanitarium, is reported dosing nicely. Doctors say she weighed six pounds three ounces at birth and is expected to grow normally, despite her two circus performer parents who stand just over three feet tall.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Norma Louise Fox
Osteopathic Sanitarium Hospital
Norman Sprague
Sprague
Meriden School Head Quits Over Dance Controversy
Meriden Connecticut district superintendent David Gibbs resigns after the school board approves a trial dance. Gibbs says modern jazz dances demoralize students and notes past high school dances were halted for unruly conduct. He has served sixteen years.
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Meriden
Conn
David Gibbs
Board of Education
Doctor Gibbs
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