Air Lighthouses Guide Voyagers of the Air
A Washington bulletin from the National Geographic Society describes a new era of aerial navigation with electric beacons and high power lights. It highlights a Dijon France beacon and a network of airways across France and the United States aiding mail and passenger flights.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Dijon
France
Paris
Marseilles
English Channel
Mediterranean
Atlantic
United States
Lille
Brussels
America
Post Office Department
Division
Chicago
Iowa City
Omaha
North Platte
Cheyenne
Air-Mail
Kentucky Has Largest Caves Revealed by Local Scientists
Kentucky hosts the country’s and perhaps the world’s largest caves, says University of Kentucky zoologist W D Funkhauser with state geologist Willard Rouse Jillison. They describe Mammoth and other caves as largely unexplored, with extensive passages, diverse cave fauna, and possible archeological links to early man.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
W. D. Funkhauser
University of Kentucky
Willard Rouse Jillison
Funkhauser
Collins
Sand Cave
Military Court of Inquiry
Mammoth Cave
Main Street
Crystal Cave
Onyx Cave
Colossal Cavern
Horse Cave
Grand Cave
France
Spain
Europe
Padre Hat Found At Lost Mexican Gold Mine
In Yago Nayarit Mexico near the Cockroach mine rediscovered after 126 years miners recover a large brown felt padre hat in remarkable preservation. They also find fine blankets and garments suggesting European origin and Spanish owners driven from Mexico about 1812. An American engineer located the site recently amid legends of buried gold and silver bars. Motive power for a new tire pump is obtained by holding it against the fan belt of an automobile.
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Padre
Yago
Nayarit
Mexico
Friar Tuck
Nursery Table
Europe
Ellesmere Island the Lost Land of the Arctic
Washington National Geographic bulletin traces Ellesmere Island from first glimpses by William Baffin in 1616 through later explorers and names such as Grinnell Land Grant Land and Jesup Land. It notes Cape Columbia as Peary’s North Pole start, interior unknowns, and 1883 84 Cape Sabine tragedy with 18 dead, commemorated in 1924.
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Washington
Ellesmere Island
North Pole
National Geographic Society
Baffin Bay
Broad Water
Arctic
Greenland
Baffin Island
William Baffin
Baffin
Doctor Hayes
Kane
Hayes
Big Island
Grinnell Land
Polar Sea
Cape Columbia
Peary
Point Barrow
Alaska
United States-Canada
Grant Land
North America
MacMillan
Ellesmere
Sland
Axel Heiberg Land
Etah
Axel Heiberg
Maine
Newfoundland
Greely
Hilesmere Island
Fort Conger
Lady Franklin Bay
Greeley
Cape Sabine
Ice pick gifted to Hiawatha deliveryman Barnum
Kans Scott Barnum an ice deliveryman in Hiawatha has received a gold headed ice pick from a friend. He has delivered ice for 28 years and can cut each piece to the exact size on his route.
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Hiawatha
Kans
Scott Barnum
Barnum
Tests Claim Mary Queen of Scots Innocent
English scientist Ainsworth Mitchell analyzed documents and seals using updated methods to argue for Mary Queen of Scots innocence in the 16th century conspiracy. He concluded Mary's private secretary William Maitland betrayed her and that Maitland forged the letters used in her trial.
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London
Ainsworth Mitchell
Mary
Elizabeth
Mitchell
William Maitland
Norfolk Wall Safe Yields Valued Relics
Norfolk, Virginia finds two commissions engraved on sheep-skin parchments dating 1800 and 1808. Jonathan Cowdery listed as surgeon's mate and later full surgeon in the US Navy. Also a Mason diploma from Washington lodge No 26 and a Mark Master from Hudson lodge found with the papers hidden in a steel case.
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Norfolk
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Jonathan Cowdery
United States Navy
John C. Sleet
Washington Lodge No. 26
Cowdery
Hudson (N. Y
Germany Needs Beds in Berlin Says Welfare Expert
Sofia Goetz of the German Welfare Institute argues that every man woman and child should have a own bed for hygienic moral and social reasons. She estimates Germany requires 9 000 000 more beds to achieve this condition.
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Berlin
Germany
Sofia Goetz
The
German Welfare Institute
Dead letters show big cost to postal service
The dead letter office handles misaddressed mail, returning funds and valuables to the treasury. In 1930s figures, $183,000 in stamps and cash was recovered, while undeliverable checks and money orders totaled over $3.5 million, and 21 million letters and 800,000 parcels suffered from incomplete addresses. The nixie processing costs about $1.74 million annually.
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Washington
United States
Sam
Post Office Department
United States Treasury
Postal Service
New York City
Jennings Exposed as Hypnotist Behind Jail Row
Guards at Los Angeles County Jail report BE. Jennings arrested on a check charge and placed in a cell where several inmates misbehaved. Jennings admitted years ago he led a hypnotism sketch on a vaudeville circuit, linking his past to jailyard incidents.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Jennings
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New York
Savant
United States Bureau of Standards
Island
Smith Sound
Utah
Sentinels of
Regni del Piatta
United States Bureau of Mines
Son
Mary A. Church
James Church
William Jewell College
Liberty
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