First steel bridge nears completion on Euphrates in upper Iraq
Washington reports the first steel highway bridge across the Euphrates near Baghdad is nearing completion. The Near East project links Baghdad to Damascus on a growing overland motor route. The National Geographic Society notes the Euphrates and Tigris shaped Mesopotamian civilizations with extensive canal systems and historic cities like Babylon.
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Euphrates River
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Bagdad
Near East
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Euphrates
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Taurus Mountains
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Syria
Through ticket from Paris to Bagdad or Basra opens border route
Mosul and Nisibin lie on the Turk Syrian border while a new motor service offers a through Paris to Bagdad or Basra ticket. The piece notes Basra’s historic population and the Euphrates and Tigris shaping the Sumerian plain, with the delta encroaching the gulf and river dynamics over millennia.
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Nisibin
Paris
Bagdad
Basra
Euphrates
Tigris
Persian Gulf
It Takes Ten Million To Make One Dollar Bill
Washington reveals a government millstone cost of ten million dollars to craft a single dollar bill. At the Bureau of Printing and Engraving a 12 foot by 5% foot note is nearing completion for exhibition at home and at Chicago's World Fair. Roughly ten million dollars worth of macerated pulp from old currency underpins the endeavor.
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Washington
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Chicago
Mice Use Farmer's Paper Money For Nest In France
In Langeville Moselle France mice carried away a farmer's bank roll and hid it in an attic nest lined with the money. The farmer had sold five pigs and misplaced the cash, later discovering the nest in the attic with the currency intact.
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Langeville
Moselle
France
Prince Nicholas Opens Hidden Exhibition in Paris
Prince Nicholas of Greece, an exile and uncle to the deposed Greek monarch, quietly opens a painting exhibition at Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris. He avoids displaying his name while commenting that being a prince has little value in Europe anymore.
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Paris
Europe
Nicholas
Greece
Helen
Grand Duke
Cyril
Bernheim Jeune
Ghost cat freed after two weeks in culvert
Berkeley residents learned the mystery of the ghost cat ended when William Sharpe located the trapped animal in an old culvert. Street workers had sealed the pipe at both ends. emergency crews opened it and freed the cat after two weeks.
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Berkeley
Calif
William Sharpe
Sharpe
First Mills One-Dollar Bills To Enter Circulation
Washington reports that the first one-dollar bills signed by Secretary of the Treasury Mills will enter circulation about September 1. The delay followed the government holding about 200 million Mellon signed bills still unused.
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Mills
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
Treasury
Visitors See Reno as an Average Sized American City
Reno, Nevada draws visitors with a reputation for divorce lore and bridal myths. Accounts describe the Pillar kiss at the Washoe County Courthouse as a photographed stunt, the Bridge of Sighs tale, and tourist rings sold by local boys. The piece notes Reno’s open gambling and similar saloon features to other cities, dispelling myths.
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Reno
Nev
Washoe County
Bridge of Sighs
Truckee
America
Oklahoma Court Grants Alimony to Model Husband
The Oklahoma Supreme Court awarded George Barnett $15 000 from Jeanetta Barnett in a divorce ruling noting that men may be the weaker sex and entitled to alimony. The court said the wife is often the weaker vessel but recognized occasions when the reverse applies.
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Oklahoma City
George Barnett
Jeanetta Barnett
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Red Haired Fadon Way Declares Hair Expert
Boston hair dressings expert Andre Behns predicts a 20 percent rise in red haired women in the United States by June. He says red hair can lift spirits and that the platinum blond trend will give way to a red hair fad as hair can be easily dyed.
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Boston
United States
Andre Behns
Hemp's long history as a fiber and its decline in modern times
The article traces hemp from its 5000 year role as a premier fiber to its fade as cheaper materials like Manila hemp, abaca, cotton, jute, and cottons replaced it. It notes hemp's spread from Asia to Europe and the Americas, its use in sails and rope, and early colonial laws promoting hemp in Virginia with Lancaster, Pennsylvania as a Revolutionary-era hub.
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Asia
Europe
Mediterranean
Western Hemisphere
Spain
Chile
North America
Massachusetts
Virginia
Lancaster
Penn
Browne Forecaster Says 1932 Weather Works Toward Hurricane Year
Herbert Janvrin Browne, Washington long range fore caster, argues 1932 will be a notable hurricane year. He cites Pacific typhoons near the western fringe, including a severe Philippine storm on April 29, plus storms in Indo China Bengal and Mauritius, with similar Atlantic storms possible as the season advances.
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Herbert Janvrin Browne
Washington
Pacific
Philippine
Indo-China
Bengal
Mauritius
Atlantic
White Indians Found In Paraguayan Wilderness
Harvard explorer Dr. Donald S. Wees reports finding isolated white Indians in northeastern Paraguay during an expedition. He describes blond hair communities living in jungle and desert-like terrain, lacking clothing or shelters, using bows and arrows, and staying extremely shy and elusive.
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Harvard Museum
South America
Paraguay
Donalds. Wees
Chicago fisher man brags of bear caught by fly line
J. K. Lowndes of Chicago claims a novel catch after his fly line looped behind him and snagged a mangy bear in the left ear. He returned to the area an hour later to find the bear gone and his rod broken, but his thumb nail patch of bearskin served as proof.
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J. K. Lowndes
Chicago
Mr. Lowndes
How to Tell Anxious Mother
A brief humorous exchange about recognizing love from a suitor. The daughter hints at Mr Hobson's attentiveness and the mother seeks proof of his affection, framed in a light domestic tone from a Boston Globe item.
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Mr. Hobson
Boston Globe
New York Chamber of Commerce First Founded
Pathfinder Magazine notes the New York Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1768, as the earliest American chamber. It explains that U S chambers are private and the U S Chamber of Commerce is a federation of local bodies. It is not a government entity.
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New York Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Pathfinder Magazine
United States
Chambers of Commerce
United States Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Taft
Fourth of July Glories and Milestones Across History
Notable Fourth of July celebrations include births of Nathaniel Hawthorne Giuseppe Garibaldi Stephen Foster Joseph Pennell and Calvin Coolidge. Founding moments and deaths link to the date such as Adams Jefferson Monroe, the Washington Monument cornerstone in 1848, Erie Canal work starting 1817, Vicksburg surrender in 1863, and Providence founded by Roger Williams in 1636.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Stephen Collins Foster
Joseph Pennell
Calvin Coolidge
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
Washington Monument
Erie Canal
Vicksburg
Providence
R. L
Roger Williams
Man Wins Turkey Shooting Prize at Chicago Range
Tom Anderson delivered a sharp shooting display at a Chicago rifle range winning a turkey prize. Inside the bird’s gizzard his wife found a diamond. The turkey reportedly originated from a Michigan farm and Anderson dismissed the origin as a worry.
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Chicago
Tom Anderson
Michigan
Anderson
Women Outnumber Men in Cities, Says Chicago Survey
A University of Chicago survey finds urban areas with 100 females to 98 males, while rural districts show 108 men per 100 women. The study highlights a historic tilt toward women in cities across the country.
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University of Chicago
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