Abandoned Fort Becomes National Monument in Dry Tortugas
The Fort Jefferson fortress on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas near Florida is turned over by the U S Navy to the National Park Service and designated a national monument. The article recalls its glamorous tragic and futile military history and notes its rehabilitation for visitors.
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Washington
Fort Jefferson
Florida
United States Navy
National Park Service
National Geographic Society
Key West
Florida Keys
Garden Key
Gibraltar of America
Fort
Jefferson
Cuba
Samuel A. Mudd
Island Fort
Maryland
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Doctor Mudd
Navy Department
Bird Key
Ponce de Leon
J. Hawkins
Farmer’s Lake Seneca water freezes radiator in zero cold
Farmer Dell in Geneva New York tested using Lake Seneca water in his car radiator to skip non freezing antifreeze. The water froze rapidly under a zero degree cold wave causing the radiator to burst in several places, thwarting the idea.
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Farmer
Geneva
N. Y
Farmer Dell
Seneca Lake
Lake Seneca
Untitled fragment notes sea turtle poaching logs
A fragmentary excerpt records someone named Sands taking flesh and eggs of great sea turtles and logging the event in a journal that evokes Robinson Crusoe.
Justice of Peace Baird Offers Free Weddings in 1935
Morriston Ark Justice of Peace R A Baird vows to perform all marriages free during 1935 and will answer calls at any time day or night to assist couples seeking wedlock.
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Morriston
Ark
R. A. Baird
Dan Cupid
Germany
United States
W. Cole
B. F. Welch
Unborn and Company
New York
Freiistedt
Chicago
Rockets to Reach Stratosphere from Roswell Site
Plans call for rockets with automatic recorders to be launched from a 60 foot tower near Roswell New Mexico reaching 40 to 150 miles high. Dr. Robert Goddard of Clarke University leads the project financed by the Guggenheim Foundation to study cosmic rays light rays and radio waves.
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Roswell
N. M
R. H. Goddard
Department of Physics
Clarke University
Worcester
Mass
Doctor Goddard
Guggenheim Foundation
Brain currents photographed with new Brown apparatus
A student connected to electrodes demonstrates how Dr. Herbert H. Jasper and Dr. Leonard Carmichael of Brown University psychology department capture action currents from the brain. The novel device can photograph amplified brain currents.
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Herbert H. Jasper
Leonard Carmichael
Brown University
Department of Psychology
Planes Add Radios Across U S Increases Noted
A bureau of air commerce survey counts 775 radio equipped airplanes in commercial and private use nationwide. Of these 345 belong to scheduled airlines, 246 are in private planes, 135 in company ships, and 49 in air taxi and charter craft. Government aircraft are excluded from the tally and a rise in private ownership is expected next year.
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Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
United States
Army, Navy
Moon Described as Green Cheese by Astronomer
Dr Harry Burton of the naval observatory, viewing the Moon through a 26 inch telescope, claims the Moon is made of pumice and volcanic ash. He notes holes in the upper quarter from extinct craters and a smoother, darker green center and lower half due to shadows and sunset, resembling Swiss cheese.
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Washington
Harry Burton
Naval Observatory
Doctor Burton
College Students’ Honesty Near Perfection in Ohio
Delaware Ohio Ohio Wesleyan university students reportedly show near perfect honesty, says Y M C A president Charles Hamilton. The Y has sold examination books for one cent each with a box for pennies. despite thousands sold, about one book in 100 remains unaccounted for.
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Delaware
Ohio
Ohio Wesleyan University
Charles Hamilton
Hamilton
Fortune in Stamps Found in Waste Paper Bale
Jay Land of Burlington discovers a Civil War era stamp bale after finding a canceled receipt blow in the wind. He traced it to a junk man who fetched the bale from an old express office. Land bought it for 75 cents and has since sold stamps worth 150 dollars to dealers, hoping the rare pieces yield more than the rest.
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Burlington
Wis
Jay Land
Third party rumblings loom in 1936 political picture
The era of evolving political factions grows with talk of third party unrest across the spectrum. Left wingers push for a more radical program, while Republicans try to hold their conservative base as Roosevelt’s New Deal faces scrutiny in Congress and looming 1936 elections.
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Washington
George H. Moses
New Hampshire
United States Senate
Moses
Roosevelt
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Lal Follette
Wisconsin
Norris
Nebraska
Hero Wheeler
Montana
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy
Congress
House
Senate
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Cupid’s
U. S
Department of Commerce Airways
William Bruckart
National Press
Washington, D. C
Farley
Secretary Ickes
Interior
Ickes
Donald Richberg
Richberg
American Federation of Labor
National Recovery Administration
Eccles
Federal Reserve Bureau
Senator Glass
Virginia
Glass
Huey Long
Huey
Cummings
Louisiana
Western Newspaper Union
Phillips
Leonard Ear
Leonard Ear Oil
O. Leonard, Inc
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Fiarr
W. Dorsey
Louisville, KY
Social Register
Miss Cayenne
Bethea
DIXIE
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville, Tenn
Newell Pharmacal Company
Clayton Station
St. Louis, Mo
Otis Trotter
N. 7Th Street
St. Louis
Wahlert & Guntzler
First St
WIU
Doan
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