Scrolls Hint At Links Between China And Babylon
In Western China a monastery yard yielded hundreds of aged Buddhist scrolls in Sanskrit and Chinese, referencing a distant Babylon. Bazaklik's Manichean frescoes suggest Indo European exchange along the Silk Routes, with art, religion, and even wood block printing traveling between East and West.
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Washington
Central Asia
Antarctic
Lanchow
China
Babylon
Mesopotamia
Tung Huang
Asia
Marco Polo
Citroen-Haardt
Bazaklik
Sinkiang
Chinese Turkestan
Landow
Maynard Owen Williams
National Geographic Society
Williams
Jacovleff
Crimea
Black Sea
Mongolia
Cathay
Fifty Tons of Silver Reported in Central Asia Cave
Soviet scientists estimate fifty tons of silver in Kon Yon Goot Cave in Shaldymir mountains, Central Asia. Analyses of cave rocks show high percentages of silver, lead, and manganese, fueling legends of a treasure in the Bottomless Pit.
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Tashkent
Turkestan
Shaldymir
Central Asia
Great Caspian Port At Deh-No Modernizes Persia
Netherlands engineers win contract to build a major Caspian Sea port at Deh-No Persia. The $3.5 million project, ordered by Shah Riza Khan, will take four years and is aimed at linking Teheran with the West via Batum and Baku.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Asia
Persia
Caspian
Deh-No
Central Asia
Teheran
Riza Khan
Belgium
France
Germany
Greece
Sweden
Holland
Caspian Sea
Europe
Atlantic
Black Sea
Batum
Russia
Baku
Volga
Turkey
Iraq
Palestine
Christmas Mail of 1933 Reach India via Kashgar Route
A bag of Christmas mail for 1933 has just arrived at the British consulate in Kashgar from Peiping. Isolation due to the Muslim rebellion in Chinese Turkestan has not prevented Britain from staying in touch with India via high mountain runner routes.
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New Delhii
Kashgar
Sinkiang
Peiping
Chinese Turkestan
India
Kashmir
Urumehi
Mill in Sweden Weaves Record Size Tablecloths
At Dalsjofors Linen mills near Gothenburg workers produced the world’s widest seamless tablecloths nearly ten feet square for Stockholm’s golden room tea table. 17 million perforations were needed for the design. Two dozen damask tablecloths for banquet use measure 83 feet long and 71 inches wide, part of a linen closet's 64 cloths and 1,500 napkins with architectural motifs from the Town Hall.
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Gothenburg
Sweden
Dalsjofors
Stockholm
Studying Cheese Keeps These Two Experts Busy
Monroe Wisconsin men Robert Hardell and Charles A Buck run the State federal cheese laboratory. They study cheese specimens under microscopes to isolate thousands of bacteria and determine their effect on cheese manufacture. Their work reduces defects like nisslers presslers and stinkers in cheesemakers makes.
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Monroe
Wis
Robert Hardell
Charles A. Buck
State
Federal Cheese Laboratory
Wisconsin
Hardell
Buck
Milk Planes Predicted by Agricultural Expert
Ithaca expert H R Varney of Cornell Universitys agricultural economics department visualizes air transport of milk in a future bulletin on milk transportation progress. He says imagining planes carrying milk to New York City is as plausible as earlier farmers imagining todays milk trade.
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Frank Gegas
New York
Bellevue
Ithaca
N. Y
H. R. Varney
Department’ of Agricultural Economics
Cornell University
New York City
Orange County
Varney
Wooden Indians Saved From Chopping Block
Beloit Wisconsin antique shop owner W B Carr values a pair of wooden Indians at 100 to 300 as rare exhibition pieces. They stood in front of a Mineral Point store for over 50 years before a son moved them to a basement, narrowly saved from being chopped for kindling.
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Beloit
Wis
W. B. Carr
Mineral Point
Carr
Log Cabin School in Use at Camdenton Missouri
A log cabin schoolhouse near Chappell Bluff, Camdenton MO, built sixty years ago, remains in use. The one room structure serves local pupils and its facilities meet the needs of the district's children.
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Camdenton
Chappell Bluff
Relics of Vanished Race Found Near Sitka Alaska
Workmen from a mining company near Sitka uncover relics of a primitive people including copper spearheads pestles mortars and other ancient weapons and utensils.
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Sitka
Alaska
Here
City Reports No Fire Loss in 1934 for Dilley Texas
A Dilley city report to the state fire insurance commissioner states there was zero fire loss for the year 1934. The document reflects the town's safety record and completed year without fire-related claims.
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Dilley
Texas
State Fire Insurance Commissioner
The Normal Child and Its Inner Nature
Dr Grace Adams in Scribners Magazine argues that progressive education misreads the child. She contends the average healthy child lacks adult traits such as intelligence and self direction, being instead selfish stubborn forgetful cruel illogical and with a coarse sense of humor.
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Grace Adams
Scribner’s Magazine
Spend Wisely Money and Dr Pierce’s Pellets Ad
An advertisement urges thrift and presents Dr Pierce’s Pellets as beneficial for liver and bowels. It claims one Pellet serves as a laxative and three as a cathartic, promoting the product as an effective digestive aid.
Speed Made Easy It is always easy to thumb a ride on the road to ruin
A cautionary note warns that choosing quick travel by hitchhiking leads to danger and harm. It emphasizes the risks of unsafe transport and urges restraint and safer alternatives.
Scientists Find Fast Way to Relieve a Cold
Researchers report a quick method to ease cold symptoms using a combination of existing remedies. The study notes improved relief within hours and highlights potential applications for common colds and flu season.
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Bayer
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