New Ensigns to Help Out Navy
The Naval Academy class of 1022 graduates easing officer shortages across the fleet. Reserve officers have returned to inactive service, leaving about 7,000 regulars and creating gaps aboard destroyers and battleships. Updated officer strength aims for 85 percent on battleships and stronger destroyer decks, with potential base and yard cuts under the naval appropriation plan.
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Naval Academy
Moe
Japan
Great Britain
America
Bill Names Nine Boys in Fancy Poetic Style
Marshall Arkansas resident William Steen customizes his children's names with a rhyming set Basco Tasco Lasco Cicero Marvillo Rosco Otto Woodrow and Vanzo claiming the names rhyme sound musical and express individuality for his nine sons.
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Bill
Marshall. Ark
William Steen
Bhi
Basco
Tasco
Lasco
Cicero
Marvillo
Rosco
Otto
Woodrow
Vanzo
Maryland farm boys win European trip for dairy judging
Warren Rice Joseph Glackin and George Worrilow of Cecil County Maryland earned $115 in cash and a trip to Europe after winning the junior dairy cattle judging contest at the Maryland state fair and the National Dairy show. Their prize package covers six weeks in England to study Old World livestock management and includes support from county and state agricultural agents.
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Joseph Glackin
George Worrilow
Cecil County
Maryland
Europe
Doul
Cambridge
England
University of Maryland Extension Service
United States Department of Agriculture
W. C. Smart
Timonium State Fair
St. Paul
United States
Atlanta
Marylanders
Southeastern Fair Association
Snarr
E. G. Jenkins
CC. L. Chambers
First Gold Coins of Croesus Unearthed at Sardis Site
American archaeologists uncover thirty staters from Croesus era Lydia in the buried ruins of Sardis Asia Minor. Some coins may go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. five prior specimens were known, all in the British Museum.
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Asia Minor
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Croesus
Lydia
Cyrus
United States
British Museum
T. Leslie Shear
Columbia University
W. R. Berry
R. R. Holden
Edward Stoever
McCormick
Chicago
Gordon
One Hundred Thousand Poles Emigrate in 1921
In 1921 Poland saw about 100000 people leave for the United States and Canada while 40000 re emigrants returned with funds totaling roughly 900000000000 marks about 300000. The article also notes the badger as an animal feared by the superstitious Japanese.
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Warsaw
Poland
United States
Canada
Labor Board Action and Rail Strike Across Nation
railway workers initiated a nationwide walkout effective Saturday, with maintenance of way staff possibly joining. President Harding and the labor board faced strain as unions and managers clashed over wage orders, working rules, and the farming out system, while other international crises and regional riots also shaped the week.
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Pullman
Chop Gaea
Federal Labor Board
International Union
Railway Employees’ Department
William H. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
J. W. Kline
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers of America
J. A. Franklin
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers of America
J. J. Hynes
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers
International Alliance
James P. Noonan
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Martin F. Ryan
Brotherhood of Railway Car Men of America
Ben Hooper
Labor Board
Russia
Shop Crafts International
North Dakota Republicans Defeat McCumber for Nominating Vote
In North Dakota the Republican and Nonpartisan league alliance toppled Senator Porter J. McCumber after 23 years in the senate. Lynn J. Frazier, former governor, is named to replace him, a blow to the old guard. Wisconsin Democrats meanwhile chose a woman candidate, Mrs. Ben C. Hooper of Oshkosh, for the senate.
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North Dakota
Nonpartisan League
Porter J. McCumber
Lynn J. Frazier
McCumber
Senate
Wisconsin
Woman Finds Relief from Persistent Ailments with Compound
Testimonial from Mrs. Maser of St Paul describing relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for tiredness and painful periods. Letter cites back and head pains improving and renewed ability to work. Publisher promotes the product as a woman’s medicine for women’s ailments.
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St. Paul
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ie Maser
Winslow St
St. Paul, Inn
Lake Eyre mystery to be solved by expedition
A scientific expedition will attempt to solve the secret of Lake Eyre in central Australia. The lake lies 400 miles from the nearest settlement, fed by seven distant rivers that flood into the interior desert during rains. An inland sea forms when these rivers flow, and a new cotton growing movement appears in Sydney to expand cultivation across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
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Lake
Eyre
Australia
Sydney
Australian Cotton Growers’ Association
Queensland
New South Wales
Seventh inning stretch announced at Washington banquet
The presiding officer at a Washington banquet surprised attendees by declaring the seventh inning stretch after a long two hour feast. The moment followed several lengthy speeches and a Gargantuan meal.
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Washington
Traffic policeman encounter at urban intersection
Mrs. Peckton recalls a morning exchange with a traffic officer at Plymouth and Spruce. Henry promises to address the matter calmly, offering sympathy rather than violence, as reported by the Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Henry
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