Sinking of the Panay Recalls Caroline Incident a Century Ago
Elmo Scott Watson recounts the Caroline incident and Canadian rebellion of 1837 to 1838, linking Van Buren and Webster era diplomacy with later events. He notes McLeod's case, the Webster Ashburton treaty, and the rise of Canadian autonomy from Britain, ending with Canada's modern independence and loyal ties to the empire.
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Panay
Caroline
Elmo Scott Watson
United States
Durfree
Martin van Buren
Great Britain
Canada
Colonies
van Buren
Mackenzie
Dubree
Alexander McLeod
New York
McLeod
William Henry Harrison
Daniel Webster
Herre S. Fox
Webster
Lockport
N. Y
Saresaan
Leo
Thesr Supreme Court
Feneral
Lord Durham
Britain
Confederation
Dominion of
Act of Westminster
John Bull & Sons, Inc
John Bull
sTe
Maine
Oregon
League of British Nations
Republic
Army Officers Rule a Modern City Hamilton Field California
Army officers administer a peacetime martial law city at Hamilton Field twenty miles from San Francisco. A civilian government is run by officers including Colonel Banks as Mayor and Col Davenport Johnson as mayor of the air corps base. A council of officers advises on city problems and staff are identified by numbers. The field maintains fire police weather and parks with Maj Walter Hough heading fire and Lieut Theodore Bolen heading weather forecasting crucial for bomber operations.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
San Francisco
General Des Goverters Division
United States Army Air Corps
Alenes
Banks
Davenport Johnson
Army Eir Corps
Mearaz
Clinton W. Russe
Air Corps
Howerd D. Jouss
Clarence P. Tab
Hemthon Field
Weather Bureau
Park Bureau
Walter B. Hough
Theodore M. Bolen
Big Lunches Raise Health Concerns for Hartford Children
Miss Elizabeth C Nichols director of the bureau of public health warns mothers that oversized school lunches harm children. Short lunch periods force rapid eating and quick swallowing with liquids, risking health as teachers and nurses note.
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Hartford
Conn
Elizabeth C. Nichols
Bureau of Public Health Instruction
Fined by Austrian Judge for Gamekeeper Honor Case
An Austrian judge fines a gamekeeper amid a case about honor and misconduct involving a civil dispute. Rudolf and his wife argued with officials during an excursion, touching on pay and protection. The judge warned that failing to pay taxes could undermine official authority and provoke broader contempt.
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Chidins
Vienna
Moller
Gil Merny
Siz
West
oSiciei
Rudolf Hed
Rudolf
Etim
Harar
TO REMAKE WORLD Wilbur Huston aims to modernize religion
Wilbur Huston, hailed as the bright day in America, plans to remake the world through new ideas in religion and other subjects. He won the 1929 Edison scholarship, studied at MIT, then spent eight years in an engineering research lab in New Jersey, and at twenty five works on a magazine called The Rising Tide. He is pictured in his father's Seattle study.
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Wilbur Huston
America
Thomas Edison
Huston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New Jersey
the Rising Tide
Seattle
Rare corn harvested on Ohio farm
In Painesville Ohio two and a half acres of red dint corn described as an oddity in the region were harvested on the farm of Mrs Catherine Orient last fall.
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Ohio
Painesville
Catherine Orient
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