France to pay 6 847 674 104 in U S debt funding
Paris reports the French treasury will pay 10 million dollars in the 1926 fiscal year and fund a total of 6 847 674 104 dollars over 62 years to the United States. Terms include initial 30 million yearly payments rising to 125 million in year seventeen. The plan reflects France's capacity to meet foreign debt while balancing domestic needs.
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United States
Germany
France
Trance
Washington
American Debt Commission
Caillaux
Yugo Slavia
Treasury
Debt Funding Commission
England
Coolidge
Senate
Belgium
Latvia
Hibhonia
Rumania
Czechoslovakia
Iowa Women Seek Office Despite constitutional barrier
Two Iowa women launch a primary campaign while the state constitution must be amended to allow women to hold legislative seats. A resolution by two lawmakers removes the word male from qualification rules, paving the way for a November vote. Other women seek statewide posts such as secretary of state and state superintendent of public instruction.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Secretary of State
Evolution of the thermometer through history
The text traces early attempts at measuring temperature from open vials to sealed glass tubes with bulbs and marks. It notes Galileo, a 1592 start, then refinements, and Fahrenheit in 1714 establishing the Fahrenheit scale. It emphasizes growing practical use in dairying cooking and daily life.
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Gilileo
French Woman Famed for Skill as Cook in Early Paris
The Detroit News notes Brillat Savarin's death on February 2, 1826 and recalls a prior era when Marie Martie, cook for the Paris fermier general, rose to fame at the Elysee palace. Her dinners, likened to a prima donna act, earned her the title Le Cordon Bleu and celebrity among contemporaries.
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Bhillat-Sararin
Detroit News
Paris
Epicures
Brillat-Savarin
Martie
Thoreau on the Iliad as lasting light in literature
The Bright quotes Thoreau praising the Iliad as a timeless, brightest work enduring through ages. He says it embodies sunlit Asia Minor heritage and outshines modern joys, with Greek poetry’s rays mingling with recent daylight, the Memnon statue fallen yet Iliad’s shaft still meeting the sun.
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Asia Minor
Memnon
Thoreau
First Women Appointed to U S Treasury Clerical Work
In spring 1862 Secretary Chase, at the urging of Assistant Treasurer F E Spinner, allowed a woman to cut and trim United States evirrence using men’s shears. Miss Jennie Douglas began work, and her first day helped advocate for women employees. On October 9, 1862, Fannie Halstead Annie York Belle Tracy Elizabeth Stoner and Mary Burke were appointed, becoming the first women Congress regularly funded.
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U. S. Treasury
United States
F. E. Spinner
Chase
Jennie Douglas
Fannie L. Halstead
Annie York
Belle S. Tracy
Elizabeth Stoner
Mary Burke
Congress
Bright Children Fail To Develop In Ability
A study by Dr Leta Hollingworth at Columbia University shows that mentally superior ten year olds do not outpace ordinary peers in musical sensitivity tests. The group scores higher in time judgments but not in pitch consonance or tonal memory. Results suggest advanced brain structures do not guarantee musical skill at this age.
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Leta 8. Hollingworth
Columbia University
Journal of Educational Psychology
Science Service Bulletin
The King and the Bandit Johnnie Armstrong Hanged
Johnnie Armstrong the celebrated Scotch bandit was seized and hanged by James V in 1529 after offering his services with 36 men to suppress the ruots of the Marsh men.
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Johnnie Armstrong
James V
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