Britain Advances In World War History Project
Britain leads in compiling an official 40 volume history of World War I. By 1918 twenty nine volumes completed with 200000 pounds spent, archData includes naval logs and telegrams. Thousands of documents, maps, and expert staff support, with drafts checked by officers, aim for a detailed, illustrated record.
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Great Britain
Committee of Imperial Defence
Britain
Gallipoli
Egypt
Admiralty
Air Service
War Graves Commission
What Has Education Done
Sir Norman Angell warns that ordinary education fails to prepare people to understand world affairs and could lead to dictatorship if nations pursue economic nationalism, high tariffs, and disarmament failure. A plane sighting notes a rainbow as a "rain circle."
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Europe
Sir Norman Angell
Mothering the Herring Fleet Sister Wray Across Stormy Seas
A Lowestoft correspondent portrays Sister Wray, Scottish Episcopal Mission nurse to fisher folk, as she braves winter seas between the Hebrides and Orkneys. She aided 80 wounded or septic patients in Stromness, tended a dying fisherman to Kirkwall, and offers comfort to drifters and their crews.
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News-Chronicle
Lowestoft
England
Wray
Hebrides
Orkneys
Stronsay
Sister Wray
Make For Happiness Mental Baggage Advice
New Zealand lecturer Miss Celia Enid Bates urges shedding daily mental baggage of old failures hurts and unhappiness. By clearing ill thoughts each night, readers may sleep better and foster optimistic, lasting faith in good. Parrots can reach sixty years in captivity.
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New Zealand
Celia Enid Bates
Tuberculosis Declared Curable by Esteemed Los Angeles Doctor
Dr. Frank Miller, LA specialist in lung disease, told the Southwest Clinical Conference in Kansas City that tuberculosis is curable with willing patients following proper treatment. He noted most cases respond to care, that cured individuals are good life insurance risks, and emphasized early symptom recognition and consistent treatment. He downplayed hereditary notions, citing that about half harbor infection but only a third become clinical cases. After cure, people may live anywhere.
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Frank Miller
Los Angeles
Southwest
Kansas City
Miller
Dr. Miller
Western cities cut costs, study finds
Dr. H. L. Brittain of Toronto warned Calgary taxpayers to stay out of politics. He said the Citizens' Research Institute of Canada found western cities generally had controlled expenditures better than other Canadian cities. Syria's credit situation is improving.
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H. L. Brittain
Toronto
Citizens’ Research Institute of Canada
Calgary Taxpayers’ Research Bureau
Brittain
Calgary
Tree Planting Car Completes Season's Work on Prairies
The Canadian Forestry Association’s tree planting car wrapped up six months of work spanning over 1,900 miles along the Canadian Pacific Railway through Alberta and Saskatchewan. Regina will host the car for winter. In Alberta the tour reached 43 towns with 85 meetings for 11,690 attendees. Saskatchewan hosted 90 towns and 214 meetings for 30,214 attendees, totaling 41,904 lecture listeners.
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Canadian Pacific
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Canadian Forestry Association
Regina
Alan Beaven
Famous Cow Path In Chicago Draws City Crowd
A cow and calf paraded along Chicago’s famed 177 foot, 10 foot wide concrete cow path beneath a 22 story building at 100 West Monroe Street. The stunt promoted the International Live stock Exposition and highlighted the path worth 177000 dollars. When William Jones sold the surrounding land in 1833 he kept a right for cows, making the path binding even after 50 years of no cattle traffic.
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Chicago
Bossy
West
Monroe Street
William Jones
Aerial Photo Captures San Francisco and Mount Shasta
An altitude of 21 000 feet yields a 250 mile territorial view photographed recently by Army Air Corps photographers. The image, taken 10 miles south of the Golden Gate, spans the distance between San Francisco and Mount Shasta. Infrared light and a social filter were used.
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Golden Gate
San Francisco
Mount Shasta
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Army Air Corps
Pilgrims Donate Diamonds to Madonna of Pompeii Frame
Pilgrims visiting Naples crowds the large church honoring the Madonna of Pompeii and contribute gifts toward a new diamond frame. The exhibit features six enormous diamonds added to the famed picture’s setting. Also, scientists estimate Venus’s temperature near 10 degrees below zero Fahrenheit both day and night.
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Pompei
Naples
Italy
Venus
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Beaven
Soo
Shaunavon
Assiniboia
Prairies
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Suess
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