Earthquake, disasters sweep Europe and England in 1920
A massive earthquake devastates southern Italy killing 2,013 and injuring many more with Rome and Naples affected. A Venice district tornado follows, and a Rhine river bridge collapse in Coblenz halts celebrations. Other reports note a London airliner disaster, and ongoing postwar political currents across the United States and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Italy
Messing
Pague
Campania
Basilicata
Abruzzi
Molise
Vulture
Melfi
Lacedonia
Aquilonia
Bisacela
Ariano
Rome
Naples
Mussolini
Pope Fius
Vatican
Venice
Siles
Ermany Also
Bassts
Coblenz
Rhineland
von Hindenburg
Moselle
Death Valley Garden Briefly Blooms Then Fades
A National Geographic bulletin describes Death Valley in California as a sub sea level basin that briefly blossomed with wildflowers after May rains. Springs, borax mines, an irrigated ranch, and a new foothill hotel accompany the valley’s shifting sands and enduring desolate reputation.
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Washington, D. C
Death Valley
United States
California
National Geographic Society
Dead Sea
Great Basin
Dead Sun
Palestine
Germany
Armagosa
Pancamint
Nevada
Sears
Bangor man loses leg in Fremont rail incident
James Bath, 61, of Bangor Maine, was found beside a Fremont Ohio railroad track after a passenger train passed. Passersby assumed severe injury, but Bath murmured he had lost his wooden leg, which was found split and lying between the rails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
Ohio
James Bath
Bangor
Maine
Tim
New York Dreams and Fire on Dream Street
A rambled city feature notes Dream Street on Seventh to Sixth avenues, contrasting grand skyline icons like the Chrys ler building with immigrant dreams and business tales. It mentions Elon Ritter’s air rights venture over Grand Central Palace tracks, a three alarm fire near Waldorf 22 A car, and profiles from Ze Leslie Thrasher to Russell Patterson plus a taxi joke with David Wallace, ending with Potsdam gardener Frieda Mueller and Claremont Inn’s Revolutionary War roots.
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Seventh Street
Sixth
Seventh Avenue
Theatrica
Damon Ruagos
New York
Woodworth
B. V. P. Ttter
Grand Central Palace
Neuman
New York Central
Ritter
Luisides
du Ponts
Musical Powder Box Alarm Sparks Manhunt
Miss Ber tha Robinson woke to a musical powder box released by a black burglar who lifted a powder puff. City marshal Marve Ogden pursued and captured the thief near Wichita, recovering a watch. The suspect grabbed Ogden’s pistol, shot him in the leg, and fled.
Biff Hoffmian Marries Claire Giannini in San Francisco
Clifford Ellsworth Hoffman known as Biff Hoffmian, Stanford football star and son of a Pettaluma carrier, wed Claire Evelyn Giannini heiress to the Bank of Italy fortune. The ceremony linked a poor carrier’s son to a San Francisco banking dynasty amid public romance and social chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Clifford Ellsworth Hoffman
San Pravasco Society
Cofman
Stanford University
Hoffnen
Petaluma
Edward &. Homan
Sam
Hoffman
Pop” Warner
Glenn Scobey
Pop
Warner
Stanford
Pop Warner
Carrier
Herbert Fleishhacker
Bil
Bile
Foo Warner
Fullinecks
Biff
Herbert Fleishhacker, Jr
Claire Evelyn Giannini
Giannini
Sun Spot and Rabbit Pelt Connection Traced
Montreal reports Hudson's Bay Company records show rabbit pelts vary with sunspot cycles. Dominion Observatory Ottawa found rabbit pelts average three times higher in the sunspot minimum year than at sunspot maximum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Hudson's Bey Company
Dominion Observatory
Ottawa
Brennan Refusal to Answer Questions Upheld by Court
A court rejected a bar committee’s challenge to John T. Brennan for declining to answer what he termed stupid questions on character and fitness after passing the state examinations. The panel asked, among other things, who discovered America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John T. Brennan
Bar Committee On
Lere
America
Thousand Bees Buzz in Radio Broadcast
A Cincinnati radio drama scene features a swarm of a thousand bees brought to WLW for sound effects. Beekeeping expert Boss Johnston uses the bees to create authentic buzzing, after others fail, and is stung twice before succeeding in the broadcast. The incident highlights station farm program interest and practical challenges in producing realistic bee sounds.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
WLI
Crosley
Dan Winger
Johnston
WLW
Indiana Beekeepers’ Association
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Herbert Weaver
Rapidan
Massachusetts Avenue
Washington
New York City
England
Junkers
France
Croydon
Gravesend
Marquis of Dufferin
Avaz
Ednam
Prince of Wales
Edward Ward
Henrik Loeffler
George L. P. Henderson
Tingland
Charles Shearing
London
Senate
Hoover
Bingham
Connecticut
Bate
Johnson
Moses
New Hampshire
Oddie
Pine
Oklahoma
Robinson
Indiana
Medellar
Tennessee
Walsh
Massachusetts
Capper
Allen
McMaster
Howell
Legge
Federal Farm Board
I Legge
Senator Cappers
Kansas
Reed
Farm Board
Frank Haucke
Council Grove
Aho
Pea
Charles Bowles
Bowles
Joseph Gillespie
Detroit
Harold Emmons
Emmons
Rowles
Gerald Burkey
Mayors
Green
Muctler
Buckley
Jake Lingle
Chicago
Eter A. Bocdanov
Amtorg Trading Corporation
Grover Waalen
Matthew Woll
Congressional Committee
Amtorg
Bogdanov
New York State
Soviet Bank of Foreign Troubse
Laudius Huston
Republican National Committee
Mr. Huston
Enoonass
Rorse
Cairo
Port Said
Miram Pasha
Talvister
Egypt
Lenny H. Curtiss
Buffalo
Flo
Mr. Curtiss
Wright Brothers
James Ends How
Hobo
Staunton
Harry $. Black
United States Realty and Improvement Corporation
Lloyd Habor
Long Island
Western Newspaper Union
Broadway
Forty-third Street
Yale
Southern University
Frank Daniels
East River
Forty-fourth Street
Sixth Avenue
Hippodirome
Zee
Leslie ‘Thrasher
Russell Patterson
Wallace Morgan
Jack Duncan
Duncan
David Wallace
Mr. Wallace
Tom
Eas
Frieda Mueller
East Side
Royal Palace
Potsdam
Claremont Inn
Riverside Drive
Vinnie Richards
Bei Syndicate. Inc
Hod Carrier
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