Empire Is Bound by Crown After Westminster Statute
The statute of Westminster makes each dominion a self governing nation free to make its own laws and bound only by the crown for imperial unity. Ireland joins the dominions under the new legal framework, while debates continue on how future dominions may advise the king or diverge from imperial policy.
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London
Britain
Commonwealth
Irish Free State
Ireland
Geneva
League of Nations
Couse of Commons
Human Body Worth 94 Cents Says Expert
London Here Dr. Thomas B. Lawson, a British physician, states the average human body is made of water enough to fill a ten gallon barrel, fat for seven bars of soap, carbon for 9 000 pencils, phosphorus for 2 500 matches, magnesium for a dose, iron to wake a nail, lime to whitewash a chicken coop, sulfur to rid a dot of fiers, and Ali could be bought for 94 cents at prevailing prices.
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London
Thomas B. Lawson
Ali
Burglar Uses Cemetery Chapel for His Home
A thief turned a chapel in a Limoges cemetery into a hidden home during the war. Police raided the site finding a shaving mug a piece of soap and a wash basin. he slept on suitcases full of loot and drew water from a hose used to sprinkle graves.
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Limoges
France
Romance Never Dies and the Nice Boy Leroy Young
A fragmented clipping presents Leroy Young of 1116 Georgia St Los Angeles depicted as athletic and top in class. It also recounts a prison tale of three youths asking for dice before service terms and a rural apple and wheat note, plus various short items and ads from the era.
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Leroy Young
Georgia St. Angeles
Yau
Fel
France’s Gretry tune becomes royal melody after 1814
In 19th century Paris a Gretry quartet from Lucille titled On peut- etre mieux qu si sein de sa famille received strong public attention after a July 1 performance. It later gained official royal status during the Bourbon Restoration in 1814 in London amid other émigré songs.
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France
Gretry
Korythaia
Moscow
London
Rise and Fall of Detroit Banker Robert Allan
Detroit banker Robert Moffat Allan rose from Messenger boy to president of the American State Bank, overseeing a vast network of branches. He was convicted of embezzlement with a sentence of one to twenty years, ending a meteoric but turbulent ascent amid the 1929 boom and crash, a lifestyle among Detroit’s social elite, and widespread dealings in high finance.
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Detroit
Star of Destiny
Robert Moffatt Allan
Allan
Lave Ishly
Militia Bureau Names New Chief George Leach
George EBay Leach, twice mayor of Minneapolis and WWI wounded near Pexonne France, is named head of the militia bureau for a one year term with the rank of mds remever He succeeds William G. Hver gen who resigned to join First Baptist church Cole duties of the bureau include handling national and state militia affairs.
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George EBay _Leach
Minneapolis
Pexonne
France
Militia Bureau
Remever
William G. Hvergen
First Baptist Church
Oriental bugs collection grows at Stockholm museum
Stockholm hosts a vast display of preserved Oriental flies and bugs at the Museum of Natural History. A recent accession adds 6000 specimens from the Kurile islands, reflecting broad scholarly interest with more than thirty-five books and pamphlets written on these species.
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Stockholm
Anyother
Museum of Natural History
Far East
Kurile Islands
Springfield Doughnut Appetite Strikes Local Cattle
Springfield shoppers report cattle with a notable appetite for doughnuts as Mrs. Anna K. Brower buys nearly all the state’s doughnuts and bread from area bake shops, reflecting unusual local pastry demand.
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Springfield
Anna K. Brower
Smallest book on display at local museum
World’s tiniest book, a 27 page English almanac, is shown at the museum. The volume, about one inch by three inches, features poems and fates, and was presented by Ars. W. W. and others. Fire incident report notes a barn collapse after a cow, horse, and mule in Lawrence Mullins’s barn fought, trapping animals inside.
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Wise
Ars. W. W
Dizi
Ellen
Lawrence Mullins
From Bad to Wors President Shantz warns at Tucson talk
In a troubled address President Shantz of Ani versity laments that racketeers fail to stop when law is broken and compares the danger to a milk affair. He cites escalating vice and calls for action. Meanwhile the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks has purchased the Powell mansion, a historic site linked to the founding era and Washington's gatherings.
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Shantz
Aniversity
Tucson
Jude
Poe
Philadelphia Society For the Preservation of Landmarks
Powell
Philadelphia
The
Republic
Washington
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