News Review of Current Events by Edward W. Pigeard
A broad survey covers farm relief debates in Congress, Hoover’s law enforcement push, and disarmament talks. Highlights include McNary opposing export debentures as subsidies, Hoover’s critique of Prohibition-linked measures, and ambassadors shaping naval disarmament positions. Weather, accidents, and political tensions across states also noted.
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Edward W. Pigeard
Congress
Cannon
Missouri
McNary
Oregon
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Senate
Hoover
deNary
White House
Knife Lost in War Returned to Owner in 1918 France
Story of Dr Fa Nalvert who recovered his long lost hunting knife after ten years. First Lt F J Nalvert, wounded in the First Division in March 1918 in France, lost the trench knife and medals during salvage efforts. A Lt Stevens found the knife and held it for years before returning it via a correspondence chain led by Curtis B Richardson. Nalvert confirms ownership and recalls the wartime salvage operations and hopes to locate related medals through a renewed search.
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Cedar Rapids
Owa
Curtis B. Richardson
Hammond
Fa. Nalvert
France
F. J. Nalvert
Aldt
Roctor Naivert
Doctor Naibert
Nurbert
Mr Richardson
Hay Sutdtse
Arma
A.e
G. H. GO
Stevens
Dijon
IsSur-Tilie
Richardson
Lieutenant Stevens
California Scientist Backs Boy's Ability
Prof Olga Bridgman of the University of California medical school reports a survey of 3,674 subnormal children show more boys than girls with lower intelligence, challenging prior beliefs. The study, announced recently, covers dull and idiotic levels of subnormality.
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California
Berkeley
Califf
Olga Bridgman
University of California Medical School
Pearls Found in 25 Million Year Old Fossil Bed
Berkeley researchers indicate ten pearls unearthed by UC Berkeley geologists near Millville, California, date about 25 million years, formed in mollusk shells related to the modern pearl oyster. The team, led by Prof. N E A Hinds with Rh D Russell, examined the rock and mollusk Inoceramus to verify the pearls presence and origin.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
N. E. A. Hinds
Rh. D. Russell
Department of G Eology
Universityen
Oak Run Creek
Millville
Redding
Caue
Earth
Molinsk
Rossel
Russell
England
Stanford
Sacramento Valley
Texas
America Leads Nations in Aircraft Production
The United States topped global aircraft production in 3192S per Commerce Department figures, while Britain and likely France led in exports to the U.S. France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland produced smaller shares. U.S. aeronautical exports reached about 3.71 million dollars, with Britain at roughly 7.48 million and France's total not yet disclosed.
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America
Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Switzerland
Fraece
Skeletons Found in Berlin Church Treasures
Workmen at the Blosterkirche under Doctor Stein berger unearthed a subterranean tomb containing 18 skeletons of women identified as eighteenth century remains. The relics were exhumed and reburied. The Klosterkirche, dating from the late thirteenth century, has long yielded historical artifacts.
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Berlin
Blosterkirche
Steinberger
Klosterkirche
Natural lava cold storage used by farmers near Trondale
Farmers in Trondale Washington use a natural lava flame aging 2,000,000 years to store perishables. The temperature remains between 41 and 87 degrees year round, serving as an ancient cold storage facility.
Excavation in Camden Reveals Prehistoric Geology Center
Work at a Camden excavation 7 feet below street level uncovered imprint of a leaf and over 100 logs in early petrification. Dr Lewis Pilcher of the University of Pennsylvania notes trees grew in mud after glacial waters receded in what is now southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Geologists place shore line near Bryn Mawr during the glacial era.
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Camden
N. S
Lewis Pilcher
University of Pennnsylvania
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
America
Bryn
Mawr
Penn
Dumbbell club formed at Kelly field for officers
A Texas air corps circle at Kelly field forms the Dumbbell club to honor officers who achieved notable aerial feats. The club awards a banner and maintains a scrapbook of each member’s initiation, with a ceremony recounting the October 28, 1923 incident where a DH 7 fighter tangled with an Ethiopian pilot and crashed, yet the hero survived.
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San Antonio
Texas
Kellyfeld
Wright Field
Air Corps
Kelly Field
Dallas
Kelly
Lhe
Committee On Awards
Beirg
Airforce
Collegians Seek Jobs in Paraguayan Army
Asuncion Paraguay reports letters from US college students volunteering to join Paraguay against Bolivia after the Chaco dispute. One UT Austin student offered 200 trained companions, another from Comanche Texas proposed James Madison as aviator with two companions as sergeants and machine gunners. Similar appeals reached Bolivian authorities from Americans eager for action in the swampy Chaco.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
United States College
Bolivia
Guggiari
Chaco
University of Texas, Austin
Ernest Hsired
Comanche
Texas
James Madison
Remove U S War Dead from Russ Sail Graves
Kansas City Kansas bodies of American war dead buried in northern Russia and Siberia are to be removed to the United States as soon as graves are located. Announcement by Eugene P. Carver Jr commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Russian foreign affairs ministry agreed to assist by locating graves and aiding removal of soldiers who died on the Eastern front in World War I.
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America
Admiralty
Count von Bererstorff
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Kansas City
Kan
Siberia
United,States
Eugene P. Carver Jr
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Carver
Russian People's Commissdride For Foreign Affairs
Veterans’ ‘Organization
Jotal
The
Kraves
Freshman Class Size Noted at Northeastern Campus
A Boston Herald item notes Northeastern University enrolls its largest freshman class to date including Eugene Rock of Malden weighing 310 pounds and standing six feet six inches, highlighting campus growth and student body size.
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Boston
Eugene Rock
Malden
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N. C
Henry Meade Bland
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State Assembly
Jete Ina Coolbrith
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Leovade
Associated Press
Ambassador Gibson
League @ Nations’ preparatory ‘ disarmament commission
Hoover Administration
Commission On
Ail
Doctor Schacht
Llenois Wets
Drys
Cole Gblease
South Carolina
Eflin
Alabama
Brockton
Mass
Massachusetts
Heflin
Brékton
Borah
Heffin
Watson
Indiana
Nebraska
Wyoming
Kansas
American Commission
Dominican Republic
Charles G. Dawes
Linor Smita
Roosevelt Field
San Diego
Wien
Liew
Howard Keefer
Maddux Air Lines, Inc
Phoenix
Uited States Supreme Court
Barry FL Sinclair
Sinclair
Seth W. Richardson
Fargo
N. D
GB. M. Farmerter
Tuling Klein
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Commerce
Harry J. Gliehirst
Chemical Warfare Service
Army
Col
S. C. Fuqua
Dward F. Carry
Pullman Company
Chicago
Prince Henry Hohenzollern
Schleswig-Holstein
Dumbbell Club
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