World Economic Conference in Washington Opens
Silas Strawn opens the International Chamber of Commerce sessions in Washington. Hoover urges cutting military budgets and pushing for tariff reform. Theunis calls liberal tariffs a remedy. Traylor blasts producers and bankers for poverty amid plenty. Delegates invite to Chicago Jubilee. Boy Scouts mark 21st year with awards. Ongoing political and colonial news from Europe and Asia follows.
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Daestons
Washington
International Chamber of Commerce
Silas H. Strawn
Caltage
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Georges Theunis
Hoover
Continents
League of Nations
M. Theunis
United States Chamber of Commerce
Atlantic City
Melvin A. Traylor
Chicago
America
Mr. Strawn
Midwest
Loop
Fort Dearborn
Air Force
Arickara People and Their Traditions and History
The Arickara, called corn eaters in sign language, describe corn as a sacred trade item and ritual focus. They were agricultural with winter buffalo hunts, bold in warfare and ice-field tasks, and skilled in crafts from boatmaking to beadwork. Their history links to Skidi, migration to Missouri, trader conflicts, and culminating in Fort Berthold reservation in 1880 and later allotment.
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Missouri
Sono River
Nebraska
Omaha
Lewis and Clark
Dakota
United States
Loup River
Skidi
Fort Berthold
Mandan
Western Newspaper Union
Isle of Man a Tiny Isle of Warm Welcome and History
A fragmented travel note portrays the Isle of Man as a small, historic isle in the Irish Sea attracting half a million English and Irish holiday makers. It highlights Mona as a former Norse, Irish, and English flashpoint, the Tynwald court, and Smuggling era, while mentioning Manx scenery from Bray Hill to Gaxen-haired legends and inviting thoughts on its climate and fields.
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Isle of Man
Isle of Alay
National Geographic Society
Lil Island
Hhaefell
Irish Sea
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
England
Caesar
Snally
Orry
Tynwald
House of Keys
Hellin
Washington
Austin Corbin
New Hampshire
Population tally places Port Arthur 187th in U S
Unofficial figures from the 194 census list 187 cities with populations over 50,000 in the United States. Port Arthur Texas is credited with 50,007, ranking as the 187th largest city.
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Huastting
United States
Port Arthur
Texas
Dont Blame the Pie Pil For Indigestion
A short saying suggests indigestion often comes from overeating rather than pie. The line attributes the problem to excess meals rather than the pie itself, reflecting a humorous or folk viewpoint from Women’s Home Companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womar
Installment Buying Centennial Marked This Year
The article notes the centennial of installment buying, begun by savings and four companies to aid people of small means to buy homes on installments. It explains how this system shifted buying modes to allow rent-like repayment and steady funding for lending institutions, with early savings and loan origins traced to Ohio after the Civil War.
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Pioney
Ohio
Savings and Loan
Delaware
Cleveland
Cincinnati
ISGTS
Old Times at Wellesley Gentry Jonson Recollections
Mrs Gentry Jonson of Brunswick Maine recalls the first class to graduate from Wellesley noting few dances or parties and limited music. Recreation came from two flat bottom boats named Longfellow and Edith. Commencement gowns were black silk twenty yards long.
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Wellesley
Gentry Jonson
Brunswick
Maine
Boston
Longfellow
Edith
Safecracker Immune Leo J McNamara Authority On Vaults
Safecracker Leo J McNamara of Pawtucket has never served a day in jail after 14 years in the trade. Since 1917 he has been regarded locally as an authority on safecracking, and police have frequently called on him for cooperation in robberies involving this art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo J. McNamara
Pawtucket
Ft. 1
McNamara
Popular College Course Growth At Columbia University
A home study program at Columbia University is swelling enrollments with more than 40 500 students expected this fall. Students from every state and over 25 nations are registered in the correspondence courses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sion
Columbia University
Van Buren and Roosevelt: First presidents born under the flag
The note recalls that Martin Van Buren, the first U.S. president born on American soil, shares English extraction with Theodore Roosevelt. Both presidents are linked to Dutch ancestry, highlighting a rare lineage thread in early American leadership.
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Martin van Buren
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
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M. A. Traylor
Edward W. Pickard
Silas HB. Strawn
Boy Scouts of America
National Council
Memphis
Walter W. Head
Mortimer Schiff
New York
Dao Beard
Boy Scouts
Lord Hampton
Griffith Ogden Ellis
American Boy Magazine
Lewis Gantry
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Robert de Eran
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Leo A. Rover
Francis
A. B. Fall
Albert B. Fall
Supreme Court of the United States
Secretary of the Interior
Fall
New Mexico
Park Lane
New York City
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Herbert Hoover
John Sloane
August Belmont
E. Marshall Field
Jeremiah Milhand
Samuel Schiffer
Robert L. Gerry
John R. Drexel
Mabel Choate
Frances Perkins
New York State
Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Bernadette Fe, Schmitt
University of Chicago
Susan Glaspell
Alison
Henry James
Charles W. Eliot
Robert Frost
A. B. Macdonald
The
Kansas City Star
H. R. Knickerbocker
Philadelphia Ledger
C.S. Ryckman
Fremont
Neb.) Tribune
Edmund Duffy
Baltimore Sim
Constitution of
Atlanta
Gporse Fisher Barker
Tuxedo Park
N. Y
Baker
Berlin
Germany
M. Briand
Czechoslovakia
GIXA
China
Shanghai
Tientsin
Mukden
Canton
Chiang Kaishek
Miles Lampson
Tigus
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Cantonang
Chen Chi-tang
Chiang
Kwangtung
Kwangsi
Doumergue
France
Vincépnes Park
Italy
Belgium
Brazil
Denmark
Holland
Portugal
Indo-China
Equatorial Africa
Madagascar
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Carmona
Madeira Island
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Legation
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Iris
Seiji Yoshihara
Tokyo
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Hechi Shimbun
Japan
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Petropavlovsk
Kamchatka
Bering Sea
Aleutian Islands
Alaskan
Seward
Vancouver
Seattle
San Francisco
National
Yoshihara
Junkers
Don
South America
Bolama
Gaines
Hejaz
Nejd
Arabian Peninsula
Ibn Saud II
Epirua II, Watson
Arickara
Pany
Coleman Dept Wuss
Dlame
Rene
Fahce. TV
Coleman Lamp & Stove Sc
Wichita
Kansas
U.S.A
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