Plants for Drought Resistance from Roerich Expedition
Prof Nicholas Roerich leads an expedition seeking tenacious vegetation in Asia's dead sands. The team notes remnants of ancient forests and steppe grasses like feathergrass and urges adaptation of soybeans and crested wheat grass to tame erosion and aid American agriculture in the Gobi border regions. The goal is drought hardy plants for the great plains.
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Roerich
Asia
Great Plains
Gobi Desert
Practical Training Powers Early Journalism Education at Missouri
Walter Williams, head of Missouri's journalism department, lacked a bachelor’s degree yet forged a top program through rural and urban newspaper experience. His work as dean and eventual university president showed practical training can shape a strong journalism school. He advocated continued academic study for reporters while valuing hands-on learning. The piece notes an elephant’s lifting and carrying capacity as a contrasting aside.
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Walter Williams
University of Missouri
Williams
Fater
Columbia, Mo
Willams
Libraries In China Add Largest University Library
Construction began on the largest university library in China to serve 1,500 Nanking Central University students with 1,000 reading seats. Tsing Hua University Peiping had a 600-seat library, and a new Nanking University library under construction will welcome students from other city universities and the public.
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China
Nanking Central University
Tsing Hua University
Peiping
Nanking University
Vanity Mirror Aids German Airwoman In Crisis
Fraulein Fr Beinhorn used a vanity mirror to glimpse the back of her aircraft from Berlin to Capetown. She faced bad weather and violent jostling that loosened a luggage lid catch, letting items fall out and a coat become entangled in the rudder. She regained control after the coat tore free.
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Fraulein Fr Beinhorn
Berlin
Capetown
Fraulein
Beauty as a Boss's Wife Probe
A stern woman visits a firm. a junior clerk describes her as very beautiful. The head asks to see her and after she leaves he jokes that she could be his wife. The clerk replies that he thought she might be the boss's wife, prompting a dry retort.
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Abe Is
Cannot Be Explained By Words Or Definitions
Augustine noted that time God spirit personality love hate and many truths escape concise definition. Though we know these realities they elude precise description and even science fails to capture them. The idea remains that wisdom accepts not fully explainable forces guiding what is matter and existence.
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Augustine
Mit
International Hostel in Edinburgh Welcomes Global Guests
A survey of the visitors' register shows Edinburgh's new Youth Hostel as an international house with 1,500 visitors since spring. Only 400 were Scots. 56 percent came from England and 18 percent from 16 other countries led by Holland, Germany, the United States, Northern Ireland, Denmark, and the Irish Free State. Others hailed from Canada and many nations.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
England
Holland
Germany
United States
Northern Ireland
Denmark
Irish Free State
Canada
France’s Governments Show Democracy but Lags in Efficiency
In the four years of the Third Republic France has had 98 governments. She has had 26 since the war and 10 in the last three years. This is democracy, but it is hardly efficiency.
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France
London area: 117 square miles with 4.35 million in population
The Lon don county council administers a 117 square mile region with about 4.35 million residents and a rateable value near 300 million dollars.
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The
London County Council
Altitude Tests at Hamburg Institute Study Air Effects
At the Institute for Aeronautic Medicine in Hamburg equipment simulates high altitude flight to study effects on aviators. A central oxygen system serves ten testers, while breathing instruments gauge intake. Flyers record their names and addresses as air conditions vary, and reactions are tracked by handwriting comparisons.
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Institute For Aeronautic Medicine
Hamburg
King Steers His Yacht at Cowes in Light Humor
A lively anecdote recalls King Edward steering the Victoria and Albert with a destroyer captain jokingly offering lessons. The exchange ended with a joking quip about being out of practice. Separate notes mention mild starvation affecting mental processes per Chicago and Michigan studies and a claim that the Mediterranean surface lies lower than the Atlantic.
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King
Cowes
King Edward
Boward
Chicago
Michigan
Canadian Wild Flowers Paintings Shown By Wynnifred Walker
Internationally known painter Wynnifred Walker, touring Saskatchewan, created canvases of prairie wild flowers. She will exhibit the canvases later in England and has won medals in London, Paris, Philadelphia, Ghent. Walker serves as official artist for the Royal Horticultural Society in London.
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Fagland
Winnifred Walker
Saskatchewan
England
London
Paris
Philadelphia
Ghent
Royal Academy
Misa Walker
Royal Horticultural Society
Montreal
Vancouver
Lady Byng
Christian motoring urged by California Synod urge observers on highways
A California Synod of the Presbyterian Church proposes a Christian motoring code. Ministers and laymen call every driver to observe courtesy and grace on the highways to reduce accidents. They urge not to speed in danger zones and not to cut in, stressing general adherence to safety laws.
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Nla Synod
California Synod
The
Presbyterian Church
California
Windsor Daily Star
Still Working On Case Police Believe Judge Alive
Police detective Joseph von Weisenstein, pursuing the five year old mystery of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, believes the jurist is alive. Crater vanished after leaving his job and dining with friends, leaving a terse note from Mrs Crater and no clear clues.
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Manhattan
Ight Supreme Court
Joseph Force Crater
New York
Justice Crater
Joseph von Weisenstein
Building Permits Rise in 61 Canadian Cities in June
Ottawa reports that the value of building permits issued in 61 Canadian cities during June rose by 2,705,060 compared with June 1984. The six month total for 1995 reached 24,629,071 versus 10,411,377 in 1934, indicating general improvement and more favorable operations than in recent years. Daily Commercial News notes the Ottawa despatch as encouraging.
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Ottawa
Christmas Parcels Sent By Red Cross Unit
The Red Cross of Bartlesville Oklahoma mailed Christmas parcels early. Fifty one bags of presents were sent to San Francisco to be forwarded to soldiers in foreign service. Gifts were prepared by church organizations. Umpires complain privately about high speed cameras. In parts of Scotland a four leaf clover is seen as bad luck.
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Red Cross
Bartlesville
Oklo
San Francisco
Scotland
Predicting Earthquakes Debunked By Top Lab Experts
Widespread publicity for Reuben Greenspan of New York claiming quake prediction spurred the Carnegie Institute Seismological Laboratory in Pasadena to respond. Dr Beno Gutenberg stated all attempts to forecast earthquakes have failed and that Greenspan methods are not new. Predictions tied to gravitational effects of celestial bodies showed no consistent correlations in most regions.
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Reuben Greenspan
New York
Carnegie Institution Seismological Laboratory
Pasadena
California
Beno Gutenberg
Greenspan
Turkey
Persia
India
Africa
English inventor tests water skis off Dover coast
German inventor Friedrick Walther demonstrates metal water skis in Dover Harbor two canoe shaped shoes six feet long eight inches deep and ten inches wide. He grips bamboo levers with metal cylinders and claims to walk on water better than on land. Walther plans to cross the English Channel in five hours when trained, riding waves at five miles per hour.
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Ventor
English Channel
English
France
Dover
England
Friedrick Walther
Herr Walther
Lavish Lord Mayor of London Coach Decorated by Italian Artist
The old Lord Mayor of London’s coach, ornate a century and a half ago by an Italian painter, features Roman trophies, globe figures, the Serpents and the Dove, Faith, Hope and Charity, Neptune and Truth with her mirror, Temperance, the City Arms, the Sword and Mace, the Scales of Justice, the Tower, and St Paul’s Cathedral. Despite its splendor, the coach’s comfort lags behind its grandeur, a common complaint from several Lord Mayors.
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London
Tower
St. Paul's Catheral
Unsinkable Ship Idea by Portland Vendor
Henry H. Stack a 56 year old Portland newspaper vendor promotes an unsinkable ship using a chain of pontoons instead of a solid hull He says his pontoon vessel designs are patented and that funding is all that remains to launch their large successor on the seas Stack formerly worked on war vessels at Bremerton Washington shipyard in 1917.
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Henry H. Stack
Portland
Stack
Bremerton (Wash
Seven Seas
Butter Paid Daily Labor in 1444 Paris
A historical note records that in Paris in 1444 a daily manual laborer received a pound of butter as customary payment. This reflects early wage practices and the value placed on dairy goods in medieval urban economies.
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Paris
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