Morgenthau and Morgentau era views on cross border defense
Arthur Brisbane argues for a peaceful North American union and no mutual war risk between the United States and Britain’s empire. He suggests Canada could benefit from U.S. air bases and cites Morgenthau’s financial steadiness while noting calls for a West Point for crime. The piece laments Alfred du Pont’s death and reports on German submarines and global decline of nations.
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Canada
Mr. Morgenthau
West Point
Alfred du Pont
United States
North American
Mexican
North Pole
Mexico
Panama Canal
British Empire
Pacific
Atlantic
Lights of New York and the Gregg shorthand story
Nikola Tesla shelters and tends pigeons in a midtown hotel room, nursing hundreds of birds over the years. Dr. John Robert Gregg, the famed shorthand innovator, discusses the longevity and global spread of his system and its ancient precedents.
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Nikola Tesla
New York
Tesla
Plans to search for Franklin logs in Arctic voyage
F K Pease of London and his dog Jill sailed to Montreal en route to the Arctic to spend three or four years seeking the logbooks of Sir John Franklin. He brings 30 tons of equipment and plans a route from Churchill to Chesterfield Inlet across an unnamed island, guided by a map once owned by Franklin’s expedition.
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Montreal
F. K. Pease
London
Jill
Arctic Circle
Sir John Franklin
Pease
Churchill
Chesterfield Inlet
Knud Rasmussen
Franklin
Northwest Passage
Lost radium found by homemade radio device
Nashville police or hospital attendants report a homemade radio device led to the discovery of radium valued at $3,000 in an ash can at a local hospital. Arthur Omberg built the device and located the tube after arriving at the hospital. he could not adjust the instrument as the indicator spun and he sifted ashes near ash cans.
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Nashville
Tenn
Arthur Omberg
Omberg
Trees Tell Story of Pueblo Culture
Washington reports tree ring chronology shows Pueblo I lasting 800 to 900 AD and Pueblo II 875 to 950 AD with Pueblo II enduring overlaps. The study contrasts Pueblo growth with Aztec and Maya civilizations, noting focus on common man and family comfort rather than monumental temples.
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Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
American Anthropological Association
Pueblos
Doctor Roberts
Refuse From Sugar Cane to Produce Cellulose
Washington reports that bagasse from sugar cane mills can be used to manufacture alpha cellulose, the key ingredient in rayon and translucent wrappers. D J Lynch of the USDA will oversee Hawaii trials after lab successes, noting bagasse is an abundant by product with no collection challenges.
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Washington
D. ¥. J. Lynch
United States Department of Agriculture
Lynch
Hawaii
11-Year-Old Boy Learns to Talk All Over Again
Port Clinton Ohio reports eleven-year-old Oak Harbor resident Jack Fleckner lost speech after his brother Howard thirteen fired a bullet from a gun believed unloaded. Doctors say with special tutoring he can return to sixth grade within a year and a tutor has been hired.
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Port Clinton
Ohio
Jack Fleckner
Oak Harbor
Here
Howard
Teenager shoots self in mirror trick
Ottie Plumley, sixteen, told police he shot himself in the right chest with a pistol. He described twisting his wrist and aiming into the reflected barrel in a mirror to fire the self-inflicted wound at General Hospital.
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Cincinnati
General Hospital
Ottie Plumley
Adaptable cotton dress with adjustable sleeves and yoke
Be a queen in a versatile cotton frock with a round yoke and panel front. Sleeves can be worn puffed or with tiny wings by omitting elastic. Pattern 2175 offers varied color options in cottons and percale, with illustrated step by step instructions.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Department
West Seventeenth Street
New York
Picnic Defined as Day for Ants and Bugs
Mira Izzard and Dittters define a picnic as a day set apart to get better acquainted with ants bugs worms mosquitoes chiggers sand fleas and poison ivy in the outdoors.
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Izzard
Naturally Wooden Jasper I
A humorous Chelsea Record snippet notes a family with wooden body parts and jokes about a wooden head, highlighting quirky dialogue and local humor. The exchange contrasts a wooden leg and artificial limbs with the narrator’s own “wooden head” quip.
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Jasper
Clifford
Chelsea
Willing Partner Minister Seeks Flapper for Missionary Movement
A humorous exchange features a willing partner minister asking a flapper to join a missionary movement. The flapper expresses curiosity and asks if the movement resembles dances like the tango or collegiate waltz.
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Flapper
Dreamy exchanges in boxing gym echoes of a mother’s question
A mother asks if her son counted to ten before striking back. Danny replies he did not count but the referee counted ten after he struck the other boy.
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Danny
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Brisbane
State Department
Morgenthau
Dolar
National Crime Army
Jacksonville
Fla
du Pont
Great Britain
Britain
Wilhelmshafen
Mtead Yolney
Europe
Rome
Ar East
Texas
Howard Pierson
King Features Syndicate
WNO
Lights of
L. L. Stevenson
Jugo- Slavia
New York Street
John Robert Gregg
National Arts Club
Gregg
British Isles
Dioceletian
Julius Caesar
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Southwest
New World
OUR Comic
Little
Finney
Ted O'Loughlin
Western Newspaper Union
Snoops
Sergeant Einner
Ringside
Osborne
MR. Vv
Brooklyn
Boip
Bain
Berl
Mira
Eae Nees
Eli Ag
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