Smuggling Guns to Ethiopia Across Europe and Red Sea
A sprawling account describes gunrunning to Ethiopia as Europe’s smugglers ship rifles, grenades, and machine guns through Suez and the Red Sea. Agents from Greece, Germany, Armenia, and other origins seek weapons for Haile Selassie’s forces battling Italian aggression. Ships, secret orders, and caravan routes funnel arms to Axum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Plimsoll
Suez
Ethiopia
Guns to New Game Guns to New Game of Arabia
Gun traders search the land seeking rifles to ship across the Red Sea from Arabia to Africa. Arabian tribes assist Ethiopians against the invaders, eager for payment for their sharpshooting rifles.
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Arabia
Yemen
Lawrence
Africa
Archer Kills Snake With Bow and Arrow
Fresno California deputy county superintendent Arthur 4G Shipley spied a three foot rattler by the roadside and used a bow and arrow from his car to kill it with three shots pinning it in three spots and a final arrow through the head. He preserves the rattles as evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
Calif
Arthur
Shipley
Mailbox Use Disputed by a Mouse and a Woman
Miss Frances Lundquist of Brookfield Connecticut writes Uncle Sam about a field mouse nest in her mailbox. Each time she opens the box the mouse disturbs her, and she fears continuing with the mail service advising Rural Delivery experts to resolve the issue.
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Washington
Frances Lundquist
Brookfield
Conn
Sam
Frances
Post Office Department
Lundquist
Robot Algi Demonstrated in Montreal as Thinking Automaton
Mrs Betty Leyborn, of the British Institute of Mental Science, shows her robot Algi in Montreal demonstrations. Algi reads aloud from books, answers questions, and appears to think. The nickel plated automaton has concealed microphones for ears and photic cells for eyes enabling it to read and repeat text. It can puff a cigar and fire a pistol on command.
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Montreal
Betty Leyborn
British Institute of Mental Science
Algi
School Teacher Learns She Was Recorded as a Boy
Bertha Of ferdinger a school teacher in St. Clairsville Ohio learned she had been officially recorded as male for 36 years. The error appeared when applying for a passport and her 1899 birth record listed no first name. Probate Judge Harry Albright ordered the correction.
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St. Clairsville
Ohio
Bertha Offerdinger
Harry Albright
Dionne Babies Say They Now Self Support
Through physician Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe the Dionne quintuplets report they are self supporting with about 45 000 dollars in bonds and cash and contracts that may reach 50 000 dollars. They note ongoing expenses total around 1 000 dollars monthly including salaries meals and upkeep.
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Oliva
Elzire Dionne
Canadian Red Cross
Ontario
Dafoe Hospital
Poison spot of crime opens St Paul scandal
Wallace Jamie, 27, a crime student, used devices from his university training to monitor and record police conversations inside the St. Paul public safety building. He tapped wires, installed microphones, and linked crime elements to high police officials, prompting a major shakeup. He was later named deputy commissioner of public safety by Commissioner H. E. Warren.
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Homer 8. Cummings
United States
St. Paul
Wallace Jamie
St. Paul’s
Public Safety Building
Jamie
University of Chicago
Northwestern University
Police Department
St. Paul's
Public Safety
H. E. Warren
Henpecked Husbands Blamed by Berlin Psychiatrist
Dr G Giehm of Zepernick sanitarium notes many hysterical women are provoked by husbands especially henpecked ones. He labels such husbands the greatest danger to patient wellbeing in his investigation of hysteria cases.
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Berlin
G. Giehm
Zepernick
Naming Reno Named for Civil War General Reno
Reno, Nevada takes its name from General Jesse Lee Reno, a federal officer in the Civil War, honoring his service and place in U.S. military history.
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Reno
Gen
Jesse Lee Reno
Nomination of Michael J. Roche as Federal Judge
Federal Judge Michael J. Roche an Irish immigrant who studied law while working as an iron moulder has practiced law in San Francisco since 1909 and was nominated by President Roosevelt to serve as a federal district judge for northern California.
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Michael J. Roche
San Francisco
Roosevelt
California
Black widow traps mouse in Fresno scene
A black widow spider gains the upper hand over a live mouse in a Fresno setting. An oil worker later killed both the spider and the mouse, ending the encounter.
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Fresno
Selby plant shutdown as 300 workers strike for union recognition
The Selby plant of American Smelting and Refining Company closed last week after about 300 employees walked out seeking recognition for the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers and a minimum pay of 5 dollars an hour.
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Selby
American Smelting and Refining Company
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Thoughts on New York figures and writers from a strolling observer
A brisk nod through cultural and public figures in New York, listing entertainers authors and professionals. Names include Walter Damrosch Helen Morgan Rob Wagner Patou and Arthur Gutterman, with notes on careers, places like Vermonts Green Mountains, and references to 1930s culture and venues.
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New York
Charles Scott
Tip Top
Radcliff Romaine
Claire St. Noble
Jeeter Lester
Tobacco Road
Ewing Galloway
Walter Damrosch
Rob Wagner
Helen Morgan
Winnifred Shaw
Glenn L. Martin
Gerald Breitigam
Roxy
Hal Phyfe
Jack Dempsey
Times
Robert van Gelder
Bruno Lessing
Patou
Paris
J. Aubrey Smith
Ernest Torrence
Jim Flagg
Morton Downey
Peter Arno
Hope Jane Cowl
Cedric
Memories of Jed Kiley and Edwin Alger in a vaudeville era
The piece recalls Jed Kiley as a 16 year old boarding school editor near Chicago who wrote a kitten poem inspiring a younger classmate. It follows their faded reunion in Washington and Virginia as health sagas unfold, plus notes on Joe Cawthorn and other vaudeville veterans and a Christmas gag about a 10 foot fish.
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Jed Kiley
Chicago
Kiley
Washington, D. C
Riley
Virginia
Jay Jerome Williams
Edwin Alger
Cawthorn
McNaushit Syndicate
Las
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France
America
Benito Mussolini
Haile Selassi I
East Africa
Italy
Solomon
Sheba
Archer
Snake
Robot
Imperial Valley
Colorado River
Will Rogers
Wee Kirks
Glendale
Rupert Hughes
Laurence Tibbett
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Park
Oklahoma
Rogers
Citizens’ Protective Committee
Santa Rosa
Sonoma County
Sol Nitzberg
Jack Green
Earl Cramer
Emil Gap
Mel C. Kennett
Chicago Uniden
York
Arthur Gutterman
Green Mountains
Vermont
Death
General Putnam
Lloyd George
Joe Cawthorn
Kolb & Dill
Weber
Fields
Sam Bernard
Louis Mann
Bickel
Watson
Cliff Gordon
Victor Herbert
Enza
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