Oceanic Flying Advances Spur Commercial Air Travel
The article surveys rapid progress in commercial aviation with Pan American routes across the Pacific and planned North Atlantic service. It details Zeppelin activity, German catapult ships Schwabenland and Dornier plans, and the shift from stunt to regular transoceanic flights, noting stations at Honolulu and other bases and highlighting historic milestones from Alcock Brown to Lindbergh.
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Pan-American Airways
Pacific
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
North America
Europe
Atlantic
John Alcock
Arthur Whitten Brown
English
San Francisco
China
Ocean
Hindenburg
Honolulu
Midway Island
Wake Island
Guam
Manila
Germany
South America
Secatharine Worth Adlaie Toon Oddie
Alcock - Brown
Ireland
Cabral
Couthino
Polar
North Pacific
Alcock
Brown
Admiral Byrd
North Pole
Lindbergh
Indian City Visited by De Soto Unearthed by Archaeologists
Scientific excavations reveal a vast prehistoric Indian capital east of the Mississippi near New Orleans. The site features an 80 foot mound, a central square, and a thriving town with 400 houses and abundant crops. Evidence notes clay platform construction, terraced mounds, and signs of early mound building culture linked to Ohio valley traditions.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Hernando de Soto
Mississippi
Smithsonian
de Soto
Ohio Valley
Universe Growth Supports French Astronomer Beliefs
A French astronomer argues the universe is expanding and stars formed with nearly their current masses, implying little stellar evolution. He cites Mineur and Lemaitre, suggesting Milky Way stars are ten to twenty billion years old and that the universe’s age is far beyond a billion years.
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M. Mineur
Star
Earth
Milky Way
G. Lemaitre
Eat Eggs Doctors Advise Sufferers With Arthritis
Five doctors from the Medical College of Virginia advise arthritis sufferers to eat eggs and sulfur rich, low carbohydrate diets. They report indole levels in blood drop with such diets, correlating with pain reduction and patient improvement after a month.
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Richmond
Medical College of Virginia
S. L. Rucker
Talk of the Quilting Bee Pineapple Pattern Promises Easy Patchwork
A Pineapple quilting pattern labeled 5591 offers a center starting point with evenly cut strips and snips. The block chart shows cutting sewing and finishing steps for bed size and placement of patches with contrasting materials. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins to obtain the pattern.
Household Tips From A Busy Kitchen Notebook
Practical domestic hints cover frosting flexibility with vinegar, woodwork cleansing with kerosene oil, protecting delphinium with Evergreens, table polish with peppermint essence, repurposing worn whisk brooms, ironing ecru linens on the wrong side, fruit juice fillings for sandwiches, aluminum pan cautions, careful watering before transplanting, and Russian dressing components. The ad ends with a pattern number field and name address instruction.
Invisible Keep Out Sign Keeps Roots From Invading
A Howard University study by Prof. M. A. Raines uses a glass sheet and a chemical language to mark root territory. The device shows roots growing entirely visible, indicating a method to deter neighboring roots from encroaching on claimed space.
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Washington
M. A. Raines
Howard University
Survey of Nations Once Part of Ancient Rome
Countries that formed part of the ancient empire of Rome are conducting a survey to map the historic reach of Rome. The project gathers data from multiple states to document cultural and political legacies.
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London
Rome
Lapland Revealed as Warm in Stone Age
Swedish Lapland uncovers over 30 Stone Age settlements dating to around 3000 B C. archaeologist Kurt Tinnberg of Stockholm reports the finds.
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Lapland
Stockholm
Swedish
Kurt Tinnberg
Foreign Phrases and their One-Line Translations
A compilation of mottoes with translations in multiple languages noting Latin Italian French and German phrases and their meanings from haste to honesty and social phrases. The items include concise English renderings such as patience, love, and social phrases like the fashionable world and rejoice in God.
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Schwabenland
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