Fossil Voyage Confirms South America Once World Apart
Field Museum paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs led a twenty eight month expedition to Bolivia and Argentine Patagonia yielding eight hundred fossils across about one hundred species. The finds include a two million year old fossil forest in Santa Cruz and evidence that South America was isolated from North America for long periods, with later land connections allowing limited animal mingling.
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Chicago
South America
Australia
Elmer S. Riggs
Field Museum of Natural History
Bolivia
Field Museum
Riggs
Santa Cruz
Patagonian
Argentine
Pompeii
North America
Darwin
Beagle
Santa Cruz Territory
Rio Gallegos
Tierra del Fuego
Andes Mountains
Professor Riggs
Chubut
Isthmus
Central America
Caribbean Sea
Rio Negro
Pampas
Asia
Africa
Europe
United States
Rio Coyle
Lake Cardiel
Commodoro Rivadavia
Chico
Lake Musters
Patagonia
America
Sternberg
Abbott
Buenos Aires
Tarija
Yale Statue Image Graces New Half Cent Stamps design
The Post Office will issue half cent stamps featuring Nathan Hale’s statue from Yale University Connecticut Hall. The Riggs Field Museum expedition led by Riggs and son gathered vast fossil finds across Patagonia Bolivia and Argentina, revealing a dramatic northward animal migration and creating one of the world’s largest prehistoric collections.
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Nathan Hale
Post Office Department
Connecticut Hall
Yale University
Plan Museum of Civil War in Pension Office Building
Proposes establishing a lasting Civil War museum in the Pension Office Building in Washington. Notes plans seen as congressional, cites history of last survivors and widows from earlier conflicts, and argues the building could house material displays, relics, and exhibits to preserve national war history.
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Plan Museum of Civil War
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Bureau
Congress
Casper Buberl
Washington
Pension
Lincoln
Eclipses Over Three Years Foreseen by Naval Observatory
Washington observers project solar and lunar eclipses from 1926 to 1928 under Capt. W. S. Eichelberger. A 1926 total solar eclipse will be Africa to Indian Ocean. a 1926 July 9 10 annular eclipse in the central Pacific. 1927 lists five eclipses. 1928 shows three suns and two moons with a May 19 total solar event whose shadow falls mainly south of Africa.
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Washington
United States Naval Observatory
W. S.eichelberger
United States
Pacific
Africa
Indian Ocean
Naval Observatory
Sumatra
Central
Pacific Ocean
Australia
Asia
Mexico
Southern Pacific
Atlatic Ocean
North America
South America
Europe
Alaska
Honolulu
Manila
Samoa
Eichelberger
South Africa
North
Lamp to duplicate sunlight aids tuberculosis treatment
At the J. N. Adams Memorial hospital in Perrysburg, a lamp intended to duplicate sunlight and aid in the sun cure for tuberculosis patients is being perfected. Dr. Horace N. LoGrasso, superintendent, reports progress on the device.
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Buffalo
J. N. Adams Memorial Hospital
Perrysburg
Horace N. LoGrasso
Savant Says Life Span Could Reach 150 With Research
London reports Sir Ronald Ross argues that life could extend to 150 years if sixpence per English person is spent on scientific research. He notes dramatic gains over 80 years and predicts universal labs in major cities to combat cancer tuberculosis and leprosy.
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London
Sir Ronald Ross
Ronald
Ives
Sir Ronald
Britain
Pasteur Institute
Paria
Metchnikoff
Ross Institute
Persimmon Grove Planted Near Here by QB EB Thompson
A persimmon grove of more than 4,000 trees has been planted near here by QB EB Thompson. The grove covers 60 acres. The project showcases extensive orchard development in the area.
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Cottonwood
Cal
EB. Thompson
Swedish rail conductors must speak three languages
Swedish state railway officials require conductors to be proficient in three languages. The policy aims to improve passenger service and safety across routes, with multilingual crews assisting travelers and handling international connections.
Bounty Offered For Flies By Yakima Women Club
School children may earn five cents for each two ounce bottle filled with dead flies. The incentive targets orchard nuisance and health risks in the fruit industry. Flies, yellow jackets, and bees swarm ripe fruit at packing houses, drawing in workers and creating hazards.
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Yakima
Wash
Color Organ by Mrs Mary Hallock Greenewalt Demonstrated
Mrs Mary Hallock Greenewalt, pianist, operates her self taught electric light color organ after fifteen years of study. The device translates color into light and can be played like a regular organ.
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Mary Hallock Greenewalt
Europe Opens Roads More Friendly to American Tourists
Europe invites American motorists to travel with ease as officials plan an international road traffic conference in Paris next fall. Proposals include driver and car double certificates, twelve month international licenses, standard signs, and smoother cross border touring to boost tourism and safety.
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Geneva
Europe
Paris
New Rush to Gold Fields in British Columbia
Wrangell Alaska reports the ice broke on Stikine river unlocking water travel and triggering a stampede toward Cassiar district in northwestern British Columbia. Three boatloads headed Telegraph River head for Dease Lake with 150 tons of gear. many veterans join the exodus. Customs officials from both nations coordinate crossing as 1000 men reportedly moved from Wrangell since Christmas seeking rich placer gravel on Cassiar Creek.
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Wrangell
Alaska
Stikine River
British Columbia
Telegraph
B. C
Dease Lake
New Gold Territory
Cassiar Creek
Cassiar
F. W. J. Reed
Seattle
M. S. Whittier
Juneau
F. J. VanDewall
Skagway
T. Mason
J. E. Miller
Victoria
Caaslar
Oscar Sither
Thief Steals Pocketbooks at Union Lutheran York
While worshippers attended services at Union Lutheran church in York three pocketbooks were taken from coats in the lecture room below. About 25 dollars was stolen.
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York
Union Lutheran Church
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Hiram Cronk
Ava
Mercury Doton Sun
Savant
Dorothy Hemenway
Kansas City
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