Allays Fear of Quake Increase
Washington reports Director Tondorf of Georgetown Observatory says earthquakes are not increasing in number or frequency, only more noticed due to press coverage. He traces estimates from Count de Ballere and Dr. Sieberg showing long-term averages from about one quake per two hours to about one per hour, with land quakes about every five days and California averaging 11 shocks yearly.
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Washington
Tondorf
Georgetown University Observatory
Doctor Tondorf
Count de Montcasus de Ballere
Seismological Observatory
Chile
August Sieberg
University of Jena
California
United States
Rent Party Beats Harlem Collector in New York
Harlem residents devise two easy-money schemes to stave off rent loss. A rent party turns living rooms into impromptu venues with sidewalk tickets priced by home’s swankiness, drawing crowds and risking legal trouble. A second scheme, the numbers or policy game, bets on daily stock figures, attracting nickel contributions and substantial totals for promoters.
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New York
Harlem
Burglar Discusses Art as He Takes Jewelry
A Brooklyn burglar robbed Mrs. Adelaide O'Donohue of 15000 dollars in jewels after waking her with a flashlight. He chatted about art and literature, noting a painting titled Out of Chaos Comes the Dawn and commenting on Byron Shelley and Keats as he selected gems from her bureau.
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New York
Adelaide O’donohue
Brooklyn
Sleeping-Car Sirens Bilk American Tourists
A London report describes so called sleeping-car sirens posing as elegant travelers on the Simplon Express to drain wealthy male tourists of money. A 24 year old woman was arrested for three years of such thefts from Paris to Constantinople, aided by feigned distress and forged social connections.
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London
Europe
Paris
Constantinople
Plan Sesqui Show for Old Northwest
Cahokia plans a Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial exhibition in 1928 with a commission of 100 residents, tracing frontier history from French and British rule to the creation of Illinois territory. The effort, aided by Rep Thomas L. Fekete, aims to celebrate over 200 years of settlement and governance in the region.
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Cahokia
United States
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
France
George Rogers Clark
Virginia
Patrick Henry
Col
John Todd
Leutenant
Todd
Northwest Territory
Arthur St. Clair
Congress of the Confederation
Seek to Make Fish Plant Mussel Beds
In Muscatine Iowa a U S biological station experiment led by Dr M M Ellis of the University of Missouri aims to create a permanent supply of mussel shells for buttons knife handles buckles and other items By chemically developing mussel larvae to a planted stage without host fish the project hopes to establish privately owned mussel beds and remove reliance on host fish timing and locations.
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Muscatine
Iowa
United States Biological Station
Fairport
Here
M. M. Ellis
University of Missouri
Ellis
Desert oasis welts into garden with 24,000-barrel artesian well
Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley opens a large artesian well delivering 1,000 barrels of water per hour. The site, 278 feet below sea level, aims to become a sightseeing resort linked to Mount Whitney. The story recalls the 1849 Jayhawker party who found a life-saving water hole here and inspired California gold rush dreams.
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Death Valley
Calif
Stovepipe Wells
America
Mount Whitney
Panamint Mountains
W. Lewis Manly
Tom Rogers
Bennett
Arcane
California
Rockefeller losses fight over West Seventy-seventh residence
John D. Rockefeller Sr and Jr lose a dispute over a residential oasis between business buildings on West Seventy-seventh Street off Fifth Avenue in New York.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
West Seventy-seventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Scientific mating would abolish cancer say Dr Maude Slyde
Dr Maude Slyde of the University of Chicago tells a Radiological Society convention that eugenic mating could wipe cancer from humans within two generations. She urges banning marriages of convenience and urges couples to seed unions with nonsusceptible heredity to prevent cancer in children.
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Milwaukee
Maude Slyde
University of Chicago
Radiological Society of North America
Live Stock Prices at South Omaha May 11 192T Stockyard report
Livestock prices steady to slightly higher with around 8 000 head traded. Good to choice yearlings 9.75 to 11.25 dollars, heavy steers 10.75 to 12.25, fed cattle and calves mixed, cows and feeders quoted across a wide range, noting strong tone despite liberal supply. Trade active with no top quality cattle on sale.
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Union Stock Yards
Hog Market Sees Firmer Tone With Higher Prices
The hog market improved from Monday with about 12 000 head on sale. Trade proved fairly active with prices steady to 10 cents higher, top at 9.00, hogs up to 10.00, and most sales around 9.10 to 9.55 per hundredweight.
For Better Used Car Sales Sidne y Meter Sales Company
Fragmentary OCR item records a used car sales business by name plus an address fragment 431f. No clear event, person, or date readable.
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Sidney Meter Sales Company
Quiet Title Suit in Cheyenne County Nebraska Land Dispute
Herman Niemeller and B C Stockdick file in Cheyenne County District Court to quiet title to the south halves of the northeast and northwest quarters and four lots in section four township thirteen range forty nine west of the 6th P M. Defendants named or unknown to be adjudged to have no lien or interest and mortgages canceled of record including Stull Bros mortgage to Etta E Reece and the Hilton Zook mortgage chain in Cheyenne County records.
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Etta FE. Reece
Annie M. Zook
John H. Wilton
Mary E. Tfilton
Albert J. Hilton
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Herman Niemeller
B. C. Stockdick
District Court
Joseph E. Zook
Anna M. Zook
Stull Bros
Etta E. Reece
John H. Hilton
Mary E. Hilton
Legal filing notice with defendants and attorneys
You are required to answer said petition on or before the 6th day of June, 1927. Dated this 20th day of April, 1927. Herman Niemoller and E. C. Slokdick, plaintiffs. Attorney.
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Herman Niemoller
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Ninian Edwards
Kentucky
Madison
Russia
St. Petersburg
England
Fisk Tires
Goodyear
U. S
Fisk
Maley Motor Co
Sidney, Nebraska
John D
South Omaha
Short
Sidney Cafe
J. C. Proper
Union Pacific
West
Cheyenne
East
Burlington
R. R
E. C. Slockdick
I. Ll. Hyde
Plaintiffs
Kretz Electrical & Ignition CO
Brewer’s A Machine
Burlington Station
Cheyenne OO
Cheyenne County Land Company
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