Mrs Simmons recounts Honolulu trip and island life
Gladys W. Simmons writes of a Hawaii visit detailing sugar cane and pineapple industries, irrigation, and military costs. She describes Honolulu’s foreign quarters, Buddhist temple, and American hymns, then covers island history from Captain Cook to Kamehameha I, missionaries, annexation, and eventual US territory status.
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Mrs. Simmons
Honolulu
Father of Wireless Paid only 75 a Month
Paris reports on Edouard Branly renowned as the father of the wireless. He worked in a ramshackle lab with a lone elderly assistant who became his laboratory chief. Branly earned about 75 dollars a month as a professor while also supporting his family through occasional medical practice.
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Paris
Edouard Branly
Branly
France
Britons Mistakenly Walk to Coney Island via Subway
An English family the Waltons attempted to walk to Coney Island by using a New York subway as a footpath, entering express tracks until subway motor man James O Donlad stopped them and explained the error. A Maryland farm hound has adopted an orphaned lamb, increasing her litter to seven.
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Rt. C. Walton
Coney Island
James O’donald
Subway
England
Waltons
Broadway
Centerville
Maryland
Witch Doctors of Africa Flourish
Cape Argus reports a hospital survey found widespread belief in witchcraft among natives, with torture, killings, and confiscation of property tied to witch doctors. The committee calls for bush hospitals and modern medical teaching amid limited native medical services.
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Cape Argus
South Africa
Poultry and Egg Production Becomes Important Business
Poultry and egg production is common to all sections of the United States. The farm flock constitutes the bulk of poultry in great producing areas, with specialized production developed in Petaluma California Vineland New Jersey and expanding in New England and other areas. The commercial farm flock is widely scattered and growing in importance. For Better Used Cars Sidney Motor Sales Company 80 tf.
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Corn Belt
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Petaluma
Calif
Vineland
New England States
Eskimo Life Studied by Smithsonian Anthropologists
Anthropologists Henry B. Collins Jr and T Dale Stewart of the Smithsonian study Eskimo life on Nunivak Island Alaska. The field lies between the Aleutians and Nome. They record traditions language and daily life to document a people recently touched by outsiders. The project is under the American Association for the Advancement of Science the American Council of Learned Societies and the Smithsonian. Natives live in single room dugouts heat with oil moss and subsist on fish seals and occasional whale.
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Wash
Alaska
Nunivak Island
Aleutians
Nome
Henry B. Collins, Jr
T Dale Stewart
Smithsonian Institution
American Association For Advancement of Science
American Council of Learned Societies
Nunivak
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