Trade mark pirates target foreign brands in Argentina
United States dispatches report a campaign by the American Manufacturers' Export Association against trade mark pirates in Argentina and other countries. Americans note pirating here by both foreigners and countrymen. Remedies include registering trademarks with the government to deter appropriation. A pirate extortion scheme has seen a $30,000 payment to recover a mark. Renewal timing and the Pan American convention are discussed, with Argentina urged to ratify to streamline cross country protection. President Irigoyen reportedly pushing congress to act promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havenos Aires
United States
American Manufacturers’ Export Association
Argentina
United States Commercial Attache
American Concert
Gorky Attacks Soviets as Failures in Sweden Dispatch
Maxim Gorky, the Russian radical, warns via a Stockholm dispatch that Bolshevism has failed to bring spiritual renewal. The revolution is said to have left men no more honest, with rulers as brutal as the old regime and many imprisoned. Bolshevist leaders are accused of ambition driven experiments on workers.
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Maxim Gorky
Stockholm
Sweden
Pretty Face Causes Wreck at Swarthmore Campus
Swarthmore Pennsylvania Curtiss mail plane R-30 crashed into trees on the Swarthmore College campus. Eyewitness says the pilot waved to coeds and loosened his grip to throw kisses, sending the aircraft down. Police guard the wreck as souvenir hunters swarm the site.
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Swarthmore
Swarthmore College
Flying boats plan Pacific crossing with nine engines
New York reports two giant flying boats proposed to cross the Pacific from San Francisco to Hong Kong via Honolulu Wake Island Guam and Manila. Each craft would house three Liberty engine units driving triple propellers for 2 100 nautical mile radius and 2 500 land mile range. Alaska seeks to open 34 000 square miles of forests to pulp mills to relieve a newsprint shortage.
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New York
Pacific Ocean
Manufacturers’ Aircraft Association
San Francisco
Hongkong
China
Honolulu
Wake Island
Guam
Manila
Edson Gallaudet
East Greenwich
R. L
Seattle
Alaska
Thomas Riggs, Jr
Governor Riggs
Juneau
Washington
Tongass
Chugach
Northern Territory
British Columbia
Alaska Boundary Line
Indiana
Puget Sound
Lady Geddes An American Named British Ambassador
New York reports Lady Geddes, American-born wife of Sir Auckland C. Geddes, named British ambassador to the United States. Born in Dobbs Ferry, she is the third daughter of the late W A Ross of Staten Island, with Irish stock. The couple married in 1905 and lived in Edinburgh Dublin Montreal as he rose in academia and the British forces. Sir Auckland became brigadier general and was knighted after war service while Lady Geddes remained in Canada during much of his career.
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New York
Geddes
Sir Auckland C. Geddes
Dobbs Ferry
W. A. Ross
Staten Island
North of Ireland
Sir Auckland
St. Mary's Protestant Church
West New Brighton
Edinburgh
Edinburgh University
Dublin
Montreal
McGill University
Lady Geddes
Bees to Travel by Plane From Alabama to Canada
Alabama apiary reports successful arrangements to ship 1600 dollars worth of honey bees to northern Canada by air for breeding purposes. The initiative aims to solve long distance transport difficulties and advance bee stock.
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Alabama Apiary
Canada
Birmingham
Ala
Swinging granite monolith found on Green Mountain
Canon City residents report a 100 foot granite shaft on Green Mountain that appears to swing gently in light winds. Two officials, Lee Hughitt and A V Hodgin, on a hunting trip observed the shaft moving two to three feet at the apex, with the base resting in a three foot deep hollow.
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Canon City
Colo
Green Mountain
Lee Hughitt
A. V. Hodgin
Fremont
Lawsuits Are Cheap Only If You Have Money
New York judge Debunks Carnegie claim saying the poor seek justice daily and rights are easily procured. Also German officer linked to Sussex sinking in 1916 extradition list notes his death. Indiana university geologists study a Monroe county rock loaned by the Smithsonian, dating about 1.5 billion years old.
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New York
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Frederick E. Crane
Court of Appeals
Kings County Republican Club
Crane
Sussex
Berlin
Leutenant
Steinbrinck
Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Monroe County
Department of Geology
Smithsonian Institution
Typhus Widespread in Petro Uprising Regions
Reports from Warsaw detail a severe typhus outbreak among Petlura forces and East Galician units, with 10,000 and 30,000 troops affected respectively. The American typhus commission has suffered losses. Poland struggles to aid as Dvinsk and surrounding areas report virulent spread and high death rates.
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Warsaw
Pettura
Dnieper
Bezalko
Petlura
Pavienko
Poland
Dvinsk
Cracow
Tarnopol
Soviet Russia
Czechowitz
Russia
Europe
Cure for Plant Diseases at Cambridge University
Cambridge's plant doctors claim disease-proof crops are possible. A team testing Mendelian heredity law immunizes wheat oats barley potatoes and roots with summer results to be shown to medical men. They have bred a new wheat named yeoman yielding 12 quarters per acre three times typical crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
England
Cambridge University
Chinese Kill Russians and Birth Rate Drive in France
A Handelsblad correspondent reports on Chinese soldiers acting as executioners in Soviet Russia detailing their grim methods under bolshevik orders. Paris seeds government action to curb dying out, creating a natality council to boost births with allowances, housing aims, and labor rights, urging families of three or more to receive incentives.
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Amsterdam
Handelsblad
Russia
Europe
Dentkine Front
Moscow
Holtsjak
Holtsiak
Koltsjak
Paris
France
J. L. Breton
Breton
National Alliance
The
Woman and the Child Land
Alliance
Ancient Tribes Did Much Irrigating in Southwest
Albuquerque report by H. F. Robinson notes prehistoric irrigation in New Mexico and across the Southwest. Pueblo Ditch systems reach 217 miles in New Mexico with evidence of Salt River Valley works in Arizona. Ditches dug by hand with clay banks. rocks cracked by heating and stone pebbles.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Southwest
H. F. Robinson
Indian Irrigation Bureau
Salt River Valley
Arizona
Mr. Robinson
Mosquito Bite Suit Hits Gulfcoast Crew Vessel
In Brooklyn supreme court sailor Hendricus De Raay seeks 5000 for mosquito bites aboard the Gulfcoast steamship of Gulf Refining. He alleges officers refused ointment after severe bites while the company contends the bites were an assumed risk of employment and asks for a bill of particulars.
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New York
Atlantic
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Hendricus de Raay
de Raay
Gulfcoast
Gulf Refining Company
Italy makes oysters safe for consumers
An Italian company has developed a method to remove impurities from oysters. From Venetian beds the oysters are washed and placed in large sterilized seawater tanks in Rome. Tanks are continually replenished and after a week of treatment the oysters are sent to retailers.
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Washington
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Venetian
Rome
Hash It Just Grows In Warren Scout Exam
In Warren Ohio a boy scout, when asked to define hash for a merit badge, said hash is not made it just accumulates. He won the medal for his clever answer and earned recognition.
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Warren
Scout
Ids
Virgin of Stamboul photographed in New York
A claimed heir to 100 million dollars, Sari of Stamboul, is pictured in New York. Discovered by Sheik Ben Mohammed, she arrived with an American officer, later washed dishes and sold towers on city streets. She plans to return home with the emir, with her parents said to have died of grief.
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New York
Sari
Stamboul
Turkey
Sheik Ben Mohammed
Hedjaz
Marseilles
Tower of London to strengthen crown jewels protection
The Tower of London will bolster safeguards around the crown jewels with new thief perplexing devices. Custodian Sir George Younghusband oversees the measures. The regalia are housed in a cage in the Wakefield tower tied to two guardrooms. In 1671 Colonel Blood stole the crown.
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London
Tower of London
George Younghusband
Wakefield Tower
Colonel Blood
Jazz music blamed for dancing in Wabash clubs
Mrs J M Ulrich police matron in Wabash Indiana cites jazz music as the cause of suggestive dancing. She has urged fraternities and clubs to discontinue such music and notes several jazz selections have been cut from programs. She says dancing has improved and complaints have lessened.
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Wabash
Ind
J. M. Ulrich
German living cost soars for middle class in Berlin report
Washington reports an official Berlin study showing steep price rises since 1914 across essentials. Unmarried clerks face 177 marks monthly in 1914, up to 500 marks now. a four person family needs about 650 marks monthly for food while clothing and shoes have become virtually unaffordable, with suits, shoes and shirts up dramatically. The study notes sugar rose least, but overall living costs outrun earnings of 300 to 600 marks, tightening the middle class's existential struggle.
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Washington
Berlin
Germany
Tipsy Cat Leads to Liquor Cache in New York Saloon
Internal revenue agent Harold B. Dobbs and officers traced a tipple favored by a tipsy Tom as it rambled down Sixth Avenue to a saloon cellar at Forty-fourth Street. Investigators found about 50 gallons of alcohol and other beverages, with more cats present and eager to share spilled brown liquid. Saloon proprietor Thomas Fitzgerald and bartender Hugh Lecky were arrested for violating the prohibition amendment.
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New York
Harold B. Dobbs
Internal Revenue
Sixth Avenue
Forty-fourth Street
Dobbs
Thomas Fitzgerald
Hugh Leckey
Eye Pops From Head After Sneezing in Chester
Miss Marjorie Pryor of Chester Pennsylvania sneezed so violently that her eye was expelled from its socket. Doctors say such an occurrence is rare but can happen in extreme cases when the optic is replaced. She has left the hospital without serious aftereffects.
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Marjorie Pryor
Chester
Pryor
Dublin Zoo Ships Lions to Africa for First Time
Dublin, Ireland, exports lions to South Africa from its famed lion house. The Dublin Zoo has bred lions successfully and can supply on demand to UK zoos, with Africa placing its first order.
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Dublin Zoo
Dublin
Ireland
South Africa
United Kingdom
Africa
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