Edison offers four year college scholarship to young man
The article describes Thomas A. Edison seeking a male high school or preparatory student from each state for a four year college scholarship and a trip to his Orange New Jersey laboratories. The winner would be trained to join Edison’s lab and continue his pioneering work, with emphasis on finding a successor to sustain innovation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Mr. Edison
Orange
N.J
Immigration Law Tightens Front Door On Aliens
The National Origins Act will take effect next July tightening immigration by fixing annual quotas at 150000. It sharply boosts England Ireland and Scotland quotas while curtailing Germany and shifting shares toward northwest Europe and away from southeast Europe and other regions. The measure aims to restrain rather than relax immigration in coming years.
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United States
Congress
England
Scotland
Wales
North Ireland
Germany
Denmark
France
Irish Free State
Norway
Sweden
Swizerland
Belgium
Netherlands
Thurope
Southeast
Northwest
Europe
Asia
Africa
Australasia
Smuggling of Aliens and Forged Papers Seen Rising
The article notes growing attention to back doors and windows used to bypass restriction laws. It reports widespread smuggling, forged documents, and uncertain immigrant numbers across coasts and borders. An American consul cites a forged papers agency enabling seventy entries, illustrating how entrants may defeat the restriction program.
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United States
Today in History and Annotations of Anniversaries
A compact digest lists notable birth and death anniversaries for figures like Joseph Addison, Winthrop Sargent, Benjamin Latrobe, Junius Brutus Booth, and others with dates and places. It includes Today in History events from 1850 to 1899 and a Horoscope noting a cautious, disciplined approach at month start and the risk of self indulgence.
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Joseph Addison
London
Winthrop Sargent
Mississippi Territory
Gloucester
Mass
New Orleans
Benjamin Latrobe
National Capitol
Washington
England
Junius Brutus Booth
John W. P. Jenks
Florida Everglades
West Boylston
Providence
R. I
George Innes
Newburg
Scotland
Wharton Barker
Philadelphia
James Ford Rhodes
Cleveland
Ohio
Brookline
Fire burns 45 years since New Staitsville coal car blaze
Forty five years ago enraged strikers set a coal car on fire and pushed it into a mine in New Staitsville. The fire still burns today, spreading miles from the site and destroying coal deposits and hundreds of acres of surface ground, rendering land sterile.
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New Staitsville
Unarmed Attendant Robbed at Acme Station in Broad Daylight
A cowardly bum sneaked up on the unarmed boy attendant of the Acme filling station, backed him in a closet at gunpoint, grabbed $11, and escaped.
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Acme Fillin
How Things Look To THE FARMER By O. M. Kile
Washington discusses the farm relief bill and its debenture plan. It notes likely Senate and House opposition and the plan as part of the tariff bill, plus doubts about price increases for crops. The piece warns of political factions, Hoover’s stance, and possible compromises amid a fragile farm program.
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O. M. Kile
Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Washington
Con-Gress
Hoover
Caraway
Arkansas
Congressional
Michigan prison lockup faces work shortage and layoffs
Jackson Michigan prison chews on rising inmate numbers 3971 total with 1400 unemployed due to lagging prison industry. Warden Harry Jackson blames free labor competition while noting state made goods like cement chairs monuments and license plates. He expects relief as 590 to 750 inmates will be moved to road camps within 60 days for highway work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Mich
Michigan State Prison
Jackson
Golden Rule directed jurors in Kalamazoo court
Judge George W. Weimer of Kalamazoo instructed 28 jurors to apply the Golden Rule in each decision and ensure a square deal for litigants. He also reformed panel service by summoning only those needed, letting others remain absent from the court during the term.
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Michigan
Kalamazoo
Mich
Circuit Court
George W. Weimer
Weimer
Silk Football Suits for Oregon State Team
Tailor made outfits designed with silk as the main material will be worn by the Oregon State College football team next fall. Candidates for the squad have had measurements taken for the new uniforms.
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Corvallis
Ore
Oregon State
Presbyterians Consider Narrowing Divorce Grounds
At the 69th General Assembly meeting in Montreat North Carolina the Presbyterian Church in the United States will discuss adopting a single ground for divorce. The committee recommends only violation of the Seventh Commandment as grounds, noting current provisions for desertion and infidelity. The report questions desertion as a Scriptural basis and urges marriage stability and family life education for church members.
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Presbyterian Committee
Neat General Assembly
Montreat
Presbyterian Church
United States
Bom
Pastors urged to limit remarriage under new policy
A draft proposal seeks training for pastors to teach marriage to youth and warns ministers to perform only marriages that comply with new guidelines. It calls for restricting remarriage after divorce and emphasizes adherence to church standards in clergy duties.
Rabbinic Symbol Placed At Birth House of Ferguson
In Ireland a commemorative rabbinic plaque marks the birthplace of Sir Samuel Ferguson, the nineteenth century poet and antiquarian, on the Belfast house where he was born, now used as a hat store.
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Ireland
Samuel Ferguson
Belfast
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Elyria
Lorain County Printing & Publishing Company
Hudnutt
J. Clare George
Lorain
San Francisco
Coxey
Army of the Commercial
Washington D. C
United States Squadron
Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
Harry Leon Wilson
Oregon
Z. Barney Phillips
U. S. Senate
Springfield
Walter C. Teagle
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Walter B. Scott
Northwestern University
Illinois
Cooksville
Ill
Duke of Connaught
King George V
Fia
Organized Labor
H. N. Ambstaetter
Charel Street
Cleveland Avenue
Ambherst
Amherst Hospital
Amherst
F. M. Sponsellor
Elgris Savings & Trust
Kolinski & Standen
Elyria Sav & Tjusi
West Broad St
Glade Thomas
Thomas Elyria
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