Progress Toward Safety in Aviation Seeks New Breakthroughs
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field reviews a year of progress tackling tail spins engine reliability and wing icing while the Guggenheim Foundation funds a safety airplane prize. A Diesel powered monoplane using furnace oil highlights a secret engine design poised to enter common use, as laboratories refine aviation into a civilizing, highly efficient instrument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Langley Field
Guggenheim Foundation
United States
Deadliness of Gas Threatens War Hope After Cleveland Disaster
The writer cites the Cleveland Clinic gas disaster with 125 dead and warns the deadly gas from decomposing x ray films foreshadows wartime poison gas. He notes unimagined harm from air bombardment and fears cities like New York could be targets, while suggesting that fear of such weapons might deter future wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Clinic
Ohio
Cleveland
New York
Cost of Beauty Prompts Three Dollars a Week Claim
An advertising manager for a cosmetics distributor says American women spend about three dollars weekly on facial care. He notes some spend more and counters claims of harm from over decoration, citing the roughly hundred million dollars spent annually on cosmetics and the artistry of beauty adverts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mrs Hoover Drives Own Car Across Virginia Trip
Mrs Herbert Hoover, first lady, made a 200 mile round trip by car from Washington to Richmond to view a portrait gallery. She drove the automobile herself, a notable display of self reliance and modern womanhood rather than mere femininity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hoover
Richmond
Virginia
Washington
Alaska Air Route To Asia Proposed By Pioneer Pilot
Parker Cramer advocates a Pacific air trail from Alaska across the Bering Strait to Siberia and on to Tokyo and Shanghai as the best path to Japan and China. His Nome to Roosevelt Field flight in 48 12 hours highlights Alaska as the hub with emergency fields across Canada and swift access to Asia.
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Japan
New York
Pacific
China
Parker Cramer
Cramer
Nome
Alaska
Roosevelt Field
Hering Straits
Siberia
Tokio
Shanghai
Greenland
Rockford
Stockholm
Sweden
Alaska-Berlag — Straits
Asia
Canada
Stage boxer Cramer tours major cities after Nome hops
The text traces boxer Cramer’s travel from Nome to Minneapolis and on to Chicago, Cleveland, and New York as part of a four stage fight. It notes a successful hop across the Bering Strait and ends with a caution that a big door without a house behind it is empty warning.
Proposed survey of reclamation projects by Mead
Dr Elwood Mead federal reclamation commissioner outlines an economic survey to assess federal projects this summer. The study will cover completed works and stalled constructions, with private projects in distress, to evaluate feasibility and policy. Data will guide improvements and potential legislation with field work by bureau staff and three external economists.
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Elwood Mead
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Patriot
Ind
Purdue University
Colorado Agricultural College
U. S. Department of Agriculture
University of California
State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
Victoria
Australia
Elwood Meal
Interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Bureau of Reclamation
Congress
Reclamation Bureau
Miss Aggie Moon and the Dan Cupid Dilemma
A compact, humorous reminiscence notes Miss Aggie Moon at thirty one, and reflects on how parents rely on teachers to shape boys’ character and keep them out of trouble as they grow up. The piece captures a period voice with a folksy view of social norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aggie Moon
Anniversaries and Today in History Highlights
A collage of birthdays and notable deaths across history lists Tench Coxe, Charles Haswell, Richard Wagner, Worthington Whittredge, Horatio Gibson, Catulle Mendes, Rabbit Hirsch and others with birthplaces and death dates. Today in history recalls Burr treason trial, Savannah crossing, the great review in Washington, land openings, and tributes to Conan Doyle and Nazimova. A horoscope predicts security and prosperity, with a broad note on friendship and workaday support. Hieroglyphics defined as sacred scripts from ancient civilizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tench Coxe
Philadelphia
Charles H. Haswell
U. S. Navy
New York City
Richard Wagner
Leipsic
Germany
Worthington Whittredge
Springfield
Ohio
Summit
N. J
Horatio G. Gibson
Baltimore
Washington, D. C
Catulle Mendes
Emil G. Hirsch
Luxemburg
Chicago
Aaron Burr
Savannah
Europe
Washington
Potomac
Tennessee
Georgia
Montana
Idaho
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Second Street
Elyria
Lorain County Printing & Publishing Company
A. Hudmutt
J. Clare George
Elyria Postoffice
Elisa Nava
Elying
Lorain
Robert E. Ward, Inc
Wabash Ave
Ara
Detroit
General Motocs
Mrs. Hoover
Imperial Furniture Co
E. Broad St. Bridge
PRIGE
Elyria Hardware
Temple
Lehman Radio CO
Lodi Street
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Edinburgh
Jacob G. Schurman
Freetown
Charles ©. Hyde
Columbia University
James A. B. Scherer
Southwest Museum
Los Angeles
Mme
Alla Nazimova
Crimea
U.S
Peerless
U. S. Rubber Co. Tire
Cleveland Street
Perry Court
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