Plan Campaign to Bolster Hoover Relief Funds
Owen D. Young chaired a meeting in Washington where major business leaders formed a Mobilization of relief resources to plan a nationwide but locally executed drive. The group aims to energize contributions and public support via radio, churches, schools, and press, with no fixed goal set yet.
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Washington
Owen D. Young
Hoover
Young
General Electric
Committee of 19
Walter §. Gifford
Young Committee
Popular Musical Instruments Survey by Wurlitzer Heir
DETROIT The piano saxophone accordion banjo and guitar are listed as the most popular instruments in the United States in a survey. Authority cited is Rembert Wurlitzer junior, 27, sales manager of the Rudolph H. Wurlitzer firm.
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Detroit
United States
Rembert Wurlitzer
Rudolph H. Wurlitzer
Rembert
Piano sales decline as radio and phonographs rise
A piano market expert notes piano popularity waned after radio and phonographs gained traction, similar to earlier declines when phonographs grew. He predicts a comeback, citing saxophone and especially accordion gaining favor among youth as easier to master.
Catfish Stocking Reaches Lake El Dorado
In El Dorado Kansas the state hatchery released over 20 000 channel catfish into Lake El Dorado as part of a summer stocking program that has already touched a score of lakes and streams.
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EL Dorado
Kans
Lake el Dorado
Wartime Fleet Lays Up in Graveyard on Mississippi
In New Orleans a row of 46 U.S. laid up ships sits in mud and rust, part of the late war fleet that helped move troops and supplies. Once meant to transport 2,000,000 soldiers, they are now partly stripped in a marine graveyard guarded by lone watchmen, with some vessels potentially restorable.
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Kew
Orleans
Mississippi River
U. S
America
United States
Montrose Town Celebrates 50 Years In Western Slope Pageant
Montrose Colorado marked its 50th birthday with a Chamber of Commerce backed celebration. The day featured a free barbecue and a pageant tracing Montrose from an Indian settlement to a growing city, including scenes of the Gunnison tunnel and pioneer era.
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Old Frontier Town
Montrose
Colo
Chamber of Commerce
Colorado
Gunnison Tunnel
Ship greeter of Provincetown marks 40 year salute tradition
In Provincetown Massachusetts Sheldon O Ball maintains a family ship greeting ritual from a bluff homestead. He salutes passing vessels with a 60 foot flagpole flag dipping three times using the American flag or Union Jack for British ships. A notable encounter included greeted passenger William Howard Taft, then president, with a returned salute from the ship.
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Provincetown
Mass
Sheldon O. Ball
High Bluff
Ball
William Howard Taft
Mastodon Fossil Moves to Panhandle Plains Museum
A giant mastodon fossil found near Amarillo, estimated at 23 000 years old, is now housed at the Panhandle Plains Historical Society within West Texas State Teachers College Canyon. The project secures $50,000 building funds, with $25,000 state and $25,000 private matching contributions, and aims to create Texas first state museum. The collection includes bones, Indian artifacts, and plains history, with donations pouring in statewide.
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Canyon
Texas
Western Plains
Amatillo
Panhandle
Fist State Museum
Plains of
League Experts Will Aid China in Factory Reform
Geneva reports the International Labor Bureau will assist Nanking in modernizing Chinese factory inspection. A special commission led by C Pome and Adelaide Anderson will study the system, with about two months needed to align it to the new Chinese Factory Act.
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China
Western ideas reshape Japanese courtship practices
Japanese women adopt Western theories of love and marriage as the traditional go between loses influence. Miss Lolita Hannah of Nashville, Tennessee, on furlough after teaching music in Japan, spoke in an interview about these changing norms.
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Memphis
Lolita Hannah
Nashville
Tenn
Japan
Roosevelt Prohibition Views Spark Democratic Opposition
Governor Roosevelt faces opposition from Virginia Methodist leader Bishop Cannon who vows to oppose his presidential bid and any candidate not in favor of the 18th Amendment. Cannon cites health and laments theft of crutches during travels in Paris and London as part of his remarks. In England tipping at Wentworth Wood House is banned, noted as the largest private residence. In North Carolina James L. Corbett reports a cucumber weighing five pounds with a length of 14 inches and a diameter of 12 inches, setting a local record.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Europe
Wentworth
Yorkshire
Eng
Wentworth Woodhouse
Lord Fitzwilliam
England
Woodhouse
Greenville
N. C
James L. Corbett
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