Solomon Jones the trail blazer of the mountains
Hendersonville echoes a mountain legend of Solomon Jones linked to Mount Hebron and the razor backed son Sue. The article notes Jones as a famed road builder and patriarch who blazed trails before the Civil War and promoted roads and schools for western North Carolina.
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Hendersonville
N. C
Mount Hebron
Blue Ridge Country
Solomon Jones
Yesteryear
Sue
Henderson County
Solomon
Jones’ Gap
Caesar's Head
Carolinas
Jones
North Carolina
Radio Finds Relatives of Man Killed in Fair
WOR radio in Newark helped locate relatives of a man killed at an Armour plant in Carteret New Jersey. Charles Armstrong of Philadelphia, hearing the appeal while expecting music, said his brother George Armstrong, a watchman at Armour’s Carteret plant, fell from a runway and died. He traveled to Carteret to identify the body and thank the police chief who suggested the broadcast.
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Newark
N.J
WOR
Charles Armstrong
Philadelphia
George
Armour Company
Carteret
N. J
Busy Taunton Woman Joins Bar After Trials
A Taunton woman, balancing family responsibilities with two children and others in care, has been admitted to the bar and now assists her husband in practicing law.
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Taunton, Massacre
Florence A
Inventors Still Try for Perpetual Motion
The article notes that despite mathematics and science, many inventors pursue perpetual motion devices. It cites numerous hopefuls, including educated individuals, some with worthy inventions, yet all such devices fail to pass patent office examination. The piece emphasizes repeated false starts and no economical value found in these machines.
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Washington
Patent Office
Read This Then Bring on Your Fish Stories
A Berlin Hamburg train carried a scantily clad girl who had walked asleep onto the roof of a carriage. Passengers and officials searched the car for the missing child as the night express from Frankfort arrived in Hamburg. The girl, found asleep among icicles and cinders as the train stopped, had slipped away from her parents while walking in her sleep.
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Berlin
Frankfort
Hamburg
Porcupine and Magpie Ravage Wyoming Crops
Wyoming logger Albert M Day reports porcupines eating bark and cambium causing dead trees across forests while in Campbell county porcupines ruin timber and wild fruits. Magpies steal nests and peck hides. 1500 pounds of poisoned ground beef used to control the bird this year.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Albert M. Day
Campbell County
Canada Has Air Fleet to Fight Forest Fires
Ontario reports a 1926 low fire toll as 16 hydroplanes patrol timbered areas daily. Lookout towers with radio and wireless phones stand at strategic points. When a blaze is reported, airplanes carry forest rangers and firefighting gear to the scene.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
Department of Lands and Forests
Earliest Form of Mammals Emerges in Early Eocene
The archaic mammals were the earliest mammals to exist, appearing in the early eocene. They were primitive and generalized in type and died out as modern mammals arose from an entirely different stock.
Man Kills Own Child in Flint Driving Incident
In Flint Michigan authorities report James Lee backed his car from a garage and fatally struck his eighteen month old daughter who was crawling on the driveway. The tragedy occurred on a residential street with the child pronounced dead at the scene. Local investigators continue to review circumstances surrounding the accident.
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Flint
Mich
James Lee
American soldiers most highly paid fighters in world
Geneva reports General Nolan of the U S army argues pay levels distort weapony budgets. He notes even the lowest paid American doughboy equals several foreign soldiers in pay and subsistence, and that cost of feeding one American exceeds multiple soldiers abroad. He cites exchange rates and purchasing power as factors in armament budget comparisons.
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Geneva
Nolan
United States Army
League
Disarmament Commission
America
Poisoned Boots Mystery Ends in Revelation
In a rural murder tale a rich farmer John Carey dies after he removes his boots and swelling follows. Suspicions fall on his second wife Louise Carey, but a detective narrator uncovers a cobra venom mechanism in a boot, proving her innocence and lifting her from suspicion as Leonard and Frank recover.
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Louise Carey
John Carey
Jim
Frank
Leonard
Louise Brand
Carey
Louise
Jim Carey
Mrs. Carey
Lars
Duchesse d'Uzes Leads in Aristocratic Chase
The Duchesse d Uzes heads a traditional St Hubert hunt in pink riding habit and a three cornered hat. A village mass blessed the hounds as the hunt began with guests and a strong brass horn display completing the scene.
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Duchesse d’Uzes
Paris
Duchesse
St. Hubert’s
Suisse
Pierre van Paassen
Atlanta Constitution
Flowers for judges survive English court tradition
A summer ritual in London central criminal court presents bouquets of flowers and herbs to judges each morning. The custom hearkens back to days when courts were troubled by underground threats and unhealthy conditions.
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London
Central Criminal Court
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Promises Quick Cold Relief
The advertisement claims Ayer's Cherry Pectoral quickly breaks up phlegm and soothes irritated throat and bronchial tissues. It describes fast relief as the medicine penetrates throat and chest membranes and is absorbed to stop coughing and shorten colds, priced 60 cents or a dollar for double quantity.
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Ayer
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Arms Commission
W. Chapman
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chemists
Buffalo,n
Haarlem
Winslow
AtAll
Fugate Company, Is
Meridian St
Indianapolis
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Huh
Locke
Cincinnati
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