Coolidge cites Mexican role in Nicaragua crisis in special Congress message
President Coolidge outlines Latin American policy linking Nicaragua turmoil to Mexican involvement. He accuses Mexico of arming revolutionaries and endangering U S interests and canal route rights while Kellogg presents documentary proof. The debate shapesOs congressional stance amid regional turmoil.
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Congress
Nicaragua
United States
Gulf of Fonseca
President Coolidge
Adolfo Diaz
Kellogs
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Central America
Borah
Washington
Kellogg
House
Will
Admiral Latimer
Nhar Waters
Doctor Estes Rural Physician of the Current River District
A profile of Dr. Taylor G. Estes, eighty, who has patrolled rural Missouri for nearly six decades from the Ozark frontier near the Current River in Pulaski County. The Indiana native, trained in Chicago, served as physician and evangelist, travels 12 miles on average with a longest 50 mile trip, and often receives noncash payment amid influenza and wartime hardships.
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Ozarks
Ripley County
Missouri
Taylor GC. Estes
Indiana
Doctor Estes
Hendrix County
William C. Estes
Virginia
Chicago
Cumberland County
Illinois
Pulaski County
Estes
Hstes
Private Sits Pretty on Top of the World
In Wiseman Alaska at 680 degrees north the Army runs the northernmost radio station with Private Elmer J. Ulen in charge as signal corps operator He also serves as United States commissioner postmaster and head of the town school board and is regarded as the leading citizen of Wiseman.
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Washington
Army
Alaska
Wiseman
Signal Corps of the Army
Elmer J. Ulen
Signal Corps
Ulen
United States
Old Soguk Uses Mask and Dance to Attract Salmon
In western Alaska, medicine man Old Soguk, ruler of a remote Eskimo community, performs chants and a wooden salmon mask at river mouths each spring to lure the run. He then takes one fourth of the catch from every household, a custom he enforces across the tribe.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Soguk
Yukon
Kuskowin
Trapper Moody Receives $10,000 Hunting Lodge Bequest
George Moody, a longtime trapper and guide near Eugene Oregon, is bequeathed a $10,000 hunting lodge in the Cascade mountains by the late Herman Vogel of Los Angeles. Moody served Vogel as guide each autumn for twenty years.
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Trapper Woodand
George Moody
Cascade Mountains
Eugene
Ore
Herman ©. Vogel
Los Angeles
Moody
Vogel
She Makes 175 a Week and Feeds 18 Family in New York
Mrs. Cornelius Bolster, 40, runs a West 228th Street home like a hotel with scheduled work meals and sleep. Her 18 children range from 1 to 22, five older youths help with the budget. Weekly expenses total 130, with food at 70 and rent 97 a month.
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New York
Cornelius Beister
West Two Hundred and Twenty-eighth Street
Woman Correctly Guesses Rooster's Corn Consume at Show
Mrs. T. L. Davis of Newton win s a Harvey county poultry show contest by guessing the hungry rooster would eat 158 kernels in an hour. The bird had lasted three days prior to the event and the prize was a broader stove.
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Newton
Kan
T. L. Davis
Harvey County
Hound Dog Ends Case in Ozark Court Testimony
In Eminence Missouri a black and tan hound dog valued at $25 acquitted its owner Lewis Wells of stealing it after the dog jumped to show loyalty on the stand. Wells had bought the dog from John Widers and the trials cost about $2,000.
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Eminence
Ozark Mountains
Lewis Wells
Wells
John Widers
Widers
Yawn Locks Jaws In Paris Woman’s Dislocation
Miss Nora Caruthers of Neoga near Paris dislocated her jaws while yawning. Two physicians worked for several hours to relieve the condition.
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Paris
Ill
Nora Caruthers
Neoga
Beaters Must Work Under Sheriff in Camden
Walter Gross, the new Camden County sheriff, demands convicts who beat their wives work on the county farm or face bread and water as punishment. The policy aims to enforce labor and deter domestic violence through penal labor and strict supervision.
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Camden
N. J
Walter Gross
He’s Gaining Fame in the Movies Hound Shanganah
The Irish wolf hound Shanganah of El Palomar shown with owner Mrs. Horatio S. Bonestell of Oakland California is poised to become a film celebrity as a prospective motion picture star.
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Shanganah
el Palomar
Horatio S. Bonestell
Oakland
Calif
Yew Tree From Virginia Brought To National Cathedral
A Port Royal Virginia yew tree owned by Clarence Hicks was bought for 1000 dollars by the St Albans guild of Washington and moved to the National Cathedral grounds where President Woodrow Wilson is buried. The 20 foot tall Irish yew required a week of careful excavation and a 40 foot wide root ball to be transported by truck and trailer to Washington.
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Richmond
Clarence Hicks
Port Royal
St. Albans Guild of
Washington
National Cathedral
Woodrow Wilson
Rappalminock
Tidewater
Port Royal Recalled as Royal Port by River Scenes
The old gardens and box bordered paths evoke Port Royal’s historic status as a royal port. It recalls ships from England reaching up the Rappahannock to Falmouth near Fredericksburg, bridging past and present in a single landscape.
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Port Royal
Royal Port
England
Rappahannock
Falmouth
Fredericksburg
Man Rescued From Flood by Lariat in Point Pleasant
Charles Musgrave clung to a partially submerged tree for 16 hours in Point Pleasant West Virginia before a farmer used a lariat to loop around his shoulders and pull him to safety.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Charles Musgrave
Johnsons Count Seven Children in Year at Home
Mrs. Johnson, aged twenty eight, has given birth to seven children within a year at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson in Knoxville Tennessee. The unusual tally highlights a remarkable family event noted in local society.
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Knoxville
Tenn
John Johnson
Rickshaws In Tokyo Decline From 1897 To 1926
A historical note shows Tokyo rickshaws dropping from 39 013 in 1897 to 8 348 in 1926 reflecting a sharp transport shift.
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Tokyo
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