Naval limit talks kick off amid cautious optimism
London hosts the naval limitation conference with King George and five delegations delivering hopeful openings. MacDonald Stimson Tardieu Wakatsuki Grandi outline aims while rival powers discuss a possible brief, global naval holiday and gradual disarmament steps.
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Tardieu
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Japan
Dino Grandi
Italy
Deaths of notable figures span nations and fields
Walter Jennings Bryan widow of the Commoner Mr William Jennings Bryan dies in Los Angeles at sixty eight. The week also records Stephen T Mather ex director of the national parks James Dahlman Omaha mayor George Le Maire famed comedian D A Boody veteran Wall Street broker and Viscount Esher British peer.
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Western Newspaper Union
Light Fades on Florence Kane Murder After Five Years
Brooklyn mother Lydia Kane plans to sell the family home where she has lit a nightly candle for Florence Kane murdered in 1925. The killer remains at large as detectives pursued leads without breakthrough, leaving the case a long unanswered mystery.
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Sheriff Brings Long Gone Suspect Back From New Zealand
In an extraordinary 13 year pursuit, Texas Sheriff John Bigham hunted Arthur Crouch, once a leading grain dealer in Temple, for embezzlement and forgery. After a dramatic extradition, Crouch was surrendered in Texas as John Grey of Helensville, New Zealand, stood revealed. A NZ barrister accompanies the case as efforts aim to reconcile justice with humanity.
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Johns Hopkins Chemist Claims Auto Exhaust Cure
Dr. J W C Frazier of Johns Hopkins University announces a device to eliminate carbon monoxide from auto exhaust. Tests show an engine in a closed garage can run safely with no dangerous gases released. He says universal use would make asphyxiation impossible by catalytically burning carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide.
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Abandoned Donkeys Alarm Madrid Officials
Madrid faces a steady trickle of stray donkeys from owners who cannot feed them. The city spends public funds to remove and dispose of each animal, with no official auction notices and often no immediate buyers found.
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Madrid
Spain
New York
Fortune Found in Wooden Leg Disclosed in Vienna
An American family may share 88 thousand dollars after a Polish man Noah Goldberg who died in a Vienna hospital left 600 dollars for expenses and 100 dollars found in his belongings. A consular official with a wooden leg accidentally touched a spring in the leg revealing the large sum. The money awaits disposal by the relatives.
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Noah Goldberg
New York
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Wieder
Kansas City Man Skates Nightly Nearing Seventieth
G Frank Householder, 68, skates at the Pla Mar rink each night to celebrate nearing 70. He recalls starting with one lap after a long time off the ice and now often leads the pack, trying to recruit friends to join him.
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Kansas City
G. Frank Householder
Old Doctor’s Idea Is Big Help To Elderly People
In 1885 Dr Caldwell devised a harmless, effective laxative not causing griping or habit. His syrup with pepsin eased bilious, headachy, weak patients including women and children. The formula, Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, became a world famous laxative available in drugstores.
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Caldwell
All that glistens is not gold example
A classroom brief illustrates the proverb with a witty exchange about a coat. The Cologne humorous column presents the lesson that appearances may mislead alongside a playful student remark.
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Lustige Kolner Zeitung
Cologne
Expensive Pursuit of Youth Draws Secret Costs
Agnes remains youthful in appearance while acknowledging rising yearly expenses. The commentary notes the pressure of maintaining youth as a costly ongoing effort.
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Agnes
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