Women Break Barriers in Finance on Wall Street
The article notes a rise in women joining banking and bond houses, moving from clerical roles to executives including six bank presidents and two vice presidents. It highlights the Association of Bank Women doubling membership to 140 and cites how women bring intuition and personal touch to banking, especially for women depositors.
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Wall Street
Financial District
Financial
Association of Bank Women
William Laimbeer
Early French Consul Heilmann Jests On War Debts Burden
In San Francisco Heilmann at a dinner compared the French debt burden to a farmer’s tolerance of a tramp. He described a scene where the farmer’s wife allows a tramp to sleep in the hog pen and asks to be awakened at 8 30 for the 4 a m hog express to the slaughter house.
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Heilmann
San Francisco
Poltely
Returning Day proposal cited by George Ade
The passage recalls Ade arguing for a national Returning Day to restore borrowed items from the prior year such as books umbrellas and garden tools. He notes only a small group supports it and predicts the idea will fail, preferring practical measures over bans.
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George Ade
Hearst
International Cosmopolitan
Mauna Loa Lava Flow Now Measured as Wasted Heat
University of Hawaii physicist Dr. Paul Kirkpatrick estimates Mauna Loa lava flow emitted radiant heat worth about one million dollars per hour at a twenty mile by twenty feet flow. He claims enough heat could boil two and a half tons of water per second if the flow were ten feet deep and moving at nine miles per hour.
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Mauna Loa
Paul Kirkpatrick
University of Hawaii
Measuring Hat Temperatures in Paris Heat Wave
Scientists tested hat temperatures during a Paris heat wave. The panama remained coolest inside at 77 degrees, while the derby reached 92 outside, and felt and straw hats stayed cooler than outside. The hottest item was a sporting cap at 98.6 degrees.
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Paris
T Cently
Panama
Open spaces pride in Wyoming papers
Two Wyoming weeklies tout their remote lifestyle. The Pinedale Roundup proclaims it is published farthest from a railroad in the United States, at 104 miles from rail. The Wyoming State Journal in Lander highlights Yellowstone access, claiming rails end and trails begin nearby.
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Wyoming
Pinedale
United States
Wyoming State Journal of
Youth Hangs Self in Sleep Seized by Mother in Geneva
In Geneva Switzerland eighteen year old Fritz Kesler was found hanging from a rope in his room by his mother who heard noises and cut him down. He regained consciousness and refused to believe his mother’s account until shown the severed rope.
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Geneva
Fritz Kesler
Switzerland
Child Roped To Wall By Parents
Chicago story of Eddie Rook a four year old kept tied to a five foot rope anchored to a wall for eighteen months by his parents. Neighbors heard crying police found him fed with two kittens nearby he is now freed. Parents Joseph and Mrs Rook jailed fined one hundred dollars each three months for confinement.
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Chicago
Eddie Rook
Eddie
Joseph Rook
Hdldie
Hear Heart Beat Now on Phonograph Record
For the first time heart sounds were recorded on phonograph records and played back for a class of physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital. One hundred doctors from the U S and Canada listened through stethoscopes to engraved heart sounds aiding diagnosis. The device, created by Dr Richard Cabot and Dr Clarence Gamble after 18 years of work, promises advances in cardiac and respiratory study.
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Boston
United States
Canada
Massachusetts General Hospital
Richard ©. Cabot
Clarence Gamble
Philadelphia
Winter in North Fatal to South Sea Bride
John F Y Digert married Lillian Pearson after meeting in Tutuila during a world navy tour. They settled in Milwaukee, but the northern winter proved deadly for the South Sea native, as a cold turned to pneumonia and she died over 6,000 miles from home.
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North Fatal
South Sea
Milwaukee
John FY. Digert
Tutuila
Navy
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. Digert
Lillian Pearson
United States
Whales to Wear Metal Tags on Pacific Hunt
Pacific whalers plan to tag dozens of whales with metal tags fixed by harpoons off Canada and near the Falkland Islands. The tags record the location of tagging to trace each whale's movements when captured later.
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Victoria
Pacific Ocean
Canadian
Falkland Islands
Wife Slap Case Heads to Court Over Bridge Game
A wife is to face the court to determine if her slap at her husband during a bridge game was justified after he objected to her play method. The incident prompted a legal decision on spousal conduct during games.
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New York
Train Engineer Slows For Deer West Of Here
A Central passenger train was forced to reduce speed west of town after an almost collision with a deer on the tracks. The incident prompted safety checks and reminders for drivers and crews to watch for wildlife near rail lines.
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Deer Rockford, Til
Wilmots Central
Here
Changes in the Philippines since 1901 survey
The National Geographic Society bulletin notes the 1901 survey left gaps as a new survey failed. Philippine exports now center on sugar and coconut with hemp and embroidery rising. Education is largely American in origin with 25 000 teachers and 1 182 000 students. English dominates, white population declines, and rubber farming and canning expand alongside new fiber products like buntal hats and Manila hemp.
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Washington
Commission For Investigation
Philippine Islands
Coolidge
United States
Far East
Philippines
National Geographic Society
Philippine Commission
Manila
Aguinaldo
Harvard
University of Santo Tomas
Santo Tomas
John Smith
Jamestown
Islands
of the
Para
Buntal
Bangkok
Illinois
Sao Paulo
Giant Fish 8,000,000 Years Old Preserved for Science
Kansas chalk laid down 7 000 feet of rock over the giant fish Partheus and its swallowed prey were entombed in Niobrara chalk near western Kansas The fossil skeleton with its undigested meal was recovered by George F Stern for the Smithsonian National Museum under the Sesquicentennial exposition in Philadelphia The find links to the Rep tiles era and the era of giant dinosaurs with tarpon-like relatives described in scientific terms
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Washington
Kansas
National Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Philadelphia
Partheus
Tarpons
George F. Stern
Niobrara
Discovery of Maya site Macanoc oldest center in Yucatan
Washington reports a major archeological find revealing Macanoc the oldest Maya center yet known in the Yucatan. The name means you cannot read it.
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Washington
Yucatan
Hen Nears Record in Lincoln Nebraska
A white leghorn hen aged nine years has laid 1,186 eggs and nears the all time record of 1,386 eggs, with available information suggesting the record may be within reach. The report notes Lincoln, Nebraska as the location of the poultry activity.
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Lincoln
Neb
Sire's Daughters Index of Value in Dairy Breeding
United States Department of Agriculture studies 23 Holstein sire lines to gauge how milk yield and butterfat percentages are inherited. Graves finds no single sire raises both traits for all daughters, while both parents contribute, with homozygous and heterozygous combinations shaping offspring range. The bulletin explains a new ranking method and notes availability of Bulletin No. 1872 from USDA Washington, D. C.
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R. R. Graves
Bureau of Dairying
United States Department of Agriculture
Holstein-Friesiam
Mr. Graves
Limaits
Department Bulletin No
Washington, D. C
Pure-bred sires judged for all stock classes
The notes state that about 96 percent of users give pure-bred sires a fair trial and generally use them for all stock classes. If milk or butterfat markets stay favorable, feeding grain to pastured cows producing over three gallons of milk daily will likely be profitable.
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Hubby
Metz
Doumergue
France
Hawaii
United States Army
Schofield Barracks
William R. Smith
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