Atlantic airmen reach near Rome after ocean crossing
Edward W. Pickard reports Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Q. Williams flew the Pathfinder monoplane from Old Orchard Beach Maine to near Santander Spain in 81% hours, missing Rome by 900 miles due to fog and fuel limits, then completing the trip with Italian officials' aid.
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Edward W. Pickard
Atlantic Ocean
Lewis A. Yancey
Roger Q. Williams
Old Orchard Beach
Maine
Santander
Spain
Rome
Bellance
Yellow Bird
Tey
Littorio
Mussolini
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Berlin
Greenland
Iceland
Uuasou Pay
Labrador
Port Burwell
New York
Los Angeles
Pennsylvania Railroad
Columbus
Ohio
California City
New York Central
Santa Fe
Alton
Kansas City
Post Office deficits and Poincare ratification in Paris
A report from Postmaster General Brown warns of a potential 1929 postal deficit of 187 million dollars, with losses rising since 1924 and a 42 million subsidy to railroads. Troover orders a full survey. possible fixes include air mail rate changes or modernizing accounting. In Paris, Poincare pushes for debt ratification with US and Britain, seeking no reservations and hoping for August 1 approval.
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Hoover
Brown
Post Office Department
Court of Claims
Troover
Postal Department
Retegeat
Remier Poincare
United States
Great Britain
Chamber of Deputies
Poincare
France
Germany
Chamber
Louis Marin
America
England
Manchurian railway dispute triggers arrests and diplomacy
Harbin authorities arrest 174 Soviet railway staff halting Chinese Eastern operations and deport 87 across the Siberian border while replacing Russians with Chinese directors. Meanwhile San Francisco customs seize $1 million in opium from Mrs Ying Kao amid diplomatic rights debates. New Orleans endures violent streetcar strike as federal troops guard property and unions seek recognition. Washington gossip ties Hoover ambassadorships to Willys to Rome and Work to Japan. Madrid and Berlin posts speculate.
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China
Russia
Harbin
Chinese Eastern Railway
Siberian
Trading Commission
San Francisco
Ying Kao
Orleans
United States
OSSIP
Washington
Hoover
John N. Willys
Toledo
Rome
White House
Hubert Work
Republican National Committee
Japan
Edge
New Jersey
France
Madrid
Berlin
Dealing Out American History Through Playing Cards
A long feature traces how 17th and 18th century playing cards taught geography and history. It notes Cardinal Mazarin’s educational cards for Louis XIV, Americas depictions of Virginia and Florida, and Local museum examples from Cincinnati and Philadelphia show colonial and Civil War era backs used as admission passes and social invitations.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Cardinal Mazarin
France
Louis Quatorze
Louis XIV
Mazarin
House of Bourbon
Cardes
North America
Virginia
Florida
Palm Beach
Miami
New World
Museum of the United States Playing Card Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
England
New England
New-England
Canada
New-Netherlands
New-York
Maryland
Baltimore
Carolina
Charles Town
Boston
New Plymouth
Bristown
Barnstable
New Foundland
Torbay
Walles
South Walles
Isle of Cumberland
Black Beard
Ben
Cincinnati Museum
University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Hopkinson
Charles Wilson Peale
Lafayette
Jaz H. Ford
Ogare
Columbia
Whiere
Merrimac
Prince Edward VII Handshake Tale in Paris
The Detroit News recounts a prince of Wales during a Paris visit with a carbuncle forcing a high right elbow handshake. Courtiers copied the gesture and some claim it endures. A dandy once asked about the play. the prince replied I did not think I had talked to you.
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Treasury
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Hamilton
Jackson
Grant
Edward VII
Prince of Wales
Paris
Comedie Francaise
Prince
Detroit News
Henry VIII Fashioned Broad Shoulders In Portraits
King Henry VIII favored garments that emphasized broad shoulders as seen in Holbein portraits. The monarch's vanity shaped his wardrobe choices and public image as reflected by his attire and silhouette.
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Henry VIII
Holbein
You Know the Type from the London Humorist
A brisk Kansan City Star note describes a blunt outspoken man famous as a bridge partner who calls a spade three spades in a lively aside about blunt candor and clever talk.
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London
Kansar City
Atlantean Crew Size Noted at Unclear Estimate
A fragment reports a large Atlante crew with about 880 members. About one sixth belong to the stewards' department and are not sailors in the strict sense.
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TR Rey AE de Ornier
Germany
Dornier
Stewards
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John D. Rockefeller
U. S. S. Chester
Delaware River
Camden
N. J
New Orleans
Yancey and
Williams
Atlantic
Uring
Irish Sea
Senate Finance Committee
Denmark
Belgium
Italy
Netherlands
Switzerland
Mexico
Uruguay
Hugh Gibson
Dawes
Isaiah Thomas
James Franklin
Benjamin
Monarch
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