President Coolidge at South Dakota Lodge and Lindbergh tours
President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge settle at the South Dakota State Game Lodge with collies and canaries as the executive offices operate from Rapid City. Lindbergh tours cities boosting aviation while German fort demilitarization and Far East talks unfold amid global postwar shifts.
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Lindbergh's New York Reception Draws Millions
Lindbergh's flight to New York sparked a massive city welcome with crowds lining a Battery to Central Park parade route. Mayor Walker greeted him as millions cheered amid snow and city excitement.
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Soviet Russia Uses Ambassadorship Murder to Pressure Europe
The Soviet response to the Polish murder trial wrings fear across Europe as Poland convicts Boris Kowode for Volkof’s killing but sentences him to life instead of death. Moscow’s harsher actions include executions and Siberian exile, while 800,000 Russian reservists face extended service. The League of Nations council debated, then dropped, a formal denunciation at Poland’s request.
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Poland
Great Britain
Volkof
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Kowode
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League of Nations Council
Geneva
League council debates disarmament plan delay
The league council discussed the projected disarmament conference and set the second reading of the preparatory plan for early November. German Foreign Minister Stresemann criticized slow progress and argued Germany should rearm to Versailles levels if other powers refuse general armament cuts.
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Herr Stresemann
Germany
Mellon Reports Busy Treasury Day With Large Receipts
Secretary Andrew Mellon tallied about 400 million dollars in income and other payments due on the year’s second quarter. Debtor nations including Britain and France sent payments totaling tens of millions while the treasury sold nearly 250 million in new bonds and paid hundreds of millions on maturing securities.
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Andrew Mellon
Great Britain
France
Italy
Objes of the Mystic Shrine meet in Atlantic City parade
Members of the Mystic Shrine gathered in Atlantic City for their annual meeting. About 100000 wearers of the fez joined a mammoth five mile Boardwalk parade hailed as the finest seen in the resort. Clarence M. Dunbar of Palestine temple Providence R L became imperial potentate succeeding David M. Crossland.
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Clarencé M. Dunbar
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R. L
David M. Crossland
Cadets Seek Air Corps Service After West Point Graduation
Eighty eight cadets from the West Point class of 208 have requested Air Corps commissions. The War Department says commissions cannot be granted in peacetime to non fliers, so they will train before receiving second lieutenant commissions at graduation.
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Farmer Claims Royal Descent From Harold's Line in Hastings Tale
Berden England farmer Thomas W. Goodwin a laborer near here claims direct kin to King Harold. He and his wife live in a thatched roof cottage 400 miles from London with three children while genealogists confirm lineage via Doomsday Book. Goodwin earns about ten dollars a week and has never owned land, preferring his hillside home despite the royal backstory.
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Simple Worker Seeks Estate of 60 Million francs
Lille, France. Francois Brunswick, a dye works foreman for 40 years, sues the estate of Duke Charles of Brunswick for 300 million gold francs ($60 million) after genealogical proof ties him to Duke Otto Brunswick of Luneburg. Legal experts say he has a strong claim to the fortune.
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Hen Returns to Nest After Daily Garage Visit
Wilton resident B Herson owns a hen that wanders from Main Street shopfronts to the Drapers brothers' garage. The bird enters the office then perches on a shelf before leaving. an egg is found where it roosts. Since then the hen repeats the routine daily, waiting at the closed big door for someone to open it.
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Sea-Going Showboat Holds Itself Unique
Elizabeth City reports the James Adams Floating Theater, billed as the only deep sea saltwater boat theater surviving many failed tries. The 26-member company plays to 700 seats, offering clean, old fashioned hokum with mother love and laughs, without publicity.
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Mississippi
Ohio River
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Virginia
North Carolina
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Chesapeake Bay
James Adams
Airplane Halts Stampede of Wild Reindeer Herd
Eskimo herders near Bethel Alaska recount how an airplane swooped down to scatter a 4000 strong reindeer herd driven by natives toward fresh pastures along the Kuskokwim river. The stampede caused calves and yearlings to be crushed as the herd bolted east.
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Days Becoming Longer The Earth Slows Rotation
The article notes days are lengthening as the earth reduces its rotation rate. It suggests the change will take time before it affects everyday life and plans. The piece reflects on the gradual astronomical phenomenon and its implications for daily schedules.
Senate Snuff Tradition Guards Its Time-Honored Use
The Senate clings to its precedents and to snuff boxes as a ritual. Two small black embossed metal snuff boxes flank the vice president in the chamber, once common but now seldom used, yet pages still refill them to honor a long standing custom.
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Washington
Senate
Capitol
Flight Ranger Redirects Caribou Herds Near Nome
An airplane pilot flying toward Nome swooped low over rushing caribou and reindeer from a distance of ten to fifteen miles in spring migration. He tilted eastward and steered the milling herds away from danger, guiding the leaders toward home corrals as native herders fled in fear.
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Secrets of Ancient Race Buried in New Mexico
In the Mesilla valley near Hill New Mexico a rancher John Stewart unearthed an ancient clay doll and human skeleton from an old tomb in a gravel bank on his farm. The skeleton is adult and ancient, the four inch red clay doll missing head and arms, and pottery turquoise beads corn and stone implements were found, suggesting a Pueblo village site at Stewart's farm.
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Stewart Home
New Society Fad: Women of Social Prominence Make Pottery
An exhibition in New York shows a growing trend among fashionable circles with several prominent women crafting their own pottery. The display highlights a movement where social elites engage in handmade wares as a leisure and social activity.
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New York
Change in Day Length Sparks Habit Shift
The note suggests adjusting routines due to the slow lengthening of days, estimated at about one tenth of a second every thousand years, highlighting a long term time scale impact on daily life.
Cotton on Throne Means Cotton Industry Rules Destiny
In March 1858 in the Senate James H. Hammond explains that the expression Cotton on Throne signifies the cotton industry's importance. The phrase denotes that the cotton sector determines the fate of those connected with it.
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