News Review of Current Events by Edward W Pickard
Hoover signed farm aid and census bills as Congress adjourned for summer. Debates on tariff revision and Mellon Berenger debt terms outlined amid border enforcement and Prohibition tensions. De Priest election prompts social backlash. Virginia anti Tammany Democrats consolidate. Poincare and Stresemann advance Young plan talks as aviation honors and field tests unfold. Lilienthal and Lindbergh honeymoon episodes color the page.
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Hoover
Congress
Senate
Borah
Idaho
Oscar de Priest
Chicago
de Priest
Washington
Dawes and MacDonald Push Naval Reduction Talks
Ambassador Dawes and Prime Minister MacDonald urged world naval arms reduction and peace last week. Dawes called naval reduction essential and urged global sanction with negotiations led by statesmen rather than naval experts to harmonize technical yardsticks into a final world agreement.
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MacDonald
Dawes
Mbassador Dawes
Pilgrims’ Society
London
Lossiemouth
Scotland
Deaths of Gen Bramwell Booth and notable figures
Gen Bramwell Booth former Salvation Army commander died at his London home. He was honored with a large funeral and flags flown as officials stated the general had passed to glory. Also reported were Asa P. Potter Bea ton capitalist Sir A Maurice Low longtime London press correspondent and 8 F Kingston veteran general manager for Florenz Ziegfeld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bramwell Booth
The
Salvation Army
London
Florens Ziegfeld
Wishing Wells and Sacred Springs Across Europe and Beyond
Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly describes the old belief in wishing wells and sacred springs. He details European, Nordic, and Mediterranean practices where waters foretell futures, heal ailments, or grant miracles. The piece traces wells from Zemzem to Haarested and Guernsey, noting rites, offerings, and the folk expectant views surrounding water’s power.
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New York
Frank H. Vizetelly
New York Times
Europe
Greece
Apollo
Adelphi
Ceklinj
St. George’s Day
Vitrolles
France
Saintes-Marien
Sweden
Stoole
Downpatrick
Ireland
Sicily
Marsala
Copenhagen
Denmark
Lourdes
Bernadette Soubl Rous
Bethesda
Palestine
Littter Shmael
Arabia
Mohammed
Kaaba
Hagar
Mecca
Central America
Mexico
New Mexico
Colorado
Whipple
Zuni
Haarested
Seeland
St. Knud’s
Helen
Bealy
Scotland
British Isles
St. Helen's Well
Sefton
Lancashire
White Haven
St. Helen’s Well
Holy Wells
Guernsey
Mat.de la Fontaine
Violet Ray Windows Installed in Trains
Three major trains now feature observation cars with ultraviolet transmitting windows. The Trans-Canada Limited in Canada the Lux Express between Chicago and St Louis and the Cornish Riviera Limited in England have the new glass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Trans-Canada Limited
Canada
Chicago
St. Louis
Airplane Aid to Big Business Rolls On
Industrial groups find value in corporate aircraft for executive travel. Standard Oil of Indiana started flying two years ago and now uses Stanolind II, a nine passenger all metal tri motor from Ford Stout with 1280 horsepower and 140 mph. It served as flagship for the St Paul Association of Commerce goodwill tour to Winnipeg carrying city council members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Allan Jackson
Stout
Ford Motor Company
Stanolind II
St. Paul Association of Commerce
Winnipeg
Nine year old Luft heir carries on family strong man legend
New York story portrays nine year old Solly Luft stepping in after Harry Luft dies of leucocythemia. Solly, present at Harrys bed, learns the family ritual of will power and feats of strength including bending iron bars with teeth and tearing a telephone book. Neighbors recall Harry’s past demonstrations and Solly vows to begin daily calisthenics and continue the Luft name.
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Clonel
Mrs. Lindbergh
Mitchelfield
New York
Guggenheim Fund
Lindy
Luft
Harry Luft
Max
Georgie
Sally
Harry
Solly
Coney Island
Three New Yorks Staked Across Britain and Scotland
England claims a New York in Kent Lincolnshire and Northumberland counties. Immediately Scots point to their own New York on Loch Awe’s western shore. The quip highlights regional place names shared with the famed city.
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London
New York
England
Scotland
Kent
Lincolnshire
Northumberland
Loch Awe
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Joseph 8S. Ames
Johns Hopkins University
Frank J. Goodnow
Edward W. Pickard
UST
Howell
Nebraska
United States
Bansfer
Department of Justice
Jones
International Falls
Minn
Henry Virkula
White House
Treasury Department
Treasury
Detroit
Wyandotte
River Rouge
Trenton
Michigan
Ontario
Irginia
al Smith
Roanoke
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church South
William M. Brown
Washington and Lee University
C. C. Berkeley
J. H. Price
Remier Poincare
Paris
Stresemann
Germany
Madrid
M. Poincare
House of Deputies
Chamber of Deputies
Reichstag
Young Plan
O. K
Otti
Assolant
Lefevre
Atlantic
Old Orchard
Maine
Spain
le Bourget
Schreiber
M. Lotti
Ottawa
Imperial Airways
English Channel
English
Knud Lavard
Magnus
New Yorks
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