Inauguration of Hoover Echoes Old and New Faces
Edward W. Pickard reviews Hoover's inauguration as President with Coolidge returning to private life. The piece highlights the public works program, government reorganization aims, and wartime and postwar policy debates shaping domestic and international directions. It also notes congressional action on defense, immigration limits, and ship sale contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erbert Hoover
United States of America
Calvin Coolidge
Hoover
Senate
House
Coolidge
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Dawes
Charles Curtis
Curtis
Taft
Supreme Court
White House
Executive Mansion
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Northampton
Mass
Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Survive Mexican Mishap
In Mexico City Colonel Lindbergh and his fiancée Anne Morrow escaped serious harm when their small plane lost a landing wheel. Lindbergh cushioned Morrow, warned her not to fear, and landed with care after exhausting fuel to prevent an explosion. He dislocated a shoulder, Anne remained unhurt, and they entrusted his left handed driving home.
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Lindbergh
Anne Morrow
Mexico City
Anne
Lindy
Tie
George Haldeman
Ruth Elder
Windsor
Ont
Havana
Cuba
Joseph Lebrix
Paris
Saigon
Indo-China
Gulf of Mataban
Burma
Marseilles
Walter Scherz
Los Angeles
Germany
United States
Berlin
Bon Trotsky Nearing Tuberculosis, German Offer Hinted
Exiled Bolshevik Trotsky is reported suffering advanced tuberculosis. Friends seek a transfer from Turkey to a milder climate and Germany has proposed a cottage near Berlin for Trotsky and his wife if the government approves.
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Europe
Sir Josiah Stamp
Germany
Berlin
Bon Trotsky
Turkey
Hurricanes, storms sweep regions killing and injuring many
Hurricanes swept across the Middle South killing nearly forty people and causing heavy property damage in Mississippi Arkansas and northeast Texas. Blizzards in Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa disrupted travel while floods threatened in Ohio Missouri and southern Illinois and a gale struck near Los Angeles. In Miami Beach Tack Sharkey defeated W L Stribling in ten rounds with a referee decision. thirty five thousand attended and payouts totaled four hundred thousand dollars. Havana police uncovered a plot to assassinate President Machado of Cuba with seventy three charged and some still at large, including Gustavo Machado y Morales, as American agents aided the investigation.
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Middle South
Mississippi
Arkansas
Texas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Ohio
Missouri
Illinois
Los Angeles
Tack Sharkey
Boston
W.L. Stribling
Georgia
Miami Beach
Magnolia
Sharkey
Stribling
Stribing
OLICE
Havana
Machado
Cuba
United States
Gustavo Machado Y Morales
Secret Service
Revered Pastor Ev. Dr Newell H Whall Dies in Bronxville
The Bronxville home of Plymouth Church Brooklyn pastor Ev Dr Newell Whall ends a long career as a noted pulpit orator. Born in Town seventy years ago he first rose to prominence as a preacher in Chicago and Evanston.
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Newell
Reign of Gold Jewelry Ends in Paris Fashion Shift
Paris observes a transformation in jewelry as modern, angular designs dominate. Large clear stones set in platinum replace ornate gold pieces, with cubist-inspired shapes and minimalist lines reflecting postwar art trends.
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Paris
Scottish Piper Idle During King's Illness
The royal piper Macintosh was ordered to stop playing under the king’s window due to illness. Queen Victoria started the custom of piping at Balmoral with a Highland attendant. King Edward VII and King George continued the practice, though the royal Highlander role was altered.
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London
Buckingham Palace
George of
England
Macintosh
Royal Household
Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Edward VII
George
Woman, 80, Spends Life in Poorhouse and District Home
An eighty-year-old Charlottesville, Virginia woman has spent her life in institutions, born in the county almshouse and never living outside the District home near Waynesboro. She cannot read or write and has never traveled beyond the move from the almshouse to the District home, where she is content in her simple existence.
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Charlottesville
Waynesboro
Lion Steaks Stir London Café Trend
Lions are being shipped from South Africa to London restaurants as a fashionable dish. Duke of Gloucester reportedly shot a lion on a recent Central Africa trip, popularizing this trend alongside imported beef from Australia.
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London
South Africa
England
Australia
Duke of Gloucester
Central Africa
San Antonio Loses Reputation as Mexican Revolt Hub
San Antonio shifts away from its history as a refuge and launch point for Mexican revolutions. Business leaders and residents grow wary of exiles and intrigue below the Rio Grande as Mexican children in schools become more American and many former political figures relocate to New York or California.
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San Antonio
Texas
Old Mexico
Rio Grande
Tex Ohelly
Stansbury
Jack Roberts
Mexico
Madero
Porfirio Diaz
Flexco
Morrow
New York
California
America
Capt John Smith Signature Said to Be in Virginia History
Wise County researcher James Adams recovered a parchment contract from England with what is claimed as Captain John Smith's signature. The faded document bears the date March 16 1617 during Smith's stay in England for burns treatment, and its witness list includes the famed explorer.
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John Smith
Richmond
James ‘Taylor Adams
Wise
America
Adams
England
Captain Smith
Smith
James
James I
Parker Delano separations blamed on golf life
In White Plains New York preliminary court proceedings Mrs. Delano sues for separation alleging her husband Sterling Parker Delano spends all day at the links and neglects family duties. The couple has been married for years.
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White Plains
N. Y
Sterling Parker Delano
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Provides Gentle Stomach Relief
An advertisement extols Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the ideal anti acid for sour stomachs. It claims medical endorsement and widespread trust, advising use after heavy meals and stressing the Phillips name as the genuine trademark of the Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co.
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Phillips
U. S
Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co
Charles H. Phillips
Prickly Pear Threat Eased by Caterpillar Study
Experts say in a decade Queensland will face no major prickly pear threat as the Cactoblastic Cactorum caterpillar continues its progress, halting the spread that dotted 63,500,000 acres. The pest’s advance has been definitively checked.
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Queensland
Australia
Dr Caldwell’s Three Rules for Constipation Relief
Medical ad promoting Dr Caldwell’s mild vegetable laxative using Syrup Pepsin. Urges natural remedies over drastic purges and lists health slogans. Encourages readers to request a free trial bottle by writing to Pepsin Dept, Monticello.
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Caldwell
Monticello
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Edward J. Higgins
Salvation Army
Charles P. Summerall
Fort Myer
Armstrong
Bermuda
Edward W. Pickard
Committee of Affairs
Indian Bureau
Dill
Congress
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Paul W. Chapman & Co., Inc
Chapman
Leviathan
Shipping Board
Olland
Utrecht
France
Belgium
J. Louden
Chamber of Deputies
Texas City
Eee
Prickly Pear
DR. Caldwell
Pearl St
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