Radio beacons expand navigation with 19 new installations
The bureau of lighthouses reports nineteen new radio beacons installed and twelve more begun, marking a major advance in aids to navigation. Radio signals, unlike lights, penetrate fog and wind, allowing ships to identify signals, determine distance, and fix position.
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Washington
Bureau of Lighthouses
Pharos
Alexandria
Egypt
New York Harbor
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Storm Lashed Helgoland Faces Coastline Study
Storms have eroded Helgoland and nearby East Frisian islands, shrinking the German North Sea outpost to 18 000 square meters. The Prussian survey department forms a commission to study coast subsidence and determine if extra precautions are needed.
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Helgoland
Norway
East Frisian
Prussian Survey Department
Four Glen Ridge Girls Go Into Quarantine After Scarlet Fever
Four Glen Ridge High School girls are quarantined after kissing and exposing themselves to scarlet fever in what authorities call a risky social spread. A fifth friend contracted the illness, prompting local health officials to issue precautions.
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Glen Ridge
N. J
Uncle Sam Tax Time Warns of 1928 Payment Due
Former editorial notes the March 15 deadline for filing 1928 income tax returns for individuals and corporations. It outlines the Sixteenth Amendment history, 1926 rate changes, and recent government analyses showing tax yield effects despite rate cuts, with data on returns, net incomes, and distributions among individuals and corporations.
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Sam
United States
Sixty-first Congress
Congress
Connecticut
Florida
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Utah
Virginia
Knox
Taft
Uncle Sam
America
Coolidge
Washington
McCoy
Finance Committees
Mellon
Mr. McCoy
Strange Ways of Kal Mucks and Asiatic Prussia Customs
The Kal mucks bury dead rituals by exposing bodies in open fields to scavengers to read signs of a proper life. They practice Lamaism and display varied swimming methods. Indians used sweat houses for ritual cleansing followed by cold water plunges and drying without towels.
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Prussia
Indians Remarkable Swimmers Across Tribes
The Bureau of American Ethnology notes that Indigenous people were adept at swimming with some tribes spending as much time in water as on land.
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Bureau of American Ethnology
Big Wildcat Killed After Battle With Four Dogs
In Luray Virginia a giant catamount known as Big Foot was killed by Kip Atkins after a 30 minute confrontation with four dogs. Atkins and the hounds hunted through Blue Ridge terrain when the animal attacked, killing one dog and wounding another. The other two dogs and Atkins were scratched in the struggle.
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Luray
Blue Ridge Mountains
Kip
Atkins
Unusual romance ends as Bowden suicide follows secret marriage
Inez Sneed a former teacher and Bowden’s secret wife filed for a widow’s share after Bowden shot himself. She produced a marriage certificate showing they wed over a year earlier while she was his teaching pupil. Bowden had planned to remarry after learning of the infatuation and died days before the ceremony.
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Senatobia
Inez Sneed
Charles T. Bowden
Bowden
Miss Sneed
God and Bible Used to Keep Son Out of School
Port Monmouth New Jersey mother Christine Walling faced charges of neglect for not sending her sons James fourteen and Frank eleven to school claiming divine guidance. Judge Jacob Steinback deferred sentence hoping she would settle with her God and resume education at home, stating her reading history arithmetic and other subjects were taught at home. Walling argued that drawing history and other schooling were evil per biblical commands and that she interprets the Bible independently.
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New York
Christine Walling
Port Monmouth
N. J
Jacob Steinback
Plane Propeller Cuts Tail Off Cow in Field
Richard Lemon a flying instructor at Pana airport landed with two businessmen in a ten acre field north of Nokomis six miles west of Pana. The plane propeller cut off a cow tail as it skimmed the ground causing the animal to flee. The cow, named Bessie, was frightened but unharmed aside from losing her tail. The damaged propeller was brought back to Pana as evidence of the incident.
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Pana, Ull
Richard Lemon
Pana
Nokomis
Bessie
Castoria marketed as safe baby remedy for colic and fussiness
The advertisement promotes Castoria as a safe vegetable remedy for infants and older children. It emphasizes quick relief for fretful babies and constipation or colic, urges keeping an extra bottle, and notes doctors approve its use.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Joseph
Big Wildcat
Son
Fltapaal, Castoria
Frey
Grange
Parker
Druggista. Hiren
Chem
Wka
Patchogue
N. Y
Hiscox Chemical Works
Garfield
Sorestanford
Msn
Tana
Arta Tay
WN. U
Cincinnati
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