Aviators found alive in Greenland after misroute and rescue
The Rockford aviators E R T Hassell and Parker Cramer, missing on a Stockholm flight, were found alive by a University of Michigan expedition in Greenland. They had run dry landing inland, survived two weeks crossing ice and mountains, and were rescued after signaling by smoke. Their plane may have been damaged by storms.
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Ert Hassell
Parker Cramer
Rockford
Stockholm
Greenland
University of Michigan
Denmark
W. H. Hobbs
Mount Evans
Stinson
Autograph Book Portrait: Brave Bear the Sioux Warrior
A Rediscovery of Brave Bear, Yanktonai Sioux warrior, known as Wapaypay, celebrated in a pen and ink autof portrait in an autograph book. The article retells his life from Fort Totten raids with Rain in the Face to his capture, trial, and execution at Yankton after a 1866 assault, with details from Major James McLaughlin and Dr. Eastman.
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Brave Bear
Wapaypay
Fearless Bear
Cut Head
North Dakota
Boon
Rain In the
Little, Brown & Company
Rain-in-the-Face
Hobay
Sitting Bull
Fort Totten
N. C
Hohay
Houghton Mifflin Company
James McLaughlin
Devils Wake
Standing Rock
DeLorme
Pembina
N. D
DeLorme House
Missouri River
Devils Lake Reservation
McLaughlin
Devils Lake
Dakota Territory
James M. Bell
Seventh Cavalry
Herbert J. Slocum
Pine Ridge Reservation
Fort Sully
Johnson
Canada
United States
Major McLaughlin
Yankton
Payne
Whit Payne
Bear
Zogu Crowned King of Albania Scanderbeg III
Albania announces Ahmed Zogu as Scanderbeg III after a unanimous vote by the national assembly. He swears on Bible and Koran and pledges freedom of worship while 2,000 prisoners are released and state employee bonuses granted. Germany seeks to end the French occupation in the Rhineland, discussing a plan to mobilize Dawes era railway debentures to fund an international loan.
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Jaime Felix Tschiffely
Mancha
Australia
J. E Ark O
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France
Germany
Mueller
Briand
United States
Washington
League of Nations Assembly
Geneva
Finland
Sweden
Poland
League
Europe
H. J. Procope
League Council
Britten
Chicago
House Naval Committee
Paris
la Guardia
New York
Senate
America
Ireland
Kellogg
England
Robert Moses
Albany
Urope
Ahmed Zogu
Albana
National Assembly
Scanderbeg III
Mohammedan
Tirana
Zogu
Republican Party
Italy
Ermany
Rhineland
Herr Mueller
Reich
M. Briand
Mexico Chief Declares Non Candidacy For Provisional or Constitutional Presidency
President Calles told congress he will not seek office after his term ends December 1 and urged national unity to choose a provisional president. He praised the absence of caudillos but warned army chieftains still expect to influence Obregonist congress in the presidential selection.
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Erbert Hoover
Middle West
South
Elizabethton
Tenn
Senator Brookhart
Iowa
Hoover
Republican Party
North Dakota
State Central Committee
Calles
Mexico
Obregonist Congress
Wisconsin Republicans Nominate LaFollette and Kohler for State Offices
Wisconsin's Republican primary reshapes power as LaFollette is renominated over Mead while Walter J. Kohler wins the governorship against Beck and Zimmerman. Conservatives interpret Beck's loss as a sign of the LaFollette regime's end with Schmedeman as Democratic mayoral rival in Madison. Michigan keeps Green and Vandenburg atop the ticket with Democrats fielding Comstock and Bailey.
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Isconsin
LaFollette
G. W. Mead
Walter J. Kohler
Kohler
J. D. Beck
LaFollettette
Zimmerman
Beck
A. G. Schmedeman
Madison
M. K. Reilly
Michigan
Green
A. H. Vandenburg
W. A. Comstock
Maj
J. W. Bailey
Party leaders condemn religious issue in Presidential campaign
Republican and Democratic leaders deplore the pushing of religious questions in the race. Governor Smith recently spoke after opponents accused him of plans to head the administration if elected, forcing the issue into public view.
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Smith
Midwestern financiers charged in Boston securities conspiracy
A federal grand jury in Boston returned a joint indictment charging financiers from Chicago Kansas City and Des Moines with a mail fraud conspiracy tied to sales of nearly 1 million dollars in securities. Named defendants include Guy Huston John E Huston John L Boyles Harold A Smith Walter B Cravens Oran F Schee and Vernon A Sigler. The securities were sold through Missouri Kansas Farm Company Farm Company of Massachusetts and Farmers Fund of Illinois.
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Boston
Guy Huston
John E. Huston
John L. Boyles
Harold A. Smith
Chicago
Walter B. Cravens
Kansas City
Oran F. Schee
Vernon A. Sigler
Des Moines
How Rain in the Face Was Named
A Cherokee boy recalls a Cheyenne encounter where blood stained his face and Sioux cheers dubbed him Rain-in-the-Face. He recounts later warpath days with the Gros Ventres and paints symbolized sun and rain black and red before a formal claim of the name in an Eastman interview.
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Gros Ventres
Charles A. Eastman
Eastman
Little, Brown & Company
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Solid South
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Hicago
Continental National Bank and Trust Company
Illinois Merchants Trust Company
HE Home Mission Board
The
Southern Baptist Convention
Atlanta
Clinton
Carnes
Elmo Scott Watson
Elizabeth
Jennie
Minnie
Addie
Brave Bears
SELE
Portrail
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