To Make Study of the Philippines
A Senate territories committee will tour the Philippines this summer to study its factories, schools, and homes. The piece outlines the status of the Philippines as a nonincorporated territory with its own laws and voters, under Jones act governance. It notes financial health, exports led by sugar, and the large population, comparing it to U.S. states in land and scope.
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Washington
Philippines
Sam
Territories Committee
United States Senate
Philippine Islands
D. C
National Geographic Society
United States
Department of Insular Affairs
United States War Department
Dependency
Alaska
Porto Rico
Hawaiian Islands
Virgin Islands
Canal Zone
Guam
Samoa
Philippine Commission
Senate
House of Representatives
Islands
New York State
Phillippines
Philippine Archipelago
New York
Miami
Arizona
Union
Dogs Kill Sheep in Oskaloosa Kansas Flock Attacked
In Oskaloosa Kansas J G Drummins reports his flock lost five ewes and eleven lambs to sheep killing dogs. He saw two dogs fleeing after the slaughter and vows to shoot them if they return. The assaults target rear flanks, a trait differing from wolves which attack the throat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Kan
J. G. Drummins
Drummins
Manila and Philippine trade and development noted in American observations
The article surveys Philippine exports such as abaca and copra, and cites the Philippines as a three-city capital with Spanish and English as official languages. It highlights Manila’s modernization, the new summer capital at Baguio, and electric lighting from Laguna's hydro power.
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Tion
Manila
Philippine
United States
Philippines
Intramuros
Stars and Stripes
Benguet Mountains
Baguio
Orient
Simla
Laguna
Botocan Falls
Dam Waters Submerge Lost City and Towns in Colorado River
Las Vegas New Mexico reports the Lost City will lie under 50 feet of Colorado River water when Boulder Dam forms a reservoir. St Thomas will be buried under 70 feet and Koalin under 25 feet. About 300 residents must relocate as compensation is settled.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Boulder Dam
St. Thomas
Koalin
Graf Zeppelin Plans Direct August South America Flight
Graf Zeppelin will make a nonstop flight from Friedrichshafen to Pernambuco in August as part of three Luft Hansa trips to test regular airship service to South America. The voyage will test direct routing over the Bay of Biscay and include mail transfer to Gondor planes at Pernambuco.
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Friedrichshafen
Graf Zeppelin
South America
Hans Lehmann
Graf
Lufthansa
Graf Willy
Pernambuco
Gondor
Bay of Biscay
Mediterranean
Europe
Trout With Two Heads Hatch in California
A hatchery near Downieville, California hatched several dozen two headed trout in the North Yuba River system. Foreman Guy Tabler said about sixty of the odd fish emerged, signaling a remarkable freshwater anomaly for the Yuba river hatchery program.
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California
Marysville
Calif
Yuba River
Downieville
Guy Tabler
Tragic Ocean Tale From Madagascar Mail Voyage
A ship carrying Madagascar mail reached Marseilles with a marooned party of seven on St Paul island in the Indian Ocean. Six died from starvation and scurvy while three survivors, including a Breton youth Le Herdelan, endured until relief arrived. The crew faced extreme hunger, with a dying infant among the losses.
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Paris
Chambord
Messageries Maritimes
South Seas
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Marseilles
le Merdy Herdelan
Pont Avem
St. Paul
Australia
Africa
Pont Aven
Concarneau
Brittany
Herdelan Pulloch
Mme
Brunon
Quillizic Ans Huledut
Francois
Quillezic
Herledan
Huledut
Hertedan
Pet Dog Granted Grave Under Will in New York
Stamford Connecticut reports Ruby a pet dog of the late Mrs Lizzie T Smith is assured a permanent grave in the Hartsdale canine cemetery under the will offered for probate here. Mrs Smith left $2000 for maintenance of the dog's final resting place.
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Stamford
Conn
Ruby
Lizzie T. Smith
Hartsdale
N. Y
Canning Factory Rebuild Plans After Relief Arrival
In a melancholy interview, the survivor recalls the relief ship finally arriving with fifty people ashore. They brought food, supplies, and machinery to rebuild the canning factory. Haledut and Mme Brunon remain at the site.
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Haledut
Mme Brunon
Flaw in Story Convicts Man as Wife Murderer
Thomas Marion, a prominent young farmer near High Point, is convicted of murdering his wife as their baby slept. Prosecutors say a flaw in his tale, denying a bandit, undermines his entire account and he faces twenty to thirty years in the state penitentiary.
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Whitehall
Thomas Marion
High Point
Marion
Wyoming Turtle Death Mystery Baffles U S Scientists
Smithsonian excavators study Bridger Basin fossil fields in Wyoming where a 50 foot long outcrop is composed nearly entirely of turtle shells. The finds also include crocodile skulls and a nearly complete Hyrachyus skeleton as scientists weigh possible causes from noxious gas to volcanic ash or boiling water.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Bridger Basin
Wyoming
Institution
Charles W. Gilmore
Ice cream soda origins tied to California gold rush pharmacist
A fragmentary reminiscence credits Justin Gates Jr, the first graduate chemist in California, with pioneering a fruit and cream soda during the gold rush era. Gates reportedly supplied traveling drug stores to mining camps, aiding settlers and prospectors amid harsh conditions.
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New York
California
Justin Gates, Jr
Gates Hebbard
Gates
Jaws Broken by Kicks of Mules
Courtland Kansas farmer J C Smith suffered both jaws fractured when a mule kicked him while he tried to remove a nail from a mule’s hoof. The first mule kicked him sending him backward into the second mule which struck him again. He was badly injured and required medical attention.
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Courtland
Kan
J. C. Smith
Jewell County
Smith
Traveling drug stores bring medical aid to mining camps
Four wagon apothecaries covered vast gold region territory and supplied medicines to camps where doctors rarely visited. Gates organized family medicine chests with remedies and usage directions left by apothecaries, enabling hundreds of sick men to receive care they otherwise would not have.
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Gates
Pallet Lays Huge Egg in Astoria
A family breakfast egg was laid here by a pallet owned by Otto Lebeck in Astoria Oregon. The egg measured 0.94 inches by 7.34 inches in size.
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Astoria
Ore
Otto Lebeck
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Pulloch
M. Brunon
Will
U. S
Radio City
Fifth Avenue
Forty-eighth
Fifty-first Streets
Enterprise
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
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