Stowaway's London Lark Ends in Prison and Deportation
Raymond La Raviere of Chicago stowed away on the Olympic from New York to Britain, lived aboard seven days, and walked into London without a passport. He was fined or jailed, then held at Wormwood Scrubs and Brixton before deportation after appeals and efforts by American consular officials.
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London
Atlantic
Great Britain
Raymond la Raviere
Marquette Road
Chicago
la Raviére
New York
Southampton
Drury Lane
Wormwood Scrubs
England
Ilegally
Tower
Houses of Parliament
Westminster Abbey
Kew Gardens
la’ Ratiere
Cherbourg
Lendon
la Raviere
Immigration Office
Bow Street
Brixton
Home’ Office
Sir Herbert Samuel
Home Secretary
300 Year Old Bean Sprouts Found in Museum
A white bean believed 300 years old sprouted into a living stalk at White Memorial Museum in San Antonio. Discovered 70 feet underground at ruins 100 miles south of Santa Fe, N M, near a Francisan mission founded 1629 after Piro settlement Tabira. Bean soaked five hours on March 19. a six inch stalk appeared days later.
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San Antonio
Texas
Grand Quivira
White Memorial Museum
Santa Fe
N. M
Tabira
Spain Abandons Death Penalty in New Regime
In Madrid the second Spanish republic shows a trend away from capital punishment. Justice Minister Don Alvaro de Albornoz commuted a death sentence to life imprisonment for a man who killed a dairy owner's wife and their infant. A proposed bill to apply the death penalty to bank robbers failed in the Cortes Constituyentes amid Socialist opposition, reflecting the era's evolving mood.
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Madrid
Spain
Alvaro de Albornoz
Cortes Constituyentes
Radical Party
Twins Celebrate Eightieth Birthday at Bristol Ferry
R L Mrs A Gore Trueman and Mrs Georges Martin recently celebrated their eightieth birthday at Bristol Ferry. They were married in a double ceremony sixty years ago and each is the mother of two children.
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Bristol Ferry
R. L
A. Gore Trueman
Georges. Martin
American Monu ment to 1512 US Soldiers Found Fort in Argonne
Excavations at Monlucon peak in the Argonne reveal foundations of the 11th century fortress of Godefroy de Bouillon. An American monument commemorating 1512 U.S. soldiers killed in September 1918 will rise 200 feet high in reinforced concrete faced with Burgundy stone. Dedication planned for this summer.
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Godefroy de Bouillon
Henry IV
Anvers
Godefroy-le-Bossu
Duc. de Basse
Lorraine
Baron Renaux
Verdun
Ministry of Fine Arts
Canon Almond
Meuse
Goose Lays 11 Inch Egg Worth a Custard Feast
New Yorker Peggy J owned by Mrs J F Goundry hatches eggs famed for size. One egg mixed with milk yields custard for the family. Peggy's production peaks in spring with alternating days giving a double yolked ten ounce egg measuring 11 inches around. In hot weather she returns to a single normal egg daily. The tale ends with a note on faith and achievement.
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New Yorker
N. Y
Peggy J
J. F. Goundry
Peggy
Shantung and Chefoo Drawn Into Global Trade Tapestry
The article surveys Shantung’s Shandong province as a religious and commercial hub, noting Tsinan as a key transport and educational center with flour mills and peanut oil factories, and Chefoo as a foreign port exporting apples, peanuts, tobacco, silk, and hairnets to global markets. It describes urban contrasts, ancient city walls, and the region’s role in Christian missions and international commerce.
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National Gengraphic Society
Washington
WNU
Shantung
Nanking
China
Shantuhg
Ithe
Tsipan
Tsinan
Shantung Peninsula
Peiping
Tientsin
Shanghai Tsinan
Tsinang
Shan- Long
Walter Raleigh
Pagoda Hill
Shantung Plain
Tsiwan
Vannetessary
Fsitaa
Shantung Christian University
United States
Europe
Asia
Chefoo
Cape Cod
Yellow Sea
Shantung Province
Korea
Cincinati
Ohio
Denver
Cole
Pacific
Pengee
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King’s Bodyguard
West
Africa
U.S. Memorial
France
United States Coast Guard Academy
New London
J. D. Craik
Andover
Mass
Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution
Holy Land
Shangpu
Walla
Shang-pu
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