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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1925
Page
8
Langdon reports from the Rittan Expedition at Oxford indicate the palace at the Mesopotamian site near petborbea contains a Hall of Columns with five foot pillars and a long, brick-built hall. Discoveries include a bitumen-lined basin, a clay model war chariot, a child's toy, and copper vanity pieces, dating to 3000–2800 B C.
In Chicago on May 8 Harry G. Samson of the National Selected Morticiana said Egypt spent 44 820 000 000 on mummification from 2000 B C to 700 A D. About 42 million bodies were mummified, averaging 155 900 yearly, with class breakdowns and an estimated yearly embalming cost of 16 600 000, multiplied over 2700 years to approximate total costs.
Excavations uncover a solid gold woven chain fragment among feminine grave offerings. New pottery types appear including a black and white incised ware and a nearly complete vessel. Seals, copper battle axes, a leather-handled dagger with gold collar and six gold studs, and a bronze fibula with coiled springs emerge alongside abundant cuneiform tablets and walls built over a library mound. Elegant glassware surfaces in Babylonian homes from Nebuchadnezzar’s era.
A telegram from Dean I H Noe of St Marys Episcopal Cathedral Memphis says he refuses to debate with Dr W B Riley of Minneapolis on evolution. The World Fundamentals Association planned a large debate but canceled after Noe accused Riley of dodging the issue. Bryan will speak to fundMentalists next Sunday.
Hanover honored President-elect von Hindenburg with a farewell reception last night. Thousands serenaded him from his villa balcony as a three hour torchlit procession passed in review, featuring student groups city clubs nationalist organizations and veterans.
Rome May 8 The government announced King Victor Emmanuel has accepted the resignation of Minister of the Navy Thacon de Revel and assigned the naval portfolio to Premier Mussolini who will swear in before the king tomorrow.
Leavenworth Kansas May 8 construction of a shoe factory inside the federal penitentiary has begun and should finish in ten months Warden W S Biddle says the government will employ convicts to produce about 2000 pairs daily for army and navy use The project aims to relieve overcrowding by expanding prison labor and will follow remodeling of the administration building and night schools in the dining hall by prison staff and inmates.
Raymo Duncan, American advocate of simple living, calls marriage the most hideous evil of society in a Paris speech at Salle des Ingenieurs. He says sex obsession blinds people and urges Frenchmen to help find a suitable substitute, noting no social utility in marriage.
Nearly 200 prisoners were taught literacy, including Mexican, Oriental and Negro inmates. Prison school teachers were college graduates. Two sisters started in New York real estate with $5,000 and paid $900,000 for a large apartment building. Los Angeles installs its first woman police officer, Mrs. Georgia Pullock.
The Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation to visit Chile after his Argentina tour. He is expected to arrive by special train from Buenos Aires around August 26. The traveler currently begins a dawn of the South African trip.
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