Irish Free State urged to cut saloons and hours
Dublin dispatch reports a government commission recommends halving saloons from 13 000 to one per 400 inhabitants and shortening hours from 10 pm to 5 pm start. expect passage despite saloon keeper opposition. Cosgrave to receive the report with an upcoming Dail bill.
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Daniel Jel O'Connell
International News’ Service
Dublin
Irish Free State
Ireland
Eir
Cosgrave
Free State
Kevin O
McGee of Superior Defies Dentists at 105 a Remark
John McGee of Superior Wisconsin, approaching his 106th birthday, smokes since youth and rejects balanced diets as a longevity factor. He has no false teeth and lives with minimal regard for dental norms, challenging conventional dental wisdom.
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John “McGee
Superior Wis
Health progress in Italy shows improving sanitation and rising births
Rome report notes five year trend of better health in Italy. Sanitation improves and death rate declines while birth rate increases sharply, according to statistics from the director general of board and health.
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Rome
Italy
Board and Health
Monterey Apartments in Chicago Offer Convenient North Side Living
Descriptive note promotes Monterey in a select North Side neighborhood near the lake. It highlights short travel times, modest rates for hotel rooms and kitchenette apartments, private showers, and a well-priced restaurant. A folder is available from J. R. Hubbart, Resident Manager, 4300 Clarendon Avenue.
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Chicago
Monterey
J. R. Hubbart
Clarendon Avenue
Hidden Archives of Czar Found in Leningrad
Workmen uncover a quarter ton of confidential czarist navy records in a hidden chamber of the marine general staff building in Leningrad. Bolshevik experts say the files illuminate the czar era's final days and naval role in the great war, with secret instructions, photographic negatives, and fleet orders.
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Leningrad
Marine General Staff
Secretary of the Navy
Scanty attire scored by priest in Ottawa sermon
Monsignor Laflamme of the Quebec Basilica warned that women in indecent dress may be barred from sacraments or even from church. He attacked modern fashions and said the church would be severe with disrespectful members, urging parents to set better dress examples for their daughters.
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Ottawa
Ont
Monsignor
Laflamme
Quebec
Court Six Years by Mail Unites Ida Dickhaut and Rudolph Keys
Ida C Dickhaut of Boston married Rev Rudolph J Keys of Delray Florida in a Jamaica Plain ceremony at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church. The couple, schoolday sweethearts separated six years ago by key moves for ministry, kept in touch and wed September 23 with Rev Theodore Keys of Newark aiding.
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Boston
Jamaica Plain
Ida C. &. Dickhaut
Rudolph J. Keys
Delray
Fia
St. Louis
Florida
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Theodore 8. Keys
Newark
N. J
Paul Loeber
Dartmouth Frosh Out Of Fraternity Rush Tradition
Dartmouth introduces radical changes as freshmen no longer rush fraternities. Freshmen must join in their sophomore year and optional daily chapel is adopted along with a compulsory athletic course requiring sport participation three times weekly.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth
Czar's Stamp Collection to Sell in London
The late Czar Nicholas II collection, a quarter million dollar set of Romanoff Russian stamps from 1913, will be sold by a London philatelic agency. It includes original artist proofs and unique color varieties. The stamps were delivered to the czar at the start of World War I and accompanied him into exile.
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London
Nicholas
Russia
Prospector Rush to New Gold Field Near Bering Straits
Moscow October 9 American prospectors are among early arrivals at newly discovered gold fields in the Tchukot Anadyr region on the coast of the Bering Straits opposite Alaska. Many reportedly entered without passports along unguarded northeast coast borders. The fields are believed to yield gold of quality not far below the Aldan river prospects.
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Moscow
Tchukot-Anadyr
Bering Straits
Alaska
Aldan River
Britain Aims to Replant Vast Forests Across Britain
London October 9 The forestry commission announces extensive reforestation plans to revive Britain's forest wealth. About forty million trees will be planted yearly on former waste lands across 22 000 acres, averaging 1899 trees per acre in this nationwide effort.
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London
Britain
Forestry Commission
Nudes in Pisa Cathedral to be draped in moveable veils
In Pisa the nude figures on Giovan ni Pisano's fresco in the White Marble Cathedral will be veiled to spare visitors offense. Cardinal Maffi, archbishop of Pisa, ordered drapery to be movable to ease art-world opposition.
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Rome
Giovanni Pisano
Cathedral
Pisa
Cardinal Maffi
Norway Issues Stamps for Spitzbergen Takeover
Oslo October 9 The Norway post office announces a new stamp issue to mark the taking over of Spitzbergen. The designs resemble the current Norwegian issue and depict the Spitzbergen takeover with national imagery.
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Norway Post Office
Oslo
Norway
Spitzbergen
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R. R
Mobile
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Shannon
Czar
Winster
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