Largest Sapphire Find Shocks Ceylon Rumors Grow
In Permadulla a two acre paddy field yields a vast sapphire find believed to be the largest in Ceylon if not the world. Stones range from 20 to 700 carats in colors yellow purple blue and gold with some weighing about half a pound. Experts note demand for large gems is waning while a polished stone sold for 250 a carat and rough stones valued near 76 000. News sparks field visitors and excitement over an apparently unlimited yield.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Permadulla
Aealerg
Ives
J. Pierpont Morgan
Kuruwita Korale
Ratnapura
Columbo
World university exchange and study abroad details outlined
The International Office of University Intelligence, a League of Nations co op, releases its first quarterly review in Geneva. It outlines exchange of professors and students, scholarship and tuition rules for foreigners, and open courses. It also reports on a Central America five country student exchange convention and notices from international student associations.
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Geneva
International Office of University Intelligence
League of Nations
Central America
United States
England
Denmark
Spain
France
Holland
Switzerland
Bed Time Story and Local Elections Debate
A column discusses dry cleaners sending representatives to Republican and Democratic conventions. It notes a new stain removal process to be discussed by competitors who oppose Smith for president. The piece quotes sentiment about Smith’s potential impact on the infant industry and mentions Southern Idaho conditions.
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Smith
Idaho
Free State Tackles the Drink Traffic
Dublin reports the Free State moves to regulate drink sales with licenses at 15 000 homes and towns with up to 70 saloons. The government bill limits hours from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays, 9 p.m. Saturdays, and requires separate drink shops from other goods, a change the trade says could cost over 20 million.
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Dublin
Free State
Ireland
Alexander buys San Francisco Journal and absorbs by Bulletin
Wallace M. Alexander of San Francisco and Hawaii sugar interests announces the San Francisco Journal will be absorbed by the San Francisco Bulletin within a week and discontinue publication. Andrew Lawrence headed the Journal Publishing Co.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Journal
Wallace M. Alexander
Journal
San Francisco Bulletin
Alexander
Bulletin
Andrew Lawrence
Chicago
Journal Publishing Company
Writ does not stay execution in Nebraska case
The Nebraska attorney general was advised that a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Walter Ray Simmons’ counsel did not stay his impending execution. The court will not act on the application until it reconvenes next October.
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Washington
Nebraska
William R. Stansbury
Supreme Court
Walter Ray Simmons
Journeying Optician Evans to Visit Inkom Next Thursday
Dr. Evans from Boise, the optician, will be at the St. Marie Hotel in Inkom for his monthly eye visit on Thursday June 19. He invites locals with eye troubles to come and have glasses fitted by J. T. Evans.
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Dr. Evans
Boise
St. Marie
Warm Weather Colds And Cough Remedies
An advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for colds and coughs. It cites relief from a reader in Scranton Pennsylvania and urges readers to buy a bottle sold everywhere.
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Benjamin Thomas
West Lackawanna Ave
Scranton
The CREEN The CREEN ORPHEUM Last Nights Tonight
The CREEN The CREEN ORPHEUM shows The Bedroom Window a Mount picture in last times tonight. Star cast includes May Evoy Malcolm MacGregor Ricardo Cortez Robert Edeson George Fawcett and Ethel Wales in leading roles. The program features Lonesome two reel comedy and Pathe News with Tomorrow Richard Barthelmess in Twenty One.
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Paramount Picture
Orle Ean
MayeAvoy
Malcolm MacGregor
Ricardo Cortez
Robert Edeson
George Fawcett
Ethel Wales
Pathe News
Orpheum
Richard Barthelmess
The Great White Way Film Showcases Broadway Life
A lavish six month production costing nearly one million dollars recreates New York City on screen. The Great White Way depicts the metropolis from newspaper plants to Ziegfeld Follies, featuring Florenz Ziegfeld and Ned Wayburn. It captures a realistic Yankee Stadium crowd for the Firpo Willard bout.
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New York
Metropolis
Broadway
Florenz Ziegfeld
Ned Wayburn
Follies
Yankee Stadium
Luis Firpo
Jess Willard
Memorapla Milk Fund
Band Dance Friday at the Dance Palace
A note invites readers to a band dance this Friday at the Dance Palace. The event is scheduled for the venue and aims to offer live music and dancing for attendees.
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Dance Palace
Dances Invade North Alaska Native Village
Miss Katherine G. Kane reports that interior Alaska Indians in Kokrines enjoy dancing to foxtrots with violin, guitar, mandolin or ukulele. Men also play pool and cards, while snowshoe making wanes and motor boats become a tribe hobby. fur prices vary with red fox and muskrat markets.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Interior
Katherine G. Kane
Kokrines
Yukon River
Ruby
Miss Kane
Auto imports to Philippines surge in 1928
Manila June 17 AP says automobile imports into the Philippines rose about 150 percent from 1922 to 1928, mainly from the United States. Total value for 1928 reached 1,195,700 dollars, compared with 423,470 dollars in 1922, according to the bureau of customs figures.
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Manila
Philippines
United States
Bureau of Customs
Indians Given Surgical Relief
A campaign to wipe out trachoma among Indians will start July 1 with a special physician from the Indian Office and the Public Health Service. Plans call for operations first in Arizona and New Mexico then on all reservations, using temporary hospitals in unoccupied Indian school buildings during vacation. Work begins at Fort Defiance in the Navajo jurisdiction with Dr. Polk Richards as consulting ophthalmologist.
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Washington
Trachdma
Atheide
Tnaa
Public Health Service
Interior Department
Arizona
New Mexico
Fort Defiance
Polk Richards
Martha Washington Candies at The Circle Shop
A brief note for Martha Washington Candies located at The Circle opposite the post office. Exclusive agents are listed, with details obscured in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Washington
the Circle
Post Office
Exclusive
Agenta
Jis
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E.K. On
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Alma Bennet
Reweg
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Marry Hershfield
Kid” Broad
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Oscar Shaw
Noa Weene
Damon Runyon
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W. McGurk
Pete Hartley
Johnn Gallagher
Tom Laie
Olin Howard
Stanley Forde
Bugs” Baer
Fay King
Hal Coffman
Billy Gould
Tammany Young
Don Allen
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Evening World
Harriette Underhill
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Luther Reed
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H. C. Witwer
E. Mason Hopper
Joseph Urban
Frederick Stahlberg
Colduyasmopolitan A4
Harmony Four
Flapper Jazz Orchestra
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