Paris delays ratification of Washington naval accords
French parliament has not acted on the Washington naval accords since their 1922 signing. The Briand Poincare era bills sit with the foreign relations committee, with repeated government changes and financial crises delaying action.
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Paris
Washington
Briand
M. Poincare
Poincare
Herriot
Painleve
Foreign Relations Committee
Chamber
America
French Academy
France
M. Albert Sarraut
Prench
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Fue
Guernier
United States of America
British Empire
Italy
Japan
Alexandre Millergnd
de Lasteyrie
Raiberti
Maginot
le Vrocquer
Committee On Foreign Relations
Farast
Raynardy
Peincare
Marine Dumesnil
Herriet
Emile Borel
Marine
Return Gold Money Reacts Both Ways
In Johannesburg natives welcome the return to gold money used as ornaments amid broader public unease over paper currency. Major mining firms have adopted gold ahead of South Africa’s July 1 official return, with over 60 000 sovereigns paid to workers. Workers prefer paper due to loss risk and heaviness. natives turn gold into jewelry and bury surplus while white ants sometimes eat notes.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Germans Praise Unmarried Women in Germany Debate
Berlin reports a debate in women's clubs over whether unmarried women should be called Frau or Fraulein. The shift toward using Frau for all women of marriageable age reflects social pressure and concerns about safety, with spinster labeling fading as more see Frau as respectful regardless of marriage.
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Berlin
Europe
Prau
Jon
Vegetarianism Linked to Childhood Fear in Psychology Talk
London May 23 Dr David Forsyth former president of the psycho neurological Society explained the psychological origin of vegetarianism as often rooted in childhood fear. He cited a child frightened by a pursuing dog who feared killing life and refused flesh thereafter, a pattern he said many vegetarians share.
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London
David Forsyth
thesycho-Neuological Society
Regrard
Forsyth
Dutch Shippers See Beiter Business In Nations
Rotterdam reports the Netherlands Shipowners Federation foresees a stable exchange outlook and Danen plan relief aiding central European buying power this year. The federation, governing 656 vessels, notes freight markets demand extreme economy and fierce foreign competition. Seamen' pay in Dutch ships tops world levels, twice German or Italian rates, driving ships to lower wage markets.
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Rotterdam
Holland
Netherlands Shipowners Federation
Zair Effendi Claimed Europe’s Oldest Man At 151
Belgrade May 23 AP report says Zair Effendi, believed Europe’s oldest man at 151, stopped briefly in Belgrade on his way to Rome. Born in Kurdistan, he spent most of life in Constantinople and now travels as Italian doctors invite him to Rome to be examined by physicians from the Anthropologists' Society. He has one living child, a son aged 80.
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Belgrade
Jugoslavia
Lair Effendi
Europe
Rome
Kurdistan
Constantinople
Zair
United States
Bologna
T Marinetti
Italy
Chamber of Art
Holstein breeders to meet at Grand Rapids convention
A Holstein-Friesian Association of America convention will be held in Grand Rapids on June 23 with 166 delegates from 44 states and Canada, representing about 25 000 purebred Holstein Friesian breeders.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Canada
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Tea service growth in London Parliament 1924
Tea drinking in the House of Commons rises with over 100000 teas served in 1924 versus 714059 in 1923. Luncheons and dinners increased and a $525 profit was recorded on teas and meals over the year.
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M. P
London
House of Common
Great Dane Mothers Lion Cubs in Berlin
Three cub lions, offspring of Senta the Berlin Zoo’s prize lioness, are raised by a Great Dane after birth. Senta showed a tendency to kill them, so the cubs were removed and are being nurtured by the foster dog mother, delighting hundreds of watching children.
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Berlin
Senta
May festival tales and distant island life across the empire
Reports describe Finnish laws shifting service duties in the Aland Islands stirring local discontent. Tristan da Cunha life remains peculiar with dancing by gender. London tests a new glass for ultraviolet sunshine therapy. May superstitions tie to Roman rites of the unhappy dead. Kyoto's cherry blossom festival marks a telegraphed national highlight.
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Aaland Islands
Baltic
Sweden
Finland
British Empire
Tristan da Cunha
London
Kyoto
Jepen
Lisbon Under Reign of Terror
Lisbon reports a surge of Red Legion crimes including bank robberies and assaults on a bag collector. Police accuse victims of cowardice as authorities arrest principal suspects and warnings of further bombings halt business districts amid a wave of terror in the city.
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Bedaggon
Commissioner General of Police
Red Legion
FUGUE FORMATION IN EARLIEST MUSIC
Berlin reports the deciphering of the oldest known musical manuscript by Dr Curt Sachs of Berlin University. Origin is Babylonian with cuneiform inscriptions on clay plates found at Assur in Asia Minor dating to around the second century B C. The work uses five tones in a fugue style without half tones, with an 18 string harp providing melody accompaniment through frequent double stops.
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Berlin
Curt Sachs
Berlin University
Assur
Asia Minor
England Sets Contracts for Air Defense
London May 23 AP contracts have been placed by the air ministry for ten new airdomes in various parts of the country. The plan outlines a ring around London for night fighting and defense of the capital. Additional zones will defend the coast and strike enemy air bases with bombers.
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London
Air Ministry
Hard Times Force Sale Old Castles in Scotland
Aberdeen Scotland May 28 AP picturesque Scots vanish or lose historic articles. Slains Castle on the Aberdeenshire coast sold by auctioneer as owners face high taxes and upkeep costs. The fortress once hosted figures like the Earl of Oxford and Dame Clara Butt, with art treasures and a 6000 volume library, now stands abandoned amid sea cliff walls and battered by time.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Slains, Castle
Aberdeenshire
Errol
Slains
Earl of Oxford
Clara Butt
Hammer
Bruce
Vandyke
Reynolds
Gainsborough
London’s Lord Mayor Craves Fresh Air
London May 23 AP The lord mayor Sir Alfred Bower complains his official life is not a happy one He works about 15 hours daily and can only enjoy fresh air on Sundays He wishes for a half holiday and says he begins work at 8 30 am handling letters courts magisterial duties and numerous evening dinners affecting his health and appetite
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London
Alfred Bower
Alfred
Jord
Woman Invents Clever Device in England
London reports a surge of patents by British women with labor saving devices for households. Noted inventor Mrs. E M Bolton leads a new company to manufacture such devices including an electric dish washing machine that cleans a family of 12 in minutes at a fraction of a penny.
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London
England
E. M. Bolton
Humphrey Davy
France considers higher real estate tax for foreign buyers
Paris reports a Finance Committee bill would raise the foreign buyer tax on property to 52 percent from 13 percent, applying even to foreigners with French domicile. The measure cites currency depreciation and aims to curb investments by English and American capitalists seeking profits as the franc recovers.
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Paris
France
Finance Committee
Chamber
Kiel Canal Traffic Surges Past Prewar Levels
Berlin report notes Kiel Canal traffic more than tripled since World War I end. In 1913, 53,382 vessels totaling 10,349,929 tons passed. In 1918, 15,929 vessels totaling 4,720,000 tons. Last year recorded 42,373 vessels and 15,434,162 tons. Also mentions over 1.5 million Americans of Swedish stock.
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Berlin
Kiel Canal
Fashionable gowns on installment plan captivate courts
London reports first ready made gowns for court functions with installment buying, favored by young daughters of earls and dukes. Modistes abolish appointment sales amid competition, offering models designed by artists of color for about $50. Rome notes Italian fascist cultural reforms seek to abolish schools and promote native arts with new language and architectural rules.
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London
United States
Dresmakers
Germans Ease Travel Rules to Boost Tourism
Berlin reports new finance ministry instructions instruct customs officers at frontier towns to ease travel for tourists. Travelers no longer face full baggage inspections, and transit passengers are not harassed. Officers should remain polite. The International Hotel Keepers' Federation urges showcasing German palats to aid advertising to Americans.
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Berlin
Ministry of Finanee
Germany
International Hotel Keepers’ Federation
Federation
Switzerland
France
United States
Australia Plans Massive 450000 Emigrant Resettlement
Sydney reports an Anglo Australian pact to move 450000 UK emigrants to land in Australia over ten years. Costing five to ten thousand dollars per person, the plan aims to relieve English unemployment. Prime Minister Bruce notes ongoing development works awaiting settlers arriving by 16 000 mile voyage.
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Sydney
London
Pigland
Australia
United Kingdom
Bruce
England
Scots Desert Porridge Trend in Scotland
Edinburgh May 23 AP Ilam and eggs have replaced porridge as the popular breakfast dish in Scotland. The decline of porridge use, revealed at a board of agriculture inquiry, is attributed to a change in the national diet that began ten or twelve years ago.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Board of Agriculture
Strauss Boycott of German Theatrical Association
Berlin May 23 Richard Strauss refuses Max von Schillings invitation to conduct at the Berlin State Opera and rejects the Theatrical Association fine as improper for setting maximum remuneration for an artist of his stature.
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Strauss
Berlin
Richard Strauss
Max von Schillings
From Here And There In A Puzzling World
The article surveys varied facts including a $50 000 cost for passenger locomotives and sleeping cars, a 16 million volume annual Bible print run, London's loudspeaker train times trial, US Attorney General John G Sargent’s pipe collection, Turkish civil service wear rules, and the preserved Lafayettes apron. It also recounts the origin of the ice cream cone linked to a St Louis exposition and a cake idea that became a global staple.
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British and Foreign Bible Society
London
John G. Sargent
United States
Lafanyette
Bunker Hill Monument
Masonic Grandage
Massachusetts
St. Louis
American Dead to Be Memorialized at Westminster Abbey
London May 23 AP The London branch of the American Overseas Memorial association will oversee memorial services in Westminster Abbey and in British cemeteries for about 700 Americans buried in England and Ireland. On May 30 attendees will move to Brookwood cemetery to honor 454 Americans who died in the late war. Brookwood houses a US soldiers section. 91 American servicemen rest in Ireland. Other Civil War era graves in Britain will also be marked with wreaths on May 30.
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London
American Overseas Memorial Association
Westminster Abbey
England
Ireland
Brookne
Londo
Brookwood
United States
France
Burie
England studies aviation routes
Sir Sefton Brancker director of civil aviation completed a 17000 mile round trip by air from London to India and back in the same aircraft with no mechanical issues. He assessed tropical conditions for commercial flight and identified possible airship mast sites at Calcutta Colombo Delhi and Rangoon.
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London
Sir Sefton Brancker
Civil Aviation
India
Sefton
Indus
Ganges
Sir Sefton
Lonton
Rangoon
Calcutta
Colombo
Delhi
Cost Columbus 7200 Discover America
Genoa reports show the entire Columbus fleet cost 14 000 lira about 2800 dollars. Expenditures on the voyage add 22 000 lira bringing total near 7200 dollars. Columbus earned 1600 lira annually about 320. Captains received half, and sailors earned 2 50 monthly.
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Genoa
Italy
America
Columbus
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