Riding Horses of Today Exceed Past Breeds
Washington May 12 A report from army officers notes riding horses bred recently are fewer but superior in quality and breeding. The quartermaster corps receives over 1500 remount sire requests as it promotes thoroughbred Arab and Morgan stallions to boost light horse breeding nationwide.
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Washington
Quartermaster Corps
Quartermaster General
Army
C. L. Scott
Remount Service
Scrubs and mongrels deemed valueless for sale
A fragment states scrubs and mongrels are of no use and have no saleable value, indicating a rejection of these items as saleable goods in the ongoing notice.
Dead pets preserved for sorrowing owners in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a taxi der m y studio reports strange requests from owners who seek permanent keepsakes of their deceased animals. A man preserves his parrot in a caske, a woman canary sleeps with her owner in a glass case, and a pedigreed bulldog killed in a auto accident is mounted in a sleeping pose. A college student’s brindle bulldog named Smoky is noted for its claimed ability to smoke tobacco and drink liquor.
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Los Angeles
Europe
Ruth Sees Meadowlark Encore On Farm Visit
During a visit to the farm little Ruth watched a meadowlark sing from an adjacent field. She then returned home to tell her aunt that the bird seemed fearless and sang another verse after glancing at her.
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Ruth
Gibbons Arrives to Train for Tunney Clash at Polo Grounds
Tommy Gibbons arrives in New York from St Paul to finalize camp for the June 5 heavyweight bout with Gene Tunney at the Polo Grounds. He is joined by Sammy Handall and Earl Blue. manager Eddy Kane and other supporters greet the group. They plan road work in Central Park before heading to Atlantic City to complete training.
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St. Pau
Tom Gibbons
Atlantic City
Gene Tunney
Polo Grounds
Gibbons
Sammy Handall
Earl Blue
Eddy Kane
Jimmy DeForest
Blue Ad Mandell
Central Park
Dirigible TC-5 flight tests explore mine rescue use
Pittsburg reports the US airship TC-5 aimed to speed mine rescue teams by air instead of rail. The test from Aberdeen to Pittsburg and Ohio halted due to mountains and strong headwinds. Officials say airships could reach disasters faster, but no new date for experiments was set.
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Bureau of Mine
Experiments With Untrained Crew Reach for Mine Rescue Test
The TC-5 was flown from Aberdeen proving grounds to Pittsburg as a test of using lighter than air ships in mine rescue work. Director H. Foster Balh and T. T. Read led the mission planned to be pulled down by an untrained crew at Carnegie Institute of Technology under camp landing conditions.
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Washington, D. C
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Pittsburg
H. Foster Balh
T. T. Read
Safety Service
Interior Department
Bureau of Mines
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Crossword Puzzle Clues Put In One Tidy Back Page
A dense list of crossword clues includes steps for across and down entries with numbers, names, prefixes, and abbreviations. The jumble features many obscure terms and reference points across general knowledge, languages, and geography.
No Bodies Recovered From Sunken Vessel Norman
Memphis May 12 Officers in charge of the government steamship Choctaw reported last night that their efforts to recover the bodies of more than a score of persons missing since the vessel Norman capsized in the Mississippi River Friday were still unsuccessful. Salvage progress on the sunken ship continued while searchlights swept the river and banks. The Norman rests about 190 feet west of the Tennessee shore and roughly 250 feet from the sinking point.
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Memphis
Norman
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Tennessee
Prince Orders Maps To Show His Country’s Size
A Mongolian prince visiting Berlin asks a map publisher for maps of his country. The publisher notes maps are prewar and asks for current boundaries. The prince replies to draw the boundaries as wide as possible so his people can see how large their land is.
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Berlin
Maili
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Advert
Columbia South Carolina reader testimonial praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for three years of illness relieved by the remedy. Claims strong health improvement during the Change of Life and urges early use to avoid years of suffering. Advertisement notes wide canvass with 98 percent benefit reports from over 200 000 replies.
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Columbia, S. C
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Housey
Columbia
South Carolina
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HE Bell Telephone Organization
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Atlanta
C. G. Beck
Bell System
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell
Georgie
Mason
T. A. Futch
Hardware and Sherwin-Williams Paints
S. Broad St
Tommy Gibbons
Tunney
New York
United States
Aberdeen
Ohio
D. J. Parker
Mine Safety Service
United States Bureau of Mines
George Cressey
Air Force
Parker
Boston
Mass
N. E. Penneylvania
American Institute
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Elower
Aven
Ty Sabet
U. S
Barry
Augustus
Charles Dickens
Giri
Part Schaffner & Marx
Dixie
S. Richy
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Thomasville
Lydia E
Goodyear
James Gribben
James Watt & Bro
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