New Statutes Fill 3 Federal Prisons
Washington faces swelling federal jail bills as new statutes push up inmate counts. Three prisons at Atlanta Leavenworth and McNeil Island struggle with crowding while plans for Alderson West Virginia women’s facility and a first offender only prison aim to ease congestion and provide work for inmates.
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Uncle Sam
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United States
Iit
Department of Justice
Atlanta
Leasenworth
Nan
Alderson
W. Va
Driverless Auto Surprises Paris Streets Without Incident
A driverless automobile operates through crowded Paris streets without accident. The inventor challenges public doubt by promising to disclose the operating secret soon.
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Paris
Chocolate Eclair Sparks Violent Outburst in Paris
A young woman enjoying a chocolate éclair outside a class caused Albert Wells, a professional faster, to go insane. He gazed at the airily named daimiy in Angers, rose, and smashed a glass to reach the food. He was hospitalized, raving, during the twelfth day of a thirty day fast in a Paris thoroughfare cage display.
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Paris
Albert Wells
Airt
Wally
Pious Wife of Builder of the Great Wall
A legend from Chinwangtao recalls a devoted wife of a wall builder. After learning her husband died and his body crushed in the wall, she sought his bones, secured permission to bury them, then cast both bones and herself into the sea at Sluintiihwan. The temple honors her memory beside the perpetual breach in the wall.
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Peking
Mukden
China
Sluintiihwan
Chih Tuang-il
Chih
Min
Peppermint Oil Prices Soar Amid Supply Shortage
A frost and heat by May in southern Michigan and northwest Indiana cut peppermint crop by about 70 percent, leaving about 250000 pounds. With 60 percent of world supply grown here, oil prices rose past 17 dollars per pound after a low of 1.28 over four years. Peppermint plants thrive in mucky soils along the Indiana Michigan border farms are small and two harvests per summer are typical. Peppermint arrived in Indiana and Michigan around 1840 from Ohio and earlier from England.
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South Bend
Ind
Michigan
Indiana
Indiana-Michigan
Ohio
England
Thousands of Game Birds Die From Mysterious Malady in Tule Lake
Thousands of ducks and geese lie dead at Tule Lake Oregon from a strange illness. The U S biological survey will examine the carcasses to find the cause as game wardens send birds to Portland for analysis. A similar deer die-off occurred in Modoc county last year from wet mud in a dried spring.
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Ore
Tule Lake
United States
Hislogical Survey
Barnes
Biological Survey Research Office
Portland
Modoc
Sorry Now Gowanda N V Hair Bobbing Causes Rejection
About sixteen Indian maids in Gowanda New York regret their haircuts as a film company refuses to take them to Florida with 125 others due to their short dresses.
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Gowanda
N. V
Florida
Nearly Half Prewar Jews in Russia Gone
A Soviet report via the Russian Information Bureau states the Jewish population of the Soviet Union has fallen to 2,590,000 from 3,900,000 in the former czarist empire. The loss of over 2.2 million arises from emigration to Poland Lithuania and other states and from casualties caused by white guard forces the Petlura and Polish armies during civil war and invasions in Ukraine and White Russia.
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Council of Nationalities of the
Soviet Union
Russian Information Bureau
Poland
Lithuania
White Guard
Petluza
Ukraine
White
Russia
Suez and Panama Canal Distances Described
The text details Suez navigation length about 88 miles with 66 miles actus canal carved by cuttings, 14 miles by dredging through isthmus lakes, and 8 miles requiring work. It also notes the Panama canal extending a little over 50 statute miles with dredged portions reaching deep water at both entrances.
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Suez
Actus Canal
Panama Canal
First Oil Well in the United States
The first oil well in the United States was brought in August 28 1859 at Titusville Pennsylvania. It began producing at a depth of 60 feet.
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United States
Titusville
Salesian Wanted to Solicit Oil Co., Cleveland Ad
Hiring notice seeks a Salesian to solicit orders for lubricating oils greases and paints at The Harvey Oil Co in Cleveland Ohio. Salary or commission offered. Address inquiries to The Harvey Oil Co Cleveland Ohio. t&a 2-4x
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Salesian
Harvey Oil Co
Cleveland
Ohio
T&a
Collision on the Highway Sparks Private Driver Confab
Two cars collided on the highway and the drivers later conferred in whispers. The incident prompted police to take witness statements and secure the scene as traffic resumed.
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