Five Eskimo Tribes Found by Danish Explorer Rasmersten
Danish explorer Kendrick Rasmersten reports five Eskimo tribes unseen by whites on a three thousand kilometer voyage from Admiralty Island to an Arctic lake. They hid women and children and prepared to defend homes until greetings were exchanged. He describes their snow huts, legends, and a record cold winter of fifty degrees below zero.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Kendrick Rasmersson
Admirly
Pacific
Baflin
Yath-Eyed Lake
Rasmeresen
Red Cross Serves 3 000 Vets In Iowa Year
Iowa Red Cross reports more than 2 000 disabled veterans and families aided in the past year. Dozens of new cases weekly need hospitalization across 31 state hospitals in towns including Des Moines Atlantic Muscatine Dubuque Creston Ames Davenport Sioux City Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Fort Dodge Waterloo Fort Dodge etc.
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Iity
Associated Press
Des Moines
Ifa
Lowa
Red Cross
Iowa Red Cross
Iowa
Atlantic
Muscatine
Dubuque
Creston
Ames
Burlington
Davenport
City
Sioux City
Ottumwa
Waterloo
Rain Halts California Forest Fires After Weeklong Sweep
Rain in the Los Angeles region halted a weeklong forest fire across more than twenty square miles in San Bernardino and surrounding areas. About a thousand firefighters were released as eight missing men were accounted for with no summer resort losses reported.
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Associated Press
San Bernardino
Cal
Los Angeles Range
Pay Taxes Promptly to Save State Money Urges Iowa Official
Des Moines reports Iowa can lower tax levies by prompt tax payments. State Treasurer W. J. Burbank cites $46,536,000 handled in two years and $260,000 in interest earned from deposited funds. Cigarette stamps yielded $591,000. insurance taxes rose to $2,180,802. Inheritance tax increased by $124,172 for the period. Total revenue rose from $36,259,000 to $46,536,000.
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Burbank
Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
W. J. Burbank
French organize to fight prohibition league funds
Paris reports a large pledge of millions of francs from wine interests to fuel a campaign against prohibition in the United States and other nations. The fight will be conducted by the new liquor organization league with headquarters in Paris.
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Associated Press
Paris
United States
New Liquor Organization League
Confident murder case solved in New Brunswick
Four hours after the shooting of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir leader, Mrs. Elinor Rhinhart Mills, Mrs. Jane Gibson returned to the scene. Special Attorney Motts says the case is complex but not a mystery and expects arrests only after presenting to the Somerset county court for trial.
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Associated Press
New Brunswick
N. 2
Edward Wheeler Hall
Elinor
Rhinhart Mills
Jane Gibson
Motts
Magazine Editor Proposes Community Halloween Reforms
Prof William A McKeever editor of the Golden Rule Magazine suggests a substitute for destructive Hallowe en pranks. He urges city zones open houses and shared revelry with masks horns songs and laughter to channel youth energy into harmless festivities.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Hallowe'en
William A. McKeever
Golden Rule Magazine
Child Welfare Worker
University of Kansas
Prof. McKeever
Professor McKeever
H Young America
P. m
America
Grapes Grower Drowned in Wine Vat at Napa
Max Toami, raisin and grape grower in Napa California, was found drowned in a seven foot wine vat. He had presumably gone to stir the fermenting contents when the accident occurred, and his body was recovered from the bottom of the vat.
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Napa
Calif
Max Toami
Toami
Havre Tragedy Ties Insanity to Parish Deaths
At St Mark church rector William Christler and his wife Margaret Carleton were killed in the rector home. Authorities say insanity in Mrs Gameton caused both deaths and the minister’s wife then killed herself. No inquest to be held unless requested by relatives.
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Associated Press
Havre
Mont
William Jacob Christler
St. Mark Church
All Outdoors
Margaret Carleton
Montana
Christler
Gameton
Princess Hermine to Bride German Emperor Plans for Dorne
London date Oct 28 Princess Hermine of Russia who will wed the former German emperor says she cannot stay at Dorne more than four or five months a year and has proposed changes to the residence while William works to satisfy her requests. The reporter notes the ringing of bells on the wedding day is unlikely.
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Associated Press
London
Hermine
Dorne
William
Daily
Shopping Banter Between Alice and Judge
A quipty exchange shows Alice asking why one shops and if money can be invented. Vir tae responds that he moves through tasks quicker. The judge character then remarks on efficiency in a brisk, witty line.
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Alice
Virtae
Army civilian group outlines draft classification plan
Civilians with WWI draft experience advise classification by occupation to speed calls, begin at local boards, and use limited service pools. They urge barring mentally unfit from active duty and creating clearing pools for specialists to streamline assignments.
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Washington
Army
Capitalist Edgar Found Dead in St Louis Kitchen
Selweyn C. Edgar, 71, former president of Edgar's zinc corp, was found shot to death in his St Louis home kitchen. Police treat as self-inflicted. a note to his wife reads You do not commence to live until you die. Edgar and his wife were estranged.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Selweyn C. Edgar
Edgar
Zinc Corporation
Record gas consumption hits new high in 1921
The American Gas Association reports 1921 gas use at 126 billion cubic feet a rise of 7.0 billion from 1920 and 20.0 billion from 1911. Industrial demand climbs to 21.62 percent, cooking and domestic uses dominate, with 9,291,000 customers and 659,500 miles of mains nationwide.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
American Gas Association
Ivei
Thieves Escape From Olmitz Mining Camp Near Des Moines
Police guard crossings near Des Moines after thieves flee the Olmitz mining camp following a late night raid. They robbed the general store of 300 dollars in cash and merchandise valued at 5060 dollars before escaping in an automobile toward the city.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Olmitz
Here
Firemen Report Missing Members Safe After San Bernardino Blaze
San Bernardino California October 27 eight firemen listed as missing were later reported safe. The wildfire that burned for days swept the San Bernardino range prompting the dispatch of fifty additional fighters from Lake Arrowhead valley.
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Associated Press
San Bernardino
Cal
San Bernardino Range
Lake Arrow Head Valley
Evacuation of Vladivostok Signals Far East War
Tokyo reports the Japanese evacuation of Vladivostok completed yesterday. Officials say the move signals a new war in the region with General Deitreich, leader of the Russian White Guards allied with Chan Tso Lin, the self proclaimed ruler of Manchuria, according to official announcements received.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Vladivostok
Deitreich
Chan Tso Lin
Manchuria
Me's Arrival in Wisconsin Story
A child recalls naming Barbara after relatives in Wisconsin. While visiting the North she spots Aunt Barbara coming up the street and runs inside shouting to her mother that Aunt Barbara has arrived.
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Barbara
Wisconsin
North
Thousands Flee Thrace Face Death From Starvation and Disease
Refugees marching toward Macedonia in Thrace endure hunger and illness as scarlet fever typhoid fever and dehydration spread. Doctors nurses and medical aid are scarce as babies lack milk and camps lack food water. Roads to Drama and Kavala are blocked, leaving fifty thousand exhausted refugees with little relief after ten days of travel.
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Associated Press
Dedeagatch
Thrace
Oet
Macedonia
Kavala
Swedish Officials Report Optimism Amid Trade Recovery
The Swedish Foreign Office releases the most hopeful quarterly assessment since the war, noting improvements in wood products pulp and paper, slow recovery in land and mechanical sectors, rising textile and chemical output, price stabilization with some upward pressure, stable banking conditions, and strong foreign trade including growing U S shipments of cement and salted mackerel.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Foreign Office
Swedish Board of Trade
Sweden
United States
Iff
Calendar coded deck riddle on card totals and time units
The text outlines a cipher linking playing card counts to calendar units. It lists total spots in a deck and mappings such as 42 for weeks in a year and 12 for months, with 4 suits and 4 quarters. It reads as a cryptic musing on numeric correspondences between cards and time periods.
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Hallowe’en
Homan Willew
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John B. Useless, Esq
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