Mars plans and Marconi signals spark space speculation
Paris reports B McAfee and David Todd propose a 1924 mega telescope on an estate near Deauville using a 50 foot mercury mirror in a mine shaft to photograph Mars from a distance of 1.5 miles and prove life exists while Marconi managers discuss Mars wireless messages and future interplanetary communication potential with 150000 meter wavelengths and lantern slide code.
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Mars
B. McAfee
David Todd
London Daily Mail
McAfee
Deauville
Todd
Chanaral
Chili
Mr. McAfee
Chile
Zenife
Professor Todd
Martian
Earth
Macbeth
London
Boston
Chicago
Atlantic
New York
League of Nations
Geneva
Raddio
Scientific Advancement Miracles Through Time
A historical reflection asserts that advancing science may surpass past breakthroughs by centuries, noting the transformative impact of scientific progress over the last 25 years. The passage emphasizes the potential for knowledge to outpace prior achievements by about 200 years.
East Plan to Exterminate Rats Across the East
The United States Department of Agriculture launches a major eastern campaign to eradicate rats, citing past successes in the West and Midwest. At Baton Rouge Louisiana the 2,500 acre state penitentiary farm suffered repeated corn losses from rats, but a convict-driven poison bait drive on the entire tract nearly eliminated them and yielded a promising corn stand for an early harvest.
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Biologics
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Wesern
Uncle Sam
Baton Rouge
Biological Survey
Amusements: Who Am I at Fox Theater next Thursday
A suspenseful National Picture titled Who Am I will screen at the Fox Theater next Thursday. The drama follows a young woman seeking her parentage and discovering her gambler father’s identity and debts, forcing her into a perilous world before a hopeful path ahead. Henry Kolker directs with cast including Claire Anderson and Niles Welch.
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Fox Theater
Houses of Chance
Henry Kolker
Claire Anderson
Niles Welch
Katherine Reed
Max Brand
New York Business Women Lead in City Life
A study notes that women play a larger role in New York’s business life than in any other city, highlighting increased participation in management, entrepreneurship, and finance across major firms and industries.
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New York
Thrift Bond scheme collapses leaving workers penniless
The National Thrift Bond Corporation collapses after years of selling bonds to wage earners. Eleven thousand workers in 119 factories face recovering only about 70 cents on the dollar as liquidation reveals the venture could not cover its obligations. Rich Wall Street backers lost about a million dollars, while workers await bond maturities from 1943 to 1954 for any repayment.
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New York
National Thrift Bond Corporation of
Wall Street
Aad National Thrift
Ingalls Kimball
Harvard
Indus
Ingalls
National Thrift Bond Corporation
United States
Corporation
Directory of Directors
America
Phot
Uncle Sam
Man of Ideas
Thrift Bond Corporation
Equitable Trust Company
Liberty
Geo. W. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Equitable Trust Fund
Bonds Sell at About Thirty Percent Off After Liquidation
The article notes that selling their bonds at roughly 30 percent discount is possible only after liquidation is completed, a process expected to take many months into the future.
Lincoln highway paving planned in Clinton county
The Clinton county board of supervisors seeks bids to pave the Lincoln highway next spring if bids are suitable. Seventeen miles from Clinton to Unity corners may be completed before snow with thirteen miles paved and ten opened. contracts for the remaining twenty one miles are expected to be let.
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Clinton
Clinton County
Clinton County Board of Supervisors
Fighteen
Unity Corners
Calamus
McAdoo warns of hard winter as 6 million unemployed
Chicago reports William G. McAdoo former Treasury secretary traveling to Newton Kansas says the nation faces a hard winter with 6,000,000 unemployed many more laid off daily. He blames the Republican administration saying normalcy cannot return quickly and notes farmers are broke making harvest returns unlikely to help.
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Chicago
William Ga. McAdoo
the Treasury
Newton
Kans
McAdoo
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Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd
Rotary Club
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Alaska
Benteco
Benteco-Kash
L Employers’ Corporation
Lincoln Highway
Willie” McAdoo
H. Il Ward & CO
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