Smithsonian annual report cites record zoo attendance and acquisitions
The Smithsonian Institution reports over 2.4 million visitors at the National Zoo, highlights African expedition mammals birds reptiles and fishes, and notes acquisitions and projects across the National Museum National Gallery and Mount Hawl solar station with notable cataloging and prehistoric site work.
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Smithsonian
Theodore Roosevelt
Goddard
National Museum
National Gallery of Art
Mesa Verde’ National Park
Colo
Mount Tlargqua Hala
Ariz
Solar studies seek cloudless region for sun earth link
The article notes hopes to establish a consistent, cloudless region to study the sun earth relationship. It references Prof. Abbot at Mount Wilson and describes the first solar cooker used there with most cooking done on the device.
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Abbotts
Mount Wison
Marshal Foch's final U S visit include Washington stop
Marshal Foch completes a sweeping U S tour with stops at St Paul Minneapolis Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles Houston New Orleans before a dawn visit to Washington. He will travel aboard Schwab's private car Lorretto to West Point Albany Ottawa Montreal Quebec Niagara Falls and New York then sail Wednesday from New York to France aboard the Paris. American Legion officials Ambassador Jusser and M Viviagi will greet him at the station. No formal farewell planned.
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Marshal‘ Foch
West Point
Albany
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec
Niagara Falls
France
New
Retirement amendment seeks pension fund deduction reporting
Senator Sterling yesterday introduced an amendment to the retirement act requiring department and bureau heads to report deduction percentages from salaries to the pension office. The act reserves portions of salaries for investment, with over 8.8 million dollars invested in liberty bonds. Departing employees may draw from invested funds, but credits plus interest have caused delays in settling accounts for federal staff.
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Sterling
Usider
Pension -Office
Army academy growth urged to train citizen soldiers
Brig. Gen. Arthur calls for expanding West Point from 1,234 to 8,500 officers in the annual report. He warns existing training can only supply a third of peacetime needs and urges increasing the academy enrollment as a nucleus to mobilize officers in emergencies. The budget and prior spending are outlined amid war-scale expansion debates.
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Associated “Press
Point’ Military
Geri
Arthur
Seagemy
United States
MacArthur
Academy
Feadeta Chronology Unclear From Fragmentary Clip
Fragmentary OCR text offers little readable context. The snippet hints at original timing and sequence but provides no identifiable people, organizations, places, or events to accurately summarize as a newspaper item. Further readable content required for a proper card.
Riker bill urged to aid Civil War veterans
The National Association of Volunteer Gif ficars of the Civil War pressed support for the Early and favorable Riker bill at a meeting in the G A B building, 1412 Pennsylvania Ave NW. The measure would grant half pay and other benefits to veterans and could be enacted too late for many over 70. George Christian, secretary, urged action to President Harding to secure his backing.
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Association of Volunteer
Gifficars
Pennnsylvania Avenue
George “Christian
Harding
Senate funds house furniture and memorial bridge work
The deficiency appropriation reports items totaling $106,060,000 including $2,393.75 for furniture and equipment for a new Henry D. Cooke School addition, $25,000 for preliminary surveys of the memorial bridge across the Potomac, and $3,000,000 more than the House allocation. Col. C. O. Sherrill pressed the bridge funding. the House committee refused. William Rockefeller asks ICC to allow retention of director and officer roles in eighteen railroads.
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Senate
Henry D. Cooke
Col. C
Weeks warns Congress split may create hostile factions
Secretary of War John W. Weeks told a convention of life insurance presidents that dividing power among many committees could fracture Congress and weaken government. He recalled Cannonism era and warned of increased expenditures and irresponsible legislation as parties seek separate causes, risking national defense and international interests. He criticized postwar farm laws and rail finance, noting tax-advantaged securities burden farmers while suggesting broader missteps in Congress.
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New York
Associated Press
Congress
United States
John W. Weeks
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Weeks
Senate
House
Eonan
House of Representatives
Committee On Rules
Cannon
Daugherty to Inquire Into New Haven Case
Attorney General Daugherty announced he will travel to New England for a personal investigation of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad holdings. He aims to decide by January 1 whether to order sale of subsidiary properties or seek a supplemental decree to modify the consent decree of October 1914. He will hold hearings in Hartford Boston and New York as outlined.
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Lnes
New York
New Haven
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Hartford
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