U. S. Plans First Federal Prison for Women at Alderson
A government committee recommends Alderson, West Virginia as the site for the first federal industrial institute for women, to relieve crowding in jails and provide rehabilitative outdoor work. Delphi Indiana and Markleton Pennsylvania were close competitors but Alderson offers rail access, water supply, land gifts, and proximity to the center of the federal female prison population. Congress must approve funding and location to move forward.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Labor
Federal Industrial Institute For Women
Alderson
W. Va
Monroe
Greenbrier
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Middle West
Aldergon
Ironton
Ohio
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Delphi
Ind
Markleton
White Delphi
Maryland
Virginia
Colorado
Texas
Arizona
Sparrow Menace Feeds on Carson Valley Farms
Large flocks of sparrows in Tonopah area and Carson valley devastate farm crops eating chicken feed and stripping stubble fields of grain where hogs are kept, prompting concern among local farmers.
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Tonopah
Nev
Carson Valley
Germs Burned After Long Trip Across Oceans
Washington report details an East African scientist who traveled 9 000 miles to share hog blood containing a dread virus with the US Department of Agriculture, only for officials to incinerate the sample. A Swiss virus specimen for foot and mouth disease faced the same fate. Bureau experts plan foreign study funded by 75 000 dollars, to prevent virus escape and protect hog industry.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Bureau of Animal Industry
Bureau
John R. Mohler
Mahler
Congress
Mohler
France
Public Schools Sending Fewer Girls to Vassar
Poughkeepsie N Y figures from Vassar College show ten years of change in student sources and curriculum. In 1910 public high schools supplied 58 percent of entrants and private schools 42 percent. by 1920 public school entrants rose to 93 56 percent. Admission requirements expanded from three subjects in 1865 to five required and twelve elective options by 1920.
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Vassar
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Vassar College
Explorer Finds Unknown Hot Lake in Cascades
A young man exploring the Cascade mountains about 20 miles south of the Canadian border discovered a 40 to 50 acre hot lake. Officials estimate the water temperature at 112 degrees Fahrenheit and plan further investigation to map and study the site.
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Bellingham
Winsk
United States Forest
Cascade Mountains
Washington's Gardens Sailed to New York Memorial Arboretum
Miss Evelyn W. Smith purchases George Washingtons pre revolutionary Hayfield garden in Alexandria Virginia and plans to move it intact to Amawalk New York. Shrubs and trees are being dug up and shipped to recreate the garden as a memorial to her father Maj Orlando Jay Smith founder of the American Press Association.
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New York
Evelyn W. Smith
West Fifty-ninth Street
George Washington
Hayfield Plantation
Alexandria
Amawalk
Westchester County
Westchester
Washington
Miss Smith
Maj
Orlando Jay Smith
The
American Press
Burial Place of Bird Woman Found at Fort Washakie
The Bureau of Indian Affairs announced the final burial site of the Shoshone guide known as Bird Woman is Fort Washakie Wyoming. The three month inquiry settled a long standing dispute among historians and tribes about her grave marker and resting place.
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Washington
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bird Woman
Fort Washakie
Wyo
Bureau
Fort Washakle
French Fishermen Sail With Blessing of Church
In Le Havre the fishing fleet gathered at St. Etienne for the blessing of the ships by the archbishop of Rouen. Hundreds attended as flags glowed and hymns were sung. A weathered seaman spoke to the crowd before the archbishop. bands played and the Newfoundland banks season of 1925 was declared open.
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le Havre
Havre
Newfoundland
St. Peter
Rouen
St. Etienne
Normandy
Newfoundland Banks
Edison Shortens Bill So Bird Can Catch Fish
Fort Myers florida residents report Thomas Edison shortened a blue heron’s upper bill to help the bird feed. The inventor and party saw the mutilated bill during a two day Colier county visit and trimmed the lower bill to match the upper. The bird was seen standing in water catching fish afterward.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Collier County
Florida
Largest and Smallest Lamp Bulbs on View
The Smithsonian Institution displays the largest 40,000 watt bulb from the Edison Electric Company of New Jersey and the tiny grain of wheat bulb. The messenger transported the packing case, securing space on the train, while the grain of wheat bulb rests wrapped in tissue and a sealed envelope in his pocket.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Edison Electric Company of
New Jersey
Lexington Plans Two Celebrations in Historic Sesquicentennial
Lexington Kentucky gears for a grand pageant marking 150 years since Lexington’s founding and 100 years since the 1825 Lafayette visit. Plans include a pioneer life pageant, a Lafayette address, and a Boone reunion proposal with 5000 invitations. Prominent speakers Coburn and Tower may headline. The event centers on Maxwell Spring and the new $200,000 University of Kentucky stadium anticipated to host the main pageant.
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Lexington
Old City
Henry Clay
Transylvania College
Allegheny Mountains
Blue Grass
Marquis de Lafayette
General Lafayette
Old Transylvania
Little Blue Grass Society
Washington
Lafayette
W. T. Lafferty
Kentucky
Harrodsburg
Blue Grass Country
Boone
Dania Boone
Philadelphia
Frank Warren Coburn
Mass
Charlemagne Tower
New York
Coburn
Massachusetts
Tower
Wilson
Maxwell Spring
University of Kentucky
Swedes Devise Waiting Line for Telephones
In Stockholm a new waiting line system reduces busy signals by recording each number in sequence when reported busy. The method applies first come first served, prioritizing hospitals drug stores doctors offices ticket agencies information bureaus and newspapers.
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Stockholm
Ecuador Thrives on Cacao Trade
New York report credits Ecuador's chocolate boom with reviving its cacao exports and lifting the country from financial slump. The rise boosts U S confectioners, and Ecuador regains buying power for American goods as world trade adjusts postwar. Exports to the United States fell sharply in 1921 from 1920 levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ecuador
Foreign Trade Council
United States
Congo
Ecudor
Eucador
Reported Officially Dead Vet Claims to Live in Confusion
A Rochester Rochester Minnesota district office report to Washington states Arthur Frazier is dead, while his brother Earl checks parents’ claim that Arthur Lopez is Frazier. Lopez confessed he was not Frazier then repudiated it, and veterans bureau officials say Lopez violated no federal law. War Department records show Frazier died in France in 1918.
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Minneapolis
Minn
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Arthur Frazier
Veterans’ Bureau
Washington, D. C
Earl Frazier
Lookout
Rochester
Arthur Lopez
Lopez
Department of Justice
Frazier
D Company
Old
National Guard
Arthur
C.D. Hibbard
Washington
South Dakota
France
War Department
United States District Attorney’s Office
Pigmy Mice Arrive in London From Western Africa
The smallest animals in London are a family of pigmy mice from Gambria in western Africa. They are smaller than bumblebees and a pair could fit in a safety match box. While being shipped 15 escaped through a hole smaller than a slate pencil and none were seen again.
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London
Gambria
Africa
Historic Tavern to Be Made Into Apartments
Lynn Massachusetts report states Ye Olde Berry Tavern in Danvers one of the few remaining colonial taverns will be converted to an apartment house. Benedict Arnold stopped there during his march to Quebec. The building, no longer paying its way, will be moved back 60 feet from the Old Boston Post road before alterations begin.
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Lynn
Mass
Danvers
Benedict Arnold
Massachusetts
Quebec
Boston Post Road
Night Air Service to Speed Mail Between Big Cities
Washington reports the Post Office plans regular night air mail between New York and Chicago by June 1. The system uses high intensity beacons, emergency landing fields, and special painted propellers to reduce delays. officials claim substantial savings in interest on notes.
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Washington, D. C
New York
Chicago
Post Office Department
Cheyenne
Wyo
National Geographic Society
Post Office
San Francisco
Air Mail Service
Air Mail
Prehistoric Mosaic Work Found at Casa Grande Arizona
The Interior reports a unique site of prehistoric mosaic art at Casa Grande National Monument in Arizona. Three mosaics were uncovered during wall repairs, including two bird forms and a turtle, crafted with hundreds to over a thousand stones, plus turquoise pendants and shell beads.
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Washington
Department of the Interior
Casa Grande National Menument
Arizona
Southwest
Casa Grande
British War Widows Cling to Their Pensions
London reports that only 4 percent of British war widows remarried, contrary to March 1924 budget forecasts of 7 percent. The shortfall forced the exchequer to provide an additional 10 million dollars to cover pensions this year.
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London
Ministry of Pensions
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Sparrow Menace
Palestrina
Rome
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Richard Wagner
Germany
Alberto Cametti
Monsignor Casimiri
Giovanni Tabardini
Dominico Alabona
Italy
Royal Academy of Santa Cecelia
Domenico Alateona
Alateona
Petrarch
Lepanto
Cascades
Washington’s Gardens
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