Grubstake Upheld in $10,000 for $50 Loan Case
Supreme court affirms a $10,000 recovery to Henry Embola from trustee C. H. Farrell, ruling the $50 loan to John Tuppela was a grubstake investment rather than a simple loan. Tuppela, once insane and later prosperous from mining claims, had repaid only after recovering property in Alaska. The decision underscores the high risk and investment nature of grubstake arrangements.
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Olympus
Ite
Cor
King County
Henry Ku Io
John Opela
Tuppela
C. H. Farrell
John Tuppela
Portland
Astoria
Henry Embola
Feimbola
Seattle
Embola
Alaska
Supreme Court
Public Health Service to Study Common Cold
The Public Health Service will study common colds in cooperation with leading U S universities. Surgeon General Dr Hugh S Cumming says colds influenza and similar conditions cause great suffering lost time disability and deaths. Studies at Harvard Johns Hopkins Georgetown Howard Tulane Ohio State Chicago and California universities will run two to three years.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Hugh S. Cumming
Cumming
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Georgetown
Howard Universities
Tulane University
New Orleans
Ohio State Univer University of Chicago
University of California
Honest Man Pays Board Bill After 33 Years
John Davis of Follawsbee Arizona paid back a $4 board bill owed to Mrs. Elizabeth Grimm after 33 years. He left the Grimm home unable to settle the debt but returned and settled it in full. Mrs. Grimm plans to frame the receipt as a memorial to the most honest man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Follawsbee, Ariz
John Davis
Elizabeth Grimm
Davis
Grimm
Steam Heat From Kilauea Powers Hawaiian Park Office
Steam from a crater in Kilauea feeds conduits 40 feet to the Hawaiian National Park Commission office building. The vapor emerges at 120 degrees and maintains a steady 70 degrees inside during winter.
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Hilo
Island of Hawaii
Kilauea
Hawaiian National Park Commission
Great Road Exposition Spurs Modern Highway Progress
The piece highlights a Chicago exhibition from January 14 to 18 showcasing road building machinery and methods, stressing benefits to road buyers, engineers, and taxpayers while praising progress in hard surface highways and national transportation ideas. It also covers President Coolidge backing federal aid administration for Arkansas roads amid misuse concerns and laws reform, noting limited federal funds used and new Harrelson provisions to control district creation and assessments.
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Chicago
Methid Mac
Ffi
Coliseum
Arkansas
Coolidge
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Federal Aid Administration
Anngineer
Department of Agriculture
U S Faces Big Task Enforcing Food Laws
Washington reports that misbranding adulteration and deception in food remain major issues for the USDA. In fiscal 1923 the bureau of chemistry pursued 1450 prosecutions with butter and oil products showing the greatest violations. A butter standard of 80 percent butterfat aided enforcement and led to seizures and prosecutions, including a Jersey City firm that adulterated butter with coconut oil and halted operations after a Philadelphia shipment issue.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Chemistry
Congress
Jersey City
N. J
Philadelphia
Snake hunter urged after rattlesnake plague in Wyoming farm
Mrs Huston Sowers, of a Luck Wyoming farm, says 500 rattlesnakes were killed there in nine years and appeals for a snake hunter. The state biological survey pledged to take action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huston Sowers
Old Chicago School Sells For 47.50 In Public Sale
The Chicago Board of Education offers a single room school building for 47.50. Once a branch school and cradle of early learning, the crumbling structure now risks collapse and is valued only as kindling.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Viking Era Brooch Unearthed By Rogaland Geese
In Rogaland a boy tending geese uncovered a gold brooch dating from the Viking era. The artifact, one of the finest Viking goldsmiths pieces, was taken to Stavanger Museum where curators praised its craftsmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Bergen
Rogaland
Stavanger
Jap Police Adopt Pistols Tokyo
Japanese police replace long sabers with revolvers and short swords. Revolvers to be used only for self defense or against escaping prisoners.
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Tokyo
Notice of resale under mortgages in Watauga County NC
Z A Robertson as assignee will sell at public auction on February 4 1924 at Boone NC the lands previously mortgaged to secure notes in favor of Florence E Norris and J G Norris Jr and others. The tract contains about 2 25 acres in Boone Township described by metes and bounds. Bid starts at 1575 00 following a 5 percent advance and sale as per law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Er Nu
Conley G. Brown
FI Norris
J. G. Nor Jr
J. W. McGhee
W. Hardin Brown
Office of the Register of Deeds
Watauga County
North Carolina
Boone
Watauga
Florence E. Norris
J. G. Norris, Jr
Boone Township
J. H. Hardin
Sampson Road
New River
Hartley-Councill
Dougherty
Hartley and Councill
Z. A. Robertson
Limit on Atlantic whale slaughter urged by US biologist
E W Nelson of the US Bureau of Biological Survey warns that wholesale whale slaughter off the Atlantic coast risks extinction. He urges Canada like legislation to conserve whales, citing the fur seal treaty as a model for international action to save sea mammals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atlantic
E. W. Nelson
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
Nelson
Canada
Japan
Russia
England
United States
Alaska
Vicious Elephant Faces Firing Squad at Dawn
Charlie the famed elephant at Universal Studios in Los Angeles was executed at dawn after a public career marked by aggression. The 180 year old pachyderm, chained by all four legs, was shot by keeper Harry Lonsdale with an elephant gun, ending his dangerous temper and attacks on trainers.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Harlie
Universal Studios
India
New World
Harry Lonsdale
Arsenal
Charlie
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Haiti
London
Dorothy Mills
Timbuctoo
C. K. Rosser
Furrier
Staunton
Instrey
DELCO
Home Light & Supply CO
Ashe, Alleghany and Watauga
Jefferson
N. C
F. M. Richards
W. H. Gragg
Banner Elk
N. Carolina
Boone, North
Caro
Hemlock Lumber
Cam
Blowing Rock
F.M. Maltea
Daries
Gress
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