Craters of the Moon Nature Reserve Highlighted as Tourist Draw
The article describes Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho, signed by President Coolidge, detailing its 63 volcanic craters, lava flows such as the Blue Dragon and Pahoehoe, and a vast lava desert of about 800 square miles. It portrays the area’s dramatic amphitheater-like landscapes along the Lincoln highway and notes notable features like Amphitheater Cave and Yellow Jacket water hole.
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Washington
United States
Coolidge
Idaho
America
Craters of the Moon National Monument
Lincoln Highway
Carey and
Arco
R. W. Limbert
National Geographic Society
All America
Veguvius
Mauna Loa
Kilauea
Rocky Volcanic Desert
Snake River Plains
Yellowstone National Park
Uth
Sign Blames Debtors After Sheriff Sale in Hagerstown
Joseph I. Loschbaugh a local butcher posted a front porch sign accusing those who owed him of causing his bankruptcy after his property was sold at sheriff sale to settle outstanding bills. The sign listed many names, some well known in Hagerstown.
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Hagerstown
Joseph I. Loschbaugh
Amnesia Victim Recovers Identification After Fire Search
Earl Davis, once suffering amnesia, has found his mother and his full name in Corning after a nationwide fire search. The discovery followed an injury from Detroit nine years ago and years of treatment that had left him unable to recall his complete identity.
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Corning
Earl Davis
Detroit
Master crooks snared by camera in police studio era
A New York police photo studio, the largest in the world, aids investigations by distributing 4000 copies of a suspect’s portrait nationwide within hours. The Diamond bank robbery gang case and a missing bookskeeper case show how bulletins and photographs nab criminals despite evasion attempts.
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New York
Aris
Hussey
Dan Collins
Paris
Barlow M. Diamond
Cleveland
Grant's St. Louis Home To Be Restored Memorial Shrine
St Louis to restore the dilapidated Grant Dent house where Ulysses S Grant lived and married Julia Dent in 1848. The Grant Dent Memorial association plans a shrine museum for pre Civil War relics and patriotic societies. A fund drive aims to raise $10 000 to restore the red brick building acquired by John H Gundlach.
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St. Louis
Grant
Julia T. Dent
West Point
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis’ Son
John H. Gundlach
Grant-Dent Memorial Association
Jills Outnumber Jacks by 2,000,000 in England
The Daily Mail notes a heavy female majority in England from the 1921 census with stark local ratios. Seaton Devon reports 1,451 females to 44 males. Bexhill shows 12,853 females to 7,510 males. Tilbury and Cheriton reveal strong male excess in those locales. Sussex leads in female proportion at 1,274 per 1,000 males while Monmouth sits at 940 to 1,000.
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London
Daily Mail
Seaton
Devon
Bexhill
Tilbury
Cheriton
Kent
Aly
Sussex
Monmouth
Wilde Reading Gaol to be torn down as historic relic
London notes that Reading Gaol, the jail Oscar Wilde served part of his sentence in, is slated for demolition. The piece recalls Wilde’s transfer from Wandsworth in 1896 and his writings produced during confinement, noting the prison’s predecessors and their conditions.
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London
Thames
Reading
Oscar Wilde
Wandsworth
St. Mary’s Chapel
Tropic Birds Thrive When Taken to Georgia
The United States Biological Survey reports successful import of Central American game birds for propagation in the United States. Sapelo Island, Georgia hosts five ocellated turkeys, four surassows and fifteen timorous from British Honduras and Guatemala, plus several chachalacas from northeastern Mexico. After two months, despite cold January weather, the birds remain healthy and thriving under the island owner’s care.
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Georgia
Washington
British Honduras
Guatemala
United States Biological Survey
United States
Agricultural Review
Biological
Sapelo Island
Mexico
Shakespeare Signature Forgery Declared by Scholar
Dr Horace Howard Furness Jr a Philadelphia Shakespearean scholar declares a fragment associated with William Shakespeare a forgery The document taped in the flyleaf of the second folio came to the United States in 1921 via Charles Sessler of Philadelphia and is linked to the notorious forger William Henry Ireland
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Philadelphia
William Shakespeare
Avon
Horace Howard Furness, Jr
Queston
Charles Sessler
London
Shakespeare
William Henry Ireland
Furness
Local grocer plans Angora cat fur industry in Boonville
George Lutz of Boonville Indiana intends to start Angora cat farming for fur. Prince Singh Kashmar of India, a former Indiana University classmate, has offered to ship breeding stock, and Lutz once saved Kashmar's life while they were students.
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Boonville
Ind
George Lutz
Indiana
Prince Singh Kashmar
India
Luts
Indiana University
Lutz
Kashmar
Floating Bulgarian sea power plant claimed to harness waves
Berlin reports a new floating power plant by Wodenitsharoff of Sliven Bulgaria. Test results at Burgas claim 1333 horsepower from a 100-ton float, using a wave-driven wheel system not relying on tides. government financing may continue.
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Berlin
Wodenitsharoff
Sliven
Burgas
Black Sea
Wodenitshaaroft
Wodenitsharoft
Famous Vienna Waltz Hissed in Birth City
In Vienna the birthplace of the waltz the Hofburg palace audience hissed the band as it started to play, reflecting public discontent during the performance.
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Vienna
Land of Birth
Hofburg Palace
Open Your Account With Us
A banking advert promises courteous service to inquirers and customers. It invites both small and large accounts and offers 4 percent interest in the Savings Department as part of the sales pitch.
Fifteenth Waltz at Vienna Ball Ends with Mixed Response
The Schriftsteller ball abandoned its plan for a white ball and drew only conservative Austrian families. Five hours of waltzes failed at midnight as many dancers switched to a lively one-step, leaving waltz numbers in the minority and half the floor unused.
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Vienna
Crusoe gun sold at auction for £250 in London
An old flintlock musket believed to have been carried by Alexander Selkirk during his exile on Juan Fernandez Island sold at a London auction for 250 pounds. The weapon associated with the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe drew interest from collectors and historians alike.
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Crusoe
London
Robinson Crusoe
Alexander Selkirk
Juan Fernandez Island
Defoe
She Has Had 19 Babies In Wisconsin Farm Family
The stork delivered the nineteenth child to Peter Shallow a prosperous farmer near Oconto Wisconsin in Little River. Of the nineteen children four sets of twins are among them thirteen are living. The mother married at fourteen and is now forty two.
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Oconto
Wis
Peter Shallow
Little River
Shallow
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