Mail Pilot Eielson Finds New Alaska Route
Washington report recounts Carl B. Eielson's perilous first flight on an experimental Fairbanks to Mc Grath route. He navigated darkness and misread rivers, nearly 50 miles off course, then completed the leg and returned home amid praise from Postmaster General New and President Coolidge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carl B. Efelson
Air Mail
Fairbanks
McGrath
Alaska
New
Fielson
Coolidge
Lake Minchumina
Kantishna
Tanana
Nemiuna
Nenana
Paul Henderson
Sole Heir to Estate Worth Over Fifty Million
Bert Wirth of Lodi California is the sole heir to a vast estate left by his late grandfather Henry Martin Wirth who died in London. The estate includes 65000 acres of land in Australia, gold and copper mines, European properties, 246 oil royalties, and substantial cash holdings. Wirth, a 47 year old grass widower with a son in Oakland and a daughter in San Francisco, expects the settlement to proceed and plans to stay in Lodi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Wirth
Lodi
Calif
Henry Martin Wirth
London
England
Henry
Oakland
Mary Carpenter
San Francisco
Wirth
Australia
Columbus Map Found in Paris Library Rewrites Discovery Tale
A Columbus map discovered in the National Library by librarian M. De La Roncterre is believed to have inspired the voyage leading to the discovery of America. Mistakenly filed as a 16th century Portuguese map, it portrays the world as an island surrounded by four oceans and details Europe and Africa coastlines.
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Paris
Christopher Columbus
National
M. de la Roncterre
America
Europe
Africa
Woman Becomes 100 After Long Westward Journey
Mrs Elizabeth Goodrich aged 100 celebrated at her Montebello home near here. She traveled from Beaver Dam Pennsylvania in a covered wagon in 1842 and had her hair cut in a Los Angeles barber shop in 1924.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Elizabeth Goodrich
Beaver Dam
Montebello
Here
U S Depository For The Old World Strengthened In 1923
The Department of Commerce reports 1923 strengthened the United States as a world depository. Invisible trade, foreign investment inflows, and rising exports marked a healthier balance of payments. New loans boosted exports while imports rose, with gold shipments favoring the U S by 296 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Department
Hen With Monkey Face to Be Sent to the Zoo
A New Rochelle poultry market ships a freak bird to the Bronx Zoo described as a chicken with a monkey face. The White Orpington fowl drinks by submerging its pug nose and has an anteater like tongue, baffling observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Rochelle
N. Y
Bronx Zoo
New York
Lawton Street
Dice Found in Berlin Dog After Student’s Ballistic Accident
A Berlin veterinarian treated an ailing bulldog and found dice inside the dog’s stomach belonging to its student owner. From a dachshund that rattled strangely, the vet retrieved an iron ball and a large stone. Both patients recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fide Berlin
Berlin
Quaker City Cops Use Radios to Curb Crime
Director of Public Safety Butler ordered radio equipment for all police stations and motor vehicles after tests on his car. Stations will have receiving sending and loud speakers. cars get portable sets with ear phones. City hall tower to receive transmitting gear for directing bandit pursuit.
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Quaker City
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Butler
City Hall
Texas Twins and Triplets Outnumber Girls in year
In Texas last year boy twins and boy triplets exceeded girls. Nationally 1 060 twins were born with 567 male and 495 female. White American male twins numbered 478 with 404 white female twins. Mexican and Negro twins were also recorded. Deaths totaled 36 538 vs births 76 794, a surplus of over 40 000 births.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
State Health Department
Trappers in the Arctic Wear Double Fur Coats
E W Wyait a trader based on Bailey Island 250 miles east of the Mackenzie mouth describes Arctic life and a winter frontier. He notes two deerskin suits one fur turned out the other in and says flour costs 16 per hundred pounds bacon 1 25 a pound. The 20 resident colony sent 20 000 pelts last year mostly white fox.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
E. W. Wyaiut
San Francisco
Bailey Island
Mackenzie River
Wyatt
North Pole
Mushing
Lost Chatham stock found after twenty six years
Chatham New York residents rejoice as a missing 310 share certificate of the Chatham Railroad company is recovered after 26 years. Town clerk Augustus M. Bearse located the document in an old box and learned the stock valued at 31000 with 5 percent interest. the railroad operates under a 99 year lease by the New York New Haven and Hartford system.
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Chatham
N. Y
Chatham Railroad Company
Augustus M. Bearse
Theodore N. Waddell
Statehouse
Bearse
Chatham Railroad
N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad Company
Woman Stowaway Found Aboard Ocean Steamer
Portland report details the recovery of a young woman stowaway aboard the Florence Luckenbach. She traveled penniless from Rochester to Portland seeking her eight year old son in Seattle. She rode via Kansas City Chicago San Francisco and hid in the hold after stowing away there.
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Portland
Ore
Florence Luckenbach
Atolius Scott
Rochester
N. Y
Seattle
Wash
Kansas City
San Francisco
Chicago
Mechanical soldiers to fight next war via wireless rays
Danish government offered a Norwegian inventor Niels Aasen an automaton soldier said to fire 2000 rounds a minute using wireless rays. If true, it could remove human cannon fodder from battle.
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Copenhagen
Niels Aasen
Aasen
Savings Under Carpet Discovered After Death in Bellevue
A city street department employee Thomas Baughman left $1,000 in cash hidden under carpets in his Bellevue home. He was a bachelor who lived alone and the money was found by relatives after his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue
Thomas Baughman
City Street Department
Baughman
Eagles Die on Wires Over Pendleton Power Cut
Two large eagles likely engaged in aerial combat were killed when they tangled with power lines, causing a brief power outage in Pendleton, Oregon. Linemen found the birds dead and entangled on the lines.
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Pendleton
Ore
Explorers to Chart Arctic Wilderness From Nenana
A United States Geological Survey party led by Dr. Phillip S. Smith heads into the Colville river basin in Alaska to map 35000 square miles of uncharted wilderness and test for oil deposits. The team will rely on dog teams and canoes, face bitter winter, and may depend on whaling vessels or Eskimo relief for return.
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Nenana
Alaska
Arctic Circle
United States Geological Survey
Phillip S. Smith
Colville River
Point Barrow
Arctic
Colville Basin
Gerald WitzGerald
FitzGerald
Doctor Smith
Colville
Arctic Ocean
Nome
Point Burrow
Alamo
Alaskan
Rockies
J. B. Mertie
R. K. Lynt
Harry A. Taft
Wild Geese 67 Years Old Are Still Thriving on Farm
Henry Stark cites an 1885 capture of two Canada geese on Chickamooka island shore Chesapeake Bay. The pair have since lived on Stark family farms and remain vigorous at age 67, with hopes they prove geese can reach 100.
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New York
Henry Stark
Chickanooga Islands
Chesapeake Bay
Stark
Mr. Stark
Quake Refugees Return to Yokohama After Disaster
Tens of thousands of citizens displaced by last year’s great quake are returning to Yokohama to rebuild. Police statistics show the city’s population remains about 150,000 below the level on September 1, when it stood near 450,000. current population is around 291,250.
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Yokohama
Japan
Deer Attacks Farmer Near Waynesboro Pennsylvania
Walters, a farmer at Roadside near Waynesboro, was attacked by a buck deer while in his yard after shooting at pursuing dogs. The deer struck his face with its front feet, inflicting multiple lacerations before fleeing toward the mountains, where it was found dead from exhaustion.
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Waynesboro
C. (. Walters
Walters
Man dives into snow bank to extinguish flames
Basil Roberts twenty five extinguished flames in his clothing by diving into a snow bank then returned to help his wife and three children escape the fire.
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Basil Roberts
New Automatic Disk Signals Replacing Semaphores
Coshocton Ohio reports Pennsylvania railroad officials installing new automatic disk signals at one of four towers between Pittsburgh and Columbus. The system uses signal posts with disks and lenses, retaining semaphore principles while adding three-light rows for stop caution and clear indications, with automatic blocking for safety.
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Coshocton
Pennsylvania Railrid
Pittsburgh
Columbus
New Anchor System Aims to Shield Steel Towers in Illinois
Illinois Power and Light officials introduce the Malone anchor for 38 000 volt tower lines from Keokuk Iowa to Galesburg Illinois. A 5 8 inch borehole is dynamited, then filled with concrete to form a broad base. The tower leg, narrow at five inches, rests in the concrete, creating a foundation claimed to withstand hurricane force winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Keokuk
Galesburg
Illinois
Illinois Power and Light Corporation
Malone
Parrot Pedro Swears Off With Mid Ocean Show
On the Empress of Britain cruise to the West Indies, Pedro the parrot dazzled crowds with color and chatter yet swore himself out of first prize during a mid ocean bird show in the grand salon. Captain Linta offers owners a talking parrot.
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Parrot
New York
Pedro
West Indies
Grand Salon
Polly
Linta
Oil Well Yields Pure Gold Nuggets Near San Bernardino
A California oil well in a canyon near San Bernardino produced pure gold nuggets about the size of paper. Geologists say the nuggets likely came from an ancient stream 500 feet beneath the surface, which may have once flowed above ground before the mountains rose.
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California
San Bernardino
Cal
San Bernardino Mountains
First Policewoman Urges Philadelphia Police Service
Mrs. Mary Hamilton of New York, a pioneer policewoman and head of a new bureau, called on Director Butler to advocate establishing a force of policewomen in Philadelphia. Butler dismissed reform ideas saying the only way to deal with crooks is to kill them.
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Philadelphia
Mary Hamilton
New York
United States
Butler
28 Year Mark Divides Office Building Lifespans
A National Association of Building Managers study of 155 office buildings finds 28 years as the pivotal point between two life phases. First period yields stable gross income with rising expenses, while second period sees rapid declines in income and value as obsolescence prompts demolition and replacement.
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New York
Thhe
National Association of Building Managers
Bromley Family Tenants Run Virginia Farm 96 Years
A Virginia farm near Wadesville in Clarke county has been continuously tenanted by the Bromley family for 96 years. The land, once owned by Miss Williams of Waterford, is now held by her niece Mrs. Lewis Pidgeon of Wadesville. Lewis Bromley occupied it 20 years, then John S. Bromley ran it 50 years, and his son William Bromley has lived there 26 years before moving to Winchester.
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Winchester
Wadesville
Clarke County
Bromley
William Bromley
China Berries Knock Out Robins In Texas
In Marlin Texas residents report flocks of robins acting drunk after feeding on china berries. Birds stumble and lie on the ground for about thirty minutes before recovering, illustrating the berries’ strong intoxicating effect on unaccustomed birds.
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Marlin, Tex
Marlin
Live Butterfly Found in Hammond Home China Closet
Mrs Thomas Chandler of Highland reported a surprise discovery in her china closet in Hammond Indiana a live butterfly with 6 inch wingspan appeared at home. The moth's origin remains a mystery to the household.
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Hammond
Ind
Thomas Chandler
Highland
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U. S
Hed
Geological Survey
Virginia
China
Robins
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