Nice Carnival and Europe’s Winter Playground Spotlight
Washington reports on Nice as Europe’s winter capital and carnival hub. The bulletin notes recurring rain during carnival week spoiling millions in spending, with Nice drawing crowds to Promenade des Anglais and Avenida de la Victoire. The Grande Corniche offers views over the bay toward the Alps, once built by the unemployed during 1821 to aid seafront access.
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Washington
Europe
Nice
National Geographical Society
Gayety
Riviera
Cannes
Mentone
Mediterranean
Rewdyiem
Promenade Des Anglais
British Isles
Avenue de la Victoire
Castle Hill
Grande Corniche
Alps
Napoleon
Italy
Amsterdam Celebrates 650th City Anniversary Exhibition
Preparations underway for Amsterdam’s 650th anniversary with an exhibit at the Ryks Museum and city museum. The display will feature paintings prints sculptures and other works related to Amsterdam over 1275-early 20th century, including Rembrandts from Paris Berlin and more.
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Amsterdam
Floris V
Holland
Ryks Museum
Rembrandts
Night Watch
Staalmeesters
Paris
Berlin
Vienna Youth Climb Turns Into Mountain Training School
Austria opens a mountain climbing school to reduce youth deaths. The facility trains 400 students in theoretical topics such as meteorology and equipment, plus practical skills including rope work rescue, ascent and descent on cliffs, first aid, sheltering from weather, nutrition, and endurance. A second course covers skis and snowshoes for alpine ventures.
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Vienna
Switzerland
Austria
Alps
One Word Badly Written Puts Realtor Out $1000
Kalamazoo real estate dealer Bert Cook loses a $1000 commission after a circuit court jury rules a handwritten word error changed the contract from sold for 10000 net to sold for 10000 with no commission. A dot above the word was interpreted as a cross for t in net.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Bert Cook
Cook
Cassius Rockwell
Rockwell
Father Gifts Son Ten Million Dollar Building Plan
A. E. Lefcourt, garment maker and builder, announced giving his twelve year old son Allen a deed to a proposed 30 story New York building valued at ten million dollars. Lefcourt says the gift aims to teach thrift and responsibility and prepare his son to carry on his real estate ambitions.
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New York
A. E. Lefcourt
Lefcourt
Allen
Woman Owns World's Largest Ranch in Texas
Mrs. Henrietta M. King holds the largest ranch on Earth, spanning 1,250,000 acres across seven Texas counties. The estate supports about 850 to 900 cattle and is valued around 50 million dollars. Kingsville, Texas, serves as the ranch's nearby city, a hub nicknamed the Garden of Eden with a population near five and a half thousand.
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Kingsville
Texas
Henrietta M. King
Indians Incline to Bureau Rule
Washington reports 345000 of prime val Indians in the land and 190 tribes. Congress may decide by 1931 whether government wardship in the five civilized tribes ends. About 17000 Indians remain under federal supervision with 200000 restricted Indians elsewhere. Indians seek continued guardianship to protect lands as health, schools, irrigation, and farming improve nationwide. Navajoes are noted sheep raisers and women weavers of blankets.
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Washington
Indian Bureau
Sixty-ninth Congress
Five Civilized Tribes
Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States
Congress
Red Swears by Emblems Hammer Sickle and Cork
Raffin Dugens former Communist deputy swore on emblems of his religion using a cork shielded hammer and sickle to the Paris parliamentary committee investigating campaign funds. Dugens admitted accepting 5000 francs from an advertising agent for his election expenses. He defended his action against Mistral’s accusations and stated he would fight the committee.
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Paris
Raffin Dugens
Mistral
M. Dugens
Dugens
Communist Party
Kienthal
Ankles to Be Seen in Next Courts in England
London fashion notes suggest Buckingham Palace gowns to be worn for the next court with shorter skirts revealing ankles. The display to shops shows minimal neck exposure and restrained trains and veils. One dress features silver lace with ostrich feathers. another pale pink brocade with brilliants. a third combines silver and mauve.
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England
London
Buckingham Palace
Petrified Forest Near Tonopah Nevada Highlighted
A Tonopah visitor reports a nearby petrified forest within 40 miles containing over 100 standing trees and fossil bones. The forest spans hundreds of acres with canyons and caves, and one trunk reaches about fifty feet tall and fifteen feet in girth. Gomm urged Interior to designate it a national park.
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Tonopah
Nev
Grand Canyon
William Gomm
Gomm
Secretary of the Interior
Finger Print Data on 7 000 000 Men
Washington reports the army has developed fingerprint identification to a high efficiency able to locate any unidentified veteran in ten to twenty minutes. Over 7 million men since 1906 can be searched by a single finger print, with 200,000+ identifications claimed and no mistakes in the bureau’s record.
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Washington
Johnsons
Browna
Williams
Walter S. Kaye
War Department
Identification Bureau
Mr. Kaye
Kaye
Finds Old Indian Cave at Grand Tower Illinois
A cave near Grand Tower Illinois on Big hill overlooking the Mississippi shows hieroglyphics indicating early Indian occupation and probable religious worship. Frank Solomon, sole inhabitant of the Bill, found the cave covered in moss with marks aged and weathered but four glyphs still visible.
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Grand Tower
Ill
Mississippi River
Big Hill
Mountain Bluff
Frank Solomon
Chester
Ship Plans to Extract Bromine From Sea Water
The steamship Ethyl will sail April 15 from Wilmington Delaware to extract bromine from ocean water. The vessel, fitted as a mobile bromine factory, aims to address a world shortage affecting industry and science. It will cruise the seas without calling at ports to gather bromine directly from seawater for medicine motion pictures and for Ethyl fluid used in motor fuel.
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New York
Wilmington
Del
American Chemical Society
French World War Total Remains 3 591 045
Paris report details French wartime mobilization and casualties. It lists 8.5 million mobilized, officers rising to 90,000, and 2.74 million recruited from old classes. It notes distribution by natives and volunteers, deserters, and noncombatant totals into 1918, with emphasis on sanitary recoveries and fighting roles.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Louis Marin
Lucien Chassaigne
le Journal
France
Madagascar
Tle ‘Orient
Strauss Composes Concerto for One-Armed Pianist
Richard Strauss writes a concerto for piano and orchestra for Paul Wittgenstein, a one-armed pianist. The work titled Carergon to the Symphonia Domestica will premiere next winter in Dresden with Fritz Busch conducting the Dresden Opera Orchestra.
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Vienna
Richard Strauss
Paul Wittgenstein
Strauss
Wittgenstein
Dresden
Fritz Busch
Dresden Opera
Palestine Population Increases by Immigrants in Year
Official returns show 11,851 Jews and 4,578 men 3,886 women 3,442 children entered Palestine as immigrants in the year ending December. Emigrants numbered 2,087, giving a net population gain of 9,814, compared with 8,783 in 1928.
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Jerusalem
Palestine
Magnetism and boiler rooms fuel stock swindles on Wall Street
The underworld pushes fake securities by telephone from obscure offices and boiler rooms. Telemarketers lure victims with active stock promises on a partial payment plan, switch them to worthless mining stocks, and collect money before the fraud collapses. Postal Inspectors and officials traced operations to Toledo and other cities, arresting multiple suspects.
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New York
Wall Street
Bunco
Better Business Bureau
Toledo
Ohio
Philadelphia
Tunnels to Save Users 20 Million Yearly
New Jersey traffic experts say the Holland tunnels under the Hudson will save merchants and others about 20 million dollars a year by shortening trips between New York City and Trenton and intermediate points. Lincoln highway access will ease congestion for years. Fred Lavis of the state highway department cites trips saved and time gained as the basis.
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New York
New Jersey
Holland
Hudson River
Trenton
N. J
Jersey City
Newark
Elizabeth
Rahway
Metuchen
New Brunswick
Princeton
Fred Lavis
Prodigy Mary Louise Matson In Fergus Falls N Pace
Fergus Falls Minnesota Mary Louise Matson two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Matson amazes residents by naming all letters on an oven door and reciting nursery rhymes and naming pictures of animals and biblical scenes.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
Mary Louise
Albert Matson
Woman Dead in Hollywood Face Peeling Case
Los Angeles detectives probe the death of Mrs. Jessie Gilchrist amid a face peeling operation in Hollywood. They review a prior face modeling procedure by Dr. Gertrude Steele who fled to Germany after manslaughter charges. Chemical brain analysis shows phenol traces. theory links prior surgery to heightened sensitivity in the fatal procedure.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Jessie Gilchrist
Hollywood
Gilchrist
Gertrude Steele
Germany
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