Tularaemia A New Disease Described In US Study
Washington describes tularaemia a newly identified disease spreading in the West during harvest. Dr Edward Francis led investigations isolating the organism, tracing transmission by jack rabbits, the bloodsucking fly chrysops dispersalis, and other insects. Case details show severe illness but recovery with months of convalescence.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Francis
Delta
Utah
United States Public Health Service
Holden
Washington
Cimex Betularius
Lee
Moral Burial Used by French Communists Against Foes
A Paris bound report describes a new tactic called moral burial used by communists to intimidate anti communist opponents. It began in Hatlein near Lille with a placard inviting locals to a funeral service for M. Desire Ley. The planned cremation outside a cemetery wall was to be led by Comrade Monmouseau.
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Paris
Hatlein
Lille
M. Desire Ley
Monmouseau
Seal Swims Up Rhine Defying Capture by Forces
A neutral seal cruising the Rhine near Coblenz eludes capture by French occupying troops and German fishermen. Soldiers prepare to net it while fishermen push it toward the opposite bank to escape. The seal slips through the nets and continues upriver, with locals noting no prior sighting this far up.
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Coblenz
Germany
Rhine
Army of Occupation
Lorelei
Jap Architect Invents Quakeproof Buildings
A Japanese architect Hirohito Kakuma has evolved a quakeproof building method using a triangular concrete bar with an iron core. The six foot long bar measures four inches on one side and three inches on the other two, reducing labor to one-fortieth of brick or standard concrete construction while achieving strong, durable structures.
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Tokyo
Hirohito Kakuma
Campaign to curb the crow's damage to crops and poultry
The article notes widespread concern over the crow as a destructive predator to poultry and crops. Pennsylvania game wardens report strong support for campaigns to reduce crow populations to protect beneficial birds and lower insecticide needs. Sportsmen nationwide back efforts within the conservation movement vertical.
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Pittsburgh
Pan
Pennsylvania
West
Baby Held by Hospital for Bill Restored to Mother
A writ of habeas corpus returned Eleanor Nadine aged fourteen months to her mother after being kept in a Chicago hospital for a $215 pneumonia treatment bill. The mother earned $20 weekly and could not pay immediately, and the physician had barred the child's departure. Superior Judge David issued the writ and appointed a temporary custodian.
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Chicago
Eleanor Nadine
David
Lot Purchased for 510 Then Resold for 140000 in Chicago
In the business district a lot bought in 1830 for 510 by Dr. J. H. Foster and given to his daughter Clara Bass has been repurchased by her for 140000 from her grandson Samuel B. Warner. The property stayed within four generations and now returns to the second generation. A sentimental aim to keep it in the family motivated the purchase.
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Chicago
J. H. Foster
Clara F. Bass
Peterboro
N. H
Samuel B. Warner
Bass
Oldest American ruins explored by National Geographic team
National Geographic announces a Mexico expedition to Cuicuilco near Mexico City to uncover ancient structures and 8000 year old relics. Led by Professor Byron Cummings, the mission seeks to date the lava preserved mound and compare prehistoric America with Old World civilizations.
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Washington, D. C
National Geographic Society
Mexico
Cuicuilco
Mexico City
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Nile
Valley of
San Cuicuilco
Byron Cummings
Geographic Society
America
Doctor Cummings
Mesopotamia
The
Hhe
Valley of Mexico
Vesuvius
Pompeii
Pedregal
Stony Place
Manuel Gamio
Ancient city unearthed under Jerusalem walls
Prof Stewart McAlister reports a trench eight feet deep and eleven feet wide carved in rock below Jerusalem. Its stepped surface, cleared of silt, suggests part of early city defenses and may reveal the city of Melchizedek beyond the Jebusite well.
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London
Jerusalem
Stewart Mcalister
City of
David
Abraham
Me‘Mater Chet
Meichisedek
Explorers Find Site of Anguity in China
In Peking area a buried ancient Chinese city, over two thousand years old, lies beneath earth about fifty miles south of Peking. Smithsonian researcher Carl Bishop and assistant A G Wenley explore Yenching era ruins tied to Shih Huang ti and the early Chinese empire.
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Peking
China
Japan
Alexander the Great
Egypt
Alexander
Ch'in Shih Huang
Shih Huangti
Shih Huang-ti
Yen
Yenching
Shensi Province
Lianfu
Mail Office Handles 41 Languages Daily at Veterans Bureau
Lieut. Col. A. F. Awl heads the mail sub division of the United States veterans bureau. His office processes nearly 100000 pieces of mail each day written in 41 languages. Thirteen staff translate about 300 letters daily.
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A. F. Awl
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Awl
Checkers of Hats Have Remarkable Memories
In New York hotels hat rooms handle hundreds of arrivals daily with no errors. Workers learn to place hats with no system, relying on memory of faces and timing. A luncheon club of about 400 members uses a single colored doorman to confirm arrivals, highlighting an uncanny recall in hat checkers.
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New York
Famous Cutter Bears Last Trip Before Replacement
The coast guard cutter Bear, famed for rescuing scores of northern residents, faces retirement as a $925,000 plan would replace her with a steel vessel. Built in 1874 and now in Oakland shipyard, she sails again in May before decommission. Captain Is a Court.
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Seattle
Wash
Coast Guard
Arctic
Far North
Congress
Polar Basin
the Bear
Greenock
Scotland
United States
Coast Guard Service
Avette
Nome
Bering Sea
James Allen
Seguam Pass
Aleutian Islands
F. G. Dodge
North Pacific
Winfield Scott Schley
A. W. Greely
Oakland
Cal
San Francisco
World's Most Lonesome Outpost Established at Kursk
The Soviet Lenin grad academy announced four smaller Kara sea stations linked to a hydro meteorological bureau. The Kursk wireless station keeps polar vessels updated with weather forecasts, staffed by two men who receive annual supplies due to ice. Hunting and fishing are their main recreations amid harsh winter isolation.
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Leningrad
Kursk
Kara Sea
Arctic
Academy of Sciences
Woman Routs Burglar With Punch to the Jaw
Mrs. Catherine Gondrole of Camden fights off a burglar who prowled under her pillow. Awakened by a hand at her bed, she struck the intruder in the jaw, knocking him down as he fled through a window. She is described as 5 foot 8 and 180 pounds and confident in her self defense.
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Camden
N. J
Catherine Gondrole
Royden Street
Fort Lupton Receives A B Babies for First Triplets
The first Fort Lupton triplets, sons of Mr and Mrs John Clawson, are named and will be known as the A B babies. Officially they are Lee A, Leo B, and Leon C, reflecting alphabetical order.
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Fort Lupton
John Clawson
Lee
Leon
Lee A
Leo B
Leon C
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Raphael
Boston
Gonzaga
Apoleon Bonaparte
Patrick E. Duffee
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Bear
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