To Bagdad and Back by Joe Mitchell Chapple reviewed
A vivid illustrated travelogue mixing Arabian Nights glamour with Rubaiyat mysticism. Chapple recounts a 16 000 mile journey across deserts and cities from Bagdad to Danascus and beyond with anecdotes on prohibition and Moslem laws, peppered by personal encounters and chapter titles hinting at a sweeping panorama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheiks
Joe Mitchell
Chapple
Bagdad
Maimoune
Danhasch
Joe Mitchell Chapple
Omar Khayyam
Begad
Tommy Atkins
Jeff Parsons
Mr. Chapple
Agdad
Romulus
Remus
Rome
Chapelle
America
George Washington
John
John the Baptist
Christ
Dan Inascus
Mins
Baalbec
Cedars
Lebanon
Syria
Henry Ford
McBride
Palestine
Land of
Canaan
Old Jerusalem
Golden
Holy City
Egypt
Cairo
Nile
Sinai Desert
Promised Land
Sudan
Khartoum
Equatorial
Africa
Persia
American Library Association Picks 40 Notable US Books 1927
The American Library Association, with League of Nations input, selected 40 U S works published in 1927 for a world list of notable books. Included are religion, drama, biography, history, science, psychology, and literature by authors living in the United States. picture and children's books excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Library Association
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation
League of Nations
United States
Institute
Jesus
Bhirley J. Case
University of Chicago
George F. Moore
Marco Millions
Eugene G. O'Neil
Boni and Liverights
Arthur H. Quinn
Harper
Woodrow Wilson
S. Baker
Doubleday
P. L. Moody
Gama'el Bradford
Doran
Carl 3
Andrew Jackson
Gerald W. Johnson
Minton
Balen
Genghis Khan
Herold Lamb
McBride
Shelley
Walter E. Peek
Houghton
James T. Adams
Mac“Pheasant Jungies
William Beebe
Putnam
Percy W. Bridgman
Macmilan
Knopf
Edward M. Bast
Scribner
Robert A. Millikan
Alex
Michael I. Pupin
Roms
Michael L. Rostovtzers
Oxford
America
Mark Sullivat
Scribmer
Thomas J. Wertenbaxer
Samuel P. Bemis
John Dewey
Holt
Supreme Court
Fella Frankfurter
James M. Lands
Macmillan
Wyam G. Sumner
Albert C. Keller
Yale
Abraham Myerson
Emerson
van Wyck Brooks
Dutton
Countee Cullen
Harpe
Lucy L. Hazard
Crowell
Xanadu
John Lowes
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parrington, Harcourt, Tristram
Edwin A. Robinson
Carl Sandburg
Hattourt
Americas
Thomas E. Tallmadge
Norton
Utilization of Straw and Corn Stalks Explored by Knight
Dr Henry G Knight chief of the federal bureau of chemistry and soils says industrial use of farm residues like corn stalks straw and cotton seed hulls lags behind potential due to missing economic data. He notes a vast output and changing demands could turn waste into tomorrow s important products. In other news Mrs Arthur Bennett 60 dies from injuries after a street car she rode was hit by a truck in Sioux City Iowa. five others injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
United States
Henry G. Knight
Federal Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
Dr. Knight
Sioux City
INS
Arthur Bennett
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Desert
Argon
William C. Brownell
Lerbner
Iowa
Davenport
Big Stoux
Shipley’s “Blue
Shipley
Big Sioux
JOIN
Khiboteennire
Chieftain
Acme
Club Frice
Aqtecg Craft
Planshead
Sie
Shipley’s
Iceland
Arctic
Peerless
Pride and
Waterloo
York
New York
Terlin
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