Expedition Maps 7000 Square Miles in North Alaska Field
An interior department expedition for Naval Petroleum Reserve No 4 reports mapping 7000 square miles in extreme northern Alaska. Topographer Gerald Fitzgerald and geologist Walter Smith return after seven months with four white men isolated by months of travel across frozen terrain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, DC
Cy Get
Interior Department
Navy
Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4
Huberk
Jaska
Gerald Fitzgerald
Walter 7. Smith
Faye
Delezene
Walter R. Blankenship
Fitzgerald
Smith
Seattle
Nenana
Alaska
Blankenship
Tanata
Coalville River
Tanana
Yukon
Kaling
Unalakleet
Beringses
Norton Sound
Seward Peninsula
Arctic Circle
Kotzebue
Nenapathe
Zera
Norton Soland
Katzebue
Noatuic River
de Long
Brooks Range
Arcede
Noatak
Utukok
Arctic
Hawk Snatches Golf Ball in Long Drive Feat
Winsted Conn Oct 29 A hawk joined a men s golf match at the Norfolk Dawn club Melvin E Snow of the state motor vehicle department made a long drive and as the ball descended the hawk seized it and carried it twenty rods before dropping it
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Winsted
Conn
Unis
Norfolk Dawn Club
Melvin E. Snow
State Motor Vehicle Department
Greek Refugees Boost Greek Industries Report
Geneva report to the League of Nations credits Turkish refugee workers with advancing Greek rug making silk culture and tobacco farming. American philanthropy funded refugee industrial activity, predicting Greece’s trade to rise by at least 26 million yearly. Rug industry output nears 4 million annually with 28 factories active.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Greece
Turcey
League of Nations
H.C. Jaquith
Near East
Athens
Jaquith
Silk and tobacco gains amid Greek refugee revival
The report notes a surge in silk production with 2,900,000 pounds of fresh cocoons and expansion of tulberry groves across 2,500 new Villages in Macedonia. Greeve operates eleven large silk factories and several small looms, while Gavalla tobacco farming rises 50 percent thanks to refugee Turkish growers. Greece eyes large economic rewards from refugee hospitality. In 1924 Congress saw 606 gavels shattered during heated sessions.
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Macedonia
Ife
Greeve
Gavalla
Turkey
Greece
Bailey and Hatch Explain Shark Plug Mystery
Springfield, Oct. 29 Richard BL Bailey of Chicopee and William M Hatch of Springfield recount how a nickel caught by Nar l Randall of Collinsville Conn ended with a shark plug in its stomach. They fished there in June Bailey cast with a spark plug weighting the line a large fish struck Batley hauled in the line the plug disappeared.
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Springfield
Mass
Richard BL
Bailey
Chicopee
Wiliam M. Hatch
Springfeld
Narl A. Randall
Collinsville
Conn
Hatch
Batley
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Fine Petroleum Reserve
Hawk
Golfee
Cuthura
Misa Grace Dudley
Victory
Ave
Raciie
Wis
Congress
Des Moines
Osclar Rapids
Dubuque
Waterloo
Mason City
Rochester, Minn
Irene Castle
East Fourth Street
Selec
Royal
Merchan
Silk
DE. OC. W. Bruner
Miller Cleaning & Dye Works
Kennedy
Kurtt-Reinhart Co
Fuel & Transfer Phone
West Mullan Ave
Davidsons
Sridee
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