Science proves plain paintings by old masters
New York reporters describe Paris based tests to verify authenticity of classic works. M. Cellerier explains pigment analysis, ultraviolet and x ray methods, and fluorescent filters used at the Louvre to distinguish genuine masters from copies. He plans to study more museum paintings here and at Edison Institute welcomes the Illuminating Congress delegation.
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New York
Paris
M. Cellerier
Louvre
Leonardo da Vinti
M. Celletier
Mluminating Congress
Edison Lighting Institute
Harrison
N. J
West Orange
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Germany to End Die Fliegende Blaetter After 84 Years
Munich reports the humorous Die Fliegende Blaetter will merge with a less German focused journal on January 1 1999 due to postwar changes and financial losses from suspended foreign subscriptions. The note marks the loss of a representative periodical from imperial Germany. A separate Canadian forest service effort gathered more than 9500 pounds of tree seeds for reforestation last year.
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Munich
Germany
Die’Fliegende Blaetter
Fliegende Blaetter
Halcyon
Canadian Forest Service
Hong Kong Population Nears One Million
Shanghai dispatch notes Hong Kong Island population approaching one million with about 15,500 non Chinese residents. Victoria City is said to hold about half a million, with others in outlying districts. Foreign residents rose by 3,000 in a year.
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Shanghai
Hong Kong
South China Coast
Victoria
Beggars Chief Arrested in France Amid Sign Language Clues
Perigeux France September 25 police detained the head of the international union of beggars and vagabonds. A search of pockets revealed many paper tokens bearing hobo signs used to identify welcoming homes or hostile hosts. The man refused to identify himself but claimed thousands of members and a one franc life membership.
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Perigeux
France
International Union of
Beggars
United States
England 10 End Dispute On Texas England Tax Reform
London reports legislation moving to settle a ten year dispute over taxation between the Channel Islands Guernsey and Jersey and the British exchequer. The bill aims to stop English subjects and companies from registering in the islands to evade higher English taxes and to end protracted negotiations.
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London
Channel Islands
Guernsey
Jersey
Exchequer Department
British Parliament and the Assemblies of the Two Islands
England
Turkey seeks remedy for student personal crisis reports
Constantinople notes an epidemic of student personal crisis reports alarming Turkish authorities spreading to an American school. A 14 year old Mehmed Salih at Roberts College drowned himself in the Bosphorus after failing exams.
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Constantinople
Roberts College
Mehmed Salih
Pension for Poor Peasants 65 and Older Approved
Moscow reports the Soviet government approved a law granting lifelong pensions to peasants of either sex aged 65 or more who cannot support themselves. The pensions supplement other aid and continue for life.
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Moscow
American’s Quest for Ark Is Failure
Jerusalem September 25 Cypr AL Y Jutterer, president of the Edendate Bible Institute of Los Angeles, ends a fruitless two year quest for the Ark of the Covenant. He plans a final exploration before returning to the United States aboard the Alesi, arriving New York November 8. He will organize a more complete expedition and resume the search later, while arranging to continue with a Nebo chief. He also toured Palestine and Arabia, filming and collecting notes and 13 original maps, making his data a major Holy Land collection.
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Jerusalem
Cypr AL Y. Jutterer
Edendate Bible Institute of
Los Angeles
United States
Alesi
New York
Sttys Ie
Holy Land
Land of
Nebo
Palestine
Arabia
Thirty Tons of Paint Coat Eiffel Tower
Paris reports the Eiffel Tower will receive a fresh coat of paint costing about twenty thousand dollars. Thirty tons of paint are needed, with a new coating applied every eight years except this year to test a new paint on a quarter of the surface. The full recoat will occur again in 1932.
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Eiffel Tower
Paris
Farmlands Allocated Along CPR Route in 1923 Half Year
The Canadian Pacific reports nearly 1,400 farming families settled on 243,272 acres of land along the CPR lines from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast in the first six months of 1923.
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Canada
Winnipeg
Great Lakes
Pacific Coast
Plan to guarantee coal quality faces nationwide use
About 25 anthracite producers controlling around 45 million tons, over half of U S annual output, have agreed on a plan to assure the quality and type of coal delivered to consumers.
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New York
Waterloo Girl Lou Henry Hoover Autograph Album Entry
Mrs Lucy Conger Odell preserves a lifelong autograph album page in which Lou Henry Hoover wrote Iowa’s motto Our Moberties we prise and owr rights we will maintain dated Jan 7 1886 The note shows Lou Henry later Mrs Herbert Hoover as a schoolgirl in Waterloo Iowa The article also recalls her early editing of a school paper The Wagon Mound Woman’s club plans to vote for Hoover and Curtis in the upcoming election
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Lucy Conger Odell
Lou Henry
Iowa
Herbert Hoover
Waterloo
Jowa
Lucy Conger
Odell
Wagon Mound
M. M
Sarah Gardner
Nye
Laramie
Towa
Worthey Manufacturing Company
Park Avenue
Bult Street
YALKS ON BOOKS Circulated since Apel Ine meat
A speaker discusses reading trends and the rise of magazines replacing books. He notes Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and others as examples, mentions that fur and food profits from raised animals are debated, and cites 108,000 volumes in circulation alongside government experiments.
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Charles “A. Linde
Bergh
Chinchills
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