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...discovered a strange motorcade called "Ammunition Train No. I." The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first guess was that a new medicine show had come to town were not entirely wrong. John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley, 47, nostrum peddler, was stumping every county in the State, conducting his independent gubernatorial campaign...
...Irish Free State has issued a special Congress stamp, with a cross, "Inter-nationalis Congressus Eucharisticus" and "Eire" (Ireland). Throughout Dublin some 450 loudspeakers have been set up to broadcast the affairs of the Congress over a 15-mile radius. Dublin florists advertised seeds which "if planted immediately will yield a wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles...
...bill, unlike the old, permits national banks with capital of $500,000 or more to establish branches, regardless of whether or not State laws give State banks the same privilege. Likewise national banks were permitted to put branches across State lines within a radius of 50 mi. in the same trade territory. This provision brought howls from Insurgents who view branch-banking with great alarm...
Despite the fact that there is no authorized record of a man being killed by a meteor, such a shower bombarded the earth at a desolate spot in Siberia in 1909 that wild life has not yet returned. Within a radius of 300 miles from the point where the meteor struck trees were blown down by force of the air pressure. The fall was recorded as an earthquake disturbance on the seismograph at the University of Moscow and even on the Ferdham University instrument...
...exploration may be the cause of the new interest shown by the public," Mr. Stefansson continued, but in my opinion the submarine is the ideal conveyance for arctic exploration. The main points in favor of the submarine over other modes of transportation are its large radius for exploration, its unlimited leisure, and the fact that if can carry a large staff of scientists and a complete scientific laboratory." Mr. Stefansson stressed the fact that the submarine is no more dangerous as a means of arctic exploration than the airplane although entirely different problems must be dealt with. "The difficulties...