Thoughtfully curated historical journalism
Louise Gerard, the English authoress, who wrote “A Son of the Sahara,” Edwin Carewe’s First National screen version of which will be shown at the Palace Sunday, went from England to Tonffourt, Algeria, to observe the filming of some of the most spectacular scenes of the production.
Cairo, Nov. 5—(AP)—The body of King Tut-ankh-Amen is now definitely believed to have been discovered, a communique issued in Arabic by the Ministry of Works announces.
Tut-ankh-Amen’s tomb was re-opened October 12 in the presence of Egyptian officials. The lid of the first sarcophagus was lifted, revealing another, on which lay linen coverings and bouquets. These were removed, revealing a work of unexampled beauty. This second carcophagus [sic] bore an effigy of the God Osiris, decorated from head to foot and embellished with multi-colored pieces of glass.
The carcophagus itself was covered with a thin layer of gold on a marble ground and adorned with the wings of the serpent goddess Buto and the vulture goddess Nechbet. After this sarcophagus had been scientifically examined, it was removed from the first—an extremely delicate operation, as the one fitted exactly inside the other and the delicate ornamentation might easily be injured by the slightest touch.
Note Written in Dutch Found Floating in St. Lawrence Closes With “Adieu.”
By the Associated Press.
QUEBEC, November 2.—”Lost in storm. Written by one of the shipwrecked crew of the S. S. Aophard, Holland. Please be kind enough to forward this to Safekeeping. Happened October 25, 1925. Written by Ye Teolsa, Adieu.”
This message, countersigned by “Capt. Banderweevoen,” was found in a bottle in the St. Lawrence River near the lighthouse on Ste. Felicite, Quebec. October 27. It was written in Dutch, and, following its translation today by Abbe Desmet of Laval University, was sent to the Department of Marine and Fisheries at Ottawa.
Grenville. N. C.. Oct. 12 (Preston News Service) —Acting upon instructions from Governor A. W. McLean, Solicitor Jesse Davis was in Greenville Tuesday afternoon en route to Farmville to make a rigid investigation of the recent flogging administered to Dr. S. J. B. Collins, a physician at that place, by a hooded gang.
Dr. Collins, who is a British subject, was said to have been instructed by his assailants to leave the town but instead he appealed to the British consulate in this country and on Wednesday Solicitor Davis received a message from the vice consulate in Wilmington urging a thorough investigation.
The historical jawbone that Sampson used to pacify the Philistines, in the Bible story, had nothing on the jawbone of the Elephas Columbi, or Columbian elephant, which now reposes in the museum of Main Avenue High School. The two fragments of the jawbone measure, together, two feet in length. Each is about nine inches in height and six inches in thickness.
Embedded in each of the fragments are two teeth, each six inches long, four inches wide and extend about eight inches into the jawbone proper. The upper surfaces of each tooth are serrated and convoluted into ridges about one-quarter of an inch apart. The crown of the teeth is of a pearl white enamel in an excellent state of preservation. The dentin, or outer surface of the teeth, that part below the crown, has changed into a friable, chalk-like substance.
Meagre Details of Rescue of Com. Rodgers and Crew of Four Lost for 11 Days in Pacific
Crippled Plane PN9-One Found Floating in Late Afternoon by Sub R-4—All Safe and Well—Hopped Off Aug 31 in Non-Stop Flight to Honolulu—Last Message Told of Exhausted Gas Supply—Ends Search of Great Array of Craft Over Wide Area of Pacific
Honolulu, Sept. 10—(By the Associated Press) Com. John Rodgers, commander of the missing naval seaplane PN-9 Number One, and his crew of four men, were found alive tonight 15 miles east of Kauai, by the submarine R-4.
Rodgers and his crew left San Francisco in an attempted non-stop flight to Honolulu on August 31. The following afternoon, 32 hours after his seaplane, the PN-9 Number One, hopped off, the plane and crew disappeared about 300 miles from its destination. Last messages from the PN-9 Number One stated that its gasoline supply was about exhausted and a forced landing was expected.
EDITORIAL
The greatest tragedy in the world occurred in the lives of five Seattle boys Friday.
The dog-catcher got their dogs!
More than 1,000 boys trooped merrily to Volunteer park to take part in The Star’s annual coaster race. Naturally their dogs went along., There must have been more than 100, barking at the heels of their small owners, chasing the flying coasters and having the time of their lives.
Maybe every man has a heart. We don’t know. Perhaps they have ’em and, on some days, they’re not in working order. But we can’t see how any man with a heart could have interfered with that juvenile celebration by calling the dog-catcher.