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Specifically, Russia did not like the fact that the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Bear had taken magnetic observations in her territorial waters. It was also brought to his attention that upon a rock on Chukotsk Peninsula, in Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, Bering Strait, had been found a brass plate with the inscription "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Station. For information write Superintendent, Washington. For disturbing this mark, $250 fine or imprisonment...
...years ago, these gentlemen imported four quarts of U. S. peanuts. Half of them were given to two Chinese farmers as the basis of a Chinese peanut crop. One farmer ate his peanuts instead of planting them. The other, however, planted and replanted his peanuts, until now the Shantung Peninsula grows 18,000,000 bu. per annum. The Chinese peanut crop now exceeds even that of this country...
...Albania is not put no her feet, if she is allowed to lie like a dead corpse at the side of the Balkans, trouble in that peninsula will be inevitable", was the warning of Mr. C. Telford Erickson, speaking on. "The Balkan Situation from the Albanian Point of View" at a Liberal Club luncheon yesterday...
...course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...
From the Iberian Peninsula came another growling voice which paid no compliments to Dictator Primo de Rivera...