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Image 1 — [April 22nd, 1926] The Red Arrow Club announced it will give away a live baby for free because the parents cannot support or educate the child. The parents wish to remain anonymous. While the club views this as a good deed, the Lebanon Rustic argues that giving away a baby is morally wrong.
Image 2 — [April 22nd, 1926] The Red Arrow Club announced it will give away a live baby for free because the parents cannot support or educate the child. The parents wish to remain anonymous. While the club views this as a good deed, the Lebanon Rustic argues that giving away a baby is morally wrong.
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[April 22nd, 1926] The Red Arrow Club announced it will give away a live baby for free because the parents cannot support or educate the child. The parents wish to remain anonymous. While the club views this as a good deed, the Lebanon Rustic argues that giving away a baby is morally wrong.

u/MisterSuitcase2004 — 24 hours ago

[April 23 1926] Wilkins Expedition - Missing For A Week - Leader and Pilot - Airman's Search

NEW TORK, Thursday.

AN ASSOCIATED Press message from Fairbanks, Alaska, says that Major Thomas Lamphier was expected to 'hop-off" from there late to-day to search for Captain Wilkins, the leader of the Arctic exploration expedition, and his pilot Lieut. Eielsen, who have not been reported since they left Fairbanks a week ago for the base at Point Barrow, at the northern extremity of Alaska.

MAJOR LAMPHER'S slart was delayed while he repaired a faulty compass, and while his 'plane, the Detroiter, was tested.

After flying 560 miles from Point Barrow, Major Lampbler plans to return to Fairbanks for fuel, If he has found no trace of the missing leader and pilot, preparatory to going north again, out over the Arctic Ice.

INTO THE UNKNOWN

Captain Wllklns and Lieut. Eielsen were last reported at Thetis Island, 100 miles east of Point Barrow, the day after they left here, and the Indications were that they were venturing into unknown Polar regions:.

The air here Is perfectly still to-day, with Indications of a general calm in the north. — Reuter.

u/Neuralclone2 — 13 hours ago
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[April 21st 1926] Krao, the bearded lady known as the 'Missing Link' in circuses, died of influenza

Bit of a sad story when you go through the Wiki (more images there), she basically was abducted and exploited as an example of the missing link between humanity and apes and proof of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

Library of Congress and PDF

>Bearded Woman's Body To Be Cremated
New York, April 17. - (AP) - The shyness which Krao, ultra-feminist bearded lady of the side shows overcame for 30 years to turn misfortune into prosperity holds sway with her death. Krao, known in the circus as the "Missing Link," died yesterday of influenza, leaving instructions that her hairy body be cremated, because it could no longer be exhibited.

u/Jolly-Newspaper-6769 — 2 days ago
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Are we living in a simulation, and if so, how would we know?

I’ve been thinking about this idea a lot lately, If we were living in a simulation, I wonder if there would even be a way for us to prove it from inside it. Anything we observe could just be part of the system itself. But if there are clues,,,like limits in physics, patterns, or “glitches",,,what would those actually look like? Or would everything always seem perfectly consistent no matter what? Curious what others think: is this something we could ever truly know, or just an untestable idea?

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u/Professor-Oliver_22 — 2 days ago
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[April 19th, 1926] Viggo Pedersen, a prominent Danish landscape painter, passed away in Roskilde, Denmark, at the age of 72. Here are some of his works:

u/MisterSuitcase2004 — 3 days ago
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[April 21, 1926] Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022, Elizabeth II, is born in 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, England

u/PrudentButterscotch9 — 3 days ago
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[April 17th, 1926] H.P. Lovecraft returned to his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, after a stressful two-year stay in New York City. Leaving behind his wife, Sonia Greene, and the intense, often hostile environment of Brooklyn, he returned to Providence alone, a moment often described as the

start of his most prolific creative period.

u/MisterSuitcase2004 — 5 days ago

[September 22nd, 1922] "The Rival Billionaires" cartoon from the Chicago Tribune.

u/mausephi — 3 days ago
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[April 19th, 1926] Eighteen-year-old Johnny Miles of Nova Scotia won the 30th Boston Marathon, setting a new world record.

u/MisterSuitcase2004 — 3 days ago