Whos Who in the World Public Info Committee Costs
The committee on public information led by George Creel is cited for about 6.6 million dollars in government spending. Officials reportedly left post armistice, leaving few staff as hundreds of expense checks were issued to thousands of recipients amid organizational confusion.
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Committee On Public Information
George Creel
Congress
Creel
E. Kk. Edsworth
Council of National Defense
Ellsworth
Lewis Heads Coal Miners Union Leader John J. Lewis Profile
John J. Lewis, acting president of the United Mine Workers of America, leads a large segment of U S coal miners. A self-educated miner, he rose from local work to national influence in the AFL and UMWA, becoming vice president in 1917 and acting president in recent months. He resides in Springfield with his wife and two children.
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John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
United States
Lewis
American Federation of Labor
John White
Garfield
Frank Hayes
Springfield
Graceful Surgeon Who Cared for Three Presidents
Carey Travis Grayson is described as a modest rear admiral and physician who served Theodore Roosevelt Taft and Woodrow Wilson. He kept presidents in physical tune and restored them from office weariness, admired for diplomacy and professional skill. He is gentle, genial, fond of life and his family.
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Theodore Roosevel
William AH. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Carey Travis Grayson
M.D. Ph. G
Flal Cos
US 8. N
White House
United States
Phentrhents
Awit ix
Forry
Aod
Admiral Fiske Publishes Autobiography
Rear Admiral Bridley A. Fiske presents From Midshipman to Rear Admiral a Forty-Nine Year Chronicle of the U S Navy. He discusses his battles with Secretary Daniels over alleged neglect, his preparedness efforts, and the seven chapters on the secretary’s actions and his own memorandum from November 5, 1914.
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Bridley A. Fiske
U. S. Navy
Fiske
Navy Department
Josephus Daniels
Mavy
Secretary Daniels
Department
Navy
Persian Shah in England visit photographed with Lord Walden
Persian Shah Ahmed Knadisgr Idighooaf travels from Persia to Drover Bossine on a discount tour. The arrival is documented with a photograph showing the Shah alongside Lord Walden at a formal event.
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England
Ahmed Knadisgr
Persia
Drover
Bossine
Ife
Lord Walden
Advisers to China Draw Salaries From False Help
Eden N. La Motte notes in Peking Dust that advisers flock to China, offered by their governments with no salary to China. She cites a 1916 China Year Book listing twenty five such advisers and describes a system where China pays for unsolicited counsel.
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Eden N. la Motte
Peking
China
Tau
Miss la Motte
Desert lizard chuckwalla praised as food in California deserts
A desert lizard called chuckwalla in Death Valley and other California deserts is highly regarded as food. It is four and a half inches long, a wholly vegetable feeder, and its meat is white with a flavor resembling frogs legs.
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Death Valley
California
Interesting items roll of era inventions and notes
The items list diverse advances from an electric delivery truck with folding dashboard to an automatic electric recording target for indoor rifle shooting. It notes a Boothbay Harbor minister earning $250 in a trip, Iceland coal deposits, French beds for non sinking in seafaring vessels, a chimney heat loss device, and $3 million spent to bring electric power from a distant waterfill to Bombay.
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Boothbay Harbor
Iceland
Bombay
How Mrs Boyd Avoided an Operation
Canton Ohio woman Marie BoyleD recalls suffering from female troubles and doctors advising surgery. Her mother urged Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. she says it relieved symptoms, letting her perform housework and avoid operation. The ad urges others to try the remedy and contact Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for advice.
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Canton
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marie Boyled
5Th St
N. E
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Beggs Mustarine Mustard Plaster Promises Quick Pain Relief
An advertisement touts Begg's Mustarine mustard plaster as the original strong yellow mustard remedy. It claims rapid relief for headaches neuralgia toothache earache and backache in five minutes and promotes use for bronchitis pleurisy lumbago and inflamed feet. The ad emphasizes a yellow box and urges customers to pay 30 cents.
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Begg
Exhibition of Bad Taste Cited By Birmingham Age Herald
A fragment from a trade note quotes the Birmingham Age Herald on fashion and snobbery in shops and a Co-Operative Supply Co advertisement offering 36 pairs of express rabbits for cash, highlighting a humorous, urban critique.
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Co-Operative Supply Co
St. Francis, Wts
Birmingham Age-Herald
Green's August Flower Health Remedy Claim
An advertisement extols Green's August Flower as a half century household remedy for constipation digestion problems and nervous dyspepsia. It promotes gentle laxative relief with a few doses and urges readers to ask their druggist. Sold in civilized countries.
Subtle Scheme
A Louisville Courier-Journal excerpt features a wry exchange about drinking to provoke arrest and report on the urban poor. The dialogue centers on moral hazard and journalistic temptation in a city setting.
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Creel’s Bureau
Grayson
MR. Wilson’s Physician
Admiral Fiske
Semense Croovdoy Turis
Sultans Palace
Constantinople
Russia
Ceehers
Diloboken
Noob
Lake Daangs
Prsd
Chinas Soft
Shamrock IV
Shomyeel
Phetuas
Erie
Earth
Green
Louisville Courier-Journal
Cascara
Mr. Hill
Wolthrs
North Avenue
Milwaukee
Penn Catenery Co
Muclid
Cleveland
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