Jitney Solves Labor Problem in Wheat Belt
The piece reports Kansas farmers will rely on the one man jitney combine to harvest a projected 150 million bushels. It notes fewer migrant harvesters, more machinery, and a shift from hand labor to tractors and trucks, with estimates of the regional labor pool and historical farm sizes. It cites James Cummings of the Kansas Co-operative Wheat Marketing Association on workload if done with century-old tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Peka
Kan
Kansas
State Free Employment Bureau
James Cummings
Kansas Co-operative Wheat Marketing Association
Pertwee Provokes Protests With Plaything Remark
London reports stirred by Ro land Pertwee saying the most appealing women are playthings for men. Women across England respond with letters denouncing the view and affirming women as purposeful individuals not objects of male amusement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland Pertwee
Pertwee
England
Chamberlin’s Narrow Landing Ends New Endurance Flier Flight
Clarence D. Chamberlin, holder of the world endurance record, made a risky caution flight at Mitchell Field with Eloyse Levine nine, Grace Jonas fifteen, and John Carisi aboard. The Bellanca monoplane named Columbia suffered a broken landing gear as spectators prayed for the passengers’ safety during the one hour aloft before touching down.
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United Press
New York
Clarence D. Chamberlin
Chamberlin
Mitchell Field
Long Island
Bellanca
Bert Acosta
Paris
Eloyse Levine
Columbia
Grace Jonas
John Carisi
G. M. Bellanca
United States Marines Worldwide Reach Across The Globe
The United States Marines fight in many lands from Haiti to China, with 11,295 on foreign duty and 7,000 at home. The Fifth Regiment operates in Nicaragua while the First aids Hayti, and 425 guard the American legation in Peking. Marines afloat encircle the globe with 2,200 aboard ships and 1,000 detached for duty at sea or abroad.
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International News Service
Washington
Montezuma
Tripoli
United States
Spanish Florida
Barbary
Central America
Korea
Formosa
South America
Belleau Woods
China
Quantico
Virginia
Globe
Caribbean
Asia
Shanghai
Orient
Henderson
San Diego
Cal
Peking
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Cavite
Philippine Islands
Guam
Nicaragua
Russell
Hayti
Rio Grande
Coco Solo
Canal Zone
Virgin Islands
Guantanamo
Cuba
United States Navy
Adlerika Ad Offered Relief For Gas and Bloat
A Brinkley woman reports years of gas and constipation with headaches and dizziness ending after a single spoonful of Adlerika. The product claimed to act on both upper and lower bowel to remove old waste matter, improving sleep and appetite. Postoffice Drug Co. advertised the remedy.
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Adlerika
Mrs
Marines Spread Across Training and Duties Nationwide
About 4,000 marines at Quantico Virginia are on guard duty and similar tasks. In Parris Island South Carolina 600 are in training. Four hundred are in the recruiting service, 450 assigned to aviation detachments, and 180 at Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington performing guard duty or desk work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quantico
Navy Yards
Parris Island
N. C
Marine Corps
U S Nurse Freed From Bondage By Chinese Bandits
Miss Mary I. Craig a Philadelphia nurse kidnapped in Yunnan province has been released. American Consul General Gauss was advised from Yunnan Fu that she is free and well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Shanghai
Mary I. Craig
Philadelphia
Yunnan Province
Gauss
Yunnan- Fu
Miss Craig
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London
Globe-News
Special Automobile Insurance Department
Williams-Orr
Special Automobile Claim Department
Leh Tea
U. S
Bill Easterwood
W.E. Easterwood, JR
Company
National Distributors
Dallas, Texas
DR. Caldwell
Smith
Postoffice
Hall
Price
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Hall’s Catarreh Mardicime
Nature
Dillingham
Chiechako Oil Company
George W. Pennington
Texas Corporation
Texas Panhandle
Chechako Oil Company
Investment Brokers
Amarillo Bldg
Amarillo, Texas
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