Humanitarian element urged in League work
The article notes evidence of wholesale starvation in European and Near East nations after entering the League system. It highlights small states like Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Ukraine, which self determine and tariff grain, raising food prices for nations previously dependent on them, urging humanitarian actions in League policy.
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Near East
League
Czechoslovakia
Jugoslavia
Poland
Ukraine
Bozeman Set For Billings Anaconda State Final
The Billings and Anaconda high school football teams meet in Bozeman to decide the state championship. Officials expect a clean, vigorous game with strategic play and a strong turnout from both cities. Special trains will bring big crowds, creating a lively, spirited atmosphere.
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Billings
Anaconda
Bozeman
Rising From the Ashes France Recovers Rapidly After War
France shows rapid postwar recovery with near full planting of 7 million acres, textile industry at 90 percent, merchant marine restored, coal output doubling from two years ago, freight car loadings rising from 21 000 to 35 500, and public revenues improving while adverse trade declines.
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France
Jane Addams Story on European Child Suffering
Jane Addams portrays dire European and Near East child conditions seen in recent investigations. She cites 600 starving tubercular children in Lille and widespread tuberculosis among Lisle schoolchildren, plus Vienna and Zurich hunger victims and food theft cases. She urges immediate relief and an international guarantee to empower suffering nations, plus a humanitarian League of Nations ethos.
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Europe
Near East
Jane Addams
Herbert Hoover
Lille
Lisle
Zurich
Vienna
Miss Addams
Joan
America
League of Nations
Health Week Bathing Proposals Stir Public Health Talk
An early 20th century health week features strong advocacy for regular bathing. Dr Kellogg urges frequent baths as key to health and beauty, arguing cleanliness prevents disease and extends life, with emphasis on rapid dirt removal in streets, houses, and bodies. A daily bath is urged to reduce doctor visits.
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Kellogg
Battle Creek, Mich
Senator Wadsworth Seeks Expanded Income Tax Exemption
Senator Wadsworth of New York proposes amending the income tax to exempt single men up to 2000 and married men to 4000, a change that would delight bachelors and benedicts but cut revenue by millions. If amended, many heads of families would push for doubling or trebling the $200 exemption for each dependent child, as $200 is seen as farcical.
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Wadsworth
New York
Congress
Listening In to Harding Inauguration Plan
The piece notes a plan to broadcast Harding's inauguration to remote Americans via a magnavox above the speaker's platform connected to transcontinental telephone circuits. It recalls a 1917 MIT experiment linking 25 cities and 60 listeners in Anaconda to Boston broadcast. It also comments on politics, food shortages, and public figures of the era.
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Washington
Mr. Harding
United States
Harding
Capitol
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
Anaconda
Health Week Aims to Promote Self Care in Montana
A burst of opinion pieces highlights Health Week as a chance to encourage nationwide self care. Editors argue healthy citizens drive mental well being and economic success while urging broad public interest and cooperation. The Montana press notes Mexico's new government, tariff impacts, and local holiday optimism alongside political reflections.
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The
Missourisn
Pemberton
Montana
Commonwealth
Interstate Power Over Montana Commission Contested
The Helena Independent questions whether the interstate commerce commission has authority to overrule the Montana railroad commission. It notes deflation aims via new treasury savings securities, a $1 stamp and $25 certificate, targeting small savers but warns of reduced public demand as wages lag. The piece references Kallspell Tater Lake.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Montana
Montana Commission
New York
Montana Railroad Commission
Helena
Federal Reserve Bank
Treasury Savings
Treasury
Kallspell Tater Lake
Pittsburg Plans Merchandising Training In Schools
Pittsburg officials push merchandising courses for juniors and seniors to train boys and girls as sales clerks while Carnegie Institute of Technology cooperates with major department stores to train men and women to teach merchandising in stores and schools.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Parodied Headlines and Quotations From Early 20th Century Papers
A collage of fragmented quotes from the Cleveland Plain Dealer Lexington Herald Macon Telegraph Minneapolis Tribune Washington Star Boston Herald and others. Topics range from colonial asks and royal returns to gender and sports slang in a jumble of opinion fragments.
Humorous Quotations From Various Voices
A collage of humorous snippets from readers and columnists. Jokes touch on storytelling habits office life and social roles with casual banter about neighbors drivers juries and theater seats. The flavor is light witty and reminiscent of a mid century newspaper humor page.
Nickels Work of Ancients in Metallurgy and Myth
The article traces nickels as a widely known yet illusionary metal, noting their alloyed copper content and misnamed origins. It cites Swiss French Italian coins and historical figures Futhedemos and Cronstedt, linking nickel to goblin copper and old mining superstition.
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New York
Switzerland
France
Italy
Arthur C. Wyman
Futhedemos
Buetria
Cronstedt
Sweden
Yezeidi Worship the Dead
Detroit News profiles the Yezedi a mixed Kurdish Arab sect believed to worship the devil lasting ten thousand years. It notes their belief that Jesus harms them, the coming hellfire extinguishing, and a future pardon plus a reincarnated pair of Adams and Eves. The piece describes their customs as industrious honest hospitable and steeped in ignorance with illiteracy forbidden.
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The
Detroit News
Jesus
Hell
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