Veterans seek land as government offers hopeful paths
Secretary Fall notes about 200000 inquiries and over 100000 definite applications from veterans seeking government farm land. Most come from high price states with limited home opportunities. 490 farms offered in two years by the Reclamation Service. Veterans want land to work for a home, not a gratuity, recalling earlier promises and urging constructive legislation.
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Fall
Interior Department
Middle West
Reclamation Service
Lane
Congress
The Powder Puff Case Drives School Dress Debate
The parents of a Arkansas high school girl challenge whether school or parental authority decides clothes. The writer notes no constitutional grant to schools and suggests the case would merely prove persistence, urging compliance with teacher expectations like middy uniforms and clean faces as the school standard.
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Arkansas
United States
Commonwealth
Mater
Head as a Developed End of the Spine
Scientists call the cranium a specialized extension of the spine. They argue some people’s heads never evolve beyond part of the backbone, explaining why cerebral development varies among individuals.
Ear masks eyed as broadcasts of music and politics rise
If broadcasting of music lectures and politics continues, demand for ear masks may grow. Public taste shifts toward quieter listening as sound overlaps intensify in venues and homes.
After Dinner Stories and Quick Stockings Swap
A Lewiston tale opens with a witty quip about Senator Frye and a dinner insult. Michael O Hoolihan wins entry to a hosiery buyer by showing silk stockings, offering five thousand dozen at four dollars a dozen, provoking the buyer to a sharp retort about wagon stock. A clipped child accident and a cautious exclamation close this reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael O'Hoolinhan
Michael
Flapper World and Bohemian Sparks Spark Publicities
Juxtapositions of nightlife and high society fuel a lively snapshot of 1920s culture. Quotes from Lester Lamb and Carlton Fowler frame modern bohemia, fashion, and artistic bravado as headlines. A suburban obituary notice ends with a playful misprint.
The Exit Of The Truck Horse
New York City editors advocate ending horse use in Manhattan by 1925 to speed traffic and cut costs. Dr. John A. Harriss cites towers on Fifth Avenue as proof of ordered traffic, while the Horse Association of America argues trucks delay deliveries and cost more. Data show horses declining citywide, with winter and congestion issues highlighted and a forecast of motor trucks dominating urban delivery.
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Frederic J. Haskin
New York City
New York
John A. Harriss
Lhce
Dr. Harriss
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Horse Association of America
Wayne Dinsmore
Sociation
Island of Manhattan
Mr. Dinsmore
Harriss
American Institute of Meat Packers
Horse Association
America
New
Follies Beauty Delivers Cold Shoulder to Husband
Peggy Davis snaps in a staged moment with Donald Grafton as two other women claim him as their husband. The scene captures a mudhly married young man amid a dramatic public display.
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Peggy Davis
Donald Grafton
Grafton
Athens Day by Day by the Watch Dog
A diary style column from Athens Ohio on a scenic ride along the Hocking Valley. The narrator nostalgic for youth, notes towns Chauncey Circle Hill Nelsonville Logan and Haydenville, mentions people, places, and the Watch Dog booklets sales, with reflections on life, travel, and modern gossip.
Questions and Answers column offers popular queries
Readers send in questions about history, geography, and etiquette. The Forest Service identifies the Judas tree as the curse bearing species, Taunton MA leads tack manufacture, Spanish naming conventions differ, Mardi Gras means fat Tuesday, and White House paint mix is 70 percent white lead.
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Forest Service
Judas
United States Navy
K. D
Navy Department
Favrragut
Porter
Dewey
Navy
Taunton
Mass
Spain
Gertrude Atherton
Benjamin Franklin
Atherton
Salmon P. Chase
Horace Greeley
White House
W. B. Ss
Calico Mountains
Geological Survey
Daggett
San Berns
Nelsonville Girls Eye New Easter Parade Trend
A local observer notes Nelsonville girls wearing white navy uniforms with blouses and trousers. The writer plans to dress similarly next Sunday, hoping to be a hit in the Easter parade and suggests the trend may already be popular.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Wood engraving history and quaint legal trivia
The piece notes wood engraving traced to 1285 and credits an Italian maker Cunic. It adds a tongue in cheek rule among English lawyers that a new King's Counsel must furnish his clerk with a fresh frock suit and an immaculate silk hat.
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Lading County
California
Cunic
England
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Korea
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Nelsonville Buick Co
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