Building Boom Hailed as 1922 Housing Surge
Department of Commerce aims to build at least 1,000,000 new homes nationwide in 1922. Contracts totaling 5,000,000 for home construction were awarded last month in two thirds inhabited states with promising reports from less settled districts. The boom is seen as healthy and may surpass pre war activity, boosting employment and overall business confidence.
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Department of Commerce
Shict
United States
The Costs Of Education by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
An illustrated tale recounts a town building a school with lavish spending from land to books and salaries. The school board funds land 100000 elected plans 200000 books purchased 9000 sanitary towels 194 items and hires experts to justify a new system while paying 1800 yearly for teachers.
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
Irvey
Ite
Itsildren
Oo Town
Tey
Living Cost Drops 13 Percent In Year
A collage of jokes and quips follows, including notes on living costs, a faux scientific boast, and humorous vignettes about a Miss Ima Angel, Ed Wynn, and a megaphone shipboard exchange. The piece ends with a quip about optimism and fate.
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Ima Angel
Woonsocket
Ed Wynn
Ere and After Dinner Stories
A humorous fragment finds a Japanese journalist in Washington meeting Henry Suydam at the State Department and praising the United States and its leaders while planning a piece for his paper. Pat and a gardener discuss a bird bath, with Pat joking about birds telling Saturdays apart.
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Ee Eerie Roe
Washington
State Department
Henry Suydam
Suydam
United States
Harding
Mr. Hughes
Grant the Unostentatious Commander Remembered
Washington remembers General Grant on his birth centennial with plans for a Capitol memorial. The piece recalls Grant’s unflashy leadership, his calm demeanor, and the criticism he faced from rivals such as Uncle Joe Cannon. It notes his world tour, lack of dramatic displays, and the political battles surrounding his presidency.
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Washington, D. C
Mar
General Grant
Washington
Capitol
Grant
Joe’ Cannon
House of Representatives
Cannon
Joe
Eral Grant
Ilinois
Appomattox
Pbrage
Grover Cleveland
Uncle Joe
Lincoln
Timois
Vicksburg
Logan
Pemberton
Mr. Cannon
Bismarck
England
Russia
Japan
Siam
Europe
Asia
Mount McGregor
Lee
Gates
Burgoyne
Saratoga
New England
Horace Greeley
New York
Swallow Hook
Greely
Democratic Party
Lorace Greeley
Greeley
toGrant
Athens Day by Day by the Messenger Watch Dog
In a nostalgic travel poem set aboard the B O train the narrator laments long separations from home and mocks railway life. A roadside encounter with a cheerful country mother brings renewed hope, joy, and a critique of social vanity, ending with a civic light joke about the lights from the police station to the bank building.
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Athens
Logan
Pomeroy
Nile
Golden Gate
McArthur Directory Highlight Mixes Menu and Sermon
In McArthur the local telephone directory is praised as a curious four page item that reads like a restaurant card and a Sunday school leaflet. The piece notes Bill Moser began his career clerking in a village grocery store, praising his start.
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McArthur
Bill Moser
Bill
Twinkle Star Critiqued Over Thinness and Growth
A terse verse mocks a movie star's thinness and predicts fattening charm. A humorous booklet titled Rik Booster is referenced, hinting at gossip or scandal in a playful, satirical tone.
Snake in the stomach sparks springtime scare in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati man named Ilia Tritnnoff reportedly pulled a knife from his abdomen to remove a snake within his stomach. He survives in a local hospital while the creature perishes, illustrating reptiles moving from boots to higher ground.
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Ilia Tritnnoff
Cincinnati
Questions and Answers from the Athens Messenger Bureau
Public notice describes the Athens Messenger Information Bureau led by Frederic J. Haskin in Washington D C. Readers may send questions for information only no legal medical or financial advice provided. Include full name address two cents for return postage.
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Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
The
Inquirer
Early United States concrete ship Faith launched in 1918
The Faith, a 5,000 net ton cargo ship, was the first large concrete ship built in the United States and designed for motor propulsion. It was launched in San Francisco in 1918 and entered service the same year.
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United States
Faith
San Francisco
Bureau of Mines
War Department
H. E
Bureau of Biological Survey
Don’t Swap Horses in the 1922 Primary Endorsement
An editorial endorses Congressman Izzy Foster for re nomination in the Tenth District, praising his backbone and service to ex service men miners and railroad workers. It argues the reconstruction period requires his experience and warns against changing horses in the stream. March 16 1922 Hamden Enterprise endorsement.
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Izzy Foster
Tenth
Foster
Congress
Hamden Enterprise
Independent
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Robert Ed Ward
Fifth Avenue
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Wabash Avenue
Chicago
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Mary Pickford
Bill Netch
Edward Je Down
Salvation Army
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Margo
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Southampton
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Pen
Pat
Estepe
By Frederic J. Haskin
Francis
Charles
Mary, Queen OF Scots
Tay Dad-A-A-Ay
Eddie
Royal Picture Gallery
Rik Booster
Frederick I
Frederick the Great
Mississippi River
Saturday Evening Post
Toledo
Isselstein Sales and Service Co
Doanville, Ohio
Florsheim Shoe
Florsheim
Tal
Buick
Buick Four
O. B. Flint
Mich
Athens County Buick Co
Nelsonville Buick Co
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