Teaching Under Bolshevism Reveals Harsh Conditions
A Russian interview with a Gatchina language teacher describes life under Bolshevism. Mrs. Gehan assists food distributions as the American food commissioner feeds hungry children. She endures long hours, communal living, and starvation pressures despite a 60 ruble salary, now 5000 rubles needed to cover food credit. The piece argues teachers deserve due recognition for their perseverance and impact on future generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gatchina
Gahan
Sie Gates
America
Gehan
Coal Strike Prompts Nation to Conserve Fuel and Adapt
The strike sparks broad fuel conservation efforts across railways homes and public buildings. Families use wood refuse paper heat and clothes to cut energy use while temperatures lower to 70 or below. The piece argues continued frugality could prove lasting beyond the strike.
November’s gloom and march of winter woes
A bleak verse depicts November and the approaching winter with sharp winds and frost. The speaker laments cooling days, furnace calls, unpaid debts, and family quirks as December and January loom, implying hard times ahead.
Opinions Reprinted in Issurg Telegraph Passage
Editorial excerpts urge citizen responsibility to advance community welfare and national prosperity. It warns against autocracy and calls for fair, reasonable action as labor relations affect the country’s future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Issurg
Thore
Amer
United States
Dinner Stories Reveal a Village Cap Cape Nar Tale
A fragmentary passage describes a boastful tourist in a village scene with scarecrows and a father figure scaring crows. The dialogue hints at rivalry between a husband and wife or partners as they discuss words and truth amid a rural audience.
Side Talks by Ruth Cameron on Families and Rentals
A reader asks Ruth Cameron about landlords renting to families with several children. She argues discrimination hurts families and landlords, cites wear and tear, and suggests a written wear and tear agreement with tenants to cover damages beyond normal. She warns even best children can cause damage and notes astigmatism in parental judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Household Wims Recipes For A Day
A compact collection of everyday recipes including Pearl Barley Soup with Cabbage and accompanying salads, biscuits, steamed squash, various cookies, and date pudding. Each dish lists ingredients and basic method from soaking barley overnight to steaming pudding.
Scarecrow tale and a phony philanthropist encounter
A village scene features farmers joking about a scarecrow scaring birds and a crafty con in a private office. A seedy visitor asks a known philanthropist for aid, only to be provoked into denying a circulating rumor as he departs.
Father John's Medicine Promises Year Round Gains
An advertisement touts Father Johns Medicine as a wholesome all year tonic that builds flesh and aids weight gain. It claims steady improvement and notes a testimonial from Mrs Lucy Wing of Liberty Missouri about a run down baby becoming fat and healthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father John
Lucy Wing
Liberty, Mo
State Owned Forest Policy Echoed by Forester
Edmund Secrest forester at the Ohio Experimental Station argues state ownership of southern Ohio lands would protect against annual fire loss and yield hardwood timber. He warns delayed action could force artificial reforestation and higher costs, noting several states already acquire idle lands for timber growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Secrest
Ohio
Secrest
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Michigan
Wisconsin
Glouster Town Votes Narrowly for Wet Side in Prohibition Results
In Athens county Blocs Glouster favored the wets by four points on the Crabbe bill while Nelsonville stayed dry and Athens shifted toward prohibition. County totals show mixed outcomes with ratification of the federal amendment passing in some towns and failing in others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glouster
Athens County
Crabbe
Nelsonville
Athens
Report on International Working Women Conference in D C
Dean Voigt will present a detailed report from the First International Conference of Working Women held in Washington D C on October 28. The talk at First M E Church Sunday afternoon at 2 30 will cover issues including a forty four hour week for men and women eight hours for five days and four hours on Saturday and a sixteen year age limit for children in industry. Public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Voigt
Washington D. C
M. E
Burn Fence Rows to Destroy Chinch Bugs
Entomology experts at Ohio Experimental Station urge late fall and early winter burning of fence rows weed piles and dead grass to kill hibernating chinch bugs. Burning these hotspots reduces the pest population before spring activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Entomology
Ohio Experimental Station
Cooperative Burning to Target Chinch Bugs
The article notes that infestations of chinch bugs require a coordinated burning program by farmers. This seasonal effort aims to kill insects that endure winter and would reproduce in early summer, reducing future pest populations.
American Women Sail for Orient Missions on Tonyo Maru
From San Francisco a second deputation of thirty prominent American women sails to Yokohama to join the Vancouver group. The delegation includes two college presidents, social workers, women physicians, and religious leaders. They will form commissions in Yokohama to study mission field issues from education standardization and tuberculosis prevention to cultural adaptation of hymns and American novels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Calif
Yokohama
Vancouver
Orient
Berlin prison cells become family homes amid overcrowding
In Berlin Milkenmarkt prison cells are now rented as living spaces while hotel bathrooms fetch strong prices due to extreme overcrowding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Milkenmarkt
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Resecar Ss Evens
Megrenger & Herald
Niger
Thio
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Weill
Hubby
Ruth Cameron
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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Lydia
Britain
Ranomog
Timothy Graney
Connor Ave
Joplin
Chicago
J. Owenstein
S. Marshfield Avenue
Ill
Geer
Lydia E.pinkham
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