President Harding Opens New Congress with Domestic and International Proposals
President Harding delivered the opening address to a joint session, highlighting a flexible tariff, a presidentially adjustable tariff, an industrial tribunal, and a constitutional amendment to curb tax free securities. He praised progress at the armament limitation conference and urged funding the allied debt and food relief for starving Russia, while signaling aid for postwar restoration.
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Washington
Congress
Harding
House
Senate
Tariff Commission
Russia
Hoover
Commerce Department
American Relief Administration
Clouds on Face of Jupiter by Pickering
Prof W F Pickering described Jupiter’s surface as a mosaic of tiny reddish brown cloudlets on white, forming belts where dense and light areas where sparse. He noted similar observations in Jamaica and England, comparing cloudlets to sun rice grains and aligning with planetary rotation. The report cites observers Phillips and Steavenson.
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W. Tf. Pickering
Arequipa
Jupiter
Jamaica
England
Phillips and
Steavenson
Milwaukee Sentinel
Christmas Seals Sale Arranged Through Basin Stores
Mrs. Guy R. Brill appointed as agent for Christmas seal sales with helpers at Wises Drug Store Esther Pauley Big Horn Merc Minges Lawr e nce and Rappet Wigton s Grocery Mrs W H May Golden Rule and others. Seals to be sold at the listed places on December 17 and 24 to raise funds for Basin against tuberculosis.
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Guy R. Brill
Wises' Drug Store
Esther Pauley
Big Horn Merc, Co
Minges Lawrence and
Rappet
Wigton'’s
W. H. May
R. G. Belton
Chamber of Commerce
Presbyterian Sale
T. K Bishop
Basin State Bank
Myrna May
1St National Bank
Wm. C. May
Nadler’s
J. J. Fleming
Big Horn Co. Bank
J. A. Coons
Wises
H. L. Wise
Baumhoefner
McGown
Peterson
T. B
Why is a flapper called a flapper in fiction
The piece traces the origin of the term flapper from an English chorus girl to its adoption in American fiction. Harry Leon Wilson notes the label arose from Wil son’s Bunker Bean and gained popularity as skirts shortened and hair bobbed. He cites English echoes and the term’s spread via vaudeville and magazines.
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Bunker Bean
Harry Leon Wilson
Wilson
England
Raising a Town by Dredging and Filling in Wilmington
A comparison of a Los Angeles area project where Wilmington raised its town eight feet by dredging the harbor. Engineers filled 1,200,000 cubic yards to create a high, dry street level near docks and bulkheads. The report notes prior uses of bulbs as fire extinguishing bombs and introduces a new heat resistant alloy from General Electric for steel treatment.
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Wilmington
Los Angeles
Cal
New York Herald
American Society For Steel Treating
Indianapolis
G. BR. Brophy
General Electric Company
St Andrew's Episcopal Service Notes
December 10 182 Poem song and sermon at 7 30 p m by Dean J Dixon with readings and musical offerings in St Andrew's Episcopal Church lineage of early 19th century services.
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Poensong
Sermon
Dean J
Dixon
Solves Lathe Work Problems With New Rule
A New York market release describes a comprehensive lathe rule easing calculations for revolutions speeds feeds and cuts. It reads graduations to give time volume and area relations and includes inch and metric scales on the reverse to serve as a measuring ruler.
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New York
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Dinner Party Shares Evening with Several Guests
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Silver hosted a Monday dinner party for a group including Mr. and Mrs. Bishop and several friends. The guests enjoyed an evening of pleasant conversation and card playing later. The Catholic church Altar society met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. E. F. Peterson.
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R. L. Silver
The
Altar Society of the Catholic Church
E. F. Peterson
M E Church Sunday Events and Epworth Herald Day
Sunday school 10 am Talbott superintendent Morning Worship 11 am Epworth league 6 30 pm Ep worth Herald Day Evening Service 7 30 pm Next Sunday services in basement of new church Welcome from Minister Edwie Bowling.
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M. E. Church
Talbott
Epworth League
Epworth Herald
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Scott Mills
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Lovell
Republican
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Broadway
Fliammarion
Uae
Basin Republican
Grocery Department
Delicious Jonathans
Winesaps
Spitzenberg
Magnus
Brunswick
Diamond Lavaliers
Grosvenor
Adam
Wise Bros
Wyo
ST. Andrew's Episcopal
London
Lendon Mall
Basin
Len't Brown
REX Theatre
Edwie Bowling
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