New York City Population Surges to 6.24 Million
A survey reported by the Pittsburgh Dispatch correspondent shows New York City's population on July 1 at 6,244,616, up 31 percent since 1910. The census details include race, voting age, family counts, and ranks among the nation’s largest cities led by New York ahead of Chicago and Philadelphia.
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Washington
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Seattle
Rochester
Freedom of the City Granted to Prince of Wales
The City of London awards the Freedom to the Prince of Wales a historic privilege. The charter grants tax exemptions and private aid for heirs, with the casket ceremony and silver frame noted as the usual presentation. General Booth’s case is cited as a contrast.
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Prince of Wales
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Booth
Trade of thermometers to U.S. amid labor shortages
The New York Tribune notes American firms gain advantage in thermometer exports as labor shortages hinder production and German competition wanes. It highlights wartime shifts in supply chains and predicts continued U.S. dominance in South American markets, with domestic manufacturers likely to hold the bulk of future orders.
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Ulett
Sears
Stigdao
Germany
South America
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New York Tribune
Fascinating Ukulele Impresses London with Charm and Mystery
A London Daily Chronicle writer notes the ukulele is not a Russian province nor an eastern title but a small instrument. The piece recalls a customs man who once failed to recognize it and let it enter England duty free. It likens the ukulele to a fiddle and predicts England will soon feel its appeal as America already does.
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London Daily Chronicle
England
South Sea
America
London
Meanest Man on Earth Outshines Clergyman in Cruel Contest
A garbled report notes a clergyman, an ordained preacher, accusing life insurance claimants of paying a fee of 10 percent of policy faces to obtain a death certificate. The story assigns dubious fame to the pastor, resident near the Woolworth tower, as the cruel winner in a bizarre contest.
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Gulf Stream Suspected To Create Unusual Atlantic Heat
Marine men blame the Gulf stream for unusually warm Atlantic weather with coastal Norfolk at 36 degrees and sea water near 101 degrees just before the current. They note a near 40 degree daily difference and describe foamy near boiling water. An American destroyer may study the claims for government use.
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A Peculiar Scene Of Charity And Insight
In a street tableau by a hotel a man with one bank like wealth and a man with two banklike appetites donate to a blind vendor. A wrinkled woman sells matches as she recites her pitch while the blind man explains birth and fate. One man recalls bandaged eyes and warns that knowledge can be dangerous.
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Ite
Washington Star
States Aid Disabled Soldiers Reeducation Efforts
Federal board support grows in district for veterans reeducation with Tulane University building donated for tryout courses. The facility will house shops and automobile instruction while maintaining English and arithmetic classes. Texas Grubb school receives similar funding and space.
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Tulane University
Texas
Grubb School
Meaning and origin of the word sybarite
The term sybarite refers to a person devoted to luxury and pleasure. It traces to ancient Sybaris in southern Italy, founded by Greeks around 720 B C, once powerful and wealthy, ruled four nations with 25 towns and an army of 300,000, yet degenerated into extravagance and self indulgence.
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Seneca
Dolls in Literature Highlight Victorian and French Gaps
A London writer notes dolls appear in many books from early periods, with English authors neglecting dolls before the nineteenth century while French fiction features them more. Dickens remarks most on dolls among English writers, Wells elevates them in Peter and Joan, and Wells’s Tono-Bungay includes a $5 dolls house. Jerry and Rosa in The Golden Age are recalled.
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Tono-Bungay
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Rosa
Prohibition Talk Sparks Saloon Tied Baseball Anecdote
A prohibitionist at a dinner claims booze spoils the grand game. In a small town two local teams were promised a keg per run by saloonkeepers, prompting a furious dash to halt the game in the sixth inning with the score 59 to 57.
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Red Dog
Tin Can
Bunyip Soldier Praises Local Farming While Recalling War
A Bunyip veteran who spent 17 months as a POW in Silesia recalls German farming methods as inferior and asserts Bunyip soil culture is superior. Upon returning home he faced a joking reference check from a former German employer, which he interpreted as gall and wormwood.
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Australia
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Betty Hurries Back For Lost Gum At Picnic
After a family picnic in a park, Betty bolts back to reclaim her gum left on a bench. Mother calls, Betty replies she needs a minute to retrieve the gum before rejoining the group heading to the car line.
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Chicago Tribune
Windsor park ruins linked to Edward the Confessor palace
Discovery by Capt Vaughan Williams in Windsor Great Park uncovers moats and tiles suggesting a former Edward the Confessor palace site. Berkshire Archaeological Society notes a pre Windsor castle palace in Windsor forest with a defensive tower, cited in Harleian MS as loaf-giver imagery.
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Dakar poised to become Africa's trade hub and Liverpool of the continent
The city of Dakar in South Africa is described as rapidly rising from primitive origins to a key player in the Africa trade arena. French investment expands the harbor and dry dock while improving cargo transfer to rail. Dakar is a bustling town of about 24,000 with a mix of natives and 3,500 French residents.
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South Africa
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America
Europe
Mediterranean
Faidherbe
Navy to Build Massive English Airship Hangar at Lakehurst
The Navy plans to buy its first rigid airship in England for $2,000 and construct a vast hangar at Lakehurst New Jersey. The steel frame will exceed 6,000 tons, with dimensions over 200 feet high and 174 feet clear height, 265 feet wide and about 00 feet long. Three railroad tracks will run the length and shops for airship maintenance will be between arched roof trusses. The hangar can hold a 10,000,000 cubic foot ship and two 5,000,000 cubic foot ships side by side.
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Scientific American
Lumber firm wires forest for electric logging engine
A lumber company has laid over a mile of electric transmission through national forest woods to power an electric logging engine. The power is generated at the mill and may extend to the whole camp. Foresters favor electricity as a safer, cleaner power source for logging operations.
Sex Statistics From the 1910 Census
The 1910 census shows 2,001,978 more males than females in the United States. With the exception of Massachusetts Rhode Island Maryland North Carolina South Carolina and the District of Columbia, males outnumber females in all states. The global pattern reverses, with females generally more numerous, while America’s male excess is attributed to immigration.
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Unreadable OCR Item Suppresses Clear Details
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Amber From Burma Shows Insects Trapped In Time
A Burma amber collection given to the British Museum reveals an unusually rich insect assemblage. An English expert identifies thirty one new species and several new genera. Most specimens come from a block roughly the size of a fist and around half an inch thick.
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Legion to Press Congress for World War Veterans Benefits
National and state officers of the American Legion opened a three day conference and voted to take their fight to Congress. They plan to push legislation extending benefits under the World War risk insurance act, seeking passage in the House and swift action by the Senate.
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War Risk Insurance Bureau
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Smoot
Utah
War Risk Bureau
Washington
American Legion
Sila
Three Senators Enter 1920 Republican Presidential Race
Senator Harding of Ohio formally announces his bid for the Republican nomination in 1920 via a letter from Clare Hughes of Piqua, Ohio. He joins Senators Dexter of Washington and Johnson of California, with Sutherland of West Virginia also launching a boom. Johnson declares a personal campaign across states and rejects convention control by politicians.
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Harding
Ohio
Clare Hughes
Piqua
Miami County Republican Committee
Poindexter
Johnson
California
Sutherland
West Virginia
Hiram W. Johnson
Roosevelt Ticket Vice Presidential Candidate Named
The piece notes the 1912 Progressive ticket with Theodore Roosevelt and an unnamed vice presidential candidate who urged direct appeals to voters in each state, whether by convention or primary. Senator Johnson states he will travel to California, recover, then rejoin the campaign and pursue a direct-to-people approach with a clear program. In New York, December 17, Champ Clark’s candidacy is aided by permanent headquarters for his Democratic bid, per Jobius J. Binder.
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New York
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Jobius J. Binder
Gibson yard to stock building material and feed
The Perry Ullman Lumber Company opens a retail yard at Gibson Road offering a full line of building materials and feed. A carload of shelled corn and hay will be available by mid month with delivery to Gibson warehouse by the 26th. Feed price pending. sale will be at a near market rate. Interested parties may leave orders at Gibson post office.
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Perry-Ullman Lumber Company
South Dakota
Gibson Postofter
Notice of adjusted deliveries due to weather
Owing to bad roads and severe weather we will make only two daily deliveries until further notice. Delivery at 10 a.m. and another at 3 p.m. Please place larger orders and frequent Yellowstone Stores and Paulson Sanitary Grocery located at 55 Churchill & Amery, fees 707.
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