Penrose Seeks To Bury Tariff Measure
Washington Jan 3 Senator Penrose chairman of the senate finance committee will convene a meeting to bury the Fordney Mnew tariff bill in committee after his return to the capitol. He proposed additional bills including armistice day as a national holiday and repatriation of an unidentified soldier for burial in Arlington.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Penrose
Capitol
Pennsylvania
Fordney
House
Senate
France
Arlington National Cemetery
Australia shifts to liquid fuel by removing alcohol duty
The Australian government abrogates a shilling per gallon excise on molasses used for industrial alcohol to promote a shift from petrol to fuel alcohol. A Sydney Times correspondent notes large-scale projects in Natal Papua and plans to enlist farmers to grow sorghum for high yield alcohol, aiming at millions of gallons annually.
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Australia
London Times Trade Supplement
Sydney
Natal
Papua
Farm Woman’s Working Day Survey Findings
North Dakota state college authorities surveyed the state and found farm women average twelve hours work in winter and fifteen hours in summer, revealing long daily labor demanded of rural households.
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State College
North Dakota
Was Master of Profanity Joseph Pulitzer’s Language Revealed
Charles Chapin, longtime Evening World city editor, recounts in his autobiography how Pulitzer could swear with vivid artistry. He tells of a moment when Pulitzer’s anger over a writer’s hubris collided with a son’s loud rebuke of a tutor, prompting a quip about where the boy learned to swear.
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Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
Charles Chapin
Evening World
Chapin
Rickets Ravages a Vienna Child and U S Relief Call
A six year old Vienna child crippled by rickets embodies the urgent need for aid as eight American relief organizations unite as the European Relief Council to urge funds from American conscience for victims of famine and disease across Europe.
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Vienna
America
European Relief Council
On the Rhine Sentry Voice Arc Worker Exchange
A terse wartime exchange unfolds on the Rhine as a sentry halts a worker repeating the same name, noting this is the tenth stop in twenty minutes. The brief confrontation captures tense patrol routine and suspicion in occupied territory.
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Arcbeiter
Floating warehouses a new Japanese coastal scheme
A Japanese plan to use idle war ships as floating warehouses in Kobe aims to ease postwar shipping slump. Marine Warehouse Co with 10,000,000 yen capital will operate eight 1,000 ton warehouses and three 1,000 ton launches, promising lower rents and fire safety due to mobility.
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Japan
Marine Warehouse Company
Kobe
Spelling Freedom Urged by Town Professor
A Town professor argues that individuals should spell as they please to save learning time. He rails against fashion in spelling and says free spelling could reduce dependence on schools, even with typewriters and adding machines handling writing and arithmetic.
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St. Paul Pioneer Press
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