Tesla Sees Vision of Global Wireless Voice and Sight
Nikola Tesla announced a patent for a wireless system that eliminates static and enables thousands to talk simultaneously between stations and to see each other by wireless. He described a Long Island station and a world system linking New York to distant users, with plans for six major wireless exchanges.
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New York
Nikola Tesla
Long Island
Tesla
Electrical World
Hawaii
Arlington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Naval Radio Station
Pearl Harbor
Mare Island
Colorado
Earth
iS EAGER TO BE A NURSE
Miss Helen Namur a popular leader and one of the prettiest girls in her circle longs to aid Belgium in wartime. Born in New York after her Namur ancestors settled near Namur she offers to serve as a war nurse or relief worker for women and children in the stricken country.
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Helen Namur
Albert
Wartorn
Belgium
Namur
Miss Namur
United States
New York
Cats for food in Hungary raise price and control
Paris reports quotes from Buda pest that central Hungarian slaughter houses say many cats are killed and dressed daily in the Biharkenszteser district where Italian residents are interned. Demand pushed price to three crowns per kilo, about 25 cents a pound, prompting local authorities to cap prices.
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Paris
the Figaro
Budapest
Frankfurter Zeitung
Biharkenszteser
Hungary
Survivor recalls the Egypt shipwreck off Bahama shores
Sheridan, the lone Egypt survivor, visits Kay county relatives to mark the 66 year old disaster. He recounts the 6 day gale near the Banks of Bahama after the Portland Me bark sank. Thirteen men endured without food or water clinging to rigging until a New York bound ship spotted them.
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Blackwell
Oklo
Egypt
Kay County
Sheridan
The
Dark
Portland
Gulf Stream
Bahama
New York
Brother Williamford Bakes Millions of Breakfast Buns
South Bend Indiana. Brother William ford marks his fifteenth year as Notre Dame bakery head. He estimates producing 16,425,000 cookies 642,500 five pound loaves and almost 20,000,000 buns for breakfast while the school remains in session. Pies for the school are made by the sisters at St Marys college.
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South Bend
Ind
Williamford
University of Notre Dame
St. Mary's College
Everett wife sues for divorce over religious coercion
In Everett Washington Roy Pattison’s strong religious views led his wife to file for divorce. She says he declared he had joined God and forced her to perform housework as part of his wife’s consecration, beginning January 1913.
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Washington
Sugar Tariff and War Taxes Urged to Meet Revenue Crisis
The piece argues that wartime dislocations have wrecked trade and credit, rendering the new sugar and molasses free clause ineffective. It notes that revenue losses from free sugar will not be offset by the income tax, and urges renewal of war taxes and repeal of the sugar clause. Peace must return before tax reforms or tariff relinquishments are wise.
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Wilson
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Tariff Debate and European Labor Critique in The Times
In the last fiscal year purchases of foreign goods fell by 200 million dollars while Bradstreet's index showed record high U S prices. The piece argues protectionists fear European pauper labor and advocate tariffs as political tools, predicting tariff revisions if Republicans win. It cites high protectionism, economic strain from war, and political maneuvering ahead of a presidential election.
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United States
Bradstreet
Europe
Saturday Evening Post
Turn to New Campaign Cry in Massachusetts Platform
The Massachusetts Republican platform shifts focus from hard times to tariff critique and postwar conditions. Senator Sherman and John Hays Hammond condemn the Wilson tariff as indefensible cruelty while Weeks argues Democrats face defeat over Wilson's foreign policies. Voters weigh overall policy success against detailed missteps in foreign relations.
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Massachusetts
Wilson
Club of
Boston
Sherman
Illinois
John Hays Hammond
West
Weeks
Mexico
Europe
President backs McAdoo plan on sugar duty and tax
The president approves Secretary McAdoo's proposal to retain the sugar duty and reenact the special war tax law. Reports indicate a strong majority for both measures in Congress, with the administration confident in passage.
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McAdoo
Congress
Democratic Harmony in Congress Promises Cohesion
D. G. of Washington predicts a harmonious session as Democrats unite amid Republican doubts that the 11th Congress can stay together. He notes the Democratic majority is sizable and should spur strong party cohesion this winter.
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Wilson
D. G
Washington, D. C
Persimmon Fruit Could Be Widely Used, Says USDA Bulletin
The United States Department of Agriculture urges greater use of persimmons noting their high food value, potential for home and commercial production, and wide geographic spread. It outlines propagation methods, ripening advice, baking recipes, and the wood’s uses in mill supplies and shoemaking, plus ornamental value of the trees.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Bulletin
United States
Iowa
Nebraska
Rhode Island
New York
Michigan
Maryland
Virginia
Carolinas
Missouri
Arkansas
Persimmon Belt
New Bulletin
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