Large wild strawberry crop floods markets in Calhoun county
Market baskets of wild strawberries flood Calhoun county markets as the largest wild crop on record yields superior quality to cultivated berries. The piece notes the year’s bumper harvest and regional market activity in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calhoun County
Kingdom
Park Board
School Board
Illinois
George A. Dupuy
Illinois Pharmacy Commission
State Department of Registration and Education
Chicago
W. S. Benton
Beardstown
Ray Barnes
Bushnell
D. P. Seibert
Ike Pratt
Anna Swift
Engineering College
Northwestern University
Theological Department
University of Chicago
Swift
Gustavus F. Swift
Southern Illinois
C. E. Durst
Illinois Agricultural Association
Ilinois Fruit Exchange
Villa Ridge
Robert Crowe
Illinois Food Relief Committee
V. Vaniman
Springfield
Red Cross
Chicago Association of Commerce
Sanenman
Hilmvelg
Congress
Mortimer G. Barnes
Division of Waterways
Department of Public Works
State
Twwinots
Rockford
Oregon
Mooseheart
St. Albans
Mount Caproll
Brounce Center
Freeport
National Athletic Club
Sycamore
St. Clair
Attorney General’s Office
State Department of Agriculture
Lon Freeman
Champaign
United Mine Workers of
District No. 1
John Metzger
Airdome
Aero Club of Illinois
Eighty-third Street
Cicero Avenue
William O. Wheelock
Zion City
Marshall Field & Co
Misa Beulah Vaneva Beshears
University of Valparaiso
Valparaiso
Ind
A. L. McClay
Carrollton
McClay
Greene County
Will Dive for Lusitania Treasure Amid Valley of the Dead
In a description of a dramatic ascent along the Sianfu Lanchow Turkestan highway, a valley near Tsingning is portrayed. The road vanished in a quarter mile, chopped off and uprooting fifty year old trees while two highway sections were swept and set on a loess heap in a stark cataclysm scene.
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Tsingning
Thousands Dead as Kansu Earthquake Obliterates Towns
The Kansu disaster described by National Geographic as one of history’s worst. Affected area spans 100 by 800 miles with ten cities and many villages buried under landslides and a rising sea of loose earth. Relief reports note 200000 deaths, with dramatic scenes including the burial of a Moslem leader and a valley of the dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Geographic Magazine
Kansu
China
Josef W. Hall
Upton Close
International Famine Relief Committee
Ma the Benevolent
Hall
Chile
Salvador
Mt. Asama
Japan
U. S. Completes Record Fleet of 2,312 Ships Built in Five Years
The Shipping Board ends its wartime fleet program as Bethlehem delivers the liner Western World. From 1917 to 1922, U S shipyards produced 2,312 vessels totaling 13,626,711 deadweight tons, with 1,000 idle amid weak world trade. Atlantic coast led in ship output.
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Shipping Board
New York
Southampton
England
United States
Japan
China
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
The
Gulf
Drops Half Mile in Log Chute
Howard Rupert, a Snoquotmie salesman, stepped onto a snow edge to show scenery and vanished into a loose snow drift. Searchers found him emerged from an ice filled log chute after a half mile ride. He was uninjured though he had lost much of his clothing.
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Snoquotmie
Wash
Howard Rupert
Rupert
Women Take Jobs Once Held by Men in Washington
A Seattle chamber of commerce report shows growing female participation in trades. In 1920 Washington women numbered 581 as barbers hairdressers and manicurists 48 as fishermen and oystermen seven as dairymen teamsters and expressmen five as longshoremen 24 as shipyard laborers 261 as building laborers 233 as sawmill and planing mill workers and 53 as lumbermen raftsmen and woodchoppers.
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Seattle
Walsh
Lydia E to Aid Women with Sam's Vegetable Compound
A fragment mentions Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a testimonial remedy for women's ailments. It references a St. Louis address and a letter praising the product's effects on female troubles and strength.
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St. Louis
Vandaventer St
St. Agate
Sam
Lucas
Lydia E. Sam
Willing to Pay. Crowd cheers as crowd-filler hits homer
A crowd-filled baseball game had a missing fielder. A tall stranger with claimed experience filled in. After two swings he crushed a pitch over the fence but declared he would buy another ball, quelling the crowd’s run call.
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Ron
Humorous Exchange About Love and Finances Cited by Judge
A judge quips about love using a wife asking how much he loves her and the husband replying by offering his checkbook to gauge affection. The exchange highlights a playful, money centered theme with a legal twist.
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Len Small
Kankakee County
Sinois Tax Commission
Ilinois
State Farmers’ Organization
University of Minois
College of Agriculture
Havana
Peoria
West Frankfort
Committee On
Charles Woodward
Lusitania
Hickety
Delaware
Philadelphia
Ireland
Benjamin F. Leavitt
Kansu Province
Frontier Province
Hail
Shantung
East China Plain
U. S
Umberto
Rome
Milan
Dean
James Yen
Carpenter
Taylorville
Doan
Ben Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Stearns
Sonace
Abe
Western
Canada
Reon
Fin Ae
Elec. Mach. Corp
Indianapolis
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