Scouting Aids Lepers at Honolulu Kalihi Station
The Kalibi Jeper receiving station in Honolulu houses a 20 member scout troop formed on the idea of a station superintendent. The group includes 19 Hawaiians and one Japanese, led by 22 year old Hawaiian scoutmaster Enoch Aku. The boys perform daily good turns, help other patients, and save to buy uniforms, while visiting troop leaders instruct them in various scouting branches.
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Kalibi Jeper
Honolulu
Enoch Aku
Kalihi
Trade Day aims to promote prosperity with scouts’ help
The Bessemer Alabama Chamber of Commerce held Trade Day and enlisted scouts to distribute thousands of circulars and craft the slogan Radio B eg semer round the world to spread the message.
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Bessemer
Ala) Chamber of Commerce
Language of Boy Scouts
Quote on scouting ethos by Clarence H. Howard highlights honest heart cheerful smile and hearty handgrasp as universal friendship across languages.
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BOY
Clarence H. Howard
A Scout in Spirit Beyond Uniform
A clear-eyed lad speaks of helping elders and being asked if he is a scout. He says he is not yet a scout but lives the path and law daily, proving one in spirit without wearing a uniform among 430 000 boys pledged to study manliness.
Isle of Pines History From Sea Wolves to Slave Depot
The Isle of Pines near Cuba, once a sea wolf hideout for English French and Dutch, later served as a slave fattening depot. Columbus named the island Evangelista on St John day in June 1494. The Detroit News recounts its volatile 16th and 17th century role.
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Isle of Pines
Cuba
Las Casas
Evangelista
Africa
States
Detroit News
Vivid Women Enrich Life With Shared Enthusiasm
The piece contrasts two types of women and praises those whose enthusiasm remains outward looking. It argues that women who invest interest in others outside their own circle form meaningful friendships and marriages, even when lacking beauty, cleverness, or style.
Legend of Montezuma’s Hidden Gold Palace
The legend says after Montezuma’s overthrow in 1521 Cortez and Spanish forces seized vast gold but missed a greater cache in a hidden palace beneath a plateau in Nayarit Mexico. Cortes allegedly tortured Aztec leaders to locate the treasure but failed to uncover the secret, driving him to scour western Mexico for years without success.
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Montezuma
Cortez
State of
Nayarit
Mexico
Telephone usage by country measured in average conversation time
Study estimates per capita time spent on telephone chats across nations. United States averages 16 hours, Denmark Sweden Norway 12 hours, Germany 5, Switzerland 3, Britain 2, France 1, with Italy well under one hour.
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Scandinavian
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Germany
Switzerland
Great Britain
France
Italy
Timber Supply Thin in Face of Global Demand
The forest service of the USDA warns that accessible timber cannot meet modern needs. U S draws a third of paper from Canada and an export embargo on Canadian crown lands threatens raw material for U S paper mills. The notice underscores risks of dependence on foreign timber.
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Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Canada
Dominion
United States
Coloring Cotton Goods Systems and Dye Processes
The text outlines several methods for producing high grade colored cotton goods. It notes that each system has a special advantage for a specific line of goods and buyers create demand for that class. Systems include bleached dyed painted stained embossed enameled printed and other dyestuff based processes.
Tyndall Urges Legion Dues for Financial Independence
Major General Robert Tyndall, national treasurer of the American Legion, calls for self-financing post operations to preserve independence. He asks Legionnaires to pay dues promptly to support relief for disabled veterans, Americanism programs, and other measures. Tyndall’s long military career spans Spanish American War service, the Mexican border, World War I, and leadership of the Thirty-eighth National Guard division.
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Tyndall
American Legion
Robert Tyndall
Indianapolis
General Tyndall
Legion
Hig
Porto Rico
One Hundred and Fiftieth Artillery
Forty-second
Thirty-eighth National Guard
Casper Man Plummer War Hero and Legion Leader
Chiles P Plummer of Casper Wyoming national vice commander of the American Legion embodies Western wartime spirit. He served 22 months in France as captain of artillery in the 116th Ammunition Train and helped organize the George Wro man post. He fought for disabled ex servicemen and rose to national executive committeeman and vice commander. He is a lawyer with Illinois education and a fraternity brother of Alvin M Onsiles Tegion etaitional cei mander.
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Chiles P Plummer
Casper
Wyo
American Legion
Plummer Chiles Plummer
Third Wyoming Infantry
France
George Wroman
Legion
Plummer
University of Illinois
Alvin M Onsiles
Red Cross funds directed by American Legion posts
The American Legion national adjutant Lemuel Potts says Red Cross money in local post hands should not be used for general relief. He notes the Legion cooperates with Red Cross for veteran aid but warns emergency war funds were meant for wartime needs and should be redirected from post treasuries.
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American Legion
Amerecan Red Cross
Amerean Laeb
Lemuel Pottes
War Chest
Eiher
Athens O
Vevay
Int
Legion
Treasuries
Distinct Teeth Reveal Racial Traits and Ancestry
A historical discussion claims teeth patterns show race and ancestry, dividing teeth into three patterns first seen in herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore types. It assigns Nordic, Celtic, Cro Magnon, Semitic, and Alpine groups distinct tooth shapes and implied mindsets.
Original Eden Departure Tied to Knowledge Guarding Tablet
A newly translated Sumerian tablet from Nippur suggests Adam was expelled from Eden not as punishment but to stop him from gaining knowledge that could make him a god. The dialogue between God and man contrasts with Genesis, omitting the serpent and temptation, and claims the Genesis text was written about eleven hundred years after.
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Adam
Garden of Eden
University of Pennsylvania
Eden
Temple
Aft Nippur
Fragmented Latin translation tale from classroom memory
A narrator recalls a Latin translation task where a teacher insists on correct answers. The student fails to provide the right translation, and the moment reveals that a good reputation may not always be desirable.
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Marie
Farewell at Creek Looms Before Italy Trip
Baker the New York mower warned at a farewell luncheon that fools will bend to the Bolsheviks. Natty Noonan and Nutty discuss the swollen creek and a dangerous ford, noting a duck crossing recent before the doctor arrives.
Why They Remain Unmarried
Dr A A Brill of New York studied 400 cases of only or favorite children and found only 93 married by average age 34. A writer in McClure's magazine says such individuals stay single due to attachment to their parents and a tendency to be dominated by family ties.
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A A Brill
New York
McClure
Briar Pipes Rise in Popularity and Production
The spread of briar pipes is world wide with France's Jura War and eastern Pyrenees regions alone producing about 70 million pipes annually. Roughly half of these exports go to England, illustrating a vast global tobacco market.
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France
Wit
Jura
War
Pyrenees
England
Ingenious Mother Hooks Baby High Chair to Wall
A California mother prevents accidents by attaching a door hook to the back of the chair and securing it with screw eyes in each room. The chair is then anchored to the wall, eliminating the risk of toppling as the baby learns to walk or sits in the chair.
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California
Real Glory of Life Nourishes the Weak in Crisis
A reflective sentence from Hugh Black on strength and mercy guiding actions in dark times. It extols being a steady hand and a cup of strength to uplift others in moments of need.
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Hugh Black
Wise Rule for Life's Guidance
A reflective maxim urges that each day is the best day of the year and that true learning comes when one treats every day as Doomsday, embracing urgency and resolve in personal conduct. The quotation attributes authority to Emerson and frames daily life as a decisive, ongoing reckoning.
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Emerson
Life Stages and Hardships Across A Man's Years
A compact sketch traces a man’s journey from youth through adulthood, describing twenty to thirty as formative, thirty to forty as challenging, and fifty to seventy as a decline marked by hardening arteries. It frames resilience amid changing chapters and aging realities.
Vatican Library Collection Highlights Rome's Archives
The Vatican Library in Rome houses about 84,000 manuscripts and around 250,000 printed volumes, forming a vast research repository for scholars and historians.
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Vatican
Rome
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