Five years of famine raise Vienna mortality and child hunger
Vienna faces a sharp rise in death rates from 15.8 per thousand in 1913 to 22.5 in 1918 amid severe under nourishment. Health officials warn of widespread malnutrition effects on mothers and children, with 54,849 children examined in 1918 revealing widespread pale, thin, and diseased youngsters and rising tuberculosis risk. The American Relief Administration led by Herbert Hoover organized food aid for about 800,000 destitute children, with eight American relief groups forming the European Relief Council to raise 88 million dollars for continued feeding efforts across Poland and Central Europe.
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Vienna
Europe
Gustave Bohn
Vienna Health Department
Hans Spe
University of
Clemens Pirquet
Barlow
Viennny
Herbert Hoover
Poland
Namber
America
European Relief Council
Hoover
American Relief Administration
American Red Cross
American Friends’ Service Committee
Quakers
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ i A America
The
Knights of Columbus
Y.M. Cga
Plots Warns of Widespread Child Suffering in Poland
Dr Harry Plotz reports to the European Relief Council on dire medical conditions among Polish Jewish children. He cites high infant mortality, under nourishment, contagious diseases, and rampant typhus and favus amid overcrowding and wartime destruction across Vilna and other areas.
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Poland
Harry Plots
European Relief Council
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Plotz
Vilna
Ukraine
The Greatest Gift for European Relief Collection
A call for Christmas donations to aid European relief efforts urges gifts to the local committee of joint organizations or directly to the European Relief Council at 42 Broadway New York City. The appeal notes gifts may help save two children and stresses earnest solicitation.
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European Child Relief Collection
European Reief Council
Broadway
New York City
European relief drive appeals for aid to 3.5 million starving children
An appeal to Americans seeks 23 million dollars for child food and 10 million for medical aid to 8.5 million distressed European children in 17 000 feeding stations and clinics. The effort, led by Hoover and Lane, pools multiple organizations to ensure unqualified gifts and leverages local support and transportation contributions.
Electrically Treated Wheat Shows Higher Yield In Kent Trial
An experiment at Bodsham Green Elmstead Kent by W F Pledge of Victoria flour mills Ashford shows red standard wheat treated with electricity growing more vigorously. Two plots sown November 14 and 18 with three bushels per acre, one treated and one untreated, yielded at least 20 percent more. Observers noted fewer disease signs on the treated plot, suggesting electricity could become a key farming aid in the near future.
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Bodsham Green
Elmstead
Kent
W. F. Pledge
Victoria Flour Mills
Ashford
London Times
R. L. Robb
Southeastern Agricultural College
Wye
No New Price Hikes say Elizabethan and War Times
A chronicle notes that high living costs and profiteers are timeless. References cite Elizabethan magistrates turning blind eyes to price gouging by merchants and wartime hoarding, with warnings that pesteriferous purveyors and price rises burden the poor.
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William Harrison
Pepys
Rochester Post-Express
Canon Harrison
Screen Storys and Stars Highlight Week
A reader summary notes Doris Schroeder adapting a Katherine Leisér Robins tale for film, with Rollin Sturgeon directing and Francis Ford in The Mystery of 13 Fox News. Wednesday features Alice Brady in Sinners and a grim charity lesson. Thursday showcases Wilda Bennett Claire Whitney in Love Honor and Obey directed by Leander de Cordova. Friday presents Buck Jones in The Square Shooter with action and humor amid a Fox slate audience.
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ESSE
Katherine Leisér Robins
Georgette
Doris Schroeder
Rollin Sturgeon
Francis Ford
Fox News
Fox’ Sunshine
Wilda Bennett
Claire Whitney
Eugene Walter
Leander de Cordova
Arthur Martinelli
M. P. Staulcup
Metro
Ruth of
Buck Jones
Film
Fox
Putting an Egg in a Bottle Trick
A Popular Mechanics Magazine item explains placing a whole egg into a bottle with a smaller mouth. Soak the egg in vinegar to soften the shell then push it into the bottle. Cool water inside the bottle makes the shell hard again, mystifying onlookers.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Breakfast Shock at Travers Home Over Lost Prize Fight
Mrs Travers reads the Kansas City Star and learns she lost $50 on a prize fight. The morning after, she discovers two accounts at rival stores and tears out newspaper pages, causing a disordered breakfast as her husband Travers faces the grim news and its economical ripple.
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Ike
Travers
Seth
Army laxity at Colombey les Belles shocks General Alvord
Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord recalls a visit to Colombey les Belles where enlisted men ignored salutes and officers, including a private who nonchalantly asked “what’s up” as he faced a general in uniform. The incident highlighted widespread indiscipline in air service camps.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Benjamin Alvord
Pershing
Colombey-les-Belles
Pipe Built Like a Comet A Long Stem Tobacco Pipe
Warren Murray Baechtel of Hagerstown Maryland invents a 1y4 length tobacco pipe with a coiled stem resembling a comet. The design uses multiple coils forming a dripping chamber to collect saliva and nicotine as smoke travels through the extended stem. Each coil has its own opening to the chamber and a screw cap allows saliva removal.
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Warren Murray Baechtel
Hagerstown
Prelude to Adventure in a Post Office Parcel-Post Mission
In a quixotic Kansas City scene J Fuller Gloom declares he will seal his will in a safety box and descend a cave by cord light. An observer interrupts to reveal the plan is actually to visit the Kansas City post office to weigh buy stamps and mail a parcel.
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J. Fuller Gloom
Gloom
Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Liquid Accident and the Beer Keg Misunderstanding
Secretary Elmer Thompson of the Automobile Club of America notes the blame often falls on automobiles. In New York a man lay in the road as a crowd gathered. A bystander misattributed the incident to a car, while a policeman clarifies it involved a keg or more of beer.
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Elmer Thompson
Automobile Club of America
New York
Bowling showdown sparks Moonshifers victory
An OCR fragment hints at a bowling event between wets x She and Wade teams with Moonshifers. Scores not fully readable. three straight strikes mentioned. Further details unclear due to text damage.
YMCA Bowling Averages Standings December 29 1920
Standings and player averages for YMCA bowling show W Manchester leading high single string with 125 pins and F Pearce topping three string total with 323 pins as of December 29 1920. Other team and player figures appear in the standing table.
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Manchester
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