Prodigies Prove a Puzzle in Higland and London
Infant prodigies emerge daily with ties to war psychology. Pamela Bianco, thirteen, gains gallery praise for Botticelli like drawings. Ronnie Routledge, four, outshines older violinists with 119 of 120 points at Grimsby College. Robbie Day, seven, of Brighton, shows clairvoyant feats blindfolded, naming colors, fabrics, and sums.
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Higland
Pamela Bianco
London
Botticelli
Pamela
England
Ronnie Routledge
Lttle
Grimsby College of Violinists
Professor Danton
Robbie Day
Brighton
Weekly Dispatch
Treasury
Bobbie
Abyssinia Seeks Modern Bridges and Roads
An Abyssinian visitor remarks that Americans would help build rapid transport and infrastructure in Abyssinia if access and speed were possible. He notes Addis Ababa’s isolation with about 40,000 residents and no railway link, reflecting on the broader lure of American engineering.
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United States
Abyssinia
Addis Abbeba
Christian Science Monitor
Birds Fly in War of Air and Birds
A military aero nautics director asserts birds have right of way. Towns along the Atlantic report dead bird showers as aviators shoot birds from airplanes. A prominent citizen was struck by a bird. The case led to the federal migratory bird law between the United States and Great Britain, which bans shooting birds from aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Director of
Military Aeronautics
Atlantic Coast
Department of Agriculture
United States
Great Britain
The Wrong Man
A young woman recalls an embarrassing mix up when a book agent visits her home during her mother’s absence. She embraces a guest thinking him familiar, only to discover a stranger in the room, a moment saved by Mr. Blank’s timely arrival.
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Mr. Blank
Chicago Tribune
Triple Tone Electric Bell Calls Three Persons
A three sound electric bell uses a transformer driven by standard lighting current. In homes it links to three push buttons at doors producing ring, buzz, or combo buzz and ring. In offices it calls three different people without counting rings. no contact points burn out and no batteries to replace.
His Word or Real Worth
An Omaha World Herald note tells of a car owner who blamed the finish on poor varnish but the painter repaired it in two minutes. The owner stood by his word, accepted responsibility, and backed the work, restoring the man’s faith in human nature.
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Omaha
World
Herald
Ended With Honors Even in a Rattlesnake Cat Battle
William Lessig a gateman at the Erie crossing near Ramapo New Jersey recalls a deadly duel between a rattlesnake and a domestic cat. The cat first grabbed the snake but the reptile delivered a lethal sting fatally swelling the cat. The weakened snake lay exposed and a crow swept it away.
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William Lessig
Ramapo
N. J
Mr. Lessig
Uncle Joe Cannon Enjoys Watermelon Season
The eighty three year old statesman known as Uncle Joe Cannon eagerly awaits the watermelon season. He eats ripe melons by hand or with a long red slice and judges sweetness by color and feel, recalling his North Carolina childhood habit.
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Uncle Joe
Cannon
North Carolina
Statesman
English Women Buy Farms Find Profitable Garden Ventures
English women are buying farms and garden spaces as a postwar trend. The movement grows from wartime work on the land and aims at women turning farming into a profession. Hunger for compact garden plots near cities supports easy transport and ready markets for produce and flowers.
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England
The Forgetful Parson Story Tells of a Forgotten Sermon
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson recalls an amusing tale of an old West Country parson who, to fill two services, admits forgetting his sermon at the first church and then, upon reaching the second, forgets the anecdote he planned to tell, ending with a humorous self joke about his memory.
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Sir Henry Wilson
Prices and profiteering through the ages in Elizabethan times
The essay recalls that high living costs were a constant issue from Elizabethan times to today. It cites magistrates turning a blind eye to price gouging by merchants, profiteering during war, and efforts by purveyors to raise prices on eggs butter and other foods. The piece concludes that there is nothing new under the sun and profiteers linger among the poor.
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William Harrison
Pepys
Rochester Post-Express
Canon Harrison
Snesterteraus
P Purveyors
Tax experts debating when a girl becomes a miss
Lew Hahn of the National Retail Dry Goods Association questions whether corsets are underwear and when a girl becomes a miss under the new tax law. He notes bureau experts say no tax on wearing apparel for girls, while retailers claim many Misses and petite married women may still wear those clothes. The issue traps retailers and tax officials in defining age based wear.
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Lew Hahn
National Retail, Dry Goods Association
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Mr. Hahn
Two samples of ribbon match delayed shopping trip
Mrs Simson asks her husband to wait as she tests ribbon samples and jokes about keeping him waiting. He shares he wandered to the football match and a spin in Jack Dance's car. She learns she must return tomorrow as the shop is closing.
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Mrs. Simson
Avent
Jack Dance
London
Tubs May Strike Next
A Louisville Courier Journal note reports that black washerwomen, including Aunt Katie, plan a strike over wages. Aunt Katie refuses next day washing and raises prices by ten cents, saying she and other washer ladies will picnic instead. Streetcar men are also said to demand higher pay during strikes.
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Louisville
Katie
Chile
Peking Union Medical College Under Construction in China
The Rockefeller Foundation supported Peking Union Medical College will open in autumn 1919 with a 15-building complex nicknamed the Green City due to its green-tiled roofs. A preparatory school started two years ago and a new hospital is planned, aiming to run by 1920, with another institution planned for Shanghai.
Dining room flies prompt quick kitchen table shift
A brief exchange from the Boston Evening transcript notes a suggestion to keep flies away by moving the dining setup to the kitchen. The quirky line reflects a colonial era dining challenge and a practical workaround.
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Scott
L Mariner
Val
Boston
Transcript
Pioneer clinic proves value at Boston firm
A 15 year old clinic with 2700 patients and 600 employees is praised for reducing illness during a winter influenza outbreak. A medical director oversaw care, now a physician leads with three full time nurses. The firm promotes employee insurance and a future dental clinic is planned. The Modern Hospital commends the clinic.
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Sit Ndr
Boston
Elderly Wife Sues Seventy-One Year Old Husband for Divorce
An eighty two year old woman seeks a decree of divorce in Oregon blaming her mother in law a ninety four year old, saying her husband loved his mother more. The wife cites money spent on an auto for the mother and a deed in the husband’s name. The couple has been married ten years.
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Oregon
Foreign ship on twenty dollar bill sparks debate
Homer L. Ferguson, head of the U S chamber of commerce, urged patriots to note a foreign ship depicted on a twenty-dollar bill. He claimed the four funnel vessel was foreign-built, noting no U S foreign trade ship with four funnels existed.
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Homer L. Ferguson
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
The Mean Man Jokes on Refreshments and Windows
A humorous tale recalls Tom Sharkey in a saloon asking “Rain or shine?” and Rep. Gordon Lee’s Atlantic City anecdote with a mean man offering refreshments then promising a breeze by opening a window, highlighting comic mean-spiritedness.
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Tom Sharkey
Gordon Lee
Chickamauga
Atlantic City
Senator questions meat sale to packers at low price
The senator denounces proposals to sell Army meat to packers for less than half the government paid, arguing meat should go to consumers to curb living costs. He laments the uplift rhetoric and notes it is now focused on prices rather than benefits.
Peat Use Expands Across Agriculture and Industry
Last year peat production and use surged in the United States with Europe as a fuel source and heat power potential. Growth centered in New England and included peat fertilizer and stock food peat, sphagnum moss products, stable litter packing material and surgical dressings. Volunteers gathered peat pads for Red Cross use, including military hospitals domestically and abroad.
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United States
Europe
Atock-Fcood
New England
J. W. Hotson
The
Red Cross
Washington
Oregon
Maine
Emerson Oklahoma Town That Never Became a City
Western papers recall Emerson Oklahoma as a planned town site opened after settlement. Promoters dreamed of a metropolis with Hampden Cromwell among its citizens. In 1907 the plan failed and a district court may vacate the land, turning what could have been a town into farmland. the tale echoes early Connecticut settlement and Lion Gardiner’s defense against Indians.
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Emerson Okla
Hartford Courant
District Court
Emerson
Connecticut
Hampden
Cromwell
England
Drénam
Lion Gardalner
West
Okliahoma
Memorial Cross Erected in Old Buckingham War Record
The Norfolk village notes 264 men aged 18 to 50 in 1914 with 170 serving and 89 killed. A 24 ft 6 in stone memorial cross on the village green reproduces the cross of sacrifice by Sir Reginald Bloomfield. Names of fallen are incised in gilt on the drum below the base.
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Norfolk
Old
Buckingham
Reginald Bloomfield
R. A
Long-Lived Superstition Across Cultures Mentioned
A London Chronicle note traces a superstition from 12th century Pembrokeshire Flemings using ram shoulder bones for divination to 13th century Tartars and then to modern Turkish prisoners. It cites Giraldus Cambrensis and a footnote on continuing folk practice among descendants of Flemish settlers and Turkish alike.
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Wales
Pembrokeshire
William de Ribruquis
London Chronicle
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